Biden charges Trump for his “lack of courage” during the assault on the Capitol

The President of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden, charged this Monday against his predecessor in office, Republican Donald Trump, for his lack of “courage” during the assault on the capitol in January 2021, as well as for his apparent reluctance to prosecute the insurgents.

“Donald Trump did not have the courage to act,” Biden charged at an event in honor of law enforcement in which the president, unusually for him, openly criticized his predecessor in the White House.

Hours later, the White House shared part of the intervention on social networks, accompanied by the following message: “The brave men and women in uniform across the United States must never forget that the already defeated former president of the United States saw how the 6 of January and didn’t have the guts to act.

In his speech, Biden recalls how during the assault – which he referred to as a “medieval hell” – the security forces, mainly the Capitol Police, were “assaulted before our very eyes.” “They were speared, sprayed, stomped on.”

“For three hours the already defeated president of the United States watched events unfoldsitting comfortably in a dining room next to the Oval Room,” Biden said, echoing the investigation by the Congressional commission on the assault on the Capitol, which this past week revealed the inaction of the then head of state during the 187 minutes that the attack lasted.

The president made these statements on the same day that the commission has released a draft of the speech that Trump gave the day after the assault, that is, on January 7, 2021, in which, apparently, the president would have crossed out a line in which instructed the Department of Justice to act against the insurgents.

Biden, who attributed the action of “a mad mob” due to the “lies of a defeated president”, concluded his speech by stating categorically: “You cannot be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy; You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-American.”

For his part, former President Trump, who has not yet commented on the revelations of this eighth and for now last hearing of the House of Representatives, has branded the investigation as “a witch hunt” and as “a pantomime” by his detractors, including the two Republican congressmen who are part of the panel.

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