Biden will attribute to Trump the “sole responsibility” for the assault on the Capitol

The president of EE.UU., Joe Biden, will give this Thursday a speech on the assault on the Capitol last year in which he will blame his predecessor, Donald Trump, the “sole responsibility for the chaos and carnage” that occurred that day.

This was indicated this Wednesday by the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, who took advantage of her daily press conference to make it clear that Biden he will not bite his tongue when condemning Trump during the speech he will give this Thursday from the Capitol, scheduled for 09.00 local time (14.00 GMT).

“The president will explain the meaning of what happened in the Capitol and the unique responsibility that Trump has for the chaos and carnage we saw that day,” said Psaki about the speech, which will take place a year after that assault in which 5 people died and 140 officers were injured.

“(Biden) will emphatically reject the lies that the former president spread in an attempt to deceive the American people and his own followers, as well as to distract from his own role in what happened, “he added.

The president considers January 6, 2021 as a “tragic culmination of what the four years” of Trump’s mandate did to the country, who “undermined the Constitution and ignored his oath to the American people in an attempt to amass more power for himself. himself and his allies, ”the spokeswoman continued.

Biden consider Trump, who continues to hold the reins of the Republican Party in his hands, “a threat to democracy” in the United States, and regrets that the former president “constantly works to undermine the basic values ​​of the United States and legality” in the country, he added.

Psaki had already given details about the speech of Biden earlier this week, but had avoided making it clear whether the president would lash out directly at Trump.

The ex-president, who refused to accept his defeat against Biden In the 2020 elections, he held a rally before his supporters just before the assault, in which he encouraged the crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight” to prevent the election result from being certified.

Trump He was subjected to impeachment in the Senate for his responsibility in the assault, but was acquitted thanks to the votes of the Republicans, and the few legislators of that party who voted in favor of condemning him have practically become pariahs within the formation .

The majority of Republican voters continue to believe the allegations without evidence of voter fraud from Trump, according to polls, and the ex-president has spread conspiracy theories in the last year according to which the robbers on the Capitol were not his followers, despite the fact that several investigations have shown that they were.