
Not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it, not to strengthen or protect our democracy, but because the former president lost. Right now in state after state, new laws are being written. Over 150 million Americans went to the polls and voted that day in a pandemic. More of you voted in that election than have ever voted in all of American history. The election of 2020 was the greatest demonstration of democracy in the history of this country. And the riot that took place there on January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people.Ĭan you think of a more twisted way to look at this country, to look at America? I cannot. They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection. The former president's supporters are trying to rewrite history. It sounds like hyperbole, but that's the truth. This is about making sure the past isn't buried. This isn't about being bogged down in the past. They were looking to subvert the Constitution. They weren't looking to save the cause of America.
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They were looking to uphold – they weren't looking to hold a free and fair election. They were looking to deny the will of the people.

They weren't looking to uphold the will of the people. What do we not see? We didn't see a former president who had just rallied the mob to attack, sitting in the private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House, watching it all on television and doing nothing for hour, as police were assaulted. They've repeatedly asked since that day, how dare anyone, anyone diminish belittle or deny the hell they were put through? We saw with our own eyes rioters menace these halls, threatening the life of the Speaker of the House, literally erecting gallows to hang the vice president of the United States of America. Even during the Civil War, that never, ever happened. Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the cause to destroy America, to rip us apart. Well, here is the God's truth about January 6, 2021. The Bible tells us that we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free. She recorded what took place: the real history, the real facts, the real truth, the facts and the truth that Vice President Harris just shared, and that you and I and the whole world saw with our own eyes.


Clio stood watch over this hall, one year ago today, as she has for more than 200 years. In her hands, an open book, in which she records the events taking place in this chamber below. Above him, above us over that door, leading into the rotunda is a sculpture depicting Clio, the muse of history. This is – on this floor is where a young congressman from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, sat at desk 191. This is where the House of Representatives met for 50 years in the decades leading up to the Civil War. I'm speaking to you today from Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. Politics They believe in Trump's 'Big Lie.' Here's why it's been so hard to dispel
