President seizes on recent news about Trump in an effort to return to his original plan: make the election a referendum on his opponent. "Just because we must lower the temperature in our politics ... doesn't mean we should stop telling the truth," Biden told hundreds of Black supporters in an animated speech that regularly bashed Trump on race issues. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Biden began by saying he was praying for Trump, who was injured during Saturday's shooting, but quickly shifted into a forceful case against the former president. He criticized Trump for ignoring or downplaying political violence in cases with Black victims and inciting it in other cases, including the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2024 03:17 UTC