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Capitol Hill bomb menace defendant Floyd Ray Roseberry in courtroom

Capitol Hill bomb threat defendant Floyd Ray Roseberry in court

A man named Floyd Ray Roseberry, who claims to be in his truck with explosives, speaks during a Facebook livestream in a still from a video that was captured in Washington on August 19, 2021.

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The North Carolina man, who announced he had a bomb in his truck parked on Capitol Hill, was charged Friday on threats with the use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device.

The man, Floyd Ray Roseberry, was arrested without bail pending a medical examination of the defendant at a hearing in the US District Court in Washington, DC.

Judge Zia Faruqui ordered the assessment after Roseberry said it was difficult to understand the trial as he had been denied blood pressure medication and “my mental medicine” since he was handed over to police on Thursday.

“My memory is not that good, sir,” said Roseberry via audio link during the remote performance.

“We don’t need to be eye to eye,” Roseberry said at one point, referring to the lack of physical presence or video. “I can tell by your voice that you are a good man … I am ready to do whatever is asked.”

Roseberry, who said he was 51 years old despite authorities said he was 49, was appointed federal defender by Faruqui.

He’s next on trial on Wednesday. Roseberry faces the highest possible life imprisonment if convicted of weapons of mass destruction.

Prosecutors said they would ask Faruqui to hold him pending trial without bail.

Roseberry’s threat resulted in the evacuation of buildings including the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the Cannon House office building and the offices of the Republican National Committee.

Roseberry parked a pickup truck on a sidewalk in front of the library Thursday morning.

He then told police officers that he had a bomb inside, which set off an hour-long stalemate that resulted in him surrendering peacefully.

Floyd Ray Roseberry sits in his pickup truck in a standoff with the Capitol Police outside the Library of Congress in Washington DC on August 19, 2021

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Before giving up, the Grover, North Carolina man posted videos of his truck on Facebook speaking directly to President Joe Biden, whose resignation he called for when he called for a revolution.

He also called for US air strikes on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Roseberry claimed in a video that he had a barrel of gunpowder and more than two pounds of the explosive tannerite in the truck. He also suggested that there were four more bombs in the DC area.

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Capitol Hill bomb risk: Floyd Ray Roseberry surrenders

Capitol Hill bomb threat: Floyd Ray Roseberry surrenders

A North Carolina man surrendered Thursday afternoon to police, hours after telling them he had a bomb in his truck parked outside the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.

That threat by the suspect, Floyd Ray Roseberry, led to the evacuation of the library, the Supreme Court, the Cannon House Office Building and the offices of the Republican National Committee.

It also sparked a massive police response to an area that seven months earlier saw the Capitol complex violently invaded by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

“He got out of the vehicle and surrendered, and the tactical units that were close by took him into custody without incident,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said of the 49-year-old Roseberry.

“He gave up and did not resist,” Manger said. “As far as we could tell it was just his decision to surrender at that point.”

A man named Floyd Ray Roseberry who claims to be sitting in his truck with explosives speaks during a Facebook livestream in a still image from video taken in Washington, U.S. August 19, 2021.

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Manger said there was a propane gas container in his black pickup truck.

But, the chief added, “At this point we think that’s safe.”

Manger also said, “Right now we have no indication that he was acting with anyone else, but that is part of the ongoing investigation.”

A bomb was not found after a search of Roseberry’s vehicle but possible bomb making materials were secured from his truck, according to a statement from U.S. Capitol Police.

Roseberry, who most recently lived in Grover, North Carolina, posted several videos on Facebook from his truck in the hours before he surrendered, directly addressed remarks to President Joe Biden, whose resignation he demanded. He also called for U.S. airstrikes on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Roseberry claimed on the video that he had a 7-pound keg of gunpowder and 2.5 pounds of the explosive tannerite in the truck, and suggested there were four other bombs in the D.C. area.

He also said his wife has cancer and that health insurance would not cover some treatment for her.

“I promised my wife I’d be home Sunday, whichever home it is. I’ve cleared my conscience with God,” Roseberry said.

The White House received updates from law enforcement during the standoff.

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Facebook removed Roseberry’s videos and his page after reporters found the messages.

Manger said that Roseberry has had some losses of family, including his mother, who “recently passed away.”

“There were other issues that he was dealing with,” the chief said.

