President Biden on Thursday forcefully condemned Donald Trump’s election “big lie” that sparked the deadly breach of the Capitol by his supporters and continues to motivate deep national division. Biden marked the anniversary of the insurrection by declaring he will stand and fight for “the soul of America.”
“For the first time in our history, a president not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol,” Biden said. “But they failed.”
The president and congressional Democrats started the day in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, one of several spots where rioters swarmed a year ago and interrupted the electoral count.
President Biden speaks in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday one year after an insurrectionist mob stormed the building in hopes of interrupting the certification of the election of Biden as president.
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President Biden speaks in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Thursday.
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President Biden walks with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer past a statue of Abraham Lincoln after arriving on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk into Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol before delivering remarks on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the building by supporters of President Trump.
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