Biden blasts Trump for inaction over 'medieval hell'

US President Joe Biden has denounced his predecessor, Donald Trump, for watching thousands of protesters for hours on January 6, 2021 while police at the US Capitol suffered through a "medieval hell."

"Brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage, face to face with the crazed mob that believed the lies of the defeated president," Biden told the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Conference on Monday.

"For three hours, the defeated former president of the United States watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office," he said.

"The police were heroes that day. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act," Biden said, adding: "You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-American."

Biden’s criticism of Trump echoed the conclusion of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 protest march on the Capitol when thousands of people marched against the certification of the November 2020 election which placed Joe Biden in office as the current US president.

The nine-member Democratic-led House of Representatives select committee’s public hearings intends to put up a case against Trump that he was responsible for the January 6 violence, starting with knowingly spreading lies around the election, seeking to overturn the results, assembling the mob in the Capitol and failing to act to stop the violence.

The committee is trying to build a case that Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat amounted to illegal conduct, far beyond normal politics.

The panel on Thursday laid out a searing, prime-time indictment of the former president's refusal to halt or condemn the violence.

Cheney blasts Sen. Cotton

Congresswoman Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican from Wyoming, announced on Thursday that the January 6 select committee will hold additional hearings in September.

Cheney, who is the vice chair of the committee, announced the additional upcoming presentations and claimed that the panel has “considerably more to do.”

On Monday evening, Cheney blasted Tom Cotton for his criticisms of the public hearings put on by the House committee.

“Hey @SenTomCotton – heard you on @hughhewitt criticizing the Jan 6 hearings,” Cheney tweeted. “Then you said the strangest thing; you admitted you hadn’t watched any of them.”

Hey @SenTomCotton - heard you on @hughhewitt criticizing the Jan 6 hearings.

Then you said the strangest thing; you admitted you hadn’t watched any of them.

Here’s a tip: actually watching them before rendering judgment is more consistent with “Anglo-American jurisprudence.”

— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) July 25, 2022

Earlier in the day, Cotton spoke with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt where he argued that the lack of cross-examination of witnesses in hearings concerning Jan. 6 was a departure from “Anglo-American jurisprudence.”

“I think what you’ve seen over the last few week is why Anglo-American jurisprudence going back centuries has found that adversarial inquiry, cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth,” Cotton said.

He continued, “There is no one on that committee who takes a view different from Nancy Pelosi, or even a view that’s like, we should examine the full context of all of these statements, of all of these recordings, of all of this video.”

Cheney hit back at Cotton for criticizing hearings he acknowledged not watching.

“Here’s a tip: actually watching them before rendering judgment is more consistent with ‘Anglo-American jurisprudence,'” she said.

Trump has maintained that he lost the election only because of widespread fraud that benefited Biden. Trump and his supporters denounce the January 6 panel as a political witch hunt.

Trump claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election and that there was "massive" voter fraud. The former president claimed that he ordered 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol.

Trump slams McConnell as ‘disloyal sleazebag’

Trump vented his anger with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell during the House select Jan. 6 committee’s hearing, slamming him as a “disloyal sleazebag”.

The certification vote on January 6 had become a focus for Trump.  On January 6, 2021, Trump's supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.

Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.

Trump reportedly cut lines from the January 7, 2021 address condemning the protesters who entered the Capitol the day prior as not representing him or “our movement.”

A draft of the speech marked up by Trump, shared by Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), includes additional evidence not shown by the panel during its Thursday hearing, its final one expected this summer.

The draft shows Trump using a sharpie to cross out a line saying, “I want to be very clear. You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.”

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