‘Blackmail Americans into voting’: Biden condemns riots & violence in language Trump supporters say amounts to extortion
31 Aug, 2020While Republicans have hammered Biden’s comments as too little, too late, critics of the former vice president have also zeroed in on a tweet from right before the speech, in which he asked if anyone really thought there would be less violence in America if Trump is reelected.
Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 31, 2020
Journalist Caleb Hull parsed Biden’s words as “Vote for me or else my supporters will burn down your cities.”
Biden’s strategy was to “blackmail Americans into voting for me by threatening more violence unless I win,” tweeted Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, describing it as “so impossibly evil and strategically unwise.” ...............
http://www.rt.com/usa/499551-biden-condemns-riots-extortion/