'He can’t accept he lost': Biden blasts 'defeated' Donald Trump’s 'bruised ego' in fiery Jan. 6 speech
President Joe Biden delivered a fiery yet inspiring speech attacking Donald Trump’s “web of lies,” clearly calling out the former president as the head of the violent and deadly January 6 insurrection – a word he used, possibly for the first time in public.
“I did not seek this fight,” he said of the insurrection, “but I will not shrink from it either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and I’ll allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.”
“We are in a battle for the soul of America,” he noted.
Biden, generally reserved in referring to the former president, did not hold back Thursday morning, referring to Trump as “not only the former president, but the defeated former president,” and pointing to his “bruised ego.”
“He has done what no president in American history, the history of this country, has ever, ever done,” President Biden told the American people of Donald Trump. “He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people.”
Biden also quoted from the presidential oath of office, mentioning the phrase “all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
“This isn’t about being bogged down in the past. This about making sure the past isn’t buried.”
“Here’s the truth,” Biden also told the American people, “the former President of the United States has created and spread a web of lies about the election.“
Some more excerpts:
Biden on 1/6: "For the first time in our history, the president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed, they failed."pic.twitter.com/J09azm7Z39— The Recount (@The Recount) 1641479271
"One year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked."\n\nPres. Biden praises law enforcement, who "saved the rule of law. Our democracy held. We the people endured. We the people prevailed." https://abcn.ws/3G2XUIC\u00a0pic.twitter.com/wNeZHf76qR— This Week (@This Week) 1641478873
BIDEN: \u201cFor the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed. \u2026 we must make sure that such an attack never, never happens again."pic.twitter.com/4UljF9GCic— JM Rieger (@JM Rieger) 1641478974
\u201cHe can\u2019t accept he lost\u201d\n\nUS President Joe Biden says Donald Trump \u201crefused to accept the will of American people\u201d and \u201ccreated a web of lies\u201d\n\nhttps://bbc.in/3pZFkvp\u00a0pic.twitter.com/Cv0WzjW2h9— BBC News (World) (@BBC News (World)) 1641479912
Biden: "You can't love your country only when you win. You can't obey the law only when it is convenient. You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies."pic.twitter.com/07aAAzQL28— Brian Stelter (@Brian Stelter) 1641479619
"The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He's done so because he values power over principle...because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. He can't accept he lost."pic.twitter.com/qQugbu1xDe— CSPAN (@CSPAN) 1641479469
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