Joe Biden Walks Back Remarks About ‘Garbage’ At Madison Square Garden
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“I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico ... as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” the president said.
President Joe Biden moved to clarify his remarks about the Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday after Republicans pounced on a comment they said demeaned supporters of the former president.
Biden participated in a call with Voto Latino on Tuesday night in which he lambasted comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist set at the New York City rally. Hinchcliffe had called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and made other racist and antisemitic remarks. Biden, speaking about the comedy set, defended Puerto Ricans before seeming to call Trump’s supporters garbage themselves.
“In my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent honorable people,” Biden said of Puerto Ricans. “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, everything we’ve been,” Biden added.
Andrew Bates, a senior deputy press secretary at the White House, clarified that Biden was referring to the overarching rhetoric at the Manhattan rally as “garbage,” not the people there to support Trump. He released a transcript that included an apostrophe in the president’s remarks ― “his supporter’s demonization” ― to note the president was criticizing Hinchcliffe’s words.
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