No time for platitudes as Biden gives sharpest denunciation of Trump yet

Analysis: This was the moment the president realized the clear and present danger posed to US democracy by an ex-leader gone rogue

Here, at last, was the Joe Biden that anyone on vigil for America's teetering democracy had been waiting for.

In historic National Statuary Hall at the US Capitol, a year to the day after it was overrun by an authoritarian mob, the US president gave his clearest dissection of the big lie" and his clearest denunciation of his predecessor, Donald Trump.