The media reaction to President Biden’s blistering speech about Trump
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We knew ahead of Thursday’s speech acknowledging the one-year anniversary of the insurrection on Jan. 6 that President Joe Biden was going to be critical of former President Donald Trump.
We just didn’t know it was going to be the overriding arc of a speech that was as harsh as it was ominous.
“For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol,” Biden said in his nearly half-hour...