President Joe Biden has said that his Republican challenger Donald Trump is the main threat to US democracy.
Biden noted this during an interview aired Tuesday, April 9, on the main US Spanish-language TV network.
When asked by Univision in the Oval Office what he considered the “primary threat to freedom and democracy at home,” Biden said: “Donald Trump. Seriously.”
Biden referred to Trump’s support for the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, inflicting “destruction and the mayhem” in an attempt to overturn his election loss to Biden two months earlier.
Biden referred to congressional testimony that Trump had watched the riot for several hours on live television from the White House without attempting to intervene.
“The idea that he would sit in the office… and watch for hours the attack on the Capitol,” Biden said, adding that Trump “uses phrases like you’re gonna… eviscerate the Constitution (and) he’s going to be a dictator on day one.”
“I can’t think of any other time, in my lifetime, in history that’s occurred, that you’ve had somebody who’s had this kind of attitude,” Biden said.
Trump describes the United States as “failing” and suffering an invasion of violent immigrants, saying that only his return to the White House can save the country.
Although at first almost universally castigated by Republicans for the attack on the Capitol and his refusal to accept the 2020 election result, Trump has since returned to near total dominance of his party and polls show him in a tight race with Biden.
AFP
