'Where the hell are we?': President Joe Biden slams Lindsey Graham over 'riots in the streets'
In a speech at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden railed against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for suggesting riots if the Department of Justice prosecutes former President Donald Trump for the theft of some of the nation’s top secret documents.
While traveling to talk about his “Safer America” plan, Biden focused his ire on the Republican senator from South Carolina, though not by name. Let’s take a look.
“No one expects politics to be patty cake,” Biden told supporters. “They sometimes get mean as hell.”
“But the idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, ‘if such and such happens, there’ll be blood in the street.’ Where the hell are we?” the President asked.
Biden was responding to comments from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who said over the weekend, “If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information … there’ll be riots in the streets.”
Many have called Senator Graham’s comments an incitement for violence. Some have even perceived the rhetoric as a threat.
Biden also attacked the flood of high-impact weapons that have flooded American streets.
Biden, campaigning for his party in the midterm elections, has focused on crime and safety as a core issue. The President's plan to combat increased crime includes funding an additional 100,000 local police officers across the country. He has also vowed to continue his work on implementing "common sense gun laws" and specifically, said that he is determined to ban assault rifles.