by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2024 Contract With Our Readers
Joe Biden’s closing message to 2024 voters on behalf of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris:
“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,”
Yes, Joe Biden, and by extension Kamala Harris, just called some 80 million Americans “garbage.”
Biden’s handlers tried to walk it back, but it’s there on video:
WATCH: President Joe Biden: “The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters.” pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024
Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin put it succinctly: “As if their Hitler/Nazi attack wasn’t disgraceful enough, it’s one heck of a closing message to call half the country ‘garbage’. That includes veterans, police, clergy, Holocaust survivors, victims of illegal immigrant crime, teachers, laborers, fire fighters, and so many more.”
And it also includes Puerto Rico’s Shadow U.S. Sen. Zoraida Buxó, who endorsed Trump on stage at his rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
Trump’s response:
🚨BREAKING: Trump responds to Biden calling his supporters “garbage”:
“Remember Hillary, she said deplorable… Garbage I think is worse.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 30, 2024
He later posted:
JD Vance’s response called out journalists trying to spin Biden’s comment:
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” That’s a direct quote. That’s what Kamala Harris’s boss said. This is how Politico decided to report it:
Do @JonLemire @alexanderburns @politico have an ounce of integrity? Will they correct this obvious falsehood? pic.twitter.com/B1ktGVpLfz
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 30, 2024
Biden’s X account attempted to convince us that he didn’t say what is on the video above:
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The…
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2024
Here’s one of Joe’s “garbage” humans:
BREAKING: Puerto Rico’s Shadow U.S. Senator Zoraida Buxó just endorsed Trump on stage at the Allentown rally. Her entire speech was GOLDEN.
“We need change, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are NOT the option to bring about the kind of change that you need and want and certainly… pic.twitter.com/FcgOzAqoyL
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 29, 2024
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