Business leaders and trade groups on Wednesday called for an end to violence in Washington, DC and a peaceful transfer of power after President Trump’s supporters stormed the Chapter, where lawmakers met to certify the election of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College.
The reactions came in a week of statements and meetings involving corporate executives who publicly demanded a smooth transfer of power, while Mr. Trump and others challenged his electoral defeat.
CEOs, including leaders of Google and Bank of America Corp. of Alphabet Inc., condemned the violence.
“The insurrection that followed the president’s remarks today is appalling and an affront to the democratic values we hold dear as Americans,” said Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of Blackstone Group Inc. Mr. Schwarzman, one of Mr. Trump’s most loyal allies on Wall Street and a prominent Republican founder who acknowledged in November that Mr. Trump lost the election, added, “There must be a peaceful transition of power.”
James Dimon, President and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the country’s largest bank, said the violence is not the US “Our elected leaders have a responsibility to call for an end to violence, to accept the results and, as for hundreds of years, it supports the peaceful transition of power, “Dimon said in a statement.