Washington. One year after the siege of the United States Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden declared: “I will not allow anyone to put a dagger to the throat of democracy”, and especially the former president with his “web of lies”, in a combative speech on the anniversary of the insurrection that took place on January 6, 2021.
“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. “You cannot love your country only when you win.”
Trump responded that this anniversary, far from reconciling Americans, exacerbates political antagonisms.
“Joe Biden used my name today to try to further divide America,” he said. “This political theater is only to distract from the fact that Biden has completely and totally failed.”
In reality, the Democratic president did not name him once, he alluded to him with the term “the former president” or “the losing former president,” knowing that this would enrage him.
Biden, who is usually friendly, took a serious tone to speak from the imposing “room of statues” of the headquarters of Congress, where on January 6, 2021 Trump supporters paraded freely.
The 79-year-old Democrat launched a full-blown verbal attack on his predecessor, who “has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 elections and has done so because he values power over principle, because he puts his own interest first. in the interest of his country “and because” his wounded ego matters more to him than our democracy. “
Trump repeated, without proof, that the elections were “rigged.”
“Never forget that the 2020 presidential elections were a crime. Never give up!” Trump exhorted.
For her part, Vice President Kamala Harris called on Americans “to unite in defense” of democracy.
“The American spirit has been put to the test.” “We must unite in defense of our democracy,” he said.
They seek testimony of Pence
The House Select Committee investigating the attack is piecing together a definitive timeline of how Trump resisted pleas to stop the violence on Pennsylvania Avenue. The group is stepping up its work behind closed doors with the goal of holding public hearings beginning this spring and is targeting former Vice President Mike Pence to testify voluntarily.
Although it is not certain that Pence helps the people around him they have cooperated such as his former chief of staff, Marc Short and former press secretary, Alyssa Farah.
A source familiar with his involvement said that Short, who was subpoenaed by the committee, would not have cooperated without Pence’s approval.
The committee also met privately with Stephanie Grisham, who was then First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff.
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