President Biden labeled former President Trump's actions a 'genuine threat to democracy' as the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot approaches. Biden also announced his plan to visit New Orleans to offer condolences to families affected by the New Year's Day attack.
President Biden took aim at Trump, stating that the president-elect's actions constituted a 'genuine threat to democracy.' On the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6 , 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Biden was asked if he still viewed Trump as a threat to democracy. 'We've got to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,' Biden told reporters in the White House East Room on Sunday. 'I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I'm hopeful that we are beyond that.
' Biden made these comments following the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act. He also addressed his plans to visit New Orleans on Monday to offer condolences to families of victims and meet with officials after the terrorist attack on New Year's Day. 'I've been there. There's nothing you can really say to somebody who has had such a tragic loss. And my message is going to be personal to them,' he said. 'They just have to hang on to each other and there will come a day when they think of their loved one, and they'll smile before a tear comes to their eye.' The visit follows the deaths of 14 people and injuries to dozens more after police said 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented pickup truck into pedestrians on bustling Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning. Police fatally shot Jabbar after he opened fire on officers. 'We established beyond any reasonable doubt that New Orleans was a single man who acted alone. All the talk about conspiracies with other people, no evidence of that, zero,' Biden said. 'He had real problems in terms of his own, I think, mental health, going on. And he acted alone in the same way as what went on in Las Vegas,' Biden said. 'But there is no evidence, zero evidence of the idea that these are foreigners coming across the border, but they worked here, they remained here.
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