Just a year ago hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol encouraged by the former Republican president, who today continues to insist that the elections were rigged. Five people died in the assault.
The president of United States, Joe Biden, has accused former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) of creating a “web of lies” about the 2020 elections and inciting his followers to storm the Capitol a year ago.
“His wounded ego matters more to him than our democracy and our Constitution. He cannot accept that he lost.”Biden said in a speech from the Capitol on the first anniversary of the attack that left five dead and 140 officers wounded.
Although he did not mention Trump by name, Biden has devoted much of his speech to criticizing his predecessor, who just before the assault on January 6, 2021 encouraged his followers – gathered in Washington – to march to the Capitol and ” fight “to prevent the electoral result from being endorsed.
“The former president of the United States of America has created and disseminated a web of lies about the 2020 elections. He has done it because he values power more than principles, “said Biden.
In this sense, he has denounced that Trump and his allies have decided that “the only way for them to win is to suppress the vote and subvert the elections”, in a context of growing reforms at the state level that, in practice, promise to make it difficult to vote of minorities and people with fewer economic resources.
“You cannot love our country only when you win. You cannot obey the law only when it suits you. You cannot be patriotic when you embrace lies and allow them,” he added.
Visibly irritated, the president has insisted that there is “zero evidence” of allegations of electoral fraud that Trump released after the 2020 elections, and that have caused the majority of Republican voters to still not believe that Biden would legitimately win the election.
“He is not only a former president. He is a defeated former president, by a margin of more than 7 million of his votes, in full, free and fair elections,” he stressed.
Trump insists the election was rigged
In response to Biden, Trump has insisted that the presidential election should be discussed “rigged” 2020, in which he lost to the Democrat.
“They got away with it and it is leading to the destruction of our country,” Trump said.
The Republican added that Biden is destroying the country with “crazy policies of open borders, corrupt elections, disastrous energy policies, unconstitutional mandates and devastating school closings.”
In addition, Trump has criticized the media, rejecting that they refer to the alleged electoral fraud as the “big lie.”
“Democrats want to take over this day, January 6, to stoke fears and divide America“, has emphasized the republican.
The assault on the Capitol
On January 6 of last year, some 10,000 people – most of them Trump supporters – marched to the Capitol and about 800 broke into the building to prevent the victory of the now US president, Joe Biden, from being ratified against the Republican candidate in the November 2020 elections.
The former president, who refused to accept his defeat against Biden in the 2020 elections, gave a rally before his supporters 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 subjected to a impeachment 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.
In the incidents that occurred during the assault on the Capitol five people died and there were more than 140 injured.
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