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Netanyahu, US treasury chief blast violence

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned as “disgraceful” violence by supporters of his staunch ally President Donald Trump at the US Capitol building.

Netanyahu made the comments in Jerusalem alongside Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who called the storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters “unacceptable”.

The Israeli leader said the “rampage at the Capitol yesterday was a disgraceful act and it must be vigorously condemned.”

“I have no doubt that… American democracy will prevail. It always has,” added Netanyahu, who has repeatedly called Trump Israel’s best-ever friend in the White House.

Speaking after Netanyahu, Mnuchin said: “Now is the time for our nation to come together as one and to respect the democratic process in the US.”

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Mnuchin spoke as the US Congress was certifying Joe Biden as the next US president, dealing a hammer blow to the deeply controversial effort by Trump and his loyalists to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The certification came hours after a mob breached the US Capitol and sent lawmakers scrambling for safety. They were able to return hours later, shaken but determined to complete the task.

Egged on in an extraordinary rally across town by an aggrieved Trump, a flag-waving mob had broken down barricades outside the Capitol and swarmed inside, rampaging through offices and onto the usually solemn legislative floors.

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