For two months, Trump has been feeding his supporters a steady diet consisting of claims that the election was rigged and that it falls upon them, the people of America, to "stop the steal".
It is clear that Trump's election fraud rhetoric evoked the Capital Hill protests. His blatant lies and disregard for the Electoral process are the reasons why the Capital was breached.
On the 6th of January, when Congress was due to certify Joe Biden's victory, several hundred protestors breached the walls of the Capitol, forcing senators and everyone in the building to hide away. The goal of the protestors was simple: to disrupt the official certification of Joe Biden as the next President of the United States.
Minutes before protestors stormed the building, senators were voting on the pivotal Arizona vote count.
Notably, McConnell, the senate's majority leader (Republican) rejected calls to overturn the election's results. In his speech, he said that "[w]e cannot simply declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken... If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever."
This is not surprising, since Mitch McConnell has already earlier acknowledged Joe Biden's win, congratulated him on being the next President of the United States, and vowed to block Biden's agenda by using his veto as the Senate's majority leader, if he were to keep his position (spoiler alert: he did not).
What is surprising, however, is Senator Lindsey Graham's vote (remember the tweet from his account saying he was a gay, black man?). Graham switched sides, choosing to vote against the challenging of the Arizona results. He said, "Trump and I... we've had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my god, I hate it... but today, all I can say is 'Count me out. Enough is enough. I've tried to be helpful.'"
Soon after, the protestors stormed into Capitol Hill, and all the senators were escorted to safety.
During the siege, Trump supporters, all wearing MAGA hats, waved the confederate flag within the building, posting them on social media and circulating them. One of them even went into Nancy Pelosi's office and took a photo of himself in her seat.
National guards came in with riot gear, using tear gas to drive the protestors out of the building. But it has been noted by the public how little force was used, as compared to the relatively recent BLM protests.
Many still remember how the BLM protests were met with an unprecedented amount of police & military force. Unarmed civilians were tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and some even wrongfully imprisoned.
In contrast, the domestic terrorism incident at Capitol Hill was not met with the same amount of force or violence. It begs the question how the protestors were able to enter into the supposedly heavily-guarded Capitol Hill building in the first place, and why there was not a swifter response by the law enforcement agencies to restore peace and order in a government building.
When the protestors were finally cleared away, the Senate resumed their vote, and the Arizona vote challenge was quashed, 93-6. The House followed with 303-121.
The Pennsylvania vote challenge was similarly quashed, 92-7 in the Senate and 282-138 in the House.
The count is over, ending this long, arduous journey for Trump, Biden, and you and I alike. Pence reads the final tallies: 306 for Biden, 232 for Trump. "The announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the Senate shall be deemed a significant declaration," Pence concludes.
Congress has certified the 2020 election results. President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on the 20th of January. Donald Trump has finally conceded, pledging an "orderly transition" amidst the debris left behind by his nightmarish presidency. The floors of Capitol Hill remain grey and slippery, from the fire extinguishers the protestors used when they stormed the building.
Four people have died, in relation to the Capitol Hill protests, one of them being a female Trump supporter.
6th January marks the first time that the Capitol had been taken over since 1814 when the British burned it during the War of 1812. Biden's America will mourn its broken democracy and hopefully emerge stronger, four years later.
As a side note, Twitter suspended Donald Trump's account briefly.
UPDATE: Twitter, Facebook, and multiple more big media has banned Donald Trump's account indefinitely (assuming until Jan 20, though it might go on longer).