Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accused President Trump of being part of the problem Thursday because of violence, unrest and racial tensions across the country.
In an interview with MSNBC, the former vice president compared the country’s state in President Obama’s second term to Trump’s first, but appeared to oversee a major event that took place in the middle of the second Obama bid. -back office.
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“For the last four years we have had no riots, racial riots,” he said of his second term with Obama. “When they appeared, we did not have to call in the National Guard.”
Biden appeared to oversee the violent protests and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown. When violence ravaged the suburbs of St. Louis caught up, Governor Jay Nixon actually called in the National Guard.
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“Last night was a day of hope, prayers and peaceful protests marred by the violent criminal acts of an organized and growing number of individuals, many from outside the community and state, whose actions endanger Ferguson’s residents and businesses,” Nixon said. in a August 2014 statement describing events that are very similar to how the Trump administration has characterized recent violence in the U.S. “I urge the very capable men and women of the Missouri National Guard to help … in restoring peace and order to this community. “
That November, the National Guard was reinstated when violence erupted after a grand jury voted not to charge officer Darren Wilson with Brown’s death.
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Biden made his remarks in response to reported fragments of the speech that President Trump is expected to deliver Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.
“We have reversed the damage that Joe Biden has inflicted over the last 47 years over the last four years,” Trump is expected to say. “At the Democratic convention, you hardly heard a word about their agenda. But that’s not because they have none. It’s because their agenda is the most extreme set ever proposed by a major party. have been nominated. “
