That is the judgement of no less a person than the President of the United States of America (US), Joseph Biden Jr, who made this riveting statement on November 2 in Washington, DC
Democracy is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy.
That is the judgement of no less a person than the President of the United States of America (US), Joseph Biden Jr, who made this riveting statement on November 2 in Washington, DC.
Biden cited several incidents as evidence for his worrying statement. These included an invasion of the home of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and a savage attack by an intruder on her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, who was struck in his head with a hammer.
Speaker Pelosi has been the target of far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump, who never formally conceded his overwhelming loss of the November 3, 2020 presidential elections, and who is being investigated by a select committee of the US House of Representatives for his role in an invasion of Capitol Hill with the intention of stopping the formal acceptance of the elections result. During the invasion, the rioters declared their intention to kill or maim House Representatives, particularly Nancy Pelosi.
Lies of conspiracy President Biden listed a long number of violations of democratic principles and values, including intimidation of early voters for mid-term elections to the Congress on November 8, and death threats to election officials and election workers in a number of states. The president described this situation in the following stark terms: “This violence against Democrats, Republicans, and non-partisan officials just doing their jobs, are the consequence of lies told for power and profit. Lies of conspiracy and malice, lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol and even violence.”
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