The Daily Fuckup

President Biden used the first anniversary of the Capitol attack to say the former president had spread a "web of lies" about the 2020 election and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Speaking from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022, Biden said the riot was an assault on democracy and called on Americans to face what happened there, not bury it. ([presidency.ucsb.edu](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-first-anniversary-the-insurrection-the-united-states-capitol))

Trump answered the same day with a statement that dismissed Biden’s speech as a distraction and accused him of using the anniversary to divide the country. Trump repeated false election-fraud claims and said Democrats wanted to own the date. In his response, he did not acknowledge responsibility for the lies that helped fuel the attack. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2022/01/06/trump-biden-jan-6-capitol-riot-speech))

Trump also canceled a planned Jan. 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago, according to contemporaneous reporting, after the anniversary had become a political flashpoint. The cancellation left his written response as the main public statement he issued that day. ([]())

The exchange showed how little Trump had moved from the false-election script he used before the riot and in the year after it. Biden said Trump had tried to prevent a lawful transition of power. Trump replied by attacking Biden, the investigation and the politics around the anniversary rather than the attack itself. ([presidency.ucsb.edu](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-first-anniversary-the-insurrection-the-united-states-capitol))