Biden, Back Into the Breach
A year after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, the President delivered the speech that he never wanted to give.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/joe-biden-back-into-the-breach
In unsparing terms rarely uttered by one leader of the United States about another, Biden castigated the man he referred to sixteen times only as “the former President.” Trump, he said, was not just “a former President”—he’s “a defeated former President.” He “created and spread a web of lies” about the 2020 election. He put his “bruised ego” over the Constitution and the country. He and his followers, in attacking the peaceful transfer of power, “held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy.”