Thursday, March 28

Capitol Riots Anniversary: ​​Joe Biden Launches Searing Attack On Donald Trump


US President Joe Biden launched a searing attack on Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the insurrection by supporters of his predecessor, pledging to fight for “the soul of America.”

Making a televised address from Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, scene of the deadly assault of a pro-Trump mob as it tried to stop Biden’s certification of victory, the president was scathing in his criticism.

“For the first time in our history, a president not only lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power when a violent mob stormed the Capitol,” Biden said. “But they failed.”

“Democracy was attacked,” he continued, adding that “the people triumphed.”

Statuary Hall was one of several places where rioters swarmed a year ago and disrupted the election count.

Biden drew a contrast between the “truth from God” of what happened – “they were trying to subvert the Constitution” – and the conspiracy theories that have emerged about the insurrection.

He also challenged the refusal of many Republicans today to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, in which Biden won seven million more votes than Trump.

The defeated president’s claims of widespread fraud were refuted by his own Justice Department, and dozens of legal challenges by the losing side were thrown out by the courts.

“We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie. Here is the truth,” he said. “The former president of the United States of America has spread a web of lies about the 2020 elections.”

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‘We are in a battle for the soul of America’

Although Republicans in Congress almost universally condemned the attack in the days since, most have remained loyal to Donald Trump. Almost everyone is boycotting Thursday’s commemorative events.

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Democrats accuse them of knowing full well that Trump’s claims that the election “robbed” him are false, but of bowing to his boisterous base.

“The threat continues,” said Liz Cheney, chair of the House committee investigating the attack and one of the few Republican lawmakers who attended the Capitol ceremonies. Trump, he said, “keeps making the same claims that he knows caused violence on January 6.”

He accused many in the party of “hugging the former president … looking the other way or minimizing the danger,” in an interview with NBC. “This is how democracies die. We simply cannot allow that to happen.”

Amid mounting rumors of a Trump return in 2024, Republican officials have been accused of trying to change state laws governing future elections, to ensure that their candidate is certified as a winner regardless of the actual result on the ballot. .

“We are in a battle for the soul of America,” Joe Biden said in his speech.

“I did not seek this fight, brought to this Capitol within a year. But I am not going to shy away from it either. I will stand in this gap, I will defend this nation. I will not allow anyone to put a dagger to the throat of this democracy.”


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