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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, U..S., January 5, 2024. /CFP
U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Friday that former President Donald Trump's efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, a day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters.
In his first official speech of the 2024 election campaign, Biden framed the election, a likely rematch with Trump, as a choice for the survival of American democracy, recalling the Capitol riot as a day "we nearly lost America."
At least nine people who were at the Capitol that day died during or after the rioting, including several officers who died of suicide, the Associated Press reported.
Biden said that by "trying to rewrite the facts of January 6, Trump is trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election."
He said Trump's re-election bid is based on trying to seek "revenge and retribution" against his political enemies.
"Donald Trump's campaign is about him," Biden said. "Not America. Not you. Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future."
He added: "There's no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do."
Later on Friday, Trump hit back at Biden when speaking to his supporters in Iowa.
"Not one thing has gotten better under crooked Joe Biden. Everything's a mess," Trump said, who also repeated unfounded claims that the 2020 contest was marred by widespread voter fraud.
(With input from agencies)