President-elect Joe Biden has mentioned those that stormed the US Capitol had been a bunch of thugs, white supremacists, home terrorists and they need to be prosecuted.
Biden mentioned the authorities needed to be held accountable for the failures that occurred and it needed to be made certain that this might by no means, ever occur once more.
“They should be treated as they’re a bunch of thugs, insurrectionist, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it’s not enough,” Biden informed reporters at a information convention in Wilmington, Delaware. “These are bunch of thugs, thugs and their terrorists, domestic terrorists. And that’ll be a judgment for the Justice Department to make as to what the charges should be..”
“They should be prosecuted,” he mentioned in response to a query.
Biden sought an investigation into purported photos of the Capitol Police personnel taking selfies with the protesters.
The president-elect additionally slammed Republican Senator Ted Cruz and several other others.
“I think they should be just flat beaten the next time they run. I think the American public has a real good clear look at who they are. They are part of the big lie. The big lie,” he alleged.
The president-elect added that that he was happy that a few of the extra distinguished Republicans mentioned folks like Cruz had been as accountable by way of folks believing the lies as, not as accountable, however equally accountable like Trump.
“But they didn’t say go to the Capitol, I’ll be with you. Follow. That’s a unique story,? he mentioned.