CLINTON: Donald Trump has downplayed his role in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on the 3rd anniversary of the assault, arguing that those prosecuted for attacking the building should be released, western media reported on Sunday.
Speaking at an election campaign event in Clinton, Iowa with the first Republican nominating competition little more than a week away, Donald Trump called those jailed in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault “hostages” and said they had been illtreated by the Biden administration.
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Earlier, US President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump, his likely rival in the 2024 presidential race, of sacrificing US democracy for power in a Pennsylvania speech marking the 3rd anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s presidential campaign is “all regarding him, not the US,” President Biden said. He added the Trump is “willing to sacrifice our democracy” only to put himself in power.
Biden claimed, “Our presidential campaign is different and it is regarding the US. He added that his presidential campaign is about you, it is about every age and background that occupy this nation and it is about the future.
President Biden stated that the former President his supporters do not only embrace political violence, but they laugh on it. Biden said that Donald Trump has been using language reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi Party.
Donald Trump was impeached but acquitted over the January 6 attack. He now faces a criminal trial on charges of trying to overthrow the 2020 polls.
