Biden Claims Trump Is America's First 'Racist' President

Clay Robinson | July 23, 2020
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed Donald Trump is America’s first “racist” president during a town hall on Wednesday, according to the Daily Caller.

Biden reportedly made these claims during a virtual town hall with the Service Employees International Union. He was asked a question about Trump referring to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan” or “China” virus.

“What President Trump has done in his spreading of racism [...] the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” Biden said.

Biden continued, “No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed and they’ve tried to get elected. [Donald Trump] is the first one that has.”

“The way he pits people against one another is all designed to divide the country, divide people, not pull them together. Look what he’s doing now. He’s blaming everything on China. He’s blaming everything on the Chinese,” Biden concluded, claiming that Trump is attempting to use alleged racist antics to drive a “wedge” between the American people. 

The Trump campaign responded to Biden’s accusations by alleging that Biden “befriended segregationists” and “honored a former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan”. The campaign said that “no one should take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden".

According to The Hill, Biden has previously criticized President Trump for “nakedly xenophobic” comments during his response to COVID-19.

“The pandemic has unleashed familiar forces of hate, fear, and xenophobia that [Trump] always flames,” Biden said in May to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Fund, adding, “[Trump] has brought with it a new rash of racial messages, verbal and physical attacks, and other acts of hate, some subtle, some overt, against the Asian American and Pacific Islanders.

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