Joe Biden Blasts Efforts to "Erase the History" of January 6 Capitol Attack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Despite pleas from congressional lawmakers (including his own GOP allies), Trump took no action until several hours later, when he asked the mob to disperse, telling them in a video message that "we love you.
60% : Others marked the anniversary by rejecting the notion that it was as peaceful as Trump and his loyalists now claim.
41% : Trump called for his followers to descend on Washington D.C. on January 6 four years ago, promising them a "wild" time on the day Congress is constitutionally obligated to certify the Electoral College.
41% : During his speech outside of the White House that day, Trump repeated his incendiary claims that the election was "stolen" from him and his followers, urging those in attendance -- some of whom were armed, which he was aware of -- to march to the Capitol to demand that Congress halt its proceedings.
40% : Trump reportedly watched the events unfold on television for several hours at the White House, gleeful about the chaos that was unfolding in his name, according to witnesses within his office.
30% : "In the years since the attack, Trump and his allies have wrongfully described the mob as having been peaceful; at other times, his allies have insisted that left-leaning instigators in the crowd were the true attackers, a false claim that has been thoroughly debunked.
25% : The Capitol attack took place on January 6, 2021, following weeks of Trump insisting that his loss to Biden in the 2020 presidential race was due to election fraud -- a claim that he and his allies were unable to prove, and which several federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, refused to entertain after dozens of attempts by Trump and his loyalists to have the results overturned.
25% : Most notably, the attack was not viewed as a disqualifying event for Trump by nearly one in two voters, with Trump winning the 2024 presidential election this past November.
16% : "Democracy -- even in America -- is never guaranteed," President Joe Biden wrote in an op-ed.Outgoing President Joe Biden marked the fourth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of loyalists to Donald Trump by calling on Americans to stand guard against future attacks on democracy.
10% : "January 6, 2021 was an event "where Donald Trump incited a violent mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol because he lost the presidential election," Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) said on Facebook.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.