President Joe Biden blamed political rhetoric including denial of the 2020 election result for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, saying “this talk produces the violence.”
“You can’t just apologize and say: the violence,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. “It affects people’s mentality, it affects how people think — particularly people who are not maybe as stable as other people. So the talk has to stop. That’s the problem.”
Biden’s comments amplified remarks Friday night at Democratic Party dinner in Philadelphia, where he called the attack on Paul Pelosi “despicable” and condemned “political violence.” An intruder hit Pelosi, 82, with a hammer inside the couple’s home in San Francisco early Friday.
