Former Vice President Joe Biden has never been one to mince his words — especially when it comes to Donald Trump. Recently, Biden gave an incredibly rousing speech and channeled his former boss, Barack Obama, to send Trump just the message he wouldn’t ever want to hear.
Over the weekend, Biden spoke at the annual LGBTQ rights dinner held by the Human Rights Campaign. During his speech, the former VP couldn’t resist railing against the current president, and told America about the defining moment that he knew he needed to stand up to Trump.
During his speech, Biden revealed that he and former POTUS Obama had stayed quiet for as long as they could about how terrible Trump’s presidency was going. However, there was one powerful instance in particular that flipped a switch for the two men, and Biden finally told America what it was. Biden said:
Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration a chance to get up and running the first year. God forgive me.”
Biden exposed the moment, stating that it was Trump’s terrible Charlottesville debacle, when the current POTUS refused to denounce white supremacy even after a white supremacist killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer by driving a car through a crowd of anti-racist protesters. Biden said:
We have leaders who at the time when that occurred, when these guys were accompanied by white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan … making a comparison saying there are good people in both groups. What has become of us? Our children are listening. Our silence is complicity.”
Like many Americans, when Biden and Obama heard Trump say that there were “fine people on both sides”, they knew it was time to stop being polite with Trump. Since that moment, Biden has been denouncing Trump every chance he gets. Obama has been speaking up against the president as well, as he campaigns for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
You can watch Biden’s rousing speech below, which should make Trump very nervous considering that two men he is extremely afraid of are clearly working together to impact midterm elections.
This speech has already angered the Trumps. Trump’s moronic son Donald Trump Jr. told a straight up lie on Twitter as he tried to spread fake news, stating that Biden had called Trump supporters the “dregs of society.” Clearly, if you listen to Biden’s speech, he was referring to people who wanted to do away with marriage equality and LGBTQ rights. It’s not Biden’s fault that many Trump supporters actually fall into that category.
We are all used to Creepy Joe saying stupid stuff but this is too far even for him. https://t.co/vNiD9TDZg6
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 16, 2018
Trump doesn’t want to admit it, but he has earned Biden’s attacks after trying to undo the legacy that Obama and Biden left behind. Now, he’s getting what he deserves.
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