Manger said the Capitol Police would work with the office of the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to determine what criminal charges Roseberry will face.

The chief said that Roseberry has a criminal record in North Carolina, but nothing that appeared “serious.”

Manger earlier had told reporters that Roseberry drove his truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress at about 9:15 a.m.

A pickup truck is parked on the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building, as seen from a window of the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Washington.

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When Capitol Police responded to a call about the truck, “The driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene that he had a bomb and what appeared, the officer said, appeared to be a detonator in the man’s hand,” Manger said.

“So we immediately evacuated the nearby buildings,” Manger said.

Congress and the Supreme Court are not currently in session, which reduced the number of people who normally would be working around the Capitol Hill complex.

Subways were bypassing the Capitol South station because of the incident, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said.

People are evacuated from the James Madison Memorial Building, a Library of Congress building, in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, as law enforcement investigate a report of a pickup truck containing an explosive device near the U.S. Capitol.

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The area quickly was swarming with officers from a slew of law enforcement agencies: Capitol Police, FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Washington, D.C., police.

Police negotiators began communicating with Roseberry, and sharpshooters took up positions in the area surrounding the truck.

A police sniper team remains in position near the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill August 19, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Sydney Bobb, a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, told CNBC that she had been walking to a class at the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill when she saw Roseberry in his truck outside the Library of Congress.

“I look up and see a guy throwing [$1 bills] out of his truck,” said Bobb, who snapped a photo of the bizarre scene, which she posted on Twitter.

“I heard him say, like, he had a bomb on him.”

During the standoff, Roseberry communicated with authorities by writing on a dry-erase board that he had in the vehicle.

He refused to use a telephone that was sent to him with a police robot, according to Manger.

One of the explosives Roseberry claimed on his videos to have, tannerite, is popular in target shooting.

Tannerite is a binary explosive. Each part separately is not an explosive element, but when combined they are combustible.

Overuse of tannerite has been responsible for several gender reveal parties gone wrong in recent years, and was also popularized by the Netflix show “Tiger King.”

— Additional reporting by CNBC’s Amanda Macias, Bradley Howard and Brian Schwartz.

Correction: Sydney Bobb is a female student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. An earlier version misstated her gender.

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Chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus is arrested whereas protesting on Capitol Hill.

Chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus is arrested while protesting on Capitol Hill.

Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty was arrested on Capitol Hill Thursday along with eight campaigners demonstrating for the right to vote.

“You can arrest me. You can not stop me. You can’t shut me up, ”wrote Ms. Beatty, an Ohio Democrat, in a tweet after she was arrested by the US Capitol Police in the atrium of a Senate office building. A reporter at the scene noted on Twitter that her hands had been zipped up before she was taken away.

The Capitol Police said in a statement the protesters violated a Washington law against overcrowding or blocking streets or certain spaces in public buildings. The demonstrators had been warned of their arrest, the police said.

Ms. Beatty and a group of activists protested in Congress against the disappearance of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and For the People Act. The two bills aim in part to protect and expand access to voting, but both face great opportunities to become law.

Democrats, who have narrow majorities in Congress and need Republican votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate, have for months expressed frustration at their inability to pass their major voting revisions as Republican parliaments rush to pass laws that restrict voting rights across the country.

President Biden this week called the fight against restrictive electoral laws the “most significant test of our democracy since the civil war,” despite seemingly having to acknowledge that the law had little hope of getting through.

In a statement made after her arrest, Ms. Beatty remained defiant.

“I stand in solidarity with black women and allies across the country in defense of our constitutional franchise,” she said. “We have come too far and fought too hard to see everything being systematically dismantled and restricted by those who want to silence us.”

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Assessment: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Match Proper In

Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Fit Right In

After more than a year of performing and teaching online, the Trisha Brown Dance Company re-emerged before a live audience on Thursday evening. And not just in any old performance space, but on the tranquil, spectacular grounds of Wave Hill, the 28-acre oasis in the Bronx whose lush lawns and gardens look out over the Hudson River and Palisades.

The anticipation was heightened by this week’s stormy weather, as capricious as one of Brown’s dances. In place of performances originally scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, both canceled, the company offered two shorter, back-to-back programs in one night. It was worth the wait for the backdrop of nearly cloudless skies, which turned from blazing to pale blue as late afternoon heat gave way to dusk.

