“You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-American,” Joe Biden said on January 6 at Capitol Riot.
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President Joe Biden on Monday slammed his predecessor Donald Trump for watching his supporters riot for hours on January 6 while police in the US Capitol face “medieval hell”.
“Brave law enforcement officers were subjected to medieval hell for three hours, covered in blood, surrounded by carnage, face to face with mad mobs who believed the lies of the defeated president,” Biden told the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement. Told executives. conference.
“For three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched all this happen as he sat comfortably in the private dining room next to the Oval Office,” he said.
“The police were the heroes that day. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act,” Biden said, “you can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-police. You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-democracy. You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-American.” Can’t be supporters.”
His criticism of Trump echoed the conclusion of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol, which on Thursday launched a prime-time indictment of the former president for refusing to stop or condemn the violence.
Pro-police remarks by Biden – who has come under fire from Republicans over a rise in violence in the United States – come as he attempts to burnish his credibility on crime ahead of November’s midterm elections, which are forecast to be painful. Is. Democratic Party.
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