President Biden took taking a swipe at Trump, saying what the president-elect has done is “a real threat to democracy.”
Ahead of the January 6, 2021, anniversary of the riots at the US Capitol, Biden was asked if he still thinks Trump is a threat to democracy.
“We have to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House on Sunday. “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. I hope we’ve moved past that.”
Biden made the comments to reporters after signing the Social Security Fairness Act.
Biden also discussed his plans to visit New Orleans on Monday to mourn with family members of the victims and meet with officials following the New Year’s Eve terror attack in the city.
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act into law at the White House on January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’ve been there. There’s nothing you can really say to someone who has experienced such a tragic loss. And my message will be personal to them,” he said. “They just need to hold on to each other and the day will come when they think of their loved one and smile before the tear comes.”
HAS BIDEN DONE ENOUGH ON TERROR?
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act into law at the White House on January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
The visit comes after 14 people were killed and dozens injured after police say 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rental pickup truck into pedestrians on busy Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning. Jabbar was fatally shot by police after he opened fire on officers.
“We’ve established beyond a reasonable doubt that New Orleans was one man acting alone. All the talk of conspiracies with other people, there’s no evidence of that, zero,” Biden said.
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“He had real issues in terms of his own, I think, mental health. And he behaved in the same way that he did in Las Vegas,” Biden said. “But there is no evidence, zero evidence for the idea that these are foreigners coming across the border, but they worked here, they stayed here.”
