Joe Biden launched his most visceral attack yet on Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the US Capitol riot, accusing his predecessor of holding a "dagger to the throat of America."

Mr Biden called Mr Trump a "defeated president" to whom his his own "bruised ego" was more important than democracy and the constitution.

The US president said: "I did not seek this fight, brought to this Capitol one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation. I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy."

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