Joe Biden decries one of the darkest days of our history

President-elect Joe Biden called Wednesday’s storming of the US Capitol “one of the darkest days of our history,“ and said the violence was a predictable consequence of Donald Trump’s “contempt for democracy“. Mr Biden said Mr Trump unleashed “all-out assault“ on democratic institutions and said the mob were not protesters but “domestic terrorists“, in an address to the nation. He said: “Don’t dare call them protesters; they were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It’s that basic, it’s