Analysis: Biden, in blasting Trump, concedes the nation has yet to heal
by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times
Jan 06, 2022
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — For the better part of the last year, President Joe Biden has sought to ignore his predecessor as he has tried to deliver on a campaign promise to return the country to some semblance of political normalcy.
But in a passionate speech at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday marking the one-year anniversary of the bloody insurrection, Biden essentially conceded he could not reconstruct a world before Donald Trump’s tenure, nor could he deliver on his promise of protecting democracy without calling out the former president’s role in lying about the 2020 election results and inciting
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