Tag: Vice President Joe Biden

In very clear terms, former Vice President Joe Biden told CNN’s Chris Cuomo this afternoon exactly what he thinks about Donald Trump:

“This is the first president to make a full-throated, unvarnished attack on the entirety of the FBI. This is to discredit the FBI and discredit his own Justice Department.

You know, look, I spent a lot of time traveling around the world. What do you think they’re thinking in Moscow? This is doing everything that Putin ever wanted, sowing doubt about whether or not our justice system is fair, sowing doubt about whether or not there is anything that’s remotely consistent with our Constitution.

It’s just — it’s a disaster.”

Biden also suggested that Trump would not fare well in an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller which could open him up to being caught misleading investigators.

“The President has some difficulty with precision,” Biden told Cuomo.

More from CNN:

Biden said he marvels at some of the comments Trump makes and referenced a line from Trump on Monday that Democrats who did not applaud his State of the Union address were “un-American” and “treasonous.”

The White House has since called the remark tongue-in-cheek, with press secretary Sarah Sanders saying on Tuesday that Trump was “clearly joking.”

“Well let me tell you, he’s a joke,” Biden said in response.

Joe Biden on Donald Trump: “This is the first President to make a full-throated, unvarnished attack on the entirety of the FBI … this is doing everything that Putin ever wanted” https://t.co/udabMgYlWU https://t.co/hdjcaaMXP9

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 6, 2018

(h/t JoeMyGod)

It’s still a ways off, but it sounds more and more like Joe Biden really wants to run for prez again.

A lot of folks say they want a younger, fresher candidate for the Democrats, but you’ve got to admit folks like Joe.

And then there’s the fact that we’ve all learned the value of experience in the past 10 months…

Watch Joe on The View this morning where he teases a possible run.

Joe Biden on running for president: “If, in a year from now, if we’re ready, and nobody has moved in that I think can do it, then I may very well do it.” pic.twitter.com/Cli21USbFK

— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) December 13, 2017

Former Vice President Joe Biden

In an essay for The Atlantic, former Vice President Joe Biden calls on Americans to do what the current president will not: uphold American values by clearly denouncing hate groups.

An excerpt:

We have fought this battle before—but today we have a special challenge.

Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.

We have an American president who has emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support.

This is a moment for this nation to declare what the president can’t with any clarity, consistency, or conviction: There is no place for these hate groups in America. Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants — all who are seen as “the other” — won’t be accepted or tolerated or given safe harbor anywhere in this nation.

[snip]

A week after Charlottesville, in Boston, we saw the truth of America: Those with the courage to oppose hate far outnumber those who promote it.

Then a week after Boston, we saw the truth of this president: He won’t stop. His contempt for the U.S. Constitution and willingness to divide this nation knows no bounds. Now he’s pardoned a law-enforcement official who terrorized the Latino community, violated its constitutional rights, defied a federal court order to stop, and ran a prison system so rife with torture and abuse he himself called it a “concentration camp.”