The day after President-elect Joe Biden called on President Trump to make a national-TV appeal to his supporters to give up their occupation of the U.S. Capitol Building while separately urging the rioters to desist—and was ignored by both parties—he lit into the Jan. 6 episode as "one of the darkest days in the history of our nation."
At a press conference in Wilmington, Del. to announce his nomination of Merrick Garland for U.S. Attorney General and the appointment of several other top Justice Department officials, Mr. Biden began by decrying "an unprecedented assault on our democracy, an assault literally on the citadel of liberty and the United States Capitol itself."
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