According to Politico, Kamala Harris was evacuated from Democratic Party headquarters on January 6, 2021, following a bomb was discovered under a bench nearby.
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Kamala Harris
While Vice President Mike Pence was urgently evacuated from the Capitol during the invasion, his successor was also taken to safety. Politico revealed on Thursday that Kamala Harris was at the Democratic Party headquarters on January 6, 2021, when a bomb was discovered under a nearby bench. The Capitol Police investigation started on January 6, 2021, at 1:14 p.m. and the bomb was defused at 4:36 p.m. An hour earlier, another homemade bomb had been defused near the Republican Party, discovered in an alley behind the building. The bombs, which the FBI said “might have been set off, causing serious injury or death”, are still under investigation and have so far yielded no results.
Kamala Harris spoke Thursday in Washington, like Joe Biden, and alluded to the hitherto kept secret: “I was on Capitol Hill that morning at a classified meeting with other members of the Committee on Senate information. A few hours later, the doors of the Capitol were forced open. I was gone, but my thoughts went directly not only to my colleagues but to my team who had to take refuge in our office, using furniture to erect a barricade ”, recalled the one who was still then senator of California.
Trump “created and spread a series of lies”
When these bombs were discovered, the Capitol was the target of an invasion of several hundred people, supporters that Donald Trump had gathered in Washington for a demonstration called “Stop the steal”, when of which he had once more accused the Democrats of having rigged to win the presidential election – a fraud of which justice has discovered no proof, despite the sixty appeals filed by the Trump campaign. The violence of the rioters was such that Mike Pence, who had angered some by going to Congress to certify the result of the election, had been evacuated in disaster, narrowly missing some protesters. Five people died on the Capitol during that day, including a rioter killed by an officer as she tried to force entry into one of the Chambers and a police officer beaten to death. Since then, four police officers deployed that day have committed suicide, their relatives deploring trauma linked to the invasion of the Capitol.
A historic event – it was the first time that the certification of results was interrupted – on which Joe Biden returned Thursday, in a speech in the halls of the Capitol. In a charge of rare violence, he – without ever naming him – accused his predecessor Donald Trump of inciting his supporters to such an episode of violence: “He did nothing for hours while the police were attacked, lives in danger, the Capitol of the nation under siege,” he continued. “He created and spread a series of lies regarding the 2020 election. He did it because he prefers power over principle, because he thinks his self-interest is more important than the interests of his country. . He cannot accept having lost. ” “The former president and his supporters were never able to explain how they were able to accept the legality of the other results of the November 3 election; the elections for the posts of governor, for the Senate, the House of Representatives; an election in which they closed the gap in the House. They didn’t make any calls. (…) These results present on the same ballot, but the presidential election was rigged? On the same ballots, on the same day, filled out by the same voters? The only difference: the former president did not lose these elections, he just lost his, ”he declared.
