President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed the supporters of former President Donald Trump as “extremists.” Biden last week had denounced Trump’s MAGA movement as “semi-fascism.” The President followed that partisan attack with a nationally televised speech from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall in which, flanked by U.S. Marines, he denounced his political opponents as “a threat to the nation.”
Congressman Barry Moore responded to President Biden’s partisan “semi-fascism” remarks by saying that Biden and the Democrats have politicized their government powers.
“It’s Joe Biden and the Democrats who have politicized the government powers to an unprecedented degree,” Moore said in a social media post. “This administration has used the Patriot Act to target concerned parents. The Biden DOJ took the publicly criticized two Supreme Court decisions while refusing to put down illegal protests aimed at Supreme Court justices. The White House set up a “Disinformation Government Board” to help collude with Big Tech to censor Democrats’ political opponents.”
“It facilitated an FBI raid on the former President’s personal residence and refused to explain why. Meanwhile, it refused to properly investigate President Biden’s son,” Moore continued. “The VP “embraced political violence” by paying violent political rioters’ bail. And Democrats recently hired an extra 87,000 IRS agents to audit working Americans while the White House unilaterally canceled student loan debt based on the President’s endless “emergency pandemic powers.””
“”Semi-fascist” is a polite way to describe the Biden administration’s executive overreach, two-tiered justice system, and public-private speech restrictions,” Moore concluded.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a speech on Thursday, called on the President to apologize for his remarks disparaging Trump supporters.
“When the President speaks tonight at Independence Hall, the first lines out of his mouth [should] be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists,” McCarthy said in comments ahead of Biden’s Independence Hall speech.
Instead of apologizing, the President doubled down on his harsh rhetoric, calling Trump-supporting MAGA Republicans a “threat to the country.”
“Let’s be honest with each other and with ourselves,” Biden said. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
“Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology,” Biden said. “But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”
“MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution, do not believe in the rule of law. They did not recognize the will of the people and refuse to accept the results of a free election,” Biden stated.
Moore responded to the President’s latest comments: “When your administration and party has failed the American people. You have no choice but to attack and to deflect. But we the people are coming in November, and things are about to change!”
Republicans have been optimistic that they would retake Congress, but Biden has had a number of key legislative victories, and his poll numbers have risen after he unilaterally forgave billion of dollars in student loans. A resurgent Biden and missteps by a number of Republican U.S. Senate candidates have encouraged Democrats. Democrats could potentially increase their hold on the evenly divided U.S. Senate. Biden seems emboldened by his August successes and is taking the attack to Republicans ahead of the November 8 general election.
Barry Moore is in his first term representing Alabama’s First Congressional District.
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