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Man arrested after threatening to 'go out in a blaze of glory' during Biden's inauguration: report
January 20, 2021
Authorities allege that a man arrested in Pennsylvania for making threats against Joe Biden said he would "go out in a blaze of glory" on Inauguration Day, the Bucks County Courier Times reports.
"On Tuesday, Kris John Kinsey, 61, was arraigned on charges alleging he made threats to Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, their supporters, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Kinsey, of Nockamixon, is charged with a felony of prohibited possession of a firearm, as well as misdemeanor offenses of possessing an instrument of crime, making terroristic threats and drug charges," the newspaper reported.
<p>"State police said Kinsey was arrested in a wooded area in the 700 block of Sunday Road in Durham on Friday morning. Kinsey was wanted out of Elyria, Ohio, on charges alleging he made threats to government officials on his Facebook page, according to authorities. Elyria is a city about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. He was arraigned on his Ohio charges and sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of 10% of $4.6 million bail," the newspaper explained. "Pennsylvania State Police filed their own charges with the same allegations Monday."</p><p>District Judge Gary Gambardella held Kinsey in the Bucks County Jail with bail set at $9.2 million. The judge cited the seditious nature of the attack while explaining the high bail.</p><p>President Joe Biden was sworn-in and took office on Wednesday while Kinsey was held behind bars.</p><p>Kinsey has a felony conviction out of Texas that prevents him from legally owning a firearm, but authorities say they found a semiautomatic handgun while searching his campsite.</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/01/20/biden-death-threats-upper-bucks-man-charged-kris-kinsey/4216326001/" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p><p><br/></p>
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Joe Biden promises ‘we will defeat’ political extremism and white supremacy in inauguration address
January 20, 2021
President Joe Biden is promising America will "confront and defeat" political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism, having been sworn in just minutes earlier as the nation's 46th president.
"We must end this uncivil war," President Biden also declared, in words that are being heralded nationwide.
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1351941574100471809" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1351941574100471809&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2650041903%23publish&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 622px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Under his predecessor, the disgraced white nationalist President Donald Trump, hate crimes increased by double-digit percentages. Trump groomed, energized, gave hope to and mobilized dangerous, violent, and seditious conspiracy theory cults like QAnon, along with white nationalists, white supremacists, the alt-right, "militia" groups, neo-Nazis, racists, homophobes, misogynists, insurrectionists, seditionists, and domestic terrorists.</p>
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WATCH: NBC repeatedly cuts to Mike Pence as Joe Biden mentions 'lies' and 'manufactured' facts
January 20, 2021
NBC News repeatedly showed the face of former Vice President Mike Pence as President Joe Biden blasted a culture of "lies" during his inauguration speech on Wednesday.
"Let's begin to listen to one another again," Biden told the crowd at the event. "Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured."
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As Biden spoke about "manufactured" facts, NBC's camera crew cut to Pence.
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"Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson," Biden continued. "There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit. And each of us had a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans and especially as leaders, leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and project our nation."
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With Biden's mention of "lies," NBC again switched to the camera showing Pence's face.
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"Defend the truth and defeat the lies," Biden said.
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Watch the video below from NBC.
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