The selected pieces — four of Brown’s early works from the 1970s and an excerpt from her less frequently seen “Another Story as in falling” (1993) — migrated from the central Great Lawn, with its river views, to the sweeping North Lawn, with a stop at the elevated Aquatic Garden. Part of the “In Plain Site” series, which situates Brown’s work beyond theater walls, the program revealed, as this series often does, the adaptable nature of her choreography, its capacity to slip into unforced conversation with a new environment. Wherever it goes, it has a way of fitting in, not an intrusion but an extension of its surroundings.

That sense of belonging is also a testament to the company leaders who stage the work — in this case, the associate artistic director Carolyn Lucas — who know its architecture inside and out, and what settings will complement it. The cubic geometry of “Locus” (1975), performed by three dancers, each within the corners of a square platform, echoed the right angles of the pergola behind them, its stone columns and leafy canopy framing their measured reaching and folding.

“Solo Olos” (1976) wasn’t built for rolling and skidding in the grass, but it seemed that way as four performers followed the instructions of a fifth: to “reverse,” “branch” or “spill,” according to the score that guides this partly improvised work. (The dancer Cecily Campbell gave a helpful introduction orienting us to its structure.)

From those opening pieces, we were ushered up through winding paths to the Aquatic Garden, where Amanda Kmett’Pendry and Leah Ives stood facing each other on opposite sides of a long rectangular pool. As if poised to dive in, they danced “Accumulation” (1971), in which simple movements stack up one by one: rotating thumbs, a swerve of the hips, a rise up onto the balls of the feet. “Uncle John’s Band” by the Grateful Dead replaced what had until now been a spontaneous soundtrack of bird song and planes passing overhead.

On the expanse of the North Lawn, the full company of eight broke into pairs for “Leaning Duet I” (1970), in which partners walk side by side, grasping each other by the wrist and leaning in opposite directions, their feet making contact with each step. When two pairs meet, one threads under the bridge of the other’s linked arms. (During the second show, a shaft of golden-hour sunlight ran parallel to the dancers’ diagonal pathway.) It’s a game that often results in one partner tipping to the ground, to be hauled back up by the other, as both try to maintain the integrity of the shape. There are no mistakes, just trying and trying again.

In “Another Story,” also for eight dancers — who this time remained largely apart and upright — stillness brought the body and the landscape into focus. Gently creased limbs, suspended midstride, looked like scaled-down branches of a towering elm nearby.

But perhaps more than any discrete shape or structure, it’s the cycles within Brown’s work that made it such a natural fit at Wave Hill. Replete with stealthy repetition, with endings that bleed into beginnings, her vision merges just right with gardens in full bloom.

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Tour Religion Hill and Tim McGraw’s $35 million personal island

Tour Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's $35 million private island

The Bahamian island of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw spent years and millions developing and is on the market for $ 35 million.

The country music power couple bought Goat Cay Island in 2003. It’s located in Exumas, a district of the Bahamas that consists of a chain of over 365 islands about 280 miles east of Miami.

An aerial view of the main residence on L’ile d’Anges.

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The area is also known as Goat Cay and is located in Exumas, Bahamas.

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Hill and McGraw renamed the paradise they came up with as L’ile d’Anges, which is French for Island of Angels. The couple turned a vacant 19.77-acre island into a resort-like property that includes a 6,517-square-foot main residence, two beaches, and hundreds of imported palm trees.

“This has been over 10 years of exercise,” said Edward de Mallet Morgan, the London-based luxury real estate agent and partner at Knight Frank, who is running the listing.

De Mallet Morgan declined to comment on its customers or even to confirm their identity. However, the property and its famous owners were featured in a 2017 cover story for Architectural Digest. The island also appears regularly on McGraw’s Instagram feed.

In a 2017 interview, Hill told the magazine: “We were all over the world and we really wanted to create a special place that we couldn’t find anywhere else.”

She went on to explain the challenge of developing a remote island.

“We wanted to build a house,” she said. “Little did we know we had to build everything else. We basically had to build a small town.”

McGraw added, “Every time we land the plane and go to the beach and go to the house, we turn to each other and say, ‘This is the best place in the world.’ “”

Here is a look into the tailor-made paradise:

The main residence in L’ile d’Anges consists of eight interconnected buildings.

