President Joe Biden continues to argue that Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy, a day after he called on Americans to “lower the political temperature” following an assassination attempt on Trump.
“If you notice, what should I talk to him about?” Biden asked NBC’s Lester Holt during an interview at the White House. “This is a policy issue that he uses to divide the country, a policy issue that has to do with democracy.”
On Saturday, Trump was shot multiple times and shot from a high vantage point near an outdoor venue where he held a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In a speech Sunday night, Biden called on Americans to “lower the political temperature” and “remember that while we may disagree, we are not enemies: we are neighbors, friends, colleagues, citizens, and most importantly,” We are fellow Americans and we must stand together.
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But he continued to bring up what he considered some of Trump’s more inflammatory rhetoric and commented on Trump’s response to the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi, which he has continued to bring up at rallies over the past year.
Holt criticized the president’s answer, noting that Biden didn’t sound like he was “saying no,” but Biden insisted “I’m saying no.”
Biden went on to clarify that what he meant was, “We have to stop the idea that something is contrary to the democracy that we stand for.”
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“You know, I didn’t win when every court in the land, every court in the land – I don’t know – 20 appeals, including this conservative Supreme Court said we won. election,” Biden said of the challenges facing Trump in 2020.
Biden added, “To have all Republicans — not all Republicans, but the Republicans who make the Republican Party great again — make a commitment of loyalty to say, no, we lost the election, that angers the people,” before The sound gradually died down.
Holt pressed Biden on what he could do to help the country find unity, but Biden continued to talk about what he saw as the broad negative impact Trump had on the country.
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““I’ve never seen anything like this where you’re riding through some of the rural parts of the country and people are holding up signs,” Biden said, raising his middle finger.
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“I mean, this stuff is just inflammatory, it’s vicious stuff – it’s a very different thing to say, look, I really don’t agree with the way Trump handles taxes, the way he – think Asking for $5 to cut taxes on people who make him a lot of money next time,” Biden continued. “He’s not focused on the working class.”
