On the day of the storming of the US Capitol, Trump is said to have calmly followed the events on television for hours. Successor Biden once again sharply condemned the president-elect for his lies, which caused a "mad mob" and a "slaughter".
US President Joe Biden has severely attacked his predecessor Donald Trump for hours of inactivity during the Capitol attack. "For three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched all of this happen while seated comfortably in the private dining room adjacent to the Oval Office," Biden said in a videotaped speech at a conference for black law enforcement executives.
"As he did so, brave police officers were exposed to medieval hell for three hours, dripping with blood, surrounded by carnage, face to face with a crazed mob who believed the lies of the defeated president," Biden said. Trump lacked the courage to act.
Last week, the last hearing of the investigative committee on the storming of the US Capitol showed that Trump followed the events in and around the Capitol on television that day. It was only 187 minutes after his inflammatory speech on January 6, 2021 that he asked his followers in a video message to go home.
When asked about Biden's statements, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized that Trump was responsible for the events of that day. "The former president had to make a choice. The choice was: do you side with our law enforcement agencies or do you side with the mob?" she said.
