Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
Former President Donald Trump took to his website on Thursday to respond to strident remarks President Joe Biden made during his speech commemorating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
In a 270-word article on DonaldJTrump.com, Trump accused Biden of dividing the country and reiterated his belief that the 2020 election was stolen.
“To watch Biden speaking is very hurtful to many people,” the former president wrote. “They’re the ones who tried to stop the peaceful transfer with a rigged election.”
He later added, “They spread a ‘web of lies’ about me and Russia for 4 years to try to overturn the 2016 election,” Trump wrote, “and now they lie about how they interfered in the 2020 Election, too. Big Tech was used illegally.”
The former president also wrote a scathing paragraph in which he itemized what he saw as the Biden administration’s greatest failings.
“He acts like he’s aggrieved,” Trump wrote, “but we’re the ones who were aggrieved and America is suffering because of it with poisonous Borders, record Inflation [sic.], a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan, $5 a gallon gas and higher, empty stock shelves, and rampant crime. America is a laughingstock stock of the world, and it’s all because of the real insurrection, which took place on November 3rd, but this is an election year and MAGA Republicans should get elected and work with me to fix this horror that Joe Biden and the Democrats have brought us.”
Numerous parties, representative of those who support and are opposed to former President Trump, have wondered if Trump intends to seek a second term in office in 2024. That question was left unanswered.
Trump, instead, closed with, “Never forget the crime of the 2020 Presidential Election. Never give up!”
Earlier in the day, President Biden had offered a spirited speech, arguably the most impassioned speech of his presidency, in which he blamed Trump directly for the riots at the Capitol a year ago and characterized the former president and his supporters as threats to democracy.
In that speech, Biden also refuted Trump’s claim of a rigged election.
“He has done what no president in American history — the history of this country — has ever, ever done: He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people,” Biden said. He later added, “The Big Lie being told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day … The former president and his supporters are trying to rewrite history. They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection and the riot that took place here on January 6th as the true expression of the will of the people.”
Unlike Biden, who never referred to former President Trump by name during his speech on Capitol Hill, Trump used the name Biden twice in his brief article.