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Trump Is a Coward
Biden calls the president weak on crime, Russia, and the coronavirus. Trump proves him right.
By WILLIAM SALETAN
(Slate) One of Donald Trumps biggest frauds is that hes a strong leader. He says hes tough on China, tough on borders, and tough on looters and anarchists. But when toughness really counts, hes craven. He sucks up to Vladimir Putin, writes love letters to Kim Jong-un, begs Xi Jinping for help in getting reelected, and causes thousands of deaths by refusing to face a catastrophic virus. On Monday, Joe Biden launched a frontal assault on Trumps cowardice. And Trump, in a press conference afterward, validated Bidens indictment.
Trump thinks the recent wave of violence in certain citiessome of it related to protests against shootings by policecan help him change the subject from COVID to law and order. Biden, speaking in Pittsburgh, directly addressed that issue. If Donald Trump wants to ask the question, Who will keep you safer as president?, lets answer that question, said Biden. When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15 percent The murder rate is up 26 percent across the nation this year under Donald Trump.
Biden argued that in street clashes between left- and right-wing extremists, real political courage consists of standing up to the miscreants on your own side. Trump hasnt just failed that test, Biden said; hes ducked it. Hes got no problem with right-wing militia, white supremacists, and vigilantes with assault weapons, often better armed than the police, said Biden. Trumps failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is.
Biden coupled this attack with a scathing assessment of Trumps appeasement of Russia. The Kremlin has put bounties on the heads of American soldiers, said Biden. But instead of telling Vladimir Putin that thered be a heavy price to pay if they dare touch an American soldier, this president doesnt even bring up the subject in his multiple phone calls with Putin. Biden also pointed to reports that Russian forces just attacked American troops in Syria, injuring our service members. Did you hear the president say a single word? Did he lift one finger? Never before has an American president played such a subservient role to a Russian leader. Its not only dangerous. Its humiliating. ................(more)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-is-a-coward.html
Walleye
(30,978 posts)Russian fighters buzz our B-52s just for fun. trump does nothing
dmr
(28,344 posts)We need to continue to harp about that bounty, and Donald's appalling non-response.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,728 posts)Who was in Kenosha to kill, not protect the streets.
How humiliating.
Javaman
(62,503 posts)I can't wait when he loses (I hope for all our sakes) that the headline in many of the papers and websites will read "LOSER".
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)iluvtennis
(19,835 posts)Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)He may be too much a coward to do that as well. I suspect he'll back down, saying its going to have fake news biased questions. And instead hold a rally and give an incendiary speech full of lies about Biden, and some networks will feel obliged to show it.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)Have a cardboard cutout of Trump instead.
Biden could ask him to explain some of his lies, and the camera pans to the immobile Donald. To which Biden could reply, "Nothing? you have nothing to say about that?"
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)LNM
(1,078 posts)You'll make his head explode.
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)If all these right-wing militia, white supremacists, and vigilantes with assault weapons want to dress up and play soldiers, let's put them on planes, give them a parachute, and drop them into Afghanistan.......