Biden heavily criticizes former President Trump on first anniversary of Capitol attack 

  07 January 2022    Read: 445
Biden heavily criticizes former President Trump on first anniversary of Capitol attack 

President Joe Biden has heavily criticized former President Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the attack on the US Capitol, AzVision.az reports citing BBC.

In a televised speech Mr Biden accused his predecessor of spreading "a web of lies" that led to the mob's assault.

Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building on 6 January 2021 as Congress gathered to certify Mr Biden's presidential election victory.

Live footage of US politicians cowering from the mob shocked the world.

Mr Trump had urged protesters at a rally outside the White House shortly beforehand to "peacefully" march on Congress, but he also encouraged them to "fight" and stirred up the crowd with unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud in the election he had just lost.

Shortly after Mr Biden's speech on Thursday Mr Trump released an angry statement hitting out at his successor. In it, he accused Mr Biden of "failure" and repeated false claims about the election.

Mr Biden condemned the attackers and Mr Trump in his speech on Thursday, using some of his strongest language yet about both the Capitol riots and his predecessor.

"Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated this incidence held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy", Mr Biden said in

Statuary Hall, a section of the Capitol complex that was breached by rioters.

"They came here in rage, not in the service of America, but rather, in the service of one man.

"The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election... His bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution".

The US leader also warned that the threats to American democracy "have not abated."


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