“Garbage”. Gift to Trump, Dem in panic –

The latest, macroscopic gaffe by US President Joe Biden risks providing an assist to Donald Trump’s campaign just a few days before the presidential vote. CNN writes this, reporting what the occupant of the White House said in a phone call with a group of Hispanic voters. Referring to what a comedian at a Trump event last Sunday called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” the president said, “The only garbage I see around are his supporters,” referring to Trump and adding that “his demonization of Latinos is unacceptable and anti-American.” The Puerto Ricans “that I know are good, decent and honorable people,” Biden added.

As expected, Biden’s exit sparked an uproar. The White House “quickly tried to clean up the president’s statements, with spokesman Andrew Bates saying he was referring to ‘hateful rhetoric’ at the New York rally, not the former president’s supporters,” CNN reports . Then, “in a further sign that the White House recognizes the potential political fallout of the episode”, reports the Atlanta broadcaster, Biden himself turned to social media to address the situation. “Earlier today I called the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage, which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unacceptable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally do not reflect who we are as a nation,” Biden wrote on X. But the damage, CNN notes, “may have already been done.”

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In the opinion of US TV «no one can say how this latest turning point in a turbulent campaign will affect the final result. But in the fierce heat of the final week of the stalled presidential campaign, when even a few imprecise words can provoke significant political consequences, it may not matter what Biden really meant. Perception is everything.” In fact, the reaction from the Trumpian front was immediate: in a fundraising email for Trump on Tuesday evening we read: «FIRST Hillary called you DEPLORABLE! THEN they called you a FASCIST! And just moments ago Kamala’s boss, Biden, called you TRASH!”