Joe Biden and Donald Trump exchanged words this Friday, January 5, one day after officially marking three years since the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a mob of protesters entered Congress, causing one of the most controversial political events in the United States in recent years.
From Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, the Democratic president recalled the events of January 6 and attacked former President Trump, calling him a “loser” and a threat to democracy.
“In trying to rewrite the facts of January 6, Trump is trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election,” Biden said. “But he knew the truth because we saw it with our own eyes.”
“They were insurrectionists, not patriots,” Biden added, referring to those who stormed the Capitol. “I’ll say what Donald Trump won’t — political violence is never, ever acceptable to the United States… Never, never, never.”
And he stated: “It has no place in a democracy. None. You can’t be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American.”
In another controversial moment of the speech, Biden compared Trump to Hitler and assured that the former president uses the same rhetoric as Nazi Germany.
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However, in an interview with Fox News Digital, the former Republican president counterattacked Biden’s speech. The latest national polls show Biden clearly trailing Trump, especially in swing states.
“The Democrats rigged the last election and they are trying it again,” Trump said. “But it won’t work because they have shown how bad and incompetent they are.”
The Republican then called Biden corrupt and the worst president in the history of the country.
“Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States — he is incompetent, he is crooked, and in many respects, he is Benedict Arnold,” Trump said, referring to the American general who defected and joined the British during the War of Independence. “He is destroying our country like no one else has done before.”
Trump later accused Biden of pursuing a problematic open border immigration policy that is generating “an invasion of millions of people, many from prisons, mental institutions and terrorists pouring into our country.”
“He is responsible for this,” continued the Republican, who is the favorite in the Republican primaries. “We are a failing nation — a nation in decline — and it is all because he is the worst president in the history of our country.”
Later, Trump pointed out that the real danger to democracy is Biden himself “because of his gross incompetence.”
“This is not a time for us to have a mentally challenged president,” Trump said.
