Biden marks Jan 6 anniversary by calling Trump a threat to democracy and freedom
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CrystalRaindrops — 2 years ago(January 06, 2024 01:19 AM)
In his first major campaign event of 2024, President Joe Biden on the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivered a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to argue democracy and fundamental freedoms are under threat if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.
In what seemed to be especially personal remarks, Biden said Trump and far-right extremists are a threat and a danger to the freedoms on which the country was founded, echoing familiar themes he argued during the 2020 campaign, which he then called "a battle for the soul of the nation."
"The topic of my speech today is deadly serious. And I think it needs to be made at the outset of this campaign," he began on Friday.
"Today we are here to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America's 'sacred cause'?" he continued, repeating a phrase used by George Washington. "This is not rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy's still America's 'sacred cause' is the most urgent question of our time. And it's what the 2024 election is all about."
The president was closely involved in writing the speech, aides told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, after he met this week with historians and scholars at the White House.
"The choice is clear. Donald Trump's campaign is about him. Not America, not you. Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future," Biden said. "He's willing to sacrifice our democracy, to put himself at power."
Later in his remarks, he said, "Today, I make this sacred pledge to you, the defense, protection, and preservation of American democracy will remain, as it has been, the central cause of my presidency. America, as we begin this election year, we must be clear, democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot."
The same poll found 25% of Americans believe the falsehood that the FBI was responsible for the Jan. 6 attack, and that while 77% of Democrats say that those in the pro-Trump mob who entered the Capitol were "mostly violent," the number is 18% among Republicans, down from 26% in 2021. Seven in 10 Republicans say too much is being made of the Capitol attack, and 36% of Americans believe Biden's victory was illegitimate, up from two years ago.
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Yermom_Is_God — 2 years ago(January 06, 2024 01:26 AM)
Short version: Biden's repeating the same stupid lying bullshit he and the rest of the DNC and the media have been saying for years.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 2 years ago(January 06, 2024 06:38 PM)
Why would you be embarrassed by someone else's actions? That's mental instability.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot