The American president criticized the dissemination of “conspiracy theories” by his opponent.
Joe Biden once again launched, Thursday, September 28, a dark and solemn warning on the fate of American democracy, this time by attacking Donald Trump very directly, while the campaign for the 2024 presidential election has just taken a turn for the worse. new dimension. The American president considered that the ideology of his Republican opponent and his supporters “threatened the very essence of our nation.”
“Democracies do not necessarily die by force of arms. They can die when people are silent, when people do not mobilize or when they do not condemn attacks on democracy. When people are willing to abandon what is the most valuable because they are struggling with frustration, disillusionment, fatigue, a feeling of exclusion”, said the Democratic president.
Trump wants to “divide” the country, according to Biden
Joe Biden, which is rare, named his opponent in his speech, and several times took up extracts from his opponent’s speeches to denounce them. “Trump says the Constitution gave him, quote, the right to do whatever he wants as president”launched the democrat, denouncing a “dangerous concept”, by also attacking the diffusion of “conspiracy theories” by his opponent and his desire to “divide” the country.
For this speech, the fourth according to the White House that he devotes to this theme of democracy, Joe Biden went to Arizona, to the land of former Republican senator John McCain. The 80-year-old Democrat, candidate for a second term, was linked to the late war hero by a friendship transcending partisan divisions, emblematic according to him of the values threatened by Republican Donald Trump.
Big favorite in the Republican primaries, the former president is accused by the courts of having played a role in the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 and of having sought to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election .