BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua)-At 9: 00 am local time on the 6th, US President Biden delivered a speech on Capitol Hill in Washington. He called the riots on Capitol Hill a year ago "an armed rebellion" and called former President Trump trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
According to reports, Biden first reviewed the scene of the riots a year ago, and then pointed his words at Trump, saying that Trump created a "web of lies" to "pursue power over principle."
Biden said, "This is the first time in the history of our country that a president not only lost the election, but also tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and a mob rushed into the Capitol."
Biden further accused Trump, saying that "a former president who just called a mob to launch an attack sat in a private dining room outside the Oval Office of the White House, watched it all on TV and did nothing for hours."
Biden also said, "But they failed. On this anniversary, we must make it clear that attacks like this must never happen again."
On January 6, 2021, some demonstrators who supported the then US President Trump to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election forcibly broke into the US Capitol for several hours, causing the joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives to be interrupted. The incident killed five people, including a congressional policeman, and injured about 140 law enforcement officers.