President Joe Biden ignited Republican Washington fury Tuesday night when he weighed in on racist jokes at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday.
At the event, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage,He also made crude, offensive and racist comments about Latinos and Black people.
On Tuesday, during a video call for Latino voter outreach, Biden defended the Puerto Rican community and appeared to criticize either Trump supporters or Hinchcliffe.
They’re good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said, referring to the Puerto Rican community. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un American. It’s totally contrary to everything we,ve done.
The White House quickly turned to damage control mode, with spokesman Andrew Bates saying in a statement that Biden referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage
The White House also sent around a transcript in an attempt to show that Biden was not saying that Trump supporters were, garbage,but that he tripped over his lines and meant to say he was condemning Hinchcliffe’s remarks specifically.
And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,read the White House transcript. Well, let me tell you something. I don’t I don’t know the Puerto Rican that that I know or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr, in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s his his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.
Shortly afterward, Biden also posted a clarification on X.
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation, he wrote.
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