Romney Warns That “Democracy is Fragile” on 1/6 Anniversary

“Today, we call to mind the memory of those who were tragically lost on the 6th and in the following days, and we reflect with gratitude on the heroic efforts of those who protected the U.S. Capitol and all of us inside the building,” Romney said.

Many have condemned the attack as well as former President Donald Trump for the lies that influenced it, though none more forcefully than President Joe Biden, who rebuked Trump for spinning “a web of lies” that culminated in the attack, which took place when a mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the building in a failed bid to disrupt the electoral certification of an election they believed had been stolen.

“The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He has done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest, America’s interest, and because his bruised ego means more to him than our democracy and our Constitution,” Biden said. “He can’t accept he lost.”

Romney has condemned the attack at every turn, at one point referring to it as “a violent effort to interfere with and prevent the constitutional order of installing a new president, and as such, it was an insurrection against the Constitution, it resulted in severe property damage, severe injuries, and death.”