Armed protesters broke into the US Capitol, forcing the chamber to halt the ongoing vote to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s election win.
After two months of refusal to accept his defeat in the November 3 election, President Donald Trump sparked violence in the Capitol, calling on his supporters to “fight like hell.”
Speaking on Press TV’s The Debate on Thursday, author and commentator David Swanson from Charlottesville said, “Putting Trump on television created this crisis, we need the media outlets like Twitter to ban Trump from speaking ever again.”
But more importantly, Swanson added, “this is a development that comes out of decades of division, of divisive policies, of the absence of universal benefits coming from the US government, divisive racist society where there is inequality growing, suffering growing, declining quality of life to the point where the US cannot be compared to most wealthy countries.”