(Archive) Former US President Donald Trump during a speech to his supporters outside the White House, minutes before the Capitol invasion on January 6, 2021. afp_tickers
This content was published on January 6, 2022 at 11:05 PM
(AFP)
Former US President Donald Trump called this Thursday (6) speech by Joe Biden, who accused Republicans of attacking Congress on January 6, 2021, “political theater” to distract attention from “failures.” Democratic administration.
The President “used my name today [quinta-feira] to try to divide America even further, Trump said in a statement. “This political theater is just a distraction from the fact that Biden has completely failed,” he added.
In his speech, Biden criticized Trump for spreading a “web of lies” claiming that the 2020 vote recount was rigged in an attempt to stay in power. The current president also attacked a crowd of Republican supporters who invaded the Capitol to prevent congressmen from witnessing his election victory.
Trump, who earlier this week canceled a scheduled press conference to mark the anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol, reiterated that the presidential election had “passed.”
“You no longer need to look at the numbers, they speak for themselves,” the ex-president said.
“This is unjustified, so the media partners call it a ‘big lie’ when in fact the ‘big lie’ was Biden’s election,” he added.
Hours after his first statement, the former Republican president made a second, in which he appeared to be furious with Biden’s speech.
“It hurts a lot of people to see Biden speak. [os democratas] who tried to interfere with the peaceful transfer [de poder] with organized elections, ”he said.
The former president later published a third note addressing his supporters: “Never forget that the 2020 presidential election was a crime. You must never give up! “
Trump’s accusations of electoral fraud have been dismissed one by one by state officials in which the vote was questioned, by the Department of Justice and by US courts.
