President Biden took over referring to Trump, he said what the president-elect had done was “a real threat to democracy.”
Before the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 riot, at the US Capitol, Biden was asked if he still thinks Trump is a threat to democracy.
“We have to get back to building the basic norms of democracy,” Biden told reporters in the White House East Room on Sunday. “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. I hope we can get past that.”
Biden made comments to the press after signing the Social Security Act.
Biden also discussed his plans to visit New Orleans on Monday to mourn with the families of the victims and meet with authorities after a terrorist attack in the city on New Year's Day.
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President Biden speaks to the press after signing the Social Security Act at the White House on January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I have been there. There is nothing you can say to someone who has suffered such a painful loss. And my message will be personal to them,” he said. “They just have to stick together and the day will come when they will think about their loved one, and they will smile before the tears come to their eyes.”
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President Biden speaks to the press after signing the Social Security Act at the White House on January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
The visit comes after 14 people were killed and dozens injured after police say 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a rental truck into pedestrians on busy Bourbon Street early this morning. Wednesday morning. Police shot Jabbar after he shot at officers.
“We have established beyond any reasonable doubt that New Orleans was one man working alone. All the talk about conspiracies and other people, there is no evidence of that , “zero,” Biden said.
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“He had real problems in terms of his, I think, mental health, going on. And he acted alone in the same way that happened in Las Vegas ,” Biden said. “But there is no evidence, no evidence whatsoever of the idea that these are foreigners crossing the border, but they worked here, they stayed here.”