China News Service, January 7th, a comprehensive report, on the first anniversary of the U.S. Congressional riots, U.S. President Biden delivered a speech on January 6, local time, denounced Trump as the chief culprit of the riots, saying that he hoped to use violence. Attempt to overthrow the lost election.
In response, Trump criticized Biden for using his name to further divide the United States.
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According to reports, in a speech delivered by the National Statue Hall of the Capitol, Biden stated that “a former president of the United States of America created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He did so because he put power in Above principles."
Biden also said: "For the first time in our history, a president not only lost the election, but also tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power and let a mob rush into the Capitol."
He pointed out that after Trump "convened thugs to attack" the Capitol, he "sitting in a private dining room outside the Oval Office of the White House, watching all this on TV, did nothing for several hours, when the police were working We have been attacked, our lives are threatened, and the U.S. Capitol is being surrounded."
Data map: On January 6, 2021 local time, during the joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Trump supporters broke into the Capitol and caused riots. In the House of Representatives, the police held guns and confronted the protesters through the doors and windows.
On January 6, 2021, some of the demonstrators who supported the then U.S. President Trump’s overthrow of the 2020 presidential election forcibly broke into the U.S. Capitol for several hours, causing the joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which was verifying the election results, to be forced to Interrupted.
The incident resulted in the death of 5 people, including a congressional policeman, and injured about 140 law enforcement personnel.
In the year after leaving office, Trump has been playing down congressional riots and insisting that there was some degree of fraud in the election.
He was originally scheduled to hold a press conference at Sea Lake Manor in Florida on January 6, but it was cancelled at the urging of allies.
After Biden's speech, Trump responded in an email statement, criticizing Biden for using his name in his speech to "try to divide the United States further."
Trump stated that Biden “is destroying our country with crazy policies such as open borders, corrupt elections, disastrous energy policies, unconstitutional injunctions, and devastating school closures.” He also said that Biden’s speech was just "Political show" aims to "make people ignore the fact that Biden has completely failed."
According to Reuters, Reuters/Ipsos polls show that 55% of Republican voters believe Trump's false claims.
In addition, Trump is still very popular among Republican voters, and he is working hard to build momentum for the Republican candidates in the mid-term elections to the US Congress.