The President of the United States, Joe Biden, launched
verbal attacks on his predecessor, Donald Trump, saying he did not have regard
for the Constitution.
Biden made this known in Tempe, Arizona on Thursday, adding
that Trump was not driven “by common service and decency toward our fellow
Americans but by vengeance and vindictiveness.”
Trump who ruled between 2017 and 2021 lost the 2020 US
presidential election to Biden and has been indicted for inciting his
supporters to attack the Capitol Building in Washington on January 6, 2021.
Speaking about Trump during an appearance in Arizona, the US
president said, “This is a dangerous notion, this president is above the law,
no limits on power.”
“Trump says the Constitution gave him, quote, the right to
do whatever he wants as president, end of quote. I never heard a president say
that in jest.
“Not guided by the Constitution or by common service and
decency toward our fellow Americans but by vengeance and vindictiveness.
“Seizing power, concentrating power, attempting to abuse
power, purging and packing key institutions, spewing conspiracy theories,
spreading lies for profit and power to divide America in every way, inciting
violence against those who risk their lives to keep Americans safe, weaponising
against the very soul of who we are as Americans.”
“This MAGA threat is a threat to the brick and mortar of our
democratic institutions. It’s also a threat to the character of our nation,” he
added.
Trump, a presidential Republican hopeful has been
campaigning on Make America Great Again (MAGA), the movement Biden said, “does
not share the basic beliefs in our democracy.”
Meanwhile, House Republicans began their impeachment inquiry
against Biden on the same day he launched a blistering attack on Trump.
In a new national NBC News poll, 56% of registered voters
said Congress should not hold hearings to start the process of removing Biden
from office, while 39% say it should.
The House Oversight Committee gathered its first hearing in
the inquiry, which Speaker Kevin McCarthy, announced two weeks ago to
investigate Biden’s ties to his son Hunter’s business dealings.
It said the probe would focus on what McCarthy described as
“allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption.”
US media revealed that the Speaker’s own conference was
divided over the impeachment inquiry, and so were voters — who were also, unsurprisingly,
divided along party lines over the proceedings directed at removing Biden from
office.
The reports said the majority of Democrats (88%) opposed the
hearings, while 73% of Republicans supported them.
In all, six in 10 independents opposed the hearings, and 29%
say Congress should move forward with them.
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