U.S. Capitol police officers point guns at a door during a joint session of Congress to count the votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/BloombergThe Political Week in Photos
Violent rioting brought Donald Trump’s presidency closer to its conclusion as a mob of supporters who he egged on stormed the U.S. Capitol building in a failed bid to derail the final official act that cemented his re-election defeat.
The same day, Democrats secured control of the Senate by winning both of Georgia’s runoff ballots, paving the way for President-elect Joe Biden to pursue his governing agenda and punishing Republican candidates who’d supported Trump’s untrue claims that the November presidential vote had been stolen by fraud.