White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had called people who support Republican candidate Donald Trump “trash,” sparking a heated exchange.
After comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash” during a Sunday rally, Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “trash” during a Zoom call on Tuesday. The press secretary sparred with Associated Press reporter Aamer Madani, who denied the president had referred to Trump supporters and insisted he was only referring to Hinchcliffe’s jokes and “hateful rhetoric.” did.
“Just to be clear, he’s not calling Trump supporters trash, that’s why he put it out there, what he’s trying to say, what he’s trying to say. That’s why we wanted to make sure that we made a statement that made it clear that … he was trying to “I call it garbage, and that’s the only word I can think of to describe it,” Jean-Pierre said. “‘His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, that’s all I meant. The comments do not reflect who we are as a nation,'” you asked. To your other question, no, he doesn’t consider Trump supporters or people who support Trump to be trash. That’s not his view. ”
The spokesperson said Biden would not tolerate and condemn the “hateful rhetoric.” Madani then asked Jean whether the president regretted not speaking more clearly during Vice President Kamala Harris’ closing argument to the nation on the National Mall Tuesday night. I approached Mr. Pierre. (Related: RealClearPolitics founder says Biden’s ‘trash’ comments ‘couldn’t have come at a worse time’ for Harris)
“I wonder if he regrets not being able to grow further, his wording was not specific. If you had listened to that video…if you had listened to that video Or any normal person watching the clips online could probably come to the conclusion that he’s calling at least this one piece of trash, if not all of them. Trump supporter trash. Does he regret not using his words more accurately? …Does he regret that this has affected Vice President Harris’ campaign? ” Madani asked.
“So, there are some things there, a lot of things you explained. Look, the president understood that what he was saying was taken out of context, so he clarified it. “I wanted to,” the spokesperson continued. “So he wanted to be clear about what he meant. And I read it out again. You guys have tweets and statements about X… and he’s full of hate.” We were talking about hateful rhetoric, and we have called out hateful rhetoric here. Obviously, this hateful rhetoric is about a particular community, the Puerto Rican community. Yes, they are Americans, and this is a community he respects, and he wanted to call that out.”
Biden’s comments came as Harris called Trump a “free-spirited” and “unstable” leader who would rule as a “fascist” if re-elected on November 5. I did. Former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler even equated the former president’s rally at Madison Square Garden with a Nazi rally in the same stadium in 1939.
Jean-Pierre claimed that President Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, “meets the definition of a fascist,” and in a press conference on October 23, the White House said Trump was a “fascist.” He said that he was considering it.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in 2016 that half of Trump’s supporters are “a deplorable group of people” and called them “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic. It is noteworthy that he criticized the [and] It’s Islamophobic. ”
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