DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic front-runnr, said President Trump encourages white supremacists, even if the Democratic front-runner isn’t calling the commander in chief one directly.
“I’m not sure there’s much of a distinction, as a matter of fact,” Biden, 76, the former vice president, told reporters at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday. “So, whether he is or is not a white supremacist, he encourages them. Everything he does, he speaks to them.”
Rival Democrats have not been as reticent to apply the term to Trump, based in part on what they call an insensitive reaction to the shootings in El Paso, Texas, which claimed 22 lives, and Dayton, Ohio, where nine died. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts applied the moniker to Trump in recent days, as have other 2020 Democrats like Beto O’Rourke.
During Biden’s remarks in Burlington on Wednesday, when he went after the president for “fueling the carnage” of the deadly shootings last weekend, Trump tweeted, “Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech. Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy. It will be over for them, not to mention the fact that our Country will do poorly with him. It will be one big crash, but at least China will be happy!”
