Biden Bluntly Answers ‘Donald Trump’ When Asked What’s The Biggest Threat to U.S. Democracy Right Now

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President Joe Biden named f0rmer President Donald Trump as the “primary threat” to “freedom and democracy” in the United States.

Biden sat down with the Spanish language Univision channel for an interview that will air in full on Tuesday evening. In one clip from the show, he’s asked about threats to the United States “at home” and he’s quick to go after his likely competition in November’s presidential race.

“What in your view constitutes the primary threat to freedom and democracy at home?” reporter Enrique Acevedo asked the president.

“Donald Trump. Seriously,” Biden said. “Donald Trump uses phrases like if you’re going to eviscerate the Constitution, he’s gonna be a dictator on day one.”

Last year, Trump told Sean Hannity he’d be a dictator for a day so he could close the border and up domestic drilling. He later insisted he was only joking about being a dictator on “day one” of a second term.

Biden also referenced the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when targeting his opponent.

“The idea that he would sit in the office — and I’ll show you before you leave — off the Oval Office and watch for hours the attack on the Capitol, and the destruction and the mayhem and people were killed, the police officers who died, and call them political heroes, to call them patriots, and say that if he gets elected he’s going to free them all, because they’re being held illegally?”

Trump has referred to those arrested over the storming of the Capitol as “hostages” and called for their release.

“Look at the way he talks about minority populations, Hispanics, talking about them being — anyway,” Biden said. “It’s just, I can’t think of any other time in my lifetime, in history that’s occurred, that you’ve had somebody that had this kind of attitude. He says he’s going to be a dictator on day one? No one doesn’t believe him.”