Biden condemns Trump’s ‘web of lies’ a year on from deadly Capitol assault

• President blames predecessor for role in violence of 6 January
• The lies that drove the anger and madness have not abated'
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Joe Biden on Thursday forcefully denounced Donald Trump for spreading a web of lies" about the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a desperate attempt to cling to power, accusing the former president and his allies of holding a dagger at the throat of American democracy".

The US president condemned his predecessor's efforts to overturn the 2020 election as a failed" pursuit, but one that continues to imperil American democracy one year after the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol, when a violent mob of Trump loyalists breached the Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Biden's presidential election victory.