Joe Biden claims Trump's words are a reminder of the 'same anti-Semitic bile that was chanted in Nazi Germany'
Democratic hopeful Joe Biden has lashed out at President Donald Trump with whom he is having a special rivalry this election season, yet again. Speaking at a fund-raiser event in Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday, November 23, the former vice president alleged that the Republican was creating conditions in the US that are similar to what had existed in Nazi Germany leading to the Holocaust.
According to a report by Donita Naylor of the local 'Providence Journal', Biden said at the evening event: “This is a guy who made a straight appeal for white supremacy. You saw those folks coming out of the fields out there in Charlottesville and everything since then, their veins bulging, the hate-spewing from them.”
“I'm a student of the Holocaust. Same anti-Semitic bile that was chanted in the streets in Germany in the 1930s. Same thing. Carrying Nazi flags and accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan,” the 76-year-old said.
Biden 'only one to scare hell out of Trump'
Biden, one of the three frontrunning Democratic candidates for next year’s election, battling Trump over his Ukraine connections while serving as the vice president, was introduced by the host of as 'the only one who is scaring the hell out of Trump'.
The former long-serving senator of Delaware also told the supporters and donors present on the occasion: “This is the most important election you’ll ever vote in. We need to restore the very soul of this nation.” He also referred to President Trump as one who “has embraced thugs all around the world”. He spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin saying the latter didn’t want him to become the occupant of the White House -- something Biden also said at the recent Democratic debate in Atlanta last week. Around 160 donors and potential donors braved the rainstorm to see Biden on Sunday.
The septuagenarian added that the principal reason why he has decided to run for the White House was the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 that saw one counter-protestor getting killed and many injured.
The Democratic leader had written in an op-ed for 'The Atlantic' after the incident slamming Trump’s response. Trump had defended the far-right protesters on that occasion saying they were not neo-Nazis and white supremacists and also blamed the other side that he called the “alt left”.
Biden wrote in his piece: "We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation," and it became a key part of his campaign speeches in later times.