Trump Fires Back At Biden, Says He's 'Completely And Totally Failed'

On the one-year anniversary of the breaching of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump fired back at current President Joe Biden for comments he made during a speech on Thursday.

Biden spoke candidly from Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building, casting blame on Trump for igniting "political violence."

"For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election. He tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol," Biden said, via FOX. "But they failed." 

That didn't sit well with 45.

"Biden... used my name today to try to further divide America," Trump said in a statement, via U.S. News. "This political theater is all just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally failed.

"Our Country no longer has Borders, has totally and completely lost control of Covid (record numbers!), is no longer Energy Independent, Inflation is rampant, our Military is in chaos, and our exit, or surrender, from Afghanistan was perhaps the most embarrassing day in the long and distinguished history of the United States—and so much more."

Biden spoke in detail about the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, in which Trump and Republicans have argued was "stolen." Biden called out Trump for not accepting the result of the election, calling it a "big lie."

"He is not just a former president. He is a defeated president," Biden said. "You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t obey the law only when it is convenient. You can’t be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.

"Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited, and those who called on them to do so, held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy." 

Trump, instead, claimed that the "big lie" was the election itself.

"Why is it that the Unselect Committee of totally partisan political hacks, whose judgment has long ago been made, not discussing the rigged Presidential Election of 2020?" Trump said. "It's because they don't have the answers or justifications for what happened. They got away with something, and it is leading to our Country's destruction.

"They want all conversation concerning the Election “Canceled.” Just look at the numbers, they speak for themselves. They are not justifiable, so the complicit media just calls it the Big Lie, when in actuality the Big Lie was the Election itself."

Trump finished his statement by saying that contrary to what Biden and the Democrats believe, it's them who are using Jan. 6 to divide the country.

"The Democrats want to own this day of January 6th so they can stoke fears and divide America," Trump said. "I say, let them have it because America sees through their lies and polarizations."

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