Joe Biden to attend Trump’s inauguration, refutes ‘childish game’

U.S. President Joe Biden stated he would “in fact” attend Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration subsequent month, personally confirming his presence and rejecting what he known as the Republican’s “infantile sport.”

“After all I’m,” Biden stated in an interview broadcast on Thursday on the Meidas Contact community, when requested if he was planning to attend the Jan. 20 switch of energy.

“The one president ever to keep away from an inauguration is the man that is about to be inaugurated.”

The White Home had stated Biden would attend, however Biden had not beforehand addressed the matter personally.

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Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration amid voter fraud claims

Trump didn’t attend the swearing-in of Democrat Biden because the forty sixth U.S. president on Jan. 20, 2021, turning into the primary president in 150 years to interrupt with a political custom that’s seen as affirming the peaceable switch of energy within the U.S.

Trump by no means conceded his defeat to Biden within the Nov. 3, 2020, presidential election and has continued to make unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.

His refusal to concede led to a chaotic transition of presidency operations to the Biden administration, delaying funding and entry to federal companies.

For his handover, Biden invited Trump to the White Home after his Nov. 5 victory and the 2 had a gathering described by the White Home as “very cordial.” His administration has been instructed to observe conventional transition procedures.

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“The truth that he does not abide by the principles of the democracy we have established will not be my concern,” Biden stated within the interview, carried out on Monday. “My job is to make a transition workable and accessible.”

“The underside line is that we will not preserve this up. We won’t sustain this infantile sport of strolling away when you do not agree and never cooperating.”