President Biden on Friday marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, slamming former President Trump for “trying to steal history just like he tried to steal the election.”
Biden spoke in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, on Friday to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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Biden spent much of his speech attacking his predecessor and 2024 Republican nominee, who holds a significant lead in the Republican presidential primary.
“By trying to rewrite the facts of January 6th, Trump is trying to steal history in the same way he tried to steal the election,” Biden said. “But he knew the truth because we saw it with our own eyes.”
Former President Donald Trump (left) and President Joe Biden. (Fox News)
“The mob was not a peaceful protest. It was a violent assault,” Biden said, referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“These were insurrectionists, not patriots,” Biden said. “I say what Donald Trump won't say: Political violence is never, ever acceptable to America… never, never, ever.”
He added: “There's no place for that in a democracy. There isn't. You can't be an insurrectionist or pro-American.”
Mr. Biden spent much of his speech linking Mr. Trump to the Capitol riot.
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Although special counsel Jack Smith removed Trump from the investigation, the former president has never been charged with sedition.
Mr. Biden said that in 2024, “democracy is on the ballot” and “freedom is on the ballot,” and said the opposite of democracy is “dictatorship.”
“Let's be clear about the 2020 election: Trump exhausted every legal means available to him to overturn the election — all of them — but legal means only forced Trump back to the truth. .I mean, I won the election, and he was the president, “the loser,'' Biden said.
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Biden continued to slam Trump and his rhetoric, saying he was “running as the election denier in chief, the election denier in chief.”
“I've said that if I lose, I won't respect the election results,” Biden said.
But in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital after Biden's speech, Trump said Democrats were “trying” to rig the election “again.”
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“Democrats rigged the last election and are trying to rerun it again,” President Trump told Fox News Digital. “But that won't work, because they have shown how inferior and incompetent they are.”
He added: “Joe Biden is a real threat to our democracy because of his gross incompetence.”
