Joe Biden Accuses Trump Of Ignoring COVID-19 Pandemic And Stoking Unrest
Source: Huffington Post
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden is calling the struggle to reopen U.S. schools amid the coronavirus a “national emergency” and accusing President Donald Trump of turning his back to instead stoke passions about unrest in America’s cities.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s broadsides came a day ahead of his own trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Biden said he wants to help “heal” a city reeling from another police shooting of a Black man. The wounding of Jacob Blake and subsequent demonstrations have made the political battleground state a focal point for debate over police and protest violence, as well as the actions of vigilante militias.
Biden assailed Trump for his vilifying of protesters as well as his handling of the pandemic that has killed nearly 190,000 Americans and crippled the national economy, leaving millions out of work, schools straining to deal with students in classrooms or at home and parents struggling to keep up. An American president, Trump’s challenger declared, should be able to lead through multiple crises at the same time.
“Where is the president? Why isn’t he working on this?,” Biden asked. “We need emergency support funding for our schools — and we need it now. Mr. President, that is your job. That’s what you should be focused on — getting our kids back to school. Not whipping up fear and division — not inciting violence in our streets.”
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There is no equivalency or both sides. Trump, Republicans and the right wing propaganda apparatus cannot erase the reality that they are pushing bulls*$t conspiracies and hate while Democrats are focused on addressing the reality facing Americans. We have a pandemic. We are in a recession. Millions of people are unemployed. The climate is getting hotter and more unlivable. Republicans bleet the word "freedom" while actively trying to take it away by suppressing the right of Americans to vote.
If Trump is still President in 2021, it will not be because he "won" an election, but because he seized power by undermining American democracy through the blatant efforts of Republicans to suppress the vote and subvert the election.
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