Joe can't put two sentences together, says Trump as he takes a dig at Biden's '120M' dead from Covid-19 gaffe
President Donald Trump has found himself trailing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the run-up to the November 3 election and has stepped up his attack against the latter. On Thursday, June 25, the incumbent mocked Biden saying he is unable to "put two sentences together" during a Town Hall with Sean Hannity at Green Bay, Wisconsin. His attack came after the former vice president, 77, said "120M people" have died from coronavirus during a healthcare discussion in Pennsylvania. In reality, 2.4M people have been affected in the US while 124,000 have died.
Trump tweeted a video of Biden’s factual errors and said the "fake news media" wouldn’t have spared him if he had said "something so mortifying stupid" and asked why Biden’s blunder wasn’t being reported. The former VP was roasted on the social media platform with some mentioning another occasion when he said 150M people have died in gun violence in America since 2007. "People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do. Now we have over 120M dead from Covid," Biden said in his latest talk.
Biden is very confused, says Trump campaign
Trump, who has been critical of Biden in the recent past because the latter remained confined to his home in Delaware and ran the campaign from there, told Hannity: "Whenever (Biden) does talk, he can’t put two sentences together. The man can’t speak."
The president said he didn't want to be "nice or unnice" but couldn't help but say that Biden lacked the capacity to speak. He expressed disbelief that the former VP was going to be president because some people perhaps don't love the incumbent. Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager who came under fire last weekend after the president’s much-hyped Tulsa rally failed to deliver on expected lines, tweeted a clip of Trump’s Fox talks to say the commander-in-chief was right about his likely opponent. Trump’s campaign team also tweeted about Biden’s gaffe, saying the Democrat is "very confused" and "not playing with a full deck". Trump said Biden saying a wrong number about Covid-19 deaths was a "serious error" and "not a permissible" one.
Biden compares Trump to whining child
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Biden also launched a scathing attack on Trump over his response to the ever-worsening Covid-19 crisis. He compared the president to a child who fails to grab what has happened to him. "All his whining and self-pity. Well, this pandemic didn’t happen to him. It happened to all of us. And his job isn’t to whine about it, his job is to do something about it, to lead," Biden said.
The veteran politician was particularly critical of Trump’s remarks at the Tulsa rally on June 20 on slowing down the coronavirus testing. "He admitted telling people, and I quote, 'We have to slow the testing down. Slow it down please'," Biden said, adding: "He actually said it." "At first his spokespeople tried to say he was joking, but then Trump himself said he wasn’t joking. He called testing 'a double-edged sword'. He thinks that finding out more Americans are sick will make him look bad. That’s what he’s worried about. He’s worried about looking bad," the annoyed Democratic candidate added.
In Wisconsin, a battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, Biden is leading him by 49-38 percent among the registered voters, a New York Times-Siena College survey said. According to a Marquette University Law School poll, he has a slightly narrower lead of 49-41 percent.