Sunday during a speech for the Rhode Island Democratic Party, former Vice President Joe Biden said our standing in the world was being “destroyed” by President Donald Trump acting like “one of Putin’s poodles.”
Biden said, “Folks, this election is bigger than politics. That’s not hyperbole. The core values that built this nation are at risk. That invisible moral fabric that holds up a society, a democracy, is being shredded, literally being shredded. Our institutions are under assault.”
On the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Biden said, “Just last week, we witnessed from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee a degree of vindictive, blind rage and brute partisanship that threatens not only the Senate and the Supreme Court, it threatens the basic faith the American people have in our institutions.”
On foreign affairs, Biden said, “Folks, our standing around the world and our ability to lead is slipping away.”
Biden said foreign leaders call him and ask, “‘What’s happened, Joe? What’s happened? What’s going on? What happened to that shining city on the hill?'”
He continued, “I understand the president said in West Virginia that he loves the president of North Korea because they’ve exchanged letters. Look, I’m not looking for a war, but I’m looking for some reality.”
Biden said Trump is, “acting more like one of Putin’s poodles than the leader of the free world.”
He added, “We can’t be the generation that let the core values of our institutions and this nation and our standing in the world be destroyed. Here’s the thing, these guys, our Republican colleagues, are complicit by their silence.”
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