Joe Biden

Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the foundation of our republic.

The threats facing our democracy and the importance of combating those threats today.

I am opposed to defunding the police. I`m also opposed to defunding the FBI.

Now, it’s sickening to see the new attacks in the FBI, threatening life with law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. Look, I want to say it as clear as I can, there’s no place in this…

Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress -- don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don’t tell me. Can’t do it. For god’s sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?

You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can’t do it.

This is a president, though, who will try to express an optimistic tone, as I said, the White House saying that he really does still remain that congenital optimist who believes America`s best days are ahead of us.

He will make this distinction, mainstream Republicans, with that fringe, with that minority, albeit a potent one, of MAGA extreme Republicans who he will say are determined to take this country backwards.

Biden's election nearly two years ago alone was not enough to drive a stake into the heart of Trumpism.

I wrote at the time that we`re in the battle for the soul of this nation. Well, that`s even more true today. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.

MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.

The battle for the soul of the nation and the threats to democracy that our country is facing, specifically those from MAGA extremists.

The scenes of chaos of the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we’re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on…

For a long time, we have reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it is not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us.

Politics doesn`t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn`t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.

Don`t tell me you support law enforcement if you won`t condemn what happened on the sixth. For God`s sake, whose side are you on?

Now, it’s sickening to see the new attacks in the FBI, threatening life with law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. Look, I want to say it as clear as I can, there’s no place in this…

Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress -- don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don’t tell me. Can’t do it. For god’s sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?

You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can’t do it.

When I signed in the law, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant gun safety law we passed in 30 years took 30 years. And the NRA and the vast majority of Congressional Republicans voted against it, saving lives and…

It`s sickening to see the new attacks and the FBI, threatened in life as law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. There`s no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of…

There`s no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. No place! None, never, period.

You can`t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection.

Let me say to this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress, don`t tell me you support law enforcement if you won`t condemn what happened on the 6th. Don`t tell me!

The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressman saying if such and such happens, they`ll be blood in the street. Where the hell are we?