Last week, we saw an unprecedented assault on our democracy. It was unlike anything we have witnessed in the 244-year history of our nation.
A violent attack on the United States Capitol itself. On the people’s representatives. On police officers who every day risk their lives to protect them. And on fellow citizens who serve as public servants in that Citadel of Liberty.
Windows and doors were destroyed. Offices ransacked. A Capitol Hill police officer was murdered. Another lost his life a few days later. Four other people died in the senseless mayhem of that day.
This criminal attack was planned and coordinated. It was carried out by political extremists and domestic terrorists, who were incited to this violence by President Trump.
It was an armed insurrection against the United States of America. And those responsible must be held accountable.
Today, the members of the House of Representatives exercised the power granted to them under our Constitution and voted to impeach and hold the president accountable. It was a bipartisan vote cast by members who followed the Constitution and their conscience. The process continues to the Senate.
This nation also remains in the grip of a deadly virus and a reeling economy. I hope that the Senate leadership will find a way to deal with their Constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the other urgent business of this nation.
From confirmations to key posts such as Secretaries for Homeland Security, State, Defense, Treasury, and Director of National Intelligence, to getting our vaccine program on track, and to getting our economy going again. Too many of our fellow Americans have suffered for too long over the past year to delay this urgent work.
I have often said that there is nothing we can’t do, if we do it together. And it has never been more critical for us to stand together as a nation than right now.
So we must remember who we are as Americans and what we stand for and believe.
It’s time for us to be what at our best we have always been.
The United States of America.
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So much for this priviliged WHITE draft dodger’s unity.
There are only three paragraphs out the entire statement that don’t say anything untrue
“I have often said that there is nothing we can’t do, if we do it together”
THE DEMOCRATS SURE SOUNDED TOGETHER TODAY. BUT THEY FORGOT ABOUT THE OTHER 74 MILLION (you know the white extremists, terrorists, traitors etc)
Mr. Biden:
As a Democrat, false narratives must be very familiar. While a Trump supporter, I easily find his shortcomings, and have no problem voicing them. Yet, the abuse he has been put through is extreme. The House spent the four years of the Trump presidency looking for ways to trample him, abandoning the responsibilities that each Representative assumed upon being elected. From the Russia hoax to the impeachment hoax, Trump was hounded by bloodthirsty, malicious Democrats. While you were not one of the most active and vocal ones, you bought into that narrative, and are not without responsibility.
You made one statement here that is so outrageously false that I, as a citizen of USA, demand a retraction. You place the reeling economy on Trump’s shoulders. That, Mr. Biden, is sheer chutzpah. There has not been an administration, Republican or Democrat, that has grown the economy as immensely as Donald Trump. You know that, just that you babble the narrative. Well, stop it. If you care at all for America and our millions of citizens, you will continue the economic policy that Trump began. Drop the tax-to-death proposals, and stop subsidizing the terror regimes like Iran, Palestinian Authority, and others. Make immigration reform real, not reward the illegal migrants with every subsidy known that are diverted from our own citizens. The only president in recent history that scored well on keeping campaign promises was Trump. Not Obama, not Clinton, not even the Bushes. If you fail to enact crushing taxes, we will not resent you for it.
Thanks to everyone who voted us in for 4 miserable years of this tired, lying, hypocritical, patronizing, corrupt career politician.
Lets see if impeachment of a Pres who is not in office is high or low priority when faced with the long list of important issues.
WOW, what a powerful speech. did he compose that speech himself in the basement ? or did AMALEK help him ?
If this attack on the Capitol was “planned and coordinated” by terrorists. as he says, then it obviously was not the President’s fault.
Stay together and the same time impeach the president who 75 million voted for him how exactly do you want it to work ? If you realy are a leader you should speak out against the impeachment and against any kind of violence be it in the capitol or in other places, be it by right extremists or by BLM, is that the new leadership we are going to have ?
In other words: I call for unity which means agree with me or else you’re a seditious rebel.
Unless they find a recording advocating using violence against the members of Congress, not merely having a noisy protest, the end result will be a verdict of NOT GUILTY. With this verdict that he wasn’t to blame, Trump can restart his political career if he wants to. They have already accused Trump of mounting an insurrection, so they better have the a lot of military people ready to testify that Trump tried to recruit them for his putsch – since a largely unarmed mob (only a handful had anything that pass for weapons) would have been unable to seize the government without military support. And the Democrats will have taken the period that is traditionally the “honeymoon” of a new president, and squandered it with charges against Trump, that the Democrat control Senate will inevitably reject.
FBI confirmed that it was well planned weeks before (Antifa). So how could the presidents speech that day in which he urged people to March and rally peacefully be called incitement?
I don’t get it. The president-elect states, “This criminal attack was planned and coordinated. It was carried out by political extremists and domestic terrorists, who were incited to this violence by President Trump.” Well, if it was planned and coordinated, how can you possibly say as well that it was incited by the speech our great outgoing president gave just hours before the mob descended upon the Capitol? Surely a few hours is not enough time to “plan and coordinate” an “armed insurrection against the United States of America”! And if, as I’m sure some commenters may think, the incitement referred to is the “incitement” of the weeks leading up to January sixth: 1) I don’t believe that that is how the resha’im arurim, yemach shemam v’zichram, who voted last night to impeach were understanding the issue — nor how they were arguing for it, and 2) there exists even less evidence of seditious presidential activity from the weeks leading up to the riot than there exists evidence of seditious activity from the January sixth speech. Mr. Biden, you can’t talk out of two sides of your mouth, and you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. Either you can claim that the mob was “incited to this violence by President Trump,” or you can claim that the “criminal attack was planned and coordinated.” Pick one.
On nov 3 2020, the democrat party with the enablement from the deep state committed unprecedented assault on our democracy. It was unlike anything we have witnessed in the 244-year history of our nation.
A really conciliatory message. Also neglects to mention G-d. The future of this country is pretty bleak with him in charge.