Former presidents and members of Congress denounced Trump and his supporters Wednesday for inspiring and enabling the violent storming of the Capitol.
Former president Barack Obama said in a statement that history will remember violence “incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election.” But he also blamed “a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem” for playing along with Trump’s falsehoods, saying Republican leaders can either continue down a dark path or “choose reality.”
Former president Bill Clinton said that Wednesday’s “unprecedented assault on our Capitol, our Constitution, and our country” was long in the making.
“The match was lit by Donald Trump and his most ardent enablers, including many in Congress, to overturn the results of an election he lost,” Clinton tweeted.
Condemnation also rained down from members of Trump’s party in Congress. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) released a blistering critique of Trump, saying the day’s events were the result of a “selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning.”
“What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States,” he said.
Former president George W. Bush did not mention Trump or any other leader by name but criticized the politicians who “inflamed” those who broke into the Capitol building, where a woman was fatally shot.
“This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic — not our democratic republic. I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election,” Bush said in a statement.
Calling the chaos an insurrection, Bush implored those disappointed by the outcome of the presidential election to put country over “the politics of the moment.”
The Carter Center, a nonprofit founded by Jimmy Carter, also decried threats and violence, urging the mob in Washington to disband.
(c) The Washington Post
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who incited BLM if not NoBama himself??????????????????
Who killed the FOUR AMERICANS in Benghazi if not Clinton?????????????
Shame on them??? They are 100% right! Shame on Matzav for such a headline. Trump incited an outright insurrection today, and you say shame on those calling him out for it?
What HYPOCRITES!!! It was a peaceful protest.Other than A law enforcement officer who was in no physical danger killing an unarmed woman, there aren’t police officers left quadriplegic or blind or seriously injured like happened this summer from Antifa/BLM.Where are the looted and burned stores? There are pictures on the internet of identified Antifa members in the Capital building intruders, stop blaming Trump supporters!!!
Shame on them?!?! Shame on him for inciting the violence!!!! What a fool! Not only did you lose the election that you could have won had you run it right, you messed up the Republican Party! They could have won the Georgia run offs had you campaigned normally instead of repeating this idiotic rhetoric that the election was stolen!
“The buck stops here”.
The biggest fakers condemn Trump. When Antifa and BLM riot and kill and burn down cities not a word. Dump DemocRATs
Why “SHAME ON THEM”? They have a very good point!
BSD
I am also upset with Trumps recent behavior.
But save some anger for what Jo Biden has in store for us.
Didn’t you hear Trump’s hint during his speech “Where is Hillary? Where is she?” He knows quite well that the Clintons and Obamas have been coronavirused in 2019 and wanted those who don’t know yet to investigate. That’s why we haven’t heard from them all this time.
Headline has a typo
should read “shame on him”