U.S. President Joe Biden provides remarks at the Unitedsteel Workers head office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2024.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday choked up as he blasted Donald Trump, stating the presumptive Republican governmental candidate “doesn’t deserve to be the Commander in Chief for my son.”
Biden’s scathing remark referenced both his late child Beau Biden, who worked as a significant in the Delaware Army National Guard, and Trump supposedly calling dead U.S. servicemen in a French cemetery “suckers and losers” when he was president.
The incumbent Democrat made the remarks throughout a speech to a group of United Steelworkers union members in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“But one of the things that I was, as I was doing it today, I was reminded of what my opponent said in Paris not too long ago,” Biden stated.
“They asked him to go visit American grave sites. He said ‘no.’ He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all suckers and losers,” Biden stated, mentioning the reports about Trump’s reasoning.
“I’m not making that up. The staff who were with him acknowledge it today. Suckers and losers. That man doesn’t deserve,” Biden stated, stopping briefly for a number of seconds as he choked up before including, “to be the Commander in Chief for my son.”
A representative for Trump’s project did not instantly react to CNBC’s ask for discuss Biden’s declaration.
Beau Biden, who was Delaware’s attorney general of the United States, served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the NationalGuard He invested a year on active service in the Guard, that included 7 months of being released in Iraq, beginning in 2008.
Beau Biden passed away from brain cancer in 2015, when his dad was vice president in the administration of previous President Barack Obama.
In October, Trump’s previous White House chief of personnel John Kelly verified to CNN information from a 2020 short article in The Atlantic that consisted of dismissive remarks about members of the U.S. armed force.
The Atlantic short article, composed by Jeffrey Goldberg, opens with a description of then-President Trump canceling a see to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, simply beyond Paris, in 2018, declaring that rain avoided a helicopter from flying him, which the Secret Service would not drive him there.
“Neither claim was true,” Goldberg composed.
“Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day,” Goldberg composed.
“In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,'” the short article stated.
“In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.”
Kelly, who is a retired four-star Marine basic, in October informed CNN, “What can I add that has not already been said?”
“A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,'” Kelly stated.
“A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”
A Trump spokesperson informed CNN in action to that short article: “John Kelly has totally clowned himself with these debunked stories he’s made up because he didn’t serve his president well while working as chief of staff.”
