Joe Biden’s final address to the nation was filled with ominous tones as he warned of the growing power of America’s ultra-wealthy and cautioned that an emerging oligarchy threatened the foundations of US democracy. The Wednesday prime-time Oval Office speech came as Biden prepares to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump, who he defeated in 2020 only to see him return to power after Biden’s own dramatic exit from politics last summer. Biden outlined some of his most pressing concerns, including what he described as a ‘crumbling’ free press, the outsized influence of the military-industrial complex, rising disinformation, and the need to remove dark money from politics. He also called for constitutional amendments to ensure presidential accountability, arguing that no president should be immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office.
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