Joe Biden Addresses Trump’s Poor Response to Wisconsin
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told both MSNBC and CNN his thoughts about current Republican President Donald Trump.
In an interview with reporter Anderson Cooper, Biden stated that Trump and his allies are “rooting for violence” as he believes that they promote fear and utilize it for political gain. Biden’s comments came as a response to Trump’s response to the recent protests in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement, as people fight for an end to racism and police brutality, which took the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. Trump’s “solution” for this violence has been “law and order,” which he has been discussing at length during his press conferences and on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden: President Trump is “absolutely” rooting for violence on the streets of America https://t.co/kOm6MgstKR pic.twitter.com/D0f5HSsk3R
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2020
While Trump and other Republicans have pushed back at Biden, claiming that he did not speak out against the looting and rioting soon enough, Biden stated in response that he denounced the looting, “a long time ago,” and also said that there is, “no justification whatsoever for violence or looting” because it “takes away from the whole rationale for what is happening here.”
Biden also told MSNBC in an interview that he believes that Trump and his team are “pouring gasoline on the fire” of violence in their response to the protests after the recent shooting of Jacob Blake. On August 23, Blake was shot by police and consequently paralyzed during an arrest made by officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In response to this unjustified violence, people have been protesting in Kenosha. On August 25, 17-year-old who deeply admires the police and Trump, Kyle Rittenhouse, shot three protestors and killed two. After these events, Trump and his team have not outright condemned the violence, and Biden told MSNBC that he believes this is hurting the nation and only fueling the anger and unrest around the country more.
We will be anxiously awaiting the upcoming election in November to see whose America we live in, and how our politicians respond to these types of violent incidents.
