The storming of the US capital by violent pro-Trump rioters has been condemned as “mayhem” and “appalling” by a former president and an attempt at a “banana republic coup” by a prominent political historian.
But only a few world leaders have called out US President Donald Trump by name.
And some of the outgoing President’s most blinkered supporters have posited, without evidence, that the unrest which has seen the Capitol Building under siege is the work of Antifa protesters not Trump supporters.
A curfew is now in place in the US capital after Trump supporters stormed the building containing the House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday (US time).
Congress had just stated a joint session, overseen by Vice President Mike Pence, to formally count the results from the Electoral College.
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The rioters breached the barricades surrounding the building and clashed with…
