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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden: "It's time to lift our heads up and remember who the hell we are."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/joe-biden-donald-trump-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-embarrassing-dangerous/Joe Biden Calls Trumps Handling of Journalists Death Embarrassing and Dangerous
Its time to lift our heads up and remember who the hell we are.
Rebecca Leber
October 20, 2018 2:41 PM
On the stump in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trumps handling of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as embarrassing and dangerous.
Just yesterday, Trump repeated that he found credible Saudi Arabias latest claim that Khashoggi died after a fistfight brawl broke out inside the countrys consulate in Turkey. That was after Trump bought a quite different story coming from Saudi Arabia days before, when the country claimed that it was not involved. Both versions, and Trumps own hypothesis on rogue killers, contradict intelligence reports that Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered on orders from the royal family.
My Lord! Hes making excuses, Biden said Saturday. By the way, you know that whole expression, you dont bring a knife to a gun fight? Well you dont bring bone saws to fights. What is going on here? Its embarrassing. But its also dangerous
Theyre undermining our worldwide reputation for decency.
Biden was at a campaign rally for Democratic Senate candidate Jackie Rosen, who is vying for incumbent Sen. Dean Hellers seat. While focusing on issues ranging from fair wages to immigration at the Culinary Workers Union rally, the former VP spent a good portion of his speech going after Trumps foreign policy. Biden criticized Trumps embrace of Russias Vladamir Putin and North Koreas Kim Jong-un. He is a dictator and a thug, Biden said of Putin. [Trump] stands there and take Putins word over our own intelligence community?
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Its time to lift our heads up and remember who the hell we are, Biden said.
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Biden: "It's time to lift our heads up and remember who the hell we are." (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2018
OP
malaise
(269,182 posts)1. Other than McCain name one ReTHUG
Who condemned torture under Bush and Cheney.
They should all have been locked up for crimes against humanity
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. Well said.
The GOP tortures children right now by depriving them of their parents.
malaise
(269,182 posts)3. And sending them across the country or
locking them in cages - all are crimes against humanity.
LuvLoogie
(7,034 posts)4. Biden-Harris 2020
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)5. That sounds good. Any Dem
is going to sound fantastic after what we're going through.