'Let us in!': What happened after Trump told his supporters to swarm the Capitol
The crowd didn't even wait for him to finish speaking
WASHINGTON — When rioters
descended on the Capitol on Wednesday, they were following directions from President Donald Trump.
"We're going to have to fight much harder," Trump told supporters at a rally near the White House before the assault, adding:
"We are going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, congressmen and women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
Because you will never take back our country with weakness."
Many in the massive crowd,
soaked in the falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the election that Trump has been spewing for months, didn't even wait for the president to finish speaking.
They began a march on the Capitol, where they would break through police barricades, rip through the chambers of Congress and vandalize the core symbol of the federal government.
'''Let us in!''': What happened after Trump told his supporters to swarm the Capitol