The comments represent Biden’s sharpest attack on Republicans since the Mar-a-Lago raid this month, with the White House, until now, not wanting to be seen as playing politics with the issue.
: Joe Biden has cast Republicans as a threat to law and order after sections of the party called for the FBI to be defunded following the unprecedented raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
“You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 ‘patriots’. Far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was among them, tweeting in the aftermath: “Defund the FBI.” Bruce Fenton, a senate candidate for New Hampshire was even more scathing, declaring that: “We should abolish the FBI and replace it with nothing.”Some of Trump’s most ardent supporters also took to social media calling for a “civil war” and an “armed rebellion”, while in Ohio, a 42-year-old gunman died in a shootout after trying to get inside the FBI’s the Cincinnati office.
He also renewed calls for a full ban on assault weapons in the wake of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde earlier this year, telling the audience: “We’re living in a country awash with weapons of war… What the hell’s the matter with us?”Today’s speech marked the first of three visits that the president will make to Pennsylvania within a week, as the campaigning for the midterms heats up.
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