Former President Donald Trump hit back at President Joe Biden after the president gave a speech looking back on the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and attacking Trump and his supporters.
Trump took the stage at a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa, Friday night and responded to Biden’s event, which took place earlier in the day near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. In the president’s speech, Biden focused on the January 6 Capitol riot, celebrating the prosecution of hundreds of his chief political rival’s supporters while calling Trump a “loser.”
“Since that day, more than 1,200 people have been charged for their assault on the Capitol, and nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison,” Biden said to the applause of the crowd.
“What’s Trump done? Instead of calling them criminals, he’s called these insurrectionists ‘patriots’ … and he promises to pardon them if he returns to…