In the assault on the building, 5 people died and 140 officers were injured.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, will give this Thursday a speech on the assault on the Capitol last year in which he will blame his predecessor, Donald Trump, the “sole responsibility for the chaos and carnage” that occurred that day.
This was indicated this Wednesday by the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, who took advantage of her daily press conference to make it clear that Biden will not bite his tongue when condemning Trump during the speech he will give this Thursday from the Capitol, scheduled for 09:00.
“The President will explain the significance of what happened on Capitol Hill and Trump’s unique responsibility for the chaos and carnage we saw that day,” Psaki assured about the speech, which will take place a year after that assault in which 5 people died and 140 officers were injured.
“(Biden) will emphatically reject the lies that the former president spread in an attempt to deceive the American people and his own supporters, as well as to distract from his own role in what happened,” he added.
The president considers January 6, 2021, a “tragic culmination of what the four years” of Trump’s mandate did to the country, who “undermined the Constitution and ignored his oath to the American people in an attempt to amass more power for himself. himself and his allies, “the spokeswoman continued.
Biden considers Trump, who continues to hold the reins of the Republican Party in his hands, “a threat to American democracy” and regrets that the former president “constantly works to undermine the basic values of the United States and legality” in the country, he added. .
Psaki had already given details about Biden’s speech earlier this week, But he had avoided making it clear whether the president would lash out directly at Trump.
Trump maintains that they were not his followers
The former president, who refused to accept his defeat against Biden in the 2020 elections, gave a rally before his followers just before the assault, in which he encouraged the crowd to march towards the Capitol and “fight” to prevent it from being certified. the electoral result.
Trump was impeached in the Senate for his responsibility in the assault, but he was acquitted thanks to the votes of the Republicans, and the few legislators of that party who voted in favor of condemning him have practically become pariahs within the formation.
Most Republican voters continue to believe Trump’s unproven allegations of voter fraud, according to polls, and the former president has spread conspiracy theories in the past year that the Capitol raiders weren’t his followers, despite that various investigations have shown that they were. (I)
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