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International Desk: Joe Biden called President Donald Trump as the country's \u201cfirst\u201d racist president, saying the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin is \u201cabsolutely sickening\u201d.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: Joe Biden called President Donald Trump as the country's \u201cfirst\u201d racist president, saying the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin is \u201cabsolutely sickening\u201d.<\/p>\n
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union.<\/p>\n
When a questioner complained of racism surrounding the coronavirus outbreak and mentioned the president referring to it as the \u201cChina virus,\u201d Biden responded by blasting Trump and \u201chis spread of racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We\u2019ve had racists, and they\u2019ve existed. They\u2019ve tried to get elected president. He\u2019s the first one that has.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden also suggested that Trump is using race \u201cas a wedge\u201d to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Many presidents \u2014 including the nation\u2019s first, George Washington \u2014 owned slaves.<\/p>\n
President Woodrow Wilson, the country's 28th president, is having his name removed from Princeton University's public policy school after recent protests against institutional racism and police brutality. Wilson, who served in the early 20th century, supported segregation and imposed it on several federal agencies.<\/p>\n
At a White House briefing later Wednesday, Trump responded to a question about Biden's comments by pointing to his administration\u2019s efforts passing criminal justice reform legislation and expanding opportunity zones, as well as the low unemployment numbers for minority groups before the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible of exception of Abraham Lincoln,” the president said. \u201cNobody has even been close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser for Trump\u2019s reelection campaign, said in a statement that \u201dno one should take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden.”<\/p>\n
Biden has vowed that, if elected, he will begin addressing institutional racism within his first 100 days of taking office. This was not the first time he's suggested Trump\u2019s actions were racist.<\/p>\n
Biden has built his campaign around the election being a \u201cbattle for the soul of the nation\u201d and says he felt compelled to run for president after he saw Trump respond to a deadly 2017 white supremacist attack on counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, by saying there were \u201csome very fine people” on both sides.<\/p>\n
When Trump said last year that four Democratic congresswomen of color should \u201cgo back\u201d to their countries, Biden called it a \u201cflat, racist attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: Joe Biden called President Donald Trump as the country’s \u201cfirst\u201d racist president, saying the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin is \u201cabsolutely sickening\u201d. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union. When a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n