Joe Biden chastised President Trump for his response to the coronavirus pandemic during a speech Tuesday when he received questions from journalists for the first time since March, calling one of them a “lying dog face.”
Appearing before a giant American flag at a school in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, the former veteran accused Trump of wasting the three months since the virus first hit the American shores, saying the country was no better. prepared that in March.
“It’s almost July and it seems that our wartime president surrendered, waved the white flag and left the battlefield,” said Biden, 77.
“We don’t need a cheerleader, Mr. President. We need a president, Mr. President, “he added.
The suspected Democratic candidate outlined his plans to deal with the pandemic as the nation experiences a worrying increase in new infections, including doubling the number of test sites and repairing the continuing shortage of protective equipment.
Biden, who was trapped at his Wilmington home during the pandemic, also answered journalists’ questions for the first time in months after the Trump campaign accused him of hiding.
But the failure-prone former lawmaker lashed out when a journalist mentioned his own mental decline at age 65 and asked Biden if he had been tested for cognitive decline.
“You are a lying dog face,” Biden said, apparently irritated that the journalist kept asking questions as he tried to leave the event, before adding that he was “constantly scrutinized.”
“All you have to do is look at me and I can’t wait to compare my cognitive ability with the cognitive ability of the man I’m dealing with,” he said.
The ex-veep infamously called a college student a “lying pony-faced soldier” at a campaign event in New Hampshire in February, an experience she described as “humiliating.”
Biden also attacked Trump’s own cognitive abilities, a line of attack generally deployed by the Trump campaign against him, when asked about the reports they reported to the president, but did not act according to intelligence that Russia had paid the Taliban militants to kill US troops, a claim by whites. House has denied.
“Talk about cognitive ability. You do not appear to be cognitively aware of what is happening. Either you read and / or receive information on important topics and forget it or don’t think it is necessary that you need to know, “said Biden.
The former veep also went into the movement to tear down Confederate statues in the United States and described slave owners as people who did things that were “occasionally unpleasant.”
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