– It was wrong to use that word, Biden says to NBC interviewer Lester Holt in an excerpt from a TV interview on Monday evening.
At the same time, the president accuses Trump of having far more inflammatory rhetoric and says he will direct attention to “what he says”.
– Real threat to democracy
– How do you talk regarding a real threat to democracy, when you have a president who talks the way he does? Should you just refrain from saying anything because someone might get upset, crazy Biden rhetorically.
He goes on to say that it is not him himself who uses “that kind of rhetoric” – a reference to previous Trump comments regarding a bloodbath if the Republican candidate loses the election in November – or has talked regarding wanting to be a dictator on day one.
The first part of the interview is broadcast a little following midnight Norwegian time, before it is broadcast once more in its entirety at 3 a.m. on Tuesday Norwegian time.
– Vance is a Trump clone
The interview was planned before the assassination of Trump at the weekend, in which a volunteer was killed and the Republican ex-president suffered an injury to one ear. The perpetrator was shot and killed by the police.
On Monday, Trump was formally chosen as the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. There he announced that he is getting Senator JD Vance as his running mate.
– Vance is a Trump clone in political matters. I see no difference between them, said Biden in a brief comment to the media.
Feeling safe
In the NBC interview, Biden also says that he does not know whether the shooting at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania has changed the direction of the election.
– I don’t know that, and you don’t know that, says the president.
Several commentators believed shortly following the assassination that it might help secure the election victory for Trump.
In the interview, Biden also says that he feels safe with the Secret Service. The bodyguard service has agreed to an independent investigation into the shooting, which Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle describes as “unacceptable”. At the same time, she says that she has no intention of retiring.
– It is legitimate to ask regarding age
Recently, Biden has been struggling once morest the odds following making a very poor appearance in a televised debate once morest Trump a couple of weeks ago. Many of the incumbent president’s supporters, both in the party and elsewhere, believe he is too old and have openly asked him to step aside and let someone else take over the election campaign once morest Trump.
Facing Lester Holt, Biden acknowledges that it is legitimate to question his age. At the same time, he adds that he believes his mental acumen is really that good.
– I am old, but I am only three years older than Trump, says the president.
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2024-07-17 08:48:53
