Biden Holds Trump Responsible in Jan. 6 Speech – The New York Times

WASHINGTON President Biden denounced former President Donald J. Trump and his allies on Thursday for holding a dagger at the throat of America by promoting lies and violence as the nation s capital fractured into sparring camps a year after the Jan. 6 mob assault on Congress.

In his most sustained and scathing repudiation of his predecessor since taking office, Mr. Biden used the anniversary of the Capitol siege to condemn Mr. Trump for waging an undemocratic and un-American campaign against the legitimacy of the election system, much as autocrats and dictators do, all to avoid admitting defeat.

The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election, Mr. Biden said, standing in the National Statuary Hall, which had been invaded by throngs of Trump supporters a year ago. He s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interests as more important than his country s interests and America s interests, and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution. He can t accept he lost.

The president s address began a commemoration that, instead of showcasing American unity against threats to democracy, only underscored just how riven the country remains a year after rioters armed with hockey sticks, baseball bats, crutches, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bear spray and stolen police batons broke into the Capitol to disrupt the counting of the Electoral College votes ratifying Mr. Trump s defeat.

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I don’t quite see what the Dems are up to with all this hysterical Jan 6 stuff. Maybe the idea is to enrage Trump so much with all the attacks on him that he’ll be baited into running, and then they think they’ll be able to beat him with more of the whole “threat to democracy” tag. I’m not sure that will work, if that’s the plan. Trump may be a threat to democracy, but the Democrats are worse.

At least on the scale of the USA, I’m not sure democracy is such a great idea anyway. We’re not supposed to be a pure democracy, you know. Hence states, the Senate, the Judiciary, not to mention the federal agencies, which take the idea of non-democracy too far.