In a speech in Connecticut, Biden recalled the Nuremberg trials and restated America’s role in promoting rights globally. But he also alluded to challenges to those rights at home and abroad.
HARTFORD, Conn. — President Biden on Friday sought to reassert America's leadership in the fight for human rights around the world, but he acknowledged that depends in part on the country's performance at home and said the best course is for the United States to be honest about its flaws.
"We see human rights and democratic principles increasingly under assault, and we feel the same charge of history upon our own shoulder to act," Biden said."We have fewer democracies today than we did 15 years ago. Fewer. Not more — fewer. It cannot be sustained."The president was invited to the Dodd Human Rights Center at the University of Connecticut by former senator Christopher J. Dodd , Thomas Dodd's son and a longtime friend of Biden's.
Throughout his human rights speech, Biden raised his voice and occasionally banged on the podium for emphasis. He spoke broadly of America’s struggles with voting rights, racial justice and other problems, without getting specific.He did not mention Trump by name, for example, but he asserted that “attacks on truth are still the harbinger of tyranny,” at a time when Trump continues to falsely assert that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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