A year after the Capitol storming, Biden addresses an America still on edge

A year after the attack on the Capitol, US President Joe Biden is preparing to paint a gloomy picture on Thursday: that of an American democracy still under threat, in particular by the assaults of his predecessor Donald Trump. The 79-year-old Democrat, who promised during his campaign to fight for "the soul of America", will speak at 2:00 p.m. GMT in the imposing "hall of statues" of the Capitol, seat of the United States Congress, in company of Vice President Kamala Harris. It is in this same solemn setting that a year ago, the United States and the world, amazed, saw supporters of Donald Trump parading. By the thousands, they stormed the venerable building to try to prevent parliamentarians from certifying the victory in the election of Joe Biden. The current president does not intend to mince his words: in his speech, he will want to underline "the particular responsibility of President Trump in the chaos", his spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday. Joe Biden "sees in January 6 the tragic crowning of what the four years of the Trump presidency have done to this country", she said, breaking with the hitherto more cautious line of the White House, which avoided even to mention the former president by name.

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