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Tuesday, November 19
Biden accuses Trump of insurrection in the Capitol: “He tried to avoid the peaceful change of power … he does not accept that he lost”
In his speech on the anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Joe Biden noted that former President Donald Trump does not accept that he lost the election and instigated his supporters to violence.
“ For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election , but tried to prevent the peaceful change of power, when a violent mob raped the Capitol ”Said Biden.
The Democrat said that that day, “democracy was attacked, simply attacked,” but the instigators failed.
“But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must ensure that a similar attack never, never happens again ”, he expressed.
President Biden never mentioned Trump by name , but referred to him several times as the “former vice president; He pointed out to him and his allies to spread “big lies.”
“A former president of the United States of America has created and spread a Web of lies about the elections of 2020, ”Biden said. “He did it because he values power over principle. Because he sees his own interest as more important than the interest of his country ”.
The Democrat noted that the 2020 more than 150 million people voted , the highest figure in any election in the U.S. In fact, both the winner of that process and the loser had more votes than any other contender in history.
“The election of 2020 was the greatest demonstration of democracy in history of this country ”, said the president. “A greater number of you voted in that election than you have voted in the entire history of the United States. More than 100 million Americans went to the polls and voted that day, in a pandemic. ”
The Democrat gave a speech of just over 25 minutes on Capitol Hill, where accused Trump and his followers of being undemocratic .
“The former president and his followers have decided that the only way to win is to suppress the vote of others and subvert our elections. That’s wrong. It is undemocratic. And frankly, he’s not American, ”he said.
Biden said on January 6 of the 2021, former President Trump did not call for calm, but preferred to “sit in the dining room of the White House” and watch the insurrection on television that left five people dead.