Washington – AFP
US President Joe Biden condemned his predecessor Donald Trump on Monday for watching an hours-long rioting of his supporters during the storming of the Capitol, while the House and Senate police faced a “medieval hell” caused by former President Donald Trump.
“Courageous law enforcement experienced three hours of medieval hell, bled blood in the midst of carnage, and faced the frenzy of mobs who believed the lies of the loser president,” Biden said in a speech at the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Officials Conference.
“For three hours, the former president of the United States, the loser in the election, watched it all happen while he sat comfortably in the private dining room next to the Oval Office,” Biden said.
He continued, “The policemen were heroes that day. Donald Trump didn’t have the courage to act,” he said, adding, “You can’t be pro-rebellion and pro-police. You cannot be pro-rebellion, pro-democracy. You cannot be pro-insurgency, pro-American.”
Biden’s criticism of Trump is a restoration of the conclusions of the House of Representatives Committee of Inquiry into the riots that targeted the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
On Thursday, the House committee investigating the Capitol events accused Trump of failing to stop or condemn the violence, and stressed that he must be held accountable for the serious dereliction of his presidential duties. Biden’s position, which is criticized by Republicans once morest the backdrop of increasing violence in the United States, comes at a time when the master of the White House seeks to polish his administration’s achievements in combating crimes ahead of the midterm elections scheduled for next November, which observers expect to be difficult. on the Democratic Party.