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The main residence consists of eight structures which de Mallet Morgan calls “pods”. The pods are connected by 5,000 square meters of thatched verandas and breezes.

The breeze path leads from the main house to a dining area next to the pool.

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Each of the four bedroom suites in the house stands alone in a capsule. There is also an owner’s suite with intricate beamed ceilings, glass accordion doors, and lush greenery.

The owner’s suite and terrace.

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Steps from the room’s king-size bed is a huge deck with a large bathtub on one side.

There is an outdoor bathtub on the terrace of the owner’s suite.

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There is a large white sun lounger on the other side.

From the sun lounger on the terrace of the owner’s suite you can enjoy a lush green view.

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The living room has a wall of windows that disappears into the ceiling at the push of a button.

The living room with its glass wall opened up to the pool area.

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The space opens to a sundeck with a built-in swimming pool surrounded by a row of ivory-colored lounge chairs, matching outdoor sofas, and a porch with an al fresco dining area.

A view of the pool area in L’ile d’Anges.

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The open kitchen of the chef has a wall of windows and another dining area of ​​the house.

The dining area in the open kitchen.

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In the showroom-worthy kitchen, an industrial double oven and hob by Wolf are on display, a wood-paneled ceiling and elegant cupboards.

Another look at the open kitchen.

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The island has two beaches covered with powdery white sand.

One of the two white sand beaches of L’ile d’Anges.

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At the end of a strip of beach there are two large white yurts with private bathrooms.

A stretch of beach with white yurts on the far right.

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The sturdy tent-like structures are air-conditioned and include wooden decks.

Beachfront yurts with wooden decks are just steps from the water.

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One is set up as a bedroom while the other is a beach gym.

A look into the yurt on the beach, which is set up as a bedroom.

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The 568 palm trees, perfectly scattered across the coast, were embarked from South Florida.

The island’s beaches include palm trees that have been transported to the island.

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In fact, most of the landscaped landscaping had to be imported.

The lawn and garden are adjacent to the main residence.

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The tallest structure on the island is an observation tower connected to the main residence.

The lookout tower in L’ile d’Anges.

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There is a large bell at the top and a spectacular panoramic view of the turquoise waters that surround L’ile d’Anges.

The view from the top of the observation tower.

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The island includes a dock and an adjacent loading ramp with a driveway that leads to the main residence.

The island’s dock and cargo area.

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L’ile d’Anges can also be reached by seaplane.

A seaplane floats on one of the beaches at L’ile d’Anges.

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There are 6,000 square feet of additional structures on the island, including three waterfront villas, each with two suites for staff or guest accommodation.

There are three waterfront villas on L’ile d’Anges for staff and guests.

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Some of the features of L’ile d’Anges that cannot be seen in any marketing image are worth noting.

“Every modern convenience and service you need is provided, from waste treatment and disposal to a reverse osmosis system to provide fresh water,” said de Mallet Morgan.

These modern conveniences include: eight giant tanks that can hold 64,000 gallons of filtered drinking water, two mobile home-sized generators to power the entire island, two satellite dishes for TV service, and two other dishes with high-speed internet access. De Mallet Morgan said the redundant systems are necessary to provide seamless backup if a system fails.

There is a smoke-free incinerator for household waste and a small medical area with medicines, bandages and a defibrillator. The room is equipped in such a way that concierge doctors can be reached remotely via video conference in an emergency. Several large storage rooms hold a small fleet of wave runners, industrial-grade laundry facilities, backup equipment, pantries, and cold storage rooms.

An aerial view of L’ile d’Anges.

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When you add the cost of labor, infrastructure, landscaping, and general upkeep, maintaining a private island doesn’t come cheap.

“For islands this size, you’re probably talking about $ 1.5 million to $ 2 million a year, depending on your maintenance, your staff, and your level of utilization,” said de Mallet Morgan.

The pool area as night falls.

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“Today there is probably the highest demand for turnkey private islands that we have ever seen.”

Edward de Mallet Morgan

Partner, Knight Frank

Typically, realtors look at comparable home sales in the area to calculate value and come up with an asking price for a listing. However, according to de Mallet Morgan, pricing is a little more complicated for a private island like this one.

