Published on Apr 25, 2019
Joe Biden Nabs Endorsements from Three Senators After 2020 Campaign Launch
By Joshua Caplan
Former Vice President Joe Biden received the endorsement of three U.S. Senators shortly after announcing his 2020 presidential campaign on Thursday morning.
In a pair of statements, Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Bob Casey (D-PA) were first to back the 76-year-old Biden’s bid.
“Joe Biden doesn’t just talk about making our county more just, he delivers results,” Coons said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Casey took to social media to announce his support, tweeting: “I am proud to endorse my friend, Joe Biden, for President.”
Further, Casey said in a statement to the Associated Press that “America needs” Biden to be president, contending: “At this make-or-break moment for the middle class, our children and our workers, America needs Vice President Joe Biden to be its next President.”
Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) joined Coons and Casey in supporting Biden, saying in a statement that he believes the former vice president can “bring people together” and “find common ground while standing up for what he believes is right.”
In a video shared to social media, Biden, a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who served as a senator for Delaware for over three decades, announced Thursday that he would be entering an ever-crowded Democrat primary field for president.
“If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation — who we are — and I cannot stand by and watch that happen,” Biden claimed in his announcement video.
“Everything that has made America America is at stake,” he went on. “That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.”
JOE BIDEN LAUNCHES HIS CAMPAIGN ON THE LIE THAT TRUMP SAID NEO-NAZIS WERE “VERY FINE PEOPLE”
Trump never referred to Charlottesville racists as “very fine people” – he specifically condemned them
APRIL 25, 2019
Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign on the proven lie that Donald Trump said Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville were “very fine people”.
“He said there were, quote, ‘Some very fine people on both sides,’” said Biden in his campaign video. “Very fine people on both sides? With those words the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it and in that moment I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any other I’d seen in my lifetime,” added the former Vice President.
However, as is manifestly provable, Trump never referred to neo-nazis as “very fine people” and openly condemned them on numerous occasions.
The hoax is based on the president’s Trump Tower press conference when he was asked to respond to the tragic events in Charlottesville.
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides,” said Trump, before making it clear that he was referring to people protesting against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee,” not alt-right white supremacists who subsequently hijacked the demonstration.
Trump specifically went on to condemn the alt-right mob and made it clear he was not referring to them with his “very fine people” line.
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally,” said Trump in the same press conference.
“Trump made clear several times during the conference that he was referring specifically to those who had showed up to demonstrate against the statue’s removal and that he otherwise condemned the white supremacists,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry.
Real Clear Politics’ Steve Cortes also carefully explains in his article how, “Despite the clear evidence of Trump’s statements regarding Charlottesville, major media figures insist on spreading the calumny that Trump called neo-Nazis “fine people.” The only explanation for such a repeated falsehood is abject laziness or willful deception.”
Trump never referred to neo-nazis as “very fine people” and specifically condemned them on multiple occasions.
The entire foundation of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is built on a proven hoax.
‘Ungrateful’: Fox host Tucker Carlson claims Ilhan Omar is ‘attacking country that took her in’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson lashed out at Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar for being “ungrateful” and accused her of “spending her life attacking this country” in light of an old tweet by the congresswoman about US action in Somalia.
Carlson’s outburst was in reference to a resurfaced tweet of Omar’s from 2017 in which she noted the high number of Somalis killed by US forces during the 1993 battle in Mogadishu.
Eighteen US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis were killed in the botched US-led, but UN-backed, operation to capture allies of a Somali military commander. Two US helicopters were shot down and footage of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets resulted in a huge public backlash against US involvement, and saw US troops withdrawn from Somalia months later.
Omar fled Somalia as a child and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before gaining entry to the US in 1992.
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Carlson accused the congresswoman – who by the time of the disastrous operation in Mogadishu had already fled her home country – of being ungrateful to the US troops who he claimed saved 100,000 Somalis.
“Here’s someone who was brought to the United States at public expense simply because we’re a kind country that accepts a lot of refugees,” Carlson said.
“And rather than being grateful for that, she’s spent the rest of her life attacking this country. Why?,” Carlson asked Kyle Lame, a retired sergeant major who fought in the Mogadishu battle.
“As they would say down here in Tennessee, ‘Bless her heart’,” responded Lame. “We want her to understand she’s living large now because of her family being able to escape the atrocities of Mogadishu.”
Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, has been a divisive figure since her election. US President Donald Trump recently accused the congresswoman of being “out of control” after her comments about the stigma towards American Muslims since 9/11.
MCCAIN FAMILY TO BACK BIDEN’S 2020 BID TO DEFEAT TRUMP
Imagine my shock
APRIL 24, 2019
Update: Cindy McCain has put out a statement saying her family won’t get involved in the 2020 presidential race.
“Joe Biden is a wonderful man and dear friend of the McCain Family. However, I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics,” she tweeted.
Original story below:
The family of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a rabid nemesis of President Trump, has announced their intention to support former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential race.
The McCain family is preparing to break from the Republican Party in an extraordinary snub to the president, and will formally back Biden’s candidacy at some point in the election race in hopes of removing Trump, a source close to both the Bidens and McCains reportedly said.
“They talk regularly and have been supportive of his run,” the source told Washington Examiner. “The question is going to be timing and coordinating with the Biden campaign. There are a lot of moving parts there and [Biden’s campaign is] not necessarily organized. I wouldn’t expect a formal family endorsement because some of McCain’s family is still in the military, but I do expect Cindy to speak out at some point.”
But one senior McCain aide worried if the family’s endorsement would even help Biden as the Democrat field lurches far-left.
“I’m just not sure how much that helps in a primary where the party is constantly moving towards the left. If you’re a two-term former vice president and basically tied with Bernie Sanders, that’s not a good sign,” the aide said.
The animus between the Trump and McCain family stretches back decades, which became even more bitter during the 2016 presidential race and culminated with McCain barring Trump from his funeral.
Additionally, Biden’s affection for McCain is well known, and he referred to the late senator as his “brother” during the eulogy.
“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I loved John McCain,” he had said. “The way I look at it, the way I thought about it, was that I always thought of John as a brother. We had a hell of a lot of family fights. We go a long way.”
Biden is expected to launch his 2020 campaign on Thursday, according to reports.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: HILLARY CLINTON ‘NEEDS TO BE INDICTED AND SHE NEEDS TO BE IN JAIL’
‘Unelected people came close to pulling off what is a coup,’ he says
APRIL 24, 2019
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh tore into Democrat presidential loser Hillary Clinton, saying she is the person who colluded with Russia, not President Trump.
“Hillary Clinton is who tried to rig a presidential election…Hillary Clinton and her pals in the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI, they are the ones who colluded with the Russians. They colluded to produce this entirely bogus Steele Dossier,” Limbaugh said Monday on Fox News.
“Talk about irony,” he continued. “For Hillary Clinton to be talking about impeaching Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton needs to be investigated, she needs to be indicted and she needs to be in jail [with] many of her co-conspirators in this whole sordid affair.”
Limbaugh went on to say that Clinton’s attempts to overthrow Trump using the debunked Steele Dossier compiled with Russian intelligence amounted to the real collusion.
“Unelected people came close to pulling off what is a coup,” said the Republican host.
“Who’s working with Russians? Steele, Hillary’s guy! They are working with the Russians…the dossier traces right back to Hillary and her campaign in the DNC.”
Limbaugh’s comments come after Clinton said that Trump would have been indicted for collusion if he wasn’t the president.
“I think there is enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted,” Clinton said Monday during the Time 100 conference.
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