President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”
In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
WE ALL SAW WHAT TRUMP DID ON JAN 6
He reminded people to be peaceful and refrain from violence?
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1346912780700577792
He said that on twitter, while advocating for insurrection in a live speech. If he cared that much he would’ve gone on a public speech too, but that would’ve actually been heard by the target demographic
Sorry, but that’s misinformation. He also said it in his speech, but they left that part out at the impeachment trial.
Classic Trump supporter here, posting sources that contradict their point as supporting their point because, out of eight statements, one weakly suggested peace while the other seven weakly suggested insurrection.
This is how con men win over the critical thinking challenged crowd.
Right, because critical thinking equals defending the majority opinion.
Bro. You’re in the minority here, and you’ve made bad takes on every subthread. I don’t have the energy to argue with you. You’re on a predominantly leftist social media platform. No one here agrees with you.
Yes, please do tell me how you really feel about minorities.
Did you read the entire page?
Which of these statements strikes you as more of an incitement to violence, than, say, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country.” or “This is a movement, I’m telling you, they’re not going to stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”?
Neither. You’re looking for controversy or “muh hypocrisy” where it doesn’t exist.
So you’re saying there’s no objective standard for what consists incitement of violence, it’s just a matter of what’s politically expedient.
Yeah, seriously, one time he told everyone to remain peaceful. That totally contradicts every other time he almost explicitly called for violence! And certainly, he didn’t want it to happen, because as we all saw he swooped in immediately when they started to attacking the capitol to tell them to stop, instead of disappearing for an hour and a half.
Stop being such an easily fooled sheep. The proof is in the pudding: his cultists who were in the capitol that day nearly universally said they were there because Trump wanted them to be there. From their own fucking mouths, and you’re still trying to maintain that Trump wasn’t instrumental in making that happen.
Hours after he told them to go to the Capitol building and “fight like hell”.