Joe Biden: “Don’t you dare call them protesters. They were domestic terrorists.”

Washington – President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday that the burning mob that broke into the Capitol in Washington are “domestic terrorists” and blamed the events directly on outgoing President Donald Trump.

Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said the hundreds of Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol are not protesters. “It wasn’t a riot. It wasn’t a protest. Don’t you dare call them protesters. They were a rampant mob, insurgents, domestic terrorists,” Biden said in a speech from Wilmington, Delaware.

Biden said Trump is guilty of “trying to use a mob to silence the voices of nearly 160 million Americans” who voted in November.

He noted that the President “has made clear his disdain for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of law in everything he has done and launched a” frontal attack “on the country’s democratic institutions, which went culminate in Wednesday’s violence.

The president-elect has also criticized police action in assuring that “a clear mistake had been made in administering justice” with the same stick.

“No one can tell me that if it had been a group of the Black Lives Matter movement that protested yesterday they would not have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs who broke into the Capitol.” , he warned.

The unprecedented assault on Congress of thousands of Trump supporters, including far-right and white supremacists, after participating in an event with the president, led to the eviction of lawmakers and numerous destructions at the seat of the Northern Legislature American.

So far, police authorities have announced the arrest of 68 people.

Trump avoided condemning what has happened and limited himself to urging his supporters to “go home” after calling the day unbelievable, which has sparked a wave of outrage in the U.S. and among his international allies.

Biden is scheduled to take office as president on January 20.

With information from AP and EFE.