{"id":1194067,"date":"2022-01-06T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194067"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:19:58","slug":"joe-biden-claims-january-6th-speech-taunting-donald-trump-not-a-contemporary-political-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-claims-january-6th-speech-taunting-donald-trump-not-a-contemporary-political-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Claims January 6th Speech Taunting Donald Trump Not a &#039;Contemporary Political Battle&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-claims-january-6th-speech-taunting-donald-trump-not-a-contemporary-political-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194067&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden said his speech Thursday memorializing the first anniversary of the January 6 protests of the 2020 presidential election should not be viewed as a political battle, even though he focused intently on condemning former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not want to turn it into a contemporary political battle between me and the president,\u201d Biden told reporters on Capitol Hill after the speech when asked why he did not directly name Trump.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden referred to Trump 16 times during his speech, repeatedly condemning him for fueling the January 6th protests on Capitol Hill and failing to act quickly enough to tell his supporters to go home.<\/p>\n<p>The president repeatedly taunted Trump in his address for losing the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19385218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237565361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19385218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237565361-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden dabs his eyes as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the one year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe can\u2019t accept he lost,\u201d Biden said, and added, \u201cHe\u2019s not just the former president, he\u2019s the defeated former president.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president also confronted Trump\u2019s repeated claims the 2020 election was \u201crigged\u201d and \u201cstolen\u201d by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the truth: A former President of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He\u2019s done so because he values power over principle. Because he sees his own interest as more important than his country\u2019s interest, and America\u2019s interest. And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden also attacked Republicans accusing them of abandoning their country and their party by continuing to support Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey seem no longer to want to be&nbsp;the party, the party of Lincoln,&nbsp;Eisenhower, Reagan, the Bushes,\u201d Biden said, criticizing them for seeking \u201cthe rule&nbsp;of a single man\u201d over the United States.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19385226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237565329.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19385226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237565329-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But in the same speech, Biden tried to play the role of a national healer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the power of the presidency and the purpose is to unite this nation, not divide it,\u201d he said. \u201cTo lift us up, not tear us apart. It is about us, about us, not about me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said his speech Thursday memorializing the first anniversary of the January 6 protests of the 2020 presidential election should not be viewed as a political battle, even &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}