Biden Ramps Up Jan. 6 Attacks On Trump On Eve Of First 2024 Debate

On the eve of his first 2024 election debate with his recently convicted predecessor, President Joe Biden ramped up his criticism of Donald Trump’s actions leading up to and on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol he incited in his last-gasp attempt to hang on to power.

Biden’s campaign on Wednesday morning rolled out an endorsement from former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, a member of the House Jan. 6 committee that investigated the assault. That was followed by the release of a new ad featuring a Michigan sheriff criticizing Trump for doing nothing for three hours while his followers violently attacked police officers protecting the Capitol.

A few hours later on Wednesday afternoon, Kinzinger appeared with Georgia’s former lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, and former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn at the statehouse in Atlanta for a news conference backing Biden.

“Going against the grain as a Republican supporting Democrat Joe Biden for president is not easy. But I’m not really looking at this election through the lens of being a Republican. I’m looking through the lens of being an American,” Duncan said, calling Trump “the morally bankrupt nominee” of his lifelong party. “Enough is enough. The nightmare has to end, and it has to end now.”

Trump campaign officials did not respond to HuffPost queries. Trump has personally attacked both Kinzinger and Duncan, who on Tuesday described how he had to get armed guards after the 2020 election when he refused to go along with Trump’s lies that the Georgia election had been stolen from him.

The press conference was staged at the foot of a grand staircase, the same spot where Gabriel Sterling, a Republican and a top Georgia election official, in December 2020