Biden urges Americans not to rewrite, or forget, Jan. 6, 2021

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "Trump in recent days has continued to criticize then-Vice President Mike Pence over his role in certifying the 2020 election results, declaring Biden the winner.
47% : In the new opinion piece in The Post, the president also sought to contrast the transfer of power that he is overseeing with the one that Trump oversaw four years ago.
44% : And Trump has also pledged to pardon people convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection within minutes or hours of taking office.
42% : Speaking about Trump specifically, Biden added: "I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy, and I'm hopeful that we're beyond it."It was his latest effort to remind Americans of how perilous he views the country's democratic norms.
34% : He also in recent days awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, honoring her for speaking out against Trump and for investigating his actions in the Jan. 6 attacks.
32% : "He invited members to come with him later to the Oval Office to see where Trump sat as the attack unfolded that day.
29% : I don't think we should pretend it didn't happen," he said, referring to the mob of Trump supporters who staged a deadly assault in the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
7% : Trump attacked Cheney on social media over the award and has suggested that she and other members of the House committee that investigated the attacks "should go to jail.

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