Joe Biden has said during a virtual town hall that President Trump was the country's “first” racist president.
More CoverageAt a White House briefing later Wednesday, Trump responded to a question about Biden’s comments by pointing to his administration’s efforts passing criminal justice reform legislation and expanding opportunity zones, as well as the low unemployment numbers for minority groups before the coronavirus outbreak.“I’ve done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible of exception of Abraham Lincoln,” the president said. “Nobody has even been close.
Katrina Pierson, a senior advisor for Trump’s reelection campaign, said in a statement that ”no one should take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden.”institutional racism within his first 100 days of taking office. This was not the first time he’s suggested Trump’s actions were racist. Biden has built his campaign around the election being a “battle for the soul of the nation” and says he felt compelled to run for president after he saw Trump respond to a deadly 2017 white supremacist attack on counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., by saying there were “some very fine people” on both sides.When Trump said last year that four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to their countries, Biden called it a “flat, racist attack.
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