Current Events > Biden calls Jan 6 an attempted 'coup'

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/589280-biden-calls-jan-6-riot-an-attempted-coup

President Biden on Tuesday described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters as an attempted coup.
The violent mob of January 6, 2021, empowered and encouraged by a defeated former president, sought to win through violence what he had lost at the ballot box, Biden said during a speech in Atlanta pushing for the passage of voting rights legislation. To impose the will of the mob, to overturn free and fair election, and for the first time, the first time in American history, to stop the peaceful transfer of power. They failed, they failed, but democracys victory was not certain nor is democracys future.
Thats why were here today: to stand against the forces in America that value power over principle, forces that attempted a coup, a coup against the legally expressed will of the American people by sowing doubt, inventing charges of fraud and seeking to steal the 2020 election from the people, he continued. They want chaos to reign. We want the people to rule.
The speech came on the heels of Bidens forceful address marking the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack last week. Tuesdays speech appears to be the first instance of the president using the word coup to describe the attack, which he called an armed insurrection last week.

Others like Fiona Hill, a former Trump White House national security official who testified during his first impeachment, have similarly accused Trump and his allies of trying to stage a coup, or a violent overthrow of government.
Biden on Tuesday argued for passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to counteract restrictive voting laws being imposed by GOP-controlled legislatures across the country. He endorsed changes to the legislative filibuster in order to pass the bills.
The speech was the latest instance of Biden employing fiery rhetoric to push back against Trump, who he referred to repeatedly as the defeated former president, and his role in the Jan. 6 riot.

Next they'll tell me Diamond Joe thinks oranges are orange

Headline should be, "President Biden calls Jan 6 coup attempt an attempted coup."

There are two kinds of people; those who think Jan 6 was an attempted coup, and those who participated in an attempted coup on Jan 6

Yet they're doing nothing about it.

Then start charging people appropriately

Man whos trying to say its wasnt a coup?

The new KKK?

Eramir posted...

Man whos trying to say its wasnt a coup?

The new KKK?

The GQP, so yes, exactly.

Had to leave a discord because admin would not stop fucking talking about 1/6 bullshit. How Biden has thousands of peaceful protesters still locked away alone with no plans to give them a trial. How Ashli Babbit's worst mistake was "not looking like George Floyd", and wondering when the cop that shot her will face justice.

So is he going to do anything about the guy who incited the coup? >_>

Eramir posted...

Man whos trying to say its wasnt a coup?

The new KKK?

Y'all Qaeda

wow libs. just because you try to kill the members of government and make them put in your government doesn't make it a coup.

LIBS TRYING TO CANCEL SMALL TOUR GROUPS CMON!!!!

/s

Kim_Seong-a posted...

So is he going to do anything about the guy who incited the coup? >_>

If he did people would probably say he's trying to jail his competition to

...Was it not?

Southernfatman posted...

Yet they're doing nothing about it.

Except you know, the hundreds of people arrested and jailed.

_HayleyWilliams posted...

Had to leave a discord because admin would not stop fucking talking about 1/6 bullshit. How Biden has thousands of peaceful protesters still locked away alone with no plans to give them a trial. How Ashli Babbit's worst mistake was "not looking like George Floyd", and wondering when the cop that shot her will face justice.

You left a discord? I don't believe you!

It was a coup.

The next step is to arrest everyone responsible, and for a very long time. The ring leaders, people who were tweeting the location of folks trying to hide, and others who organized things should face more... permanent concequences as well.

The world needs an example of what happens to terrorists who attack us.

yemmy posted...

Except you know, the hundreds of people arrested and jailed.

Who only got a few months in jail if that. Trump and all the others responsible are still free and will stay free despite any committees and such. Democrats and the DOJ will let them all get away with it.

Dont see too many polls with that type of result on CE after that many votes.

They stormed the Capitol with the intent of preventing the certification of the electoral college with the overall goal of installing Donald Trump, who was not the winner of the election, as president. How in any way is that not a coup? Let's also not forget that there were attempts on the lives of various officials, or do we think the pipe bombs, nooses, guns, and zip ties were just there for decoration.

Every person involved needs to be facing the maximim penalty for sedition, which is 20 years. Any active or inactive military personnel there should be facing death which is the penalty for sedition under the UCMJ. These are in addition of course to any other charges for any other crimes they may have committed in the process of said coup.

Trump didnt do a single thing to try and stop it

Thats how theyre gonna get him imo

That's literally what it was
People call it other things that I don't think are accurate: i.e. a terrorist attack

It was most definitely an attempted coup and an insurrection, though

VigorouslySwish posted...

Trump didnt do a single thing to try and stop it

wrong.

he told them he loved them on TV

ThyCorndog posted...

People call it other things that I don't think are accurate: i.e. a terrorist attack

Falls under the definition of domestic terrorism.

Though perhaps legally it's considered something else.

VigorouslySwish posted...

Trump didnt do a single thing to try and stop it

Thats how theyre gonna get him imo

> Start a fire
> Do nothing to stop the fire
> Doesn't get charged for arson but for not calling 911 lmao