Biden calls Trump ‘deplorable’ in stunning Hillary Clinton call-back while slamming ‘comments about dead soldiers’
JOE Biden took aim at President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him “deplorable” for his alleged comments about dead soldiers. Biden was asked about Trump’s “soul” in reference to the bombshell article in The Atlantic published on Thursday that claimed Trump said Americans who died in war are “losers” and “suckers.” The Democratic presidential nominee […]
JOE Biden took aim at President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him “deplorable” for his alleged comments about dead soldiers.
Biden was asked about Trump’s “soul” in reference to the bombshell article in The Atlantic published on Thursday that claimed Trump said Americans who died in war are “losers” and “suckers.”
The Democratic presidential nominee shook his head as the question was asked said he was “going to try to be measured” in his response.
Biden questioned to reporters: “How would you feel if you had a kid in Afghanistan right now… How would you feel if you lost a son, daughter, husband, wife?”
“You know in your heart, you know in your gut, it’s deplorable” he continued, using the same term Hillary Clinton used to refer to Trump and his supporters during the 2016 election.
At a campaign event in New York City four years ago, Clinton said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?”
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
After describing Trump’s alleged words as “deplorable” on Friday, Biden said he has “never been this disappointed in my whole career with a leader that I’ve worked with.”
He added that if what the news outlet reported is true – which he thinks it is – it is “damnable” and “a disgrace.”
Trump has slammed the article as a “total lie,” and has claimed it’s part of an effort by the Biden campaign to influence the election.
“If people really exist that would have said that, they’re lowlives and they’re liars. And I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” Trump told reporters of the article.
“There is nobody that respects them more.”
The article claims that Trump, while in France in 2018, called American Marines who died during World War I “suckers.”
The news outlet also reported that Trump didn’t want to attend the services in Normandy because he was afraid of getting his hair wet – although the White House claimed at the time that Trump canceled his appearance due to fog and rain.
The Biden campaign has seized on the fury surrounding the article to target Trump and his record with veterans.
Trump previously came under fire for his public comments towards Senator John McCain, who was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said in 2015. “I like people who weren’t captured.”
Trump himself received five deferments that got him out of serving during the Vietnam War.