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Joe Biden: “You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t obey the law only when is convenient. You can’t be patriotic…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2022
You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t obey the law only when is convenient. You can’t be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Joe Biden addresses the importance of patriotism and the rule of law in the context of the January 6 Capitol attack.

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