WASHINGTON — A year ago, the US Capitol was a crime scene, where statues of the Founding Fathers bore witness to the shattering glass and bloodshed of a failed insurrection.
On Thursday, President Biden stood in the great building and cast it as a battlefield in the fight for American democracy, condemning the former president as he did so. He and other Democrats sought to use the searing memories of Jan. 6 to beat back Donald Trump’s lies about what happened there, and to call for new protections of voting rights and elections.
“Those who stormed this Capitol, and those who instigated and incited, and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America,” Biden said, depicting his predecessor more directly than ever as a sore loser and an ongoing threat.
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