President Biden has thrust himself back into controversy Propaganda Former President Donald Trump appeared to call supporters “garbage” in a video call with Latino activists Tuesday evening. Republicans Captured commentsMr. The White House offered a different interpretation of Biden’s remarks.
The president responded to a joke made by a comedian at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Tony HinchcliffeIn which Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “Floating Island of Garbage.”
In a video clip obtained by CBS News, Mr. Biden seems to be denouncing Trump supporters as “trash.”
“The only trash I see out there is his supporters,” he said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.”
But the White House denied the president made that claim about Trump supporters and released a statement saying “supporters” were actually “supporters,” and Mr. Biden mentions Hinchcliffe and his comedy.
A White House transcript, Mr. Here’s what Biden said: “And the next day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.'” Well, let me tell you something. I don’t–I–I don’t know the Puerto Rico that I know–or in my home state of Delaware, I know them to be good, decent, respectable people. The demonization of his–his–Latin is unconscionable, and it’s completely against everything we’ve done, everything we’ve done.”
“The president called the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally ‘garbage,'” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.
Republicans seize on video – Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio appeared with Trump at his rally in Allentown, PennsylvaniaOn Tuesday night, Mr. He slammed Biden for his comments and demanded that the president apologize.
Trump responded by saying, “Trash, I think, is awful,” and drew comparisons to a past statement by Hillary Clinton in 2016, when she referred to half of Trump’s supporters as “trash.” Regrettably“It’s terrible to say something like that,” Trump added.
“Please forgive him because he doesn’t know what he said,” Trump said. Joked about Biden, his supporters shouted “No!”
The comments — and urgent efforts by the president’s aides to clarify his words — led to less than 200 hours of a partisan-fueled argument over syntax dominating the final days of the campaign.
They could serve as a late-stage gift for Trump, who has spent more than a year attacking the president’s mental and physical fitness, to see his strategy boosted by Harris’ sudden entry into the race. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump struggled to answer questions about how Harris would be different from Biden. He said in interviews that his presidency would “definitely” be different than that of his boss.
Trump also sent out a fundraising appeal to supporters: “Kamala’s boss Joe Biden called all my supporters trash!… You guys are amazing!”
President Biden made his point clear Position Tuesday night at the X.
“Earlier, I called Trump’s supporter of Puerto Rico hate speech at the Madison Square Garden rally trash — that’s the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonizing of Latinos is unconscionable,” Mr. Biden wrote. . “That’s all I’m going to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
That same night, Vice President Kamala Harris made a closing argument for the campaign. He saw Trump as someone who, if elected, would deepen divisions in America, working with Democrats, Republicans and independents to improve the lives of Americans.
Several Harris campaign aides did not respond to requests for comment late Tuesday.
Josh Shapiro, a surrogate for Pennsylvania governor and Harris, told CNN, “I will not embarrass the good people of Pennsylvania or any American by endorsing a candidate I do not support.”
Hinchcliffe’s comments at a Trump rally, which included offensive jokes about black people and Latinos, met with swift backlash, with many celebrities coming out in defense of Puerto Rico and Latinos in the United States and voicing their support for Harris’ plan for the island. . Those who weighed in included Jennifer Lopez, Ariana DeBose and Ricky Martin. “Puerto Rico, this is what they think of us, vote for Kamala Harris,” Martin, who has more than 18 million followers, posted on Instagram.
Trump, for his part, said on Tuesday that he didn’t know who Hinchcliffe was and that he didn’t know about the joke he made. “It’s nobody’s fault, but somebody said some really mean things,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Trump added: “I don’t know if it’s a big deal or not, but I don’t want anybody making dirty jokes or stupid jokes. He probably shouldn’t have been there.” His campaign jokes were not reviewed or pre-approved by the campaign.
Ed O’Keefe
