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    The Justification for Biden’s Speech

    So much of it was true.
    by David Frum Sep 02, 2022 3 minutes
    Source: Jim Watson / Getty

    President Joe Biden last night used the backdrop of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to accuse his political opponents of betraying American democracy. The complaints from GOP leaders are loud. How dare Biden use this birthplace of the republic to speak that way about former President Donald Trump and his tens of millions of supporters?

    During his presidency, Trump repeatedly used places of national memory for partisan purposes. He gave a to Fox News from the Lincoln Memorial. At Mount Rushmore, he “a new far-left fascism” that seeks “to wipe out our history, defame our that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, would be “the destroyer of American greatness.”

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