
Trump releases 2 fiery statements following Biden’s pointed Jan. 6 remarks
He may have canceled his planned press conference, but that didn’t stop former President Donald Trump from releasing some sort of missive on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The “defeated former president,” as President Biden referred to him on Thursday, issued a statement soon after Biden’s remarks ended in which he argued the country’s current leader to be “destroying our nation” with “insane policies,” and using “political theater” to distract from his own failures.
New statement from Donald Trump, who cancelled his news conference on 1/6 in Palm Beach: “The Democrats want to own this day of January 6th so they can stoke fears and divide America. I say, let them have it because America sees through theirs [sic] lies and polarizations.” pic.twitter.com/kB092ybO3K
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) January 6, 2022
Notably, Trump also claimed Biden “used my name” to “try and further divide America”, when Biden in actuality never mentioned Trump by name; though the current president very obviously referred to his predecessor a reported 16 times, he instead opted to use the moniker “the former president” while doing so.
There were 16 references to the “former president” in Biden’s speech, among them: -“the former president lost…”-“the former president failed to make his case.”-“the defeated former president…”
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) January 6, 2022
Shortly after that first Save America missive, Trump sent out another — this one just a variation on the same theme.
“Everything he touches turns to failure,” Trump wrote of Biden. “That’s what you get when you have a rigged election.”
When asked later why he chose not to address Trump by name during his Thursday address, Biden said he didn’t want to “turn it into a contemporary political battle” between him and the ex-president, per CBS News.
Q: “Why didn’t you mention President Trump by name?”President Biden: “I did not want to turn it into a contemporary political battle between me and the president. It’s way beyond that. It’s way beyond that.” pic.twitter.com/5INA64BvoD
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 6, 2022
“It’s way beyond that,” Biden explained.
He may have canceled his planned press conference, but that didn’t stop former President Donald Trump from releasing some sort of missive on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The “defeated former president,” as President Biden referred to him on Thursday, issued a statement soon after Biden’s remarks ended…
He may have canceled his planned press conference, but that didn’t stop former President Donald Trump from releasing some sort of missive on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The “defeated former president,” as President Biden referred to him on Thursday, issued a statement soon after Biden’s remarks ended…