Yesterday thousands of President Trump’s supporters, during the Congress which was debating the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win,  generated a violent riot to support the invalidity of the elections. Therefore they, probably taking for granted some Trump’s words, gave birth to a riot that the police were unable to stop. Trump claimed that  he lost the election, but that was probably due to some electoral fraud. He said that”the largest first presidential term in American history” could come to an end with him. Despite the intervention of the police, there were unfortunately 4 victims and even today the situation is not totally peaceful.

We read about a report given to the BBC   on line news  by a political columnist, Jamie Stiehm. She was inside the Capitol building , in the press corner, at  the exact moment of the riot. Since the morning she felt a bad feeling, something horrible would surely happen. We can say that she wasn’t wrong at all. She said that it all had started with the crash of a broken glass and then panic and fear made everyone present tremble. Just for a moment, she thought it was a sort of revenge for that plane that on the 11th September 2001 failed to hit its target: the CAPITOL. She didn’t hesitate to contact her family, to warn them about the dangerous situation she was living. Of course she was afraid of all that was happening, but she and her collegues were ashamed to admit it.

It was certainly an unheard-of episode and the consequences for Trump, accused of feeding the crowd, could be quite serious. Between impeachment and immediate removal, the fate of the now former president of the USA has not been decided yet. For sure he will remain in office until the 20th January, when Biden finally takes over.