He said Friday that things have changed because the president has exceeded Mr. Biden’s own “worst notions” about him.
“He’s been an embarrassment to the country embarrassed us around the world,” he said. “Not worthy to hold that office.”
Mr. Biden said Vice President Mike Pence is welcome to attend and that he’d be honored to have Mr. Pence there.
Mr. Trump said earlier Friday he would not be attending.
Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are all expected to attend.
Former President Jimmy Carter, 96, is not attending the first time he’ll have missed an inauguration ceremony since his own swearing-in in 1977. Mr. Carter’s team said he and former first lady Rosalynn Carter wish Mr. Biden well.
Announcing National Security Council staff appointees, Biden restores the office for global health threats.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaking in Wilmington, Del. on Thursday.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Jan. 8, 2021
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. formally announced nearly two dozen members of his National Security Council staff on Friday, including a senior official for global health threats whose office was downgraded before the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the 21 appointees is Elizabeth Cameron, who will be the council’s senior director for global health security and biodefense, a job she held in the Obama White House and briefly under Mr. Trump. John R. Bolton, President Trump’s then-national security adviser, eliminated the office in May 2018. Ms. Cameron has argued publicly that the move “contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response” to the pandemic, and Mr. Biden vowed as a candidate to restore the office.
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Lawmakers will continue with their certification of the Electoral College vote count late Wednesday evening after the Capitol building was besieged by pro-Trump protesters.
Insurrectionists storming the US Capital in Washington, DC is without a doubt the story of the day, and Batista, Mustafa Ali, Titus O’Neil, and others in the wrestling world took to social media to react. Donald Trump loyalists stormed the Capital Building in the Nation’s Capital after attending a rally hosted by Trump and broke into the building, which disrupted Congress’ counting of the electoral votes to confirm President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. Lawmakers were evacuated from the building as insurrectionists got inside and even made their way to the Senate dais in one case, per the New York Times, with social media showing images of the stormers inside the offices of congresspeople including that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Times reports that one woman is in critical condition after being shot.