{"id":402461,"date":"2021-01-13T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402461"},"modified":"2021-01-13T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:36:10","slug":"us-military-confirms-biden-as-46th-commander-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/us-military-confirms-biden-as-46th-commander-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"US military confirms Biden as 46th commander-in-chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington DC)-The US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a message Tuesday to the military saying a \u201cviolent riot\u201d at the Capitol building was a \u201cdirect assault\u201d on Congress and the Constitution and confirming President-elect Joe Biden will become the country\u2019s 46th commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo, signed by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the other Joint Chiefs of Staff, the officials said they &#8220;witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came a week after a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, leaving five people dead. Trump is being blamed for sparking the violence and faces possible impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On January 20, 2021, in accordance with the Constitution, confirmed by the states and the courts, and certified by Congress, President-elect Biden will be inaugurated and will become our 46th Commander in Chief,&#8221; said the memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington DC)-The US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a message Tuesday to the military saying a \u201cviolent riot\u201d at the Capitol building was a \u201cdirect assault\u201d on Congress and the Constitution and confirming President-elect Joe Biden will become the country\u2019s 46th commander-in-chief. In the memo, signed by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402463,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402461\/revisions\/402463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}