Joe Biden fired back at President Trump for his criticism of the former vice president during his three-day visit to Japan in which he sided with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former vice president speaks for itself,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement Tuesday.
“And it’s part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at the expense of our institutions — whether taking Putin’s word at face value in Helsinki or exchanging ‘love letters’ with Kim Jong Un,” she added.
During a news conference in Tokyo on Monday, Trump agreed with Kim calling Biden a “fool of low IQ.”
“Kim Jong Un made a statement that Joe Biden is a low IQ individual. He probably is based on his record. I think I agree with him on that,” Trump said.
Biden is the front-runner in a broad field of people vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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