Capitol Hill violence result of Trump's 'contempt for democracy', says Biden

Describing attack on Capitol Hill by Donald Trump's supporters as one of darkest days in US history, President-elect Joe Biden said violence was result of President's "contempt for democracy". riot at US Capitol on Wednesday was t dissent, disorder or protest, it was chaos, Biden told reporters on Thursday in Wilmington, Delaware.

"y weren't protesters, don't dare call m protesters. y were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists...I wish we could say we couldn't see it coming but that isn't true. We could see it coming. past four years we have had a president who has made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, rule of law, clear in everything he has done,” he said.

Biden alleged Trump has unleashed an all-out assault on institutions of US democracy from outset and Capitol Hill violence was " culmination of that unrelenting attack". incident was "one of darkest days in history of our nation", Biden said, underlining that it was an unprecedented assault on US democracy, on citadel of liberty and on rule of law. Trump, he said, has always attacked free press who dared to question his power, repeatedly calling m enemy of people, a langu long been used by autocrats and dictators all over world to hold on to power.

Biden said Trump thought he could stack courts with friendly judges who would support him matter what but "he was stunned when judges he appointed didn't do his bidding, instead acted with integrity...upholding rule of law t just once or twice or three times but over 60 times".

At every level, judiciary rose in moment during this election, did its job, acted with complete fairness and impartiality with complete hour and integrity, he said.  Trump was trying to use a mob to silence voices of nearly 160 million Americans who summoned cour in face of a pandemic that threatened ir health and ir lives to cast that sacred ballot, he said.