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President Joe Biden commemorated January 6 as a day of American infamy, marking the third anniversary of the 2021 insurrection with a call for Americans to join him in defending US democracy from former President Donald Trump, who by comparison has promised to pardon the insurrectionists.
In a Friday speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where the Continental Army spent the frigid 1777-78 winter, Biden said the democracy those Americans fought for is under threat.
“Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time,” he said.
‘Trump did nothing’: Biden reflects on January 6 insurrection
He rattled off a litany of Trump’s more outrageous claims and comments, drawing analogies to the language of Adolf Hitler and the antidemocratic actions of dictators.
Of Trump laughing about a violent attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, Biden said of Trump, “What a sick—” and stopped short of adding another, perhaps more colorful word.
“We all know who Donald Trump is,” Biden said later. “The question we have to answer is, who are we?”
And if there is any question about how central this message is to Biden’s reelection campaign, he declared the “preservation of American…
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