De Blasio threatens to fire any NYC employee who participated in Trump's Capitol coup [View all]

City employees found to have participated in last week’s attack on the Capitol will be terminated immediately, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

“If we have proof that someone violently attacked our United States government, they will not be working for New York City any longer,” de Blasio told reporters.

On Jan. 6, a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election as congress members gathered to count electoral college votes confirming President-elect Joe Biden.

The attack came after weeks of encouragement from President Trump for his supporters to try and undermine the election and shortly after he told a crowd gathered at The Ellipse “we will never give up, we will never concede…you will never take back our country with weakness.”

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