President Biden has stated that white supremacy is the greatest domestic terror threat in America today.
Speaking at a CNN town hall meeting on February 16, Biden was asked a question about how his administration would address the threat of white supremacy in light of the deadly Capitol riot last month.
In response, the president asserted that those who held white supremacist views were "demented" and "dangerous" people.
This is the moment President Biden says white supremacists are the greatest domestic terror threat in the US:"It's complex, it's wide-ranging, and it's real," Biden said, adding, "I would make sure that my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks, and I would make sure that we, in fact, focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy."
He also said that his opposition to white supremacy was his primary motivation for entering politics.
"I got involved in politics, to begin with, because of civil rights and opposition to White supremacists," Biden said. "The Ku Klux Klan are the most dangerous people in America and they continue to exist. That is the greatest threat to terror in America - domestic terror."
He also harked back to Trump's refusal to condemn White supremacist groups when he was in office.
"You may remember in one of my debates with the former president, I asked him to condemn the Proud Boys - he wouldn't do it," Biden said.
Biden went on to say that white supremacy is "a bane on our existence".
The president also insisted that the Biden administration would look into how former members of the military and police officers could potentially affect the rise of white supremacy.
Biden's townhall response comes a month after he used his inaugural address on January 20 to condemn white supremacy.
He said: "[...] and now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. To overcome these challenges – to restore the soul and to secure the future of America – requires more than words.
"It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity. Unity."
