President Donald Trump said on Jan. 8 that he will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” the president wrote on Twitter. Trump made the announcement one day after Congress certified Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. The president has not conceded the race but has said there will be a peaceful transition of power. Congress certified Biden as the winner early on Thursday morning after its joint session was halted by protesters who broke into the Capitol building. The joint session resumed hours later. Some of the senators who had committed to objecting to the counting of slates of electors for Biden withdrew their signatures after the session reconvened. Only two out of as many as seven objections were ultimately considered and rejected. Shortly after Twitter lifted a …