“Donald Trump’s campaign is about him,” Biden said. 6 or seditious conspiracy - “one of the saddest things.”īiden, in his remarks, seized on Trump’s grievances and his pledges to get retribution on his political enemies. Speaking in Iowa Friday, Trump repeated his false claims that he won the 2020 election and his assertion that the Capitol rioters were patriotic, and called the long prison sentences handed down for some offenders - whom Trump calls “hostages” and were convicted of crimes like assaulting police officers on Jan. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Trump could be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden and three other felony cases, argues that Biden and top Democrats are themselves seeking to undermine democracy by using the legal system to thwart the campaign of his chief rival. Biden, who reentered political life because he felt he was best capable of defeating Trump in 2020, believes focusing on defending democracy to be central to persuading voters to reject Trump once again. The speech, the president’s first political event of the election year, was intended to clarify the expected choice for voters this fall.

6 2021, marked a moment where “we nearly lost America - lost it all.” He said the presidential race - a likely rematch with Trump, who is the far and away GOP frontrunner - is “all about” whether American democracy will survive. Speaking near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter nearly 250 years ago, Biden said that Jan. Capitol by then-President Trump’s supporters aiming to keep him in power. (AP) - President Joe Biden warned Friday that Donald Trump’s efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, the day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S.

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