Business leaders and business groups on Wednesday called for an end to the violence in Washington, DC and a peaceful transfer of power after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol, where lawmakers met to certify the victory of President-elect Joe Electoral College. Biden.
The reactions came in a week of statements and meetings involving company executives who publicly called for a smooth transfer of power, while Trump and others discussed his defeat in the elections.
Chief executives, including the leaders of Google and Alphabet Inc.’s Bank of America Corp., condemned the violence.
“The uprising that followed the president’s comments today is shocking and an affront to democratic values that we regard as expensive as Americans,” said Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of Blackstone Group Inc. Schwarzman, one of Trump’s most loyal allies on Wall Street and a major Republican fund-raiser who acknowledged in November that Trump lost the election, added: “There must be a peaceful power transition.”
James Dimon, president and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the country’s largest bank, said the violence does not represent the United States “Our elected leaders have a responsibility to call for an end to the violence, to accept the results and, as our democracy has supported for hundreds of years, supporting the peaceful transition of power, ”said Dimon in a statement.