President Joe Biden took a shot at former President Donald Trump during a speech commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, noting that he left office due to losing his reelection bid.
During a speech at the Capitol, Biden said, “Let’s speak plainly about what happened in 2020. Even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results.”
“He built this lie over months. It wasn’t based in facts. He was just looking for an excuse, a pretense, to cover for the truth. He’s not just a former president. He’s a defeated former president. Defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes in a full and free and fair election. There is simply zero proof the election results were inaccurate,” he continued.
Finally, Biden noted that “in every venue where evidence had to be produced” and an “oath to tell the truth had to be taken,” Trump “failed to make his case.”
He also pointed out that Trump and his supporters “have never been able to explain how they accept as accurate the other election results that took place on Nov. 3.”
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During his remarks, Biden did not mention Trump by name but argued, “The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He’s done so because he values power over principle because he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest — than America’s interest.”
“And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution, he can’t accept he lost,” he added.
Without naming former Pres. Trump, Pres. Biden references his "bruised ego."
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Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 in the 2020 presidential election and received roughly over 7 million more votes than the former president.
Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was tilted in Biden’s favor due to widespread fraud. However, several legal challenges and recounts did not find evidence to support his claim.