During a portion of an interview set to air on Monday’s edition of CNN’s “AC360,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that President Trump “has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson.” And is playing “a dangerous game.”
Biden said, “Look, this is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson. Nobody’s said anything like the things he’s saying, and the idea that it doesn’t contribute to or legitimate or make it more rational for people to think that we, in fact, can now speak out, we can speak out and be more straightforward, and we can make this an issue — we’ve been through this before.”
He added, “There’s no question it’s a dangerous game. There’s no question that his rhetoric has contributed to, at a minimum, of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another, the way we’ve always been — look, we’ve always brought the country together. We’ve never — we the people. We hold these truths self-evident. He flies in the face of all of the basic things that we’ve never really met the standard, but we’ve never abandoned it before. He looks like he’s just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people.”
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