“It is not an exact science to calculate the value, but a combination of factors,” he said. “Typically, you start by understanding the initial cost of the island itself and then you add up all the development costs and consider the equivalent replacement costs to create the same thing. You then take into account the time and opportunity costs to add them up.”

The view from one of the three waterfront villas on the island.

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De Mallet Morgan said there was a lot of interest in private islands following the Covid pandemic.

“The pandemic and everything related to it has really helped fuel interest and appetite for private islands and high quality real estate around the world,” he said.

“Today there is probably the highest demand for ‘turnkey’ private islands that we have ever seen in the Caribbean and Bahamas,” he said.

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Trump enterprise allies begin to distance themselves from him after Capitol Hill riot

Trump business allies start to distance themselves from him after Capitol Hill riot

President Donald Trump looks on during a rally in support of incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of a Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia, Jan. 4, 2021.

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After years of defending and clinging to him, some of President Donald Trump’s allies in the business world began to distance themselves from him after Wednesday’s deadly riot on Capitol Hill.

The withdrawal casts doubt on whether these business leaders will support him in the future – including whether he will run for president again in 2024.

“Bye, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Donald Trump,” said one of the president’s top election campaigners, also mentioning the two Republican senators who objected to Joe Biden’s electoral college victory. “He’s done,” added the person, referring to Trump.

A former White House official who had worked with business executives in administration was just as open when asked if corporate numbers would side with Trump after Wednesday’s uproar the president sparked.

After Wednesday: “Who the hell is left?” said this person. At least four people were killed and 50 police officers were injured in the protests.

These people refused to be named for fear of retaliation.

Marc Sumerlin, founder of Evenflow Marco, who recently turned down a chance to be on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, beat up Trump on Thursday in a note to his clients.

“A short man who was unloved and angry as a child secured his place as the worst president in United States history yesterday by sparking an insurrection against the US constitutional government,” Sumerlin wrote on the CNBC-audited note. “Two treacherous senators, Cruz and Hawley, both former court clerks, are going to be put in the history books.”

Sumerlin worked as an economic advisor under George W. Bush.

Some business leaders who supported Trump were silent after the Capitol invaded. Representatives of the following Trump donors declined to comment or returned requests for comment: Shipping material magnates Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, investor John Paulson, investor Robert Mercer, and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Tim Mellon, owner of Pan Am Systems, could not be reached.

Following Wednesday’s uprising, executives at private equity giant Apollo Global Management, founded by Trump ally Marc Rowan, sent a memo to employees condemning the Capitol attacks, a company spokeswoman told CNBC.

“The violence on Wednesday in Washington was reprehensible and we strongly condemn it,” Joanna Rose, a spokeswoman for the investment firm, told CNBC.

She also pointed to an open letter signed by members of the New York City Partnership asking Congress to accept the electoral college findings showing that Biden had won the election. James Zelter, Co-President of Apollo, signed the letter.

Some of the executives who have criticized the president over the past 24 hours either recently contributed to his bid for re-election or, in some cases, acted as outside advisors. Rowan was one of the few people on Wall Street who supported the president’s re-election campaign.

The same goes for executives like Steve Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, who was close to Trump for years and who spent a lot of money on both his 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. He did not give a group helping Trump in the final months of the re-election campaign and condemned the pro-Trump uprising in the Capitol.

“The uprising that followed the president’s remarks today is appalling and an affront to the democratic values ​​that we as Americans value. I am shocked and appalled at the attempt by this mob to undermine our constitution,” Schwarzman said in a statement across from CNBC late Wednesday. “As I said in November, the outcome of the election is very clear and there has to be a peaceful change of power.”

Schwarzman had previously said in November that Biden had won the election and was ready to work with the new administration.

Nelson Peltz, a longtime investor who hosted a major fundraiser for Trump in February, signed a statement with other business associates to CNBC and blew up the president.

“We condemn President Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results that culminated in the shocking events of yesterday in our Capitol. This president must commit to a peaceful transfer of power,” said Trian’s co-founders’ statement.

Safra Catz, CEO of tech giant Oracle, and Larry Ellison, founder of the company, have been associated with Trump since his victory in 2016. Trump participated in a re-election fundraiser at Ellison’s California home early last year.

