'I'd smack him in the mouth': Biden seeks to dispel concerns about his ability to take on Trump...

[DonViejo]

‘I’d smack him in the mouth’: Biden seeks to dispel concerns about his ability to take on Trump after shaky debate performance

By John Wagner July 5 at 7:51 AM
Joe Biden compared President Trump to the kind of bully that he would “smack”in the mouth as a child during an interview broadcast Friday in which the former vice president sought to dispel concerns about his shaky first Democratic debate performance.

Appearing on CNN, Biden was pressed about his ability to stand up to Trump following a debate last week in which Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) aggressively questioned Biden’s opposition to federally mandated busing in the 1970s, appearing to catch him off guard.

“The idea that I’d be intimidated by Donald Trump — he’s the bully that I knew my whole life,” Biden said. “He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.”

During the interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, which took place Thursday in Iowa, Biden acknowledged that he wasn’t prepared for Harris’s attack.

“I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn’t prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me,” Biden said, adding that he felt he and Harris knew each other well and that she also knew his late son, Beau Biden.

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[stonecutter357]

1. good let's go Joe !

[Cha]

2. Yeah, he was talking about the bully

who used to make fun of him when he stuttered.. evidently he stood up "to the bully with a smack in the mouth".. kid wasn't going to be a victim.

[Raven123]

3. More like the Joe we know from prior campaigns.

[loyalsister]

4. Violent imagery is gross

and epitomizes the toxic masculinity. It's gross.
One thing I really respect about Obama and Bill Clinton is that they didn't use the kind of disgusting rhetoric that immediately brings to my mind gun worshipping maga men on motorcycles and Trump at his most vile.

I'm so glad we have so many women candidates and men who trust voters to respond to campaigns of substance over maga style imagery in the primary!

[ucrdem]

6. To some but then there's the sports industry . . .

And the swing states.

[rogue emissary]

9. It's always disappointing but never unexpected when we applaud one of our own for this bs.

Yet we'd scold a Republican for saying the same thing. Just reminds me that we can be just as culty as the conservatives.

[Skya Rhen]

12. Please he told a similar story at the 2008 convention and the whole crowd cheered including Michelle

This is his story and he embraces what molded him to be the person he is, today...


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[rogue emissary]

14. You proved my point better than I could.

[Skya Rhen]

15. So you think that Michelle is culty? Unbelievable!

[rogue emissary]

18. Is she a Democrat?

Do you think she would applaud Trump, McCain, or Romney talking about smacking someone in the mouth?

To answer your question, yes I do. No one is above criticism and that's coming from a life long democratic voter. So I include myself it that criticism.

[Skya Rhen]

19. As I said, unbelievable!

[rogue emissary]

20. hahahaha and again you prove my point.

[loyalsister]

22. Indeed

Sigh At least we have choices.

[treestar]

10. oh please

he walk talking about when he was a kid. That would be the 1950s. Men on motorcycles, really?

[loyalsister]

21. Or the loudmouth in a bar

I grew up around people who talked like that. It was disgusting when my dad and his construction worker buddies talked like that when they were sitting around drinking after work, too.

[Butterflylady]

17. Oh please, he was a kid, give me a break.

[DesertRat]

23. I agree with you. nt

[ucrdem]

5. LOL, I don't doubt it

Joe's in much better shape and taller, too. And in the perception war ya gotta fight fire with fire.

[DesertRat]

24. Oh come on

No one wants to imagine a physical fight between 2 septuagenarians.

[Politicub]

7. That's more like it

Now please stop sista soljahing the more liberal part of the party - aka the base.

[zackymilly]

8. This sounds like something trumpster would say.

Biden shouldn't stoop to his level.
Trumpster loves these kinds of reactions.

[BannonsLiver]

11. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

Whine whine whine.

[OhZone]

13. He wasn't prepared for her to betray their friendship -

with attacking him on ancient topics, weaponizing race, especially on a topic where they really agreed.

I'm not in favor of violence either, but I understand the need to seem strong and tough.

AND I very much appreciate it directed at Trump and policies we deplore, and NOT another Dem who the attacker really agrees with.

I will never vote for Harris in the primary!

I will vote Biden.

But, in the general, I will vote for any Dem, even someone who has completely disappointed me and lost my trust, like Harris. She may only be out for herself and not Americans as a whole, but she's still better than Rump.

Still, I trust Biden and know he's out for the whole country.

[UniteFightBack]

16. We need a mouth smacker, hair sniffer to take on the sexual predator pussy grabber. nt

[Jakes Progress]

25. He can't do that in a debate. He has to actually use words.

We have one blustery bragging tough-guy wannabe as president. We don't need another.

As for the cheers he gets when he says this, look at the cheers trump gets with his swagger.

Joe is smarter than trump. Let him show that by showing that he is ready to actually handle a debate stage. I have images of two septuagenarians standing belligerently on a stage each saying how they are going to beat up the other one.

[Demsrule86]

27. We need someone who can take on Trumpie and defeat him...and that is Joe Biden. He can win the

states we need...rebuild the blue wall. I don't think folks realize unless the blue wall is rebuilt, we are likely to lose the presidency for the forseeable future as we have no other path to the presidency.

[Peacetrain]

28. Oh Lord.. does anyone read with comprehension anymore.?. he said that when he was a "kid"

mind numbing sometimes isn't it??

[Polybius]

29. What happens if they brawl on stage (if Biden gets the nomination)?

Obviously, the Secret Service would break it up quickly. But who would it help? Who would it hurt? Could Biden be charged if he throws the first punch?

[aikoaiko]

30. Cool story, Joe.

[Gothmog]

31. Joe. Biden can beat trump

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

32. Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him

Joe is very well equipped to take on trump the bully

Link to tweet

Valerie Biden Owens, the former vice president’s younger sister, says that one lasting impact of his childhood stutter is that it has given him more empathy and compassion for others’ trials, and it uniquely equips him to handle Trump’s taunts.

“Trump is a bully, and Joe has been standing up to bullies his entire life,” Owens said in an interview. “Joe’s stuttering, I think, is one of the principal reasons — a major, major, major reason — that he is the good and compassionate and kind man that he is.”

About 3 million Americans suffer from the speech impediment of stuttering, marked by involuntary repetition of sounds, syllables or words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, most children outgrow their stutter, but for 25% of them, stuttering is a lifelong challenge.

Biden has overcome the serious stutter of his youth, but remnants of it resurface on occasions such as when he is very tired, he said in a 2016 speech. Experts on stuttering who follow him closely say they have noticed it on several occasions during the campaign, such as an interview on “The View” when he addressed complaints about his tendency to touch and hug women while campaigning, and an April speech in Pittsburgh launching his campaign, when he struggled with words.