With President Biden preparing to deliver a speech on the state of American democracy on Thursday, the White House intensified its rhetorical attacks on what it calls “MAGA Republicans” who support former President Trump and share many of his views.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the daily White House briefing on Wednesday. — as “the most energized part of the Republican Party.” The president views the pro-Trump faction, she said, as an “extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights. They just don’t respect the rule of law. They are pursuing an agenda that takes away people’s rights.”
Political tensions, already deep, have grown even deeper since the Aug. 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's South Florida resort and residence, during which federal law enforcement recovered sensitive documents. In a Fox News appearance over the weekend,that there would be “riots in the streets” if Trump faced prosecution from the Justice Department.
It is not clear whether Biden will lay out any specific proposals in Thursday’s address. A White House official told Yahoo News that the president would use his remarks to describe “how our rights and freedoms are still under attack. And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms and fighting for our democracy.
Speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Tuesday, the president chastised Republicans who claimed they were pro-police but refused to support an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, during which police officers were attacked.. “Don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th. You can't do it.
It has never been exactly clear just how much of the Republican Party the phrase is intended to encapsulate. During Wednesday’s briefing, Jean-Pierre pointed to Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar
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