President Biden addressed the upcoming anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots on the campaign trail Friday in Pennsylvania, saying the event is “among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history,” The Messenger reports.
Biden also called it “an attempt to overturn a free and fair election by force and violence,” targeting Donald Trump for failing to immediately order the rioters to stand down.
He added: “Members of his staff, members of his family, Republican leaders who were under attack at that very moment pled with him: ‘Act, call off the mob. Imagine if he had he gone out and said ‘stop.’ Still, Trump did nothing.”