Biden says Trump is ‘too weak, too scared’ to repudiate Kyle Rittenhouse

Published September 1, 2020 12:14am ET



Joe Biden accused President Trump of being weak and scared after the incumbent president declined to criticize Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old vigilante who was charged with murder after allegedly killing two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

“Yesterday, after the violence in Portland, I put out a statement decrying violence under any political banner, and challenged the President to do the same,” Biden said in a statement Monday night. “Tonight, the President declined to rebuke violence. He wouldn’t even repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder because of his attacks on others. He is too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it.”

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