Although they hadn’t responded to CNBC’s request for comment, a person close to them said the Washington uprising will dampen the president’s legacy. This person also predicted that, outside of his key supporters, many people who voted for Trump will regret their decision.

Jeffrey Spokesman, CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange and Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, donated $ 1 million to the pro-Trump super-PAC America First Action last year. Kelly Loeffler’s husband, who lost to Raphael Warnock in the recent Georgia Senate runoff, is also the spokesperson.

A spokesman for Sprecher said he condemned what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday but avoided mentioning Trump.

“Mr. Sprecher, along with business executives, condemns the lawlessness that emerged at the Capitol yesterday,” Josh King, a spokesman for Intercontinental Exchange, said in an email.

A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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Twitter and Fb Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill

Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill

On Twitter, on Wednesday, users asked the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, to close President Trump’s account. Civil rights groups said actions by social media companies against calls for political violence were “long overdue”. Even venture capitalists who had made wealth by investing in social media urged Twitter and Facebook to do more.

“For four years you have been rationalizing this terror. Inciting violent treason is not free speech, ”wrote Chris Sacca, a technology investor who invested in Twitter, to Mr. Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “If you work in these companies, it’s up to you too. Shut it down.”

Twitter, Facebook and others had previously refused to crack down on Mr Trump’s posts and other toxic content, stating that the posts were in the public interest. While the platforms had taken more steps against political misinformation in the months leading up to the election, the platforms refused to remove Mr Trump’s messages and instead took half-measures, such as labeling his posts.

When violence broke out in Washington on Wednesday, longtime critics said it was the day the chickens came home to settle down for the social media companies. After the onslaught of criticism began, Twitter and Facebook removed several of Mr. Trump’s posts from their websites, including one in which the president falsely stated that “a holy landslide election victory” was “unceremoniously and viciously stripped.”

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“We know the social media companies have been laconic at best,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League, to keep extremism from growing on their platforms. “Freedom of expression is not the freedom to incite violence. This is not a protected language. “

Renee DiResta, a researcher at Stanford Internet Observatory who studies online movements, added that the violence was the result of people engaging in closed social networks who believed the allegations of electoral fraud and election of Mr. Trump were stolen.

“This is a demonstration of the very real effects of echo chambers,” she said. “This was a remarkable rejection of the idea that there is an online and an offline world and that what is said online is in some way kept online. I hope this removes the notion from people’s minds. “

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‘Homicide the Media:” How The Information Media Grew to become a Goal on Capitol Hill

'Murder the Media:" How The News Media Became a Target on Capitol Hill

MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian said in the air outside the Capitol that she and her team wore clothing that did not bear MSNBC or NBC insignia. “We knew there could be setbacks and hostility towards us,” she said, “because, as you know, the president is always talking about the fake news media and telling people not to trust the media.”

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Flanked by two security guards later that day, she said she had “really interesting engagements” with some protesters, even though others pestered her with foul language.

President Trump and his allies have fanned the flames of anti-media sentiment and consistently referred to news networks as “the enemy of the people”. During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin described the day’s events as “chaos”, adding that “much of it is the media’s fault”.

Joel Simon, executive director of the journalists’ protection committee, said in a statement Wednesday that journalists in Washington had been intimidated while facing the possibility of escalating attacks. “Journalists and news teams reporting on these events, which are of the greatest public concern, must be able to do so freely and safely, with the support and protection of law enforcement agencies,” he said.

Zoeann Murphy, a video journalist for the Washington Post, announced on Twitter that she and a colleague had been arrested by police after the 6 p.m. curfew for filming protests outside the Capitol but were quickly released.

Journalists covering the vote count in the Capitol sought refuge from the violent protesters who had crept in. Haley Talbot, an NBC producer, fled to a congressional office with five other reporters. She called the MSNBC broadcast earlier describing a “dire situation” in which she and others had to grab gas masks while avoiding those knocking on the glass door of the chamber of the house.

The threats and attacks were not limited to Washington. The Canadian outlet CTV News reported that a photographer from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was slapped in the face by Trump supporters at a small rally in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sara Gentzler, a reporter for The Olympian in Washington state, wrote on Twitter that she and another journalist had been approached by an armed man at a protest in Olympia, Washington, who told them the news media was not welcome . He added that he had previously sprayed other reporters with pepper spray and said he would kill them and other journalists “next year”.