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The elections will be held in the United States in about two months; The election campaign is entering the hot phase: challenger Joe Biden (77) has accused incumbent Donald Trump (74) of incapacity and failure in the crown crisis and violence in American cities. “This president cannot end the violence,” Biden said in a speech in the industrial city of Pittsburgh. “Fires are burning and we have a president who lights the flames instead of fighting them.” Biden singled out right-wing militias and racist groups.
The Democratic candidate gave his speech in a room at Carnegie Mellon University in front of cameras, but without an audience. Due to the corona pandemic, he had spent most of the last few months at his home in the US state of Delaware. In Pittsburgh, the challenger also responded to Trump’s accusations and resolutely opposed any kind of violence. The riots, looting and arson are not protests, but crimes; they must be prosecuted accordingly.
Hot spots: Portland and Kenosha
After the death of George Floyd († 46) in a police operation in Minneapolis in May, the city of Portland in particular has become a focal point of unrest. Protests there repeatedly ended in looting and violence, and hundreds of protesters were arrested. Last weekend, the situation escalated with a car parade of Trump supporters. A Trump supporter was assassinated.
Portland riots: Trump supporters shot to death in riots(01:13)
The second focal point of the unrest is the city of Kenosha in the US state of Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake, 29, was seriously injured by police officers seven times. During the protests in the middle of last week, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Trump fan, shot and killed two protesters. The president of the United States has announced a visit to Kenosha for Tuesday.
US City Burns After Violence: Shot down by a policeman – victim (29) paralyzed(02:52)
Biden Will Amerika vor Trump retten
In his 30-minute speech, Biden also addressed a point of criticism from Trump, who repeatedly referred to him as a “radical socialist.” “Do I look like a radical socialist?” The Democrat rhetorically asked, declaring that he wanted to save America. He listed the corona pandemic, crime and looting, racially motivated violence and “bad police officers” as problems. And he wanted the United States, “to put it plainly, to save Donald Trump four more years ago.”
Trump failed to protect the United States from the rapid spread of the corona virus. Now he is committed to “law and order” and follows a policy of fear: “The more chaos and violence, the better for Trump’s re-election.”
Biden’s defection
Biden’s speech was aggressive, and many observers praised it as compelling. But, as is often the case, Trump’s challenger suffered a defection. Although Biden was able to read the entire speech on the teleprompter, he suddenly lost the thread completely. In English he said some phrases that made no sense: “Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, it has taken more than 100 years. Look, here it is, the lives, it’s just, it’s, I mean, you think about it. More lives this year than any other year in the last hundred years. “
Joe Biden’s opponents regularly accuse the 77-year-old of not being mentally up to par. Conservative circles, and Donald Trump himself on Monday night, quickly distributed recordings of Biden’s walkouts.
The president of the United States commented on his challenger’s speech on Twitter: “I just saw what Biden had to say. It seemed to me that I was accusing the police much more than the rioters, anarchists, agitators and looters. “
Trump defends Wisconsin gunmen
But Donald Trump himself did not have his best day. The president of the United States confused political commentators, even those on his favorite channel Fox News, at a press conference Monday afternoon. Trump, who has called himself the president of “Law and Order” every day for the past few months, suddenly no longer wanted to categorically condemn the violence on Monday. He didn’t seem to mind his supporters shooting paintballs from paint guns at Black Lives Matter protesters during counter-protests in Portland. Trump described these people as “peaceful” and said: “Colors are not deadly bullets.”
Really “shameful”, as one Fox News reporter put it, it became a short time later. When asked about the Wisconsin gunman, a Trump supporter who shot two protesters last week, the US president said, “That was an interesting situation.” Trump then took the alleged killer, who is in custody, under protection. He tried to break free. Away from the protesters, but fell. And then they attacked him very violently. That is something we are dealing with right now. Is being investigated. I suspect he was in big trouble. They probably would have killed him. “(Nim / SDA)
