Biden confronts Trump's role on Jan. 6: Full transcript
Biden took the oath of office just days after the violent attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, but he has fastidiously tried to prevent those unprecedented circumstances -- or his predecessor -- from dominating his first year in the White House.
But on the anniversary of the insurrection, he confronted Trump in a direct, personal way, in some of his strongest language yet.
"We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie. And here's truth," he said, speaking from Statuary Hall in the Capitol that rioters ransacked last year. "The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. He's done so because he values power over principle. Because he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest -- than America's interest -- and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution. He can’t accept he lost."
Click here to read a full transcript of Biden's speech.
-ABC News' Ben Gittleson and Sarah Kolinovsky