Biden does not know much about US history

 Becket Adams:

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“Joe Biden is absolutely correct in saying tonight that January 6 was ‘the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,’” cheered NBC News’s presidential historian.

Well, no. Not quite.

An estimated 138 police officers were injured on Jan. 6. Several protesters were also injured.

Of the five deaths commonly blamed on the riot, only one, the shooting death of 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, occurred as protesters battled law enforcement officials. The other four deaths weren’t the result of any injury sustained during the attack on Congress.
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If Biden is speaking broadly, saying Jan. 6 is the worst overall attack on American democracy anywhere in the United States since the Civil War, well, he’s just plain wrong.

There’s the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, in which white insurrectionists overthrew the local biracial government, forcing an estimated 100 black officials from their elected positions and killing somewhere between 60 to 250 black people in the process. There’s the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, in which anti-government zealots Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 people with a homemade bomb. There’s the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, in which deranged left-wing activist James Hodgkinson very nearly slaughtered 24 Republican lawmakers after asking, just to make sure, that they were Republicans.

Then, there are the damages and injuries inflicted on federal property and law enforcement officials last year when rioters laid siege to a courthouse in Portland, Oregon. If Biden wants to talk about symbolic attacks on American ideals and its highest values, he doesn't need to look any further than what happened in Portland.

U.S. history is also full of politically motivated presidential assassinations, successful and unsuccessful. John Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln with the explicit intention of throwing the duly elected federal government into disarray. William McKinley was likewise murdered for political reasons, shot to death by an assassin who declared him an “enemy of the good people — the working people.” In 1950, President Harry Truman escaped an assassination attempt after Secret Service agents intercepted and fought off Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to make an example of the U.S. commander in chief for the benefit of their independence movement. One White House officer was killed in the shootout; two were injured.

If Biden’s argument is that the Jan. 6 riot is the worst post-Civil War attack on American democracy because it was an attack on the Capitol specifically, that also doesn’t hold up very well.

There’s the 1915 Capitol bombing. There's the 1954 shooting by Puerto Rican nationalists, in which five members of Congress were wounded. There’s the 1971 Weather Underground bombing. There’s the 1983 M19 bombing. And what about the Sept. 11 attacks? The Capitol building is widely believed to have been the intended target of flight United 93, which crash-landed instead in Pennsylvania.
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Democrats like Biden want to exaggerate the Jan. 6 riot for political reasons.  They at first called it an armed insurrection, but later had to backtrack since there was no evidence that arms were used by any of those who entered the building.  There was also the fact that in some cases they were allowed to enter by security officials.  I am not trying to justify their conduct.  What I am saying is that many on the left are exaggerating their conduct for political reasons.