WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Donald Trump offered a withering response Friday to criticism from US President Joe Biden that he was a threat to democracy, calling his Democratic rival's remarks "pathetic" and "fear-mongering."

"Biden's record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure... That's why Crooked Joe is staging a pathetic, fear-mongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today," Trump told supporters in Sioux Center, Iowa.