Two years after the attack on CapitolPresident Joe Biden said on Friday that “There is no place for political violence” in USAwhen decorating the policemen who faced a crowd of supporters of donald trump.
“We must clearly say with one voice that there is no place…in America for voter intimidation. None, ever, due to political violence”Biden stated.
“America is a country of law, not chaos.” said the 80-year-old Democrat, before greeting the honorees Friday, “a remarkable group of American citizens.”
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granted 14 “Presidential Citizenship Medals”, one of the highest American civilian honors, three of them posthumous.
The faces of some have become almost familiar to Americans from the haunting images of the Capitol invasion on January 6, 2021, or from their vivid testimony as part of the congressional inquiry into the events.
The president also honored elected officials and poll workers from various states who resisted pressure and threats to change the outcome of the election, which Biden won.
The act came as elected Republican lawmakers, espousing some of the same ideas as the January 6, 2021 attackers, continued to block the election of a House speaker.
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