With the mid-term elections approaching in the US, President Joe Biden launched a scathing attack on his predecessor Donald Trump, and his supporters within the Republican party.
In a speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia on 1 September 2022, Biden claimed that "equality and democracy are under assault" in America. Biden said, "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic."
The President accused Trump's camp of being "determined to take this country backward" while "fanning the flames of political violence".
In response, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy accused Biden of trying to divide Americans.
Donald Trump is currently under suspicion of illegally taking documents from the White House and keeping them at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. His property was recently raided by the FBI.
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