Category: Joe Biden

Fox News Pushes Trump’s ‘Cognitive Test’ Taunt At Biden Presser

At the very end of former Vice President Joe Biden’s press conference largely focusing on the Trump administration’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox News reporter Doug McKelway pressed Biden about being tested for his mental capacity — a constant theme of Fox News and the Trump campaign since Biden became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

From the June 30, 2020, edition of Fox News’ Outnumbered Overtime

DOUG MCKELWAY (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT): Some have speculated that you are subject to some degree of cognitive decline. I’m 65, I don’t have the word recollection that I used to have, I forget my train of thought from time to time. You’ve got 12 years on me, sir. Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline?

McKelway, who has sent emails with white nationalist talking points and tweets attacking Democrats as “racial identity politics hucksters” while working at Fox News, seemingly ripped his question about a test about cognitive ability from the Trump campaign itself. Continue reading.

Biden on Trump sharing video of protester shouting ‘white power’: He ‘has picked a side’

The Hill logoPresumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said President Trump has “picked a side” after Trump retweeted and praised a video that included a demonstrator shouting “white power.” 

“Today the President shared a video of people shouting ‘white power’ and said they were ‘great.’ Just like he did after Charlottesville,” Biden tweeted Sunday, referring to Trump’s comments after the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally and counter protest in Virginia, when Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides.”

“We’re in a battle for the soul of the nation — and the President has picked a side,” Biden added. “But make no mistake: it’s a battle we will win.” Continue reading.

Biden And Trump: A Contrast Stark As Life Or Death

Protecting the lives and health of citizens ought to be the most basic duty of any government. But the Trump administration, abnormal and toxic, is evidently determined to inflict illness and death on as many Americans as possible.

Consider what President Donald Trump and his minions have done over the past few days (not to mention the past several months). Owing to their feckless insistence on reopening the economy, the coronavirus has again surged across the country, from Florida to Texas to California, infecting tens of thousands — many of whom will soon need care in overburdened hospitals. Yet the federal government has simultaneously announced a drastic cutback in testing funds. They’re suppressing the numbers rather than the disease.

Pretending that the virus is receding, as Vice President Mike Pence instructed Republican governors to do, isn’t destructive enough for them, however. In addition to ensuring that more and more Americans become sick and cannot be tested or traced, Trump’s policy aims to deprive them of health insurance at a time of grave peril. This week, the president sent his government lawyers to the Supreme Court for another attempt to kill the Affordable Care Act, just when Americans are losing their jobs and the health insurance upon which they and their families depend. Continue reading.

Trump is attacking Biden’s verbal slip-up — but here are 10 of his own embarrassing gaffes

AlterNet logoFormer Vice President Joe Biden has a long history of being gaffe-prone, and President Donald Trump is using Biden’s gaffes to claim that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is unfit to be president. He, along with his friends at Fox News, have recently seized on Biden’s relatively minor slip-up of referring to “120 million” COVID-19 deaths when he meant “120 thousand.” But Trump has had plenty of gaffes of his own, all of which demonstrate that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Here are ten of Trump’s most embarrassing gaffes.

1. Trump confused 9/11 with the convenience store ‘7/11’

During his 2016 campaign, Trump confused the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with the convenience store chain 7/11. Instead of describing al-Qaeda’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as 9/11, then-candidate Trump referred to them as “7/11.” Continue reading.

Democrats vow complacency won’t be issue as Biden builds lead

The Hill logoDemocrats are warning their party can’t afford to be complacent as polls show presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden surging ahead of President Trump in the polls. 

While Biden now enjoys a larger lead than the one held by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at this point of the 2016 race, the nightmares of Trump’s comeback in that cycle haunt Democratic donors. 

Some say the disappointment of that loss will keep the party on guard in 2020. Continue reading.

Biden attacks Trump on health care, warns his administration’s attack on the ACA could hurt millions

Washington Post logoPresumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mounted a fresh assault on President Trump’s efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, accusing Trump of putting Americans’ lives at risk during a pandemic.

At a campaign trip to the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania and on Capitol Hill, Biden and Pelosi sought to heighten public attention to the sprawling health-care law that brought insurance to millions of Americans.

The remarks were timed to coincide with the filing of legal briefs by the Trump administration and Republican attorneys general in a major lawsuit trying to rescind the ACA. Continue reading.

Mark Cuban Enlightens Fox News Viewers With Key Difference Between Biden, Trump

The “Shark Tank” star compared Trump and Biden’s thoughts on running the country.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban appeared on Fox News this week to declare his support for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has been the subject of countless attacks on the conservative network.

The “Shark Tank” star used the Tuesday interview on Sean Hannity’s widely watched primetime show to highlight one key difference between the former vice president and President Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump doesn’t want to run a country. He wants to run a campaign. Joe Biden actually wants to run a country,” the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks said. Continue reading.

Fiorina planning to vote for Biden

The Hill logoCarly Fiorina, the former 2016 Republican presidential candidate and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said in an interview published Thursday that she intends to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this November.

Fiorina, who was also briefly Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) prospective running mate in 2016, said she will not vote third party and that she’s been discouraged by President Trump’s conduct in office.

“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump,” Fiorina said in an interview on The Atlantic’s “The Ticket” podcast. “And elections are binary choices.”  Continue reading.

How Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden have ‘boomeranged back on him’

AlterNet logoAlthough President Donald Trump has been widely criticized for his inadequate response to the coronavirus crisis, he has a reputation for being a major germaphobe and obsessing over his health. Trump, now 73, has often boasted about how fit and healthy he believes he is. And journalists Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey, in the Washington Post, report that recently, Trump has become even more obsessed with his physical and mental health.

Trump, according to the Post reporters, has shown a “growing preoccupation in recent weeks over perceptions of his mental and physical health at a time when critics have mocked him for episodes in which they say he has appeared frail or confused.”

Trump has repeatedly described former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, as “Sleepy Joe” — which is Trump’s way of saying that Biden is over the hill and doesn’t have what it takes to run the United States. But the “Sleepy Joe” insults, according to Parker and Dawsey, “have boomeranged back on him, as opponents have seized on Trump’s own missteps to raise concerns.” Continue reading.

Biden adviser blasts Trump for Tulsa rally

Symone Sanders assails Trump for talking about slowing down coronavirus testing.

Symone Sanders, senior adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, slammed into President Donald Trump’s Saturday return rally, saying it set a dangerous example amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Sanders on “Fox News Sunday” decried Trump’s statement during the Tulsa rally that he asked the administration to slow down coronavirus testing to contain optics of a growing outbreak. She also lambasted Trump for holding a rally in a confined, indoor space — creating conditions that health experts say are highly conducive to transmitting the disease.

“The most damning thing from that rally last night, Chris, was, in fact, the president’s admission that he quote unquote said to his people to slow down the testing,” Sanders told host Chris Wallace. “This is an appalling attempt to lessen the numbers only to make them look good.” Continue reading.