President Biden, in his speech marking one year since the deadly Capitol riot, is expected to call out former President Trump as holding the “singular responsibility” for the “chaos and carnage” on Jan. 6, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
The president is set to make remarks Thursday, one year after the attack on the Capitol building.
“Just as you heard him say on Jan. 6 of last year, I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw,” Psaki told reporters on Wednesday in previewing the president’s remarks.
“He will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president – in an attempt to mislead the American people, and his own supporters, as well as distract from his role in what happened – so, he will, of course, speak to the moment, to the importance in history of the peaceful transfer of power, and of what we need to do to protect our own democracy and be forward-looking,” she continued.
