President Joe Biden urged the country to “lower the temperature in politics” Sunday night following Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The president’s comments came during a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office, his third such speech as president. Biden delivered short, unscripted comments both Saturday night and earlier Sunday afternoon after receiving briefings on the assassination attempt.
The president spoke with Trump Saturday night, a call Biden previously referred to as “short but good,” and Biden spent the bulk of his Sunday night address asking voters on both sides of the aisle to “recommit” to rejecting political violence.
“We cannot, we must not go down this road in America. We’ve traveled before throughout our history. Violence has never been the answer,” he stated. “There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”
In his remarks Sunday afternoon, the president additionally confirmed that he had directed the Secret Service to approve any additional resource requests for Trump’s detail and to bolster security at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
And on Sunday night, Biden acknowledged how he’ll be received at the RNC.
“I have no doubt they’ll criticize my record and offer their own vision for this country. I’ll be traveling this week making the case for our record and the vision, my vision of the country,” the president declared. “I’ll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand up for our Constitution and the rule of law to call for action at the ballot box. No violence on our streets. That’s how democracy should work.”
The president also acknowledged Corey Comperatore, the attendee at Trump’s rally who was shot and killed shielding his family from suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks.
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You can watch Biden’s remarks in full below.
