President Biden on Thursday signed a bill awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the police forces that battled Capitol rioters on Jan. 6 — while bizarrely comparing the officers to student athletes who fight off crowds that “jump” them at rival high schools.
Biden called the frenzied crowd of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters “extremists and terrorists” and said that “we cannot allow history to be rewritten.”
But the president also attempted to hail the officers for their bravery with a surprising comparison to what he said was the type of people he knew from his hometowns in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware.
“All kidding aside, I got to know you,” Biden said to officers in attendance at the White House Rose Garden event.
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