President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday demanded that President Donald Trump go on national TV to call off the rioters who have stormed the U.S. Capitol.
"I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of the democracy to go forward," Biden said as armed rioters caused the Capitol to go into lockdown. "The words of a president matter, no matter how good or bad that president is. At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite."
Biden characterized the acts of the rioters, who pushed passed police barricades to disrupt Congress' count of the Electoral College votes, as bordering on sedition.
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