US President Joe Biden speaks on Capitol Hill.


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US President Joe Biden speaks on Capitol Hill.

The president of United States, Joe Biden, has blamed his predecessor Donald Trump (2017-2021) for creating a “web of lies” regarding the 2020 election and inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol a year ago. Biden accused Trump of “having tried to prevent a peaceful transfer of power.” “His wounded ego matters more to him than our democracy and our Constitution. He cannot accept that he lost,” Biden said, according to Efe, in a speech delivered from the Capitol on the occasion of the first anniversary of the attack that left five dead and 140 agents wounded. The Democrat has described what happened as “an armed insurrection”, said the Afp agency. “The former president of the United States has created and spread a web of lies regarding the 2020 elections,” were Biden’s words. “He has done it because he values ​​power over principle, because he puts his own interest before the interest of his country.” Biden has confessed that pray that something similar is never repeated: “I’m praying that we never have another day like the day we had today a year ago. I’m going to talk regarding that.” They were, according to Efe, his first statements to the press as soon as he arrived at the Capitol, minutes before giving a speech regarding the followingmath left by the assault on the legislative headquarters. On January 6 of last year, some 10,000 people – most of them Trump supporters – marched to the Capitol and regarding 800 broke into the building to prevent ratification of the victory of the now US president, Joe Biden, once morest the Republican candidate in the November 2020 elections. The former president, who refused to accept his defeat once morest Biden in the 2020 elections, gave a rally before his supporters just before the assault, in which he encouraged the crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight” to prevent the electoral result from being certified. A year later, the tragic journey, which left five people dead and 140 officers injured, continues to mark much of the political agenda of the United States.

A fragile democracy

To underscore the importance of the commemoration, the Capitol will host various “reflection” and “remembrance” events on Thursday, including speeches by Biden and the US Vice President. Kamala Harris. Harris, for his part, said Thursday that the assault on the Capitol a year ago “reflects the fragility of democracy.” In her speech, minutes before Biden’s, the vice president declared that “the violent assault that took place here, the mere fact of how closely the elections might be revoked, reflects the fragility of democracy.” Harris herself was present that January 6 of last year at the headquarters of the US Congress before and following the assault. The vice president has urged not to allow the future of the nation to be decided by those who want silence the voices of americans, revoke votes and spread lies and misinformation, according to Efe. In that sense, he accused “a radical faction”, which, he added, may have emerged recently, but whose roots are “deep and ancient.” What these “extremists” were looking for, as he has described them, “was not only to degrade and destroy a building (…), what they attacked were the institutions, values, and ideals of generations of Americans,” said the vice president. .