Biden Rips Efforts To 'Erase' History Of Jan. 6 Riot, Says There Won't Be A Repeat This Time
Source: Huff Post/AP
Jan 6, 2025, 12:03 AM EST
President Joe Biden is decrying what he calls an “unrelenting effort” to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the 2020 election — seeking to contrast that day’s chaos with what he promises will be an orderly transition returning Trump to power for a second term.
In an opinion piece published Sunday in The Washington Post, Biden recalled Jan. 6, 2021, writing that “violent insurrectionists attacked the Capitol.” “We should be proud that our democracy withstood this assault,” Biden wrote. “And we should be glad we will not see such a shameful attack again this year.”
Congress will convene amid snow in Washington on Monday to certify Trump’s victory in November’s election — in a session presided over by the candidate he defeated, Vice President Kamala Harris. No violence, or even procedural objections, are expected this time, marking a return to a U.S. tradition that launches the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
That’s despite Trump continuing to deny that he lost to Biden in 2020, already musing publicly about staying beyond the Constitution’s two-term White House limit, and promising to pardon some of the more than 1,250 people who have pleaded guilty or were convicted of crimes for the Capitol siege.
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Link to President Biden Op-Ed - Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6
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You held off the kristofascist G.O.P., inc. & their corrupt black-ops russian comrades for four years. Thank you. That's huge - as are all the solids you did for the nation -- tangible GOOD that will continue to manifest for years.
Now you step aside, and we must be our own champions in defense of basic honesty and decency, and the American democracy.
We are up the challenge. That's how I see it. We shall overcome.
I was wondering how long it would take for him to do this. Other Repugs have been publicly advocating this for months. He'll claim either that he's still entitled to the election that was stolen from him (he cannot let that go), or that because of all the illegal witch hunt investigations that disrupted his first administration he is entitled to run again -- or just be handed the presidency outright. Maybe he should get two more terms to make up for all the harm that's been inflicted on him.
I'm betting that before the end of this year he announces he's going to run again in 2028. His acolytes will praise his bold and necessary decision, and the SCOTUS will take up the case (they don't have to do it) and at the end of the term issue an opinion will be issued that regretfully he can't run again. It won't be unanimous, however. Justices Thomas and Alito will dissent.
Why won't this man die, so the world can escape his insanity?
Since he doesn't want flags at half-staff when he's around, that honor won't occur when he croaks. Just put his fat ass on the back of a golf cart and dump it in a pit next to Ivana's grave next to the first hole at his club in New Jersey. 
