The President Joe Biden He is reporting what he calls a “continuous effort” to undermine a mob Donald Trump supporters Passing the US Capitol Trying to block the certification of the 2020 election – trying to contrast the chaos of that day with what promises to be an orderly transition to return Trump to power for a second term.
In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on Sunday, Biden recalled January 6, 2021, writing that “violent riots attacked the Capitol.”
“We should be proud that our democracy withstood this attack,” Biden wrote. “And we should be happy that we won’t see such a shameful attack this year.”
Congress will convene amid snow in Washington on Monday make sure Trump’s victory in the November election, in a session led by the candidate he defeated, Vice President Kamala Harris. No violence is expected this time, nor are there any procedural hurdles, marking a return to a US tradition of initiating a peaceful transfer of presidential power.
That’s despite Trump Continuing to deny that he lost to Biden in 2020already thinking about staying beyond the Constitution’s two-term White House limit, and promising to forgive some More than 1,250 people Those who have pleaded guilty or been convicted of crimes for the siege of the Capitol.
In his op-ed, Biden says of the certification process: “After what we all saw on January 6, 2021, we know we can never take it for granted again.” He doesn’t directly mention Trump, but says he is “making a constant effort to rewrite the history of that day, even to erase it.”
“To say we didn’t see what we all saw with our own eyes,” Biden wrote. “We cannot afford to lose the truth.”
“He vowed that the elections will be ensured in a peaceful manner. I have invited the incoming president to the White House on the morning of January 20th, and I will be at his inauguration that same evening”, even though Trump jumped Biden’s inauguration in 2021.
“But on this day, we can’t forget,” Biden added. “We should commit to remembering January 6, 2021 every year. Remembering it as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed. To remember that democracy – even in America – is never guaranteed.”
Published article Biden told White House reporters early Sunday that the history of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 “should not be rewritten,” adding, “I don’t think it should be forgotten.”
Biden spent much of 2024 warning voters that he was a Trump a serious threat to the nation’s democracy. And this past week, the president awarded has Presidential Citizen Medal To Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, Congressional research supervisors to the riots in the Capitol.
As he did with his op-ed, Biden used Sunday’s comments to emphasize to reporters that his administration is overseeing a peaceful transfer of power — unlike the last one.
“I’ve talked about making it a smooth transition,” Biden said of Trump’s incoming administration. “We need to get back to basic power transfer.”
Asked if he still saw his successor in the White House as a threat to democracy, Biden replied: “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. I hope we’re beyond that now.”
