The president of United States, Joe Biden, has addressed in a speech to the Capitol just one year since the assault of the far-right supporters and Donald Trump on the US Congress. In his address, in a surprisingly harsh tone, underlining the seriousness of what happened and its consequences, Biden has asked, “Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as the norm?”.
It is not the only issue that Joe Biden has addressed. “[Vamos a ser una nación] Where do we allow partisan electoral officials to override the legally expressed will of the citizens? One that is not guided by the light of truth but by the shadow of lies?“, he insisted.
“At this moment we must decide the type of nation we will be”, Biden pointed out from his lectern, located on the Capitol itself, in the center of the rotunda around which the US Congress is articulated and which was the main scene of the attack by the mob of assailants. “We cannot afford to be that nation. The way to move on is by acknowledging the truth and living with it“.
“Trump values power more than principle”
Yes OK Joe Biden has not pointed names and surnames to Donald Trump, his predecessor in office, has made clear references to him and his behavior, about his refusal to acknowledge his electoral defeat and his encouragement to the masses who tried to strike a blow against democracy in the United States just a year ago.
He has directly accused him of putting his own interests above those of the country, and even of carrying out an “undemocratic” and “anti-American” attack on the legitimacy of the electoral system. Biden has asserted, bluntly, that Trump and his allies put “a dagger to the throat of American democracy.”. “I will not allow it,” he argued.
“For the first time in history a president tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power,” the current president of the United States has certified. “The ex-president [Trump] has spread a web of lies because he values power more than principlesAnd because his battered ego matters more to him than our democracy or the Constitution. “
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