Politics
Trump fires back at Biden for his remarks holding former president responsible for Jan. 6
"That's what you get when you have a rigged Election," Trump said.
January 6, 2022 12:17pm
Updated: January 6, 2022 2:14pm
Former President Trump on Thursday responded to President Biden holding him responsible for incidents exactly one year earlier during the Jan. 6 riot.
"Biden is working hard to try and deflect the incompetent job he is doing, and has done, on the horrible Afghanistan withdrawal (surrender), the Borders, COVID, Inflation, loss of Energy Independence, and much more," Trump said in an email from his Save America PAC. "Everything he touches turns to failure."
The email came about an hour after Biden, in a nationally televised speech inside the U.S. Capitol Building, said Trump "tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power."
Trump, who canceled a scheduled press conference on the anniversary from his home in Florida, reportedly at the urging of advisers, also returned to his argument that the 2020 election he lost to Biden was rigged.
"That's what you get when you have a rigged Election," he wrote.
The rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop Congress' certification of the states' Electoral College votes that made Biden president.
