Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those who encouraged or engaged in last week’s deadly violence on the US Capitol by the president’s supporters.
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Nigeria’s Islamic rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern, tops the list of bodies and individuals to have called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to grant any visa request by Trump to come to the country.
The Prime Minister replaced the old Twitter banner with the one in which he is being vaccinated against COVID-19.
In a statement released by the White House, she said she was “disappointed and disheartened” by the incident which drew global outrage.
Describing last week’s assault as an “unprecedented terrorist attack”, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that Biden’s inauguration on January 20 will require a “different approach” compared to past inaugurations.
“The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster,” PGA of America President Jim Richerson tweeted.
Also to be sanctioned with him are his key allies for their ignoble roles in the US 2020 presidential elections particularly the storming of the Capitol.
For Africanist and African studies scholars, Trump is not unexampled and can be found in ancient Africa. Remove contemporary swagger, Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi and all that from the fall of Trump, the graveyards of powerful behemoths are replete with the bones of the Trumps and other laggards of power.
The APC said this in a statement signed by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee on Saturday in Abuja, while reacting to the development.
Zuckerberg said this in a post on Facebook while reacting to the violence perpetrated at the Capitol by Trump supporters who wanted to stop the US Congress from certifying the election which Joe Biden won.
“The scenes we saw are the result of lies and more lies of division and contempt for democracy, of hate and rabble-rousing, including at the highest level,” he said in an address to the nation.
“Like you, I watched the horrible scenes from Washington with profound concern and sadness,” Woody Johnson tweeted. “Those who participated and engaged in criminal acts should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of our law.”
“What is happening in the U.S. shows the considerable damage to this great country’s image that this person (Trump) has caused,” Rowhani said on state television.
Congress is due to convene for a meeting later in the day to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Involving the armed forces would bring the US into “dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory”, the former officials – among them both Republicans and Democrats – warned in an opinion piece in Sunday’s Washington Post newspaper.
In a tweet, Trump blamed the alleged exaggeration on the “ridiculous method of determination” by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The action came just hours before a government shutdown and days after the President opposed the bill over “wasteful and unnecessary items”.
The latest batch of beneficiaries included two long-time associates of the President, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort.
Macron was tested after symptoms first appeared.
CNN cited a source close to the White House.