“We will never concede.... You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” President Donald Trump said at a rally just south of the White House on the morning of January 6.1 “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.” After the president concluded his remarks, rally attendees—who believed, incorrectly, that Vice President Mike Pence had the power to reject Electoral College votes during the largely ceremonial congressional count and certification of the election results—walked to the U.S. Capitol building and gained entry by force, though some officers of the U.S. Capitol Police were recorded moving barricades aside to let the mob through.
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“We will never concede.... You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” President Donald Trump said at a rally just south of the White House on the morning of January 6.1 “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.” After the president concluded his remarks, rally attendees—who believed, incorrectly, that Vice President Mike Pence had the power to reject Electoral College votes during the largely ceremonial congressional count and certification of the election results—walked to the U.S. Capitol building and gained entry by force, though some officers of the U.S. Capitol Police were recorded moving barricades aside to let the mob through.