Joe Biden: Trump is a constant threat to American democracy

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US President Joe Biden today accused Donald Trump’s predecessor of being a continuing threat to American democracy and of “attempting to prevent a peaceful transfer of power” on January 6, 2021 by attacking the Capitol, an “outrageous” attack. “, according to the Democratic.

“For the first time in history, a president not only did not lose an election, he also attempted to prevent a peaceful transfer of power,” and his supporters who attacked the Capitol, where the US Congress is based, “were not a group of tourists. “It was an armed uprising,” Biden said in a speech to Congress.

Donald Trump “created and spread a web of lies” by complaining of fraud, due to which he lost the 2020 presidential election, the US president also said.

“The former president of the United States created and spread a web of lies for the 2020 elections,” he did, because he prefers power to the authorities, “said the head of state, emphasizing that the Republican” was building his lie for months. ” before the election.

In addition, Joe Biden promised at the end of his speech on the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol:

“I will not allow anyone to put a pistol in the temple of (American) democracy.”

“Both in the United States and abroad, we are committed to a battle between democracy and authoritarianism,” he said.

“I did not seek this battle, but I will not leave,” he said.

For her part, Vice President Kamala Harris today called on the Americans to “unite” to “defend” democracy, a year after the Capitol attack.

“The American spirit has been tested,” she said during a congressional hearing marking the first anniversary of those dramatic events.

“We must unite to defend our democracy.”

Trump reaction

For his part, the former US president accused Joe Biden of invoking his name in order to further divide the country.

“Biden” used my name today in an attempt to further divide America, “Trump said in a written statement following Biden ‘s speech at the Capitol.

“This political theater is just a distraction,” he said, which aims to make citizens forget the “failures” of the Democratic president, Trump said.

Earlier in the day, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of “politically exploiting” the anniversary of the Capitol attack.

“It was unbelievable to see some Democrats in Washington trying to take advantage of this anniversary to advance party goals that existed long before that,” he said in a press release, calling January 6, 2021, a “black day for “Congress and our country.”