President Joe Biden on Thursday called Donald Trump a direct threat to American democracy in the most forceful condemnation of the former president and the MAGA movement that he’s delivered since taking office. Biden said Trump holds the dangerous view that presidents possess fearsome, unchecked powers, a position at odds with the constitutional norms meant to prevent unilateral rule.
“I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” Trump said at the time. “But, I don’t even talk about that.” Article II spells out the powers and duties of the presidency.
Biden denounced Trump’s attacks on the free press and also Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Milley said that he was taking precautions to protect himself and his family after Trump suggested without evidence on his social media site that Milley had made improper contact with China about Trump’s thinking. “This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump wrote. “The silence is deafening,” Biden said. “Hardly any Republican called out such heinous statements.”
Biden’s speech is the fourth in a series centered on fortifying democratic values against attacks from what he describes as Republican extremists bent on eviscerating self-government. He singled out the “Make America Great Again” movement that Trump leads.
“People can be frustrated at the pace of progress, but our institutions hold us together. The Constitution is a check on the abuse of power. And if you attack the free press, you subvert the will of the voters, and you risk unraveling it all.”
“Their extreme agenda if carried out would fundamentally alter the institutions of American democracy as we know it,” Biden said. “My friends, they’re not hiding their attacks; they’re openly promoting them. Attacking the free press as the enemy of the people. Attacking the rule of law as an impediment. Fomenting voter suppression and election subversion.”
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