“The police were heroes that day. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act,' Biden told a law enforcement conference Monday, in rare comments about testimony presented by the Jan. 6 committee.
, the committee showed evidence that Trump resisted multiple pleas from senior aides to call off the mob attacking the Capitol in his name, even as members of the security detail for Vice President Mike Pence feared for their lives. Trump largely spent his time during the attack watching television, committee members said.
Biden referred to this Monday in virtual remarks to the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives conference, first recounting how law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 were “assaulted before our very eyes — speared, sprayed, stomped on, brutalized” as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of Biden’s electoral college win. The siege resulted in five deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.
,” but he has rarely weighed in directly on the committee’s proceedings. When asked about the committee’s first televised hearing in June, Biden said he had not watched it but stressed the importance of the bipartisan panel’s work.
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