President of the United States, Joe BidenAccused Donald Trump, his possible 2024 presidential rival, of sacrificing American democracy for power during a speech given in Pennsylvania to mark the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol. Joined.

Trump’s presidential campaign “revolves around him, not America,” Biden said. He added that Former president ‘willing to sacrifice our democracy’ come to power.

The next election “will be about whether democracy remains America’s sacred cause,” he said.

The president has repeatedly recalled that Trump was a “loser” in previous elections.

“At the start of an election year, we must make it clear: democracy is under threat. Our freedom is at stake. “American democracy will continue to be the main reason for my presidency,” he said near Philadelphia in the first speech of his 2024 campaign.

Biden spoke after visiting Valley Forge. enclave where former President George Washington was held (1789-1797) established the winter camp of the revolutionary Continental Army in 1777, during the Revolutionary War, when he was then commander-in-chief of those forces.

This was the place where Washington told his military that their cause was “sacred” and Biden repeated this speech taking a “sacred vow” to defend democracy in the United States, which will hold presidential elections again this November.

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“His mission was clear: freedom, not conquest or domination. National independence, not individual glory. America made a promise to itself: never again“Biden said about the former general and former commander of the United States.

The topic of his speech, he warned at the outset, was “extremely serious” and revolved around the January 6, 2021 terrorist attack and its aftermath.

“This day is etched in our memories because we almost lost America. Is democracy still a sacred cause? This is the most pressing question of our time. Trump’s campaign is about him, not the country. “He is obsessed with the past, not the future,” Biden said.

He added that on January 6, for the first time in the country’s history, “insurrectionists appeared and came to stop the transfer of power” while “the whole world” watched what was happening “in disbelief” and Trump did nothing. . “Nothing”.

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The former Republican president, he insisted, was “losing count after count, state after state.” “Let’s make this choice clear: Trump has exhausted all available legal options change the results, and they all led only to the truth that I won and he lost.”

Biden emphasized that those who They went to the Capitol three years ago and were not “patriots.”but “rebels” who did not want to defend the Constitution, but rather to end it.

(According to Reuters and EFE)