Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was the country's 바카라first바카라 racist president.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union.
When a questioner complained of racism surrounding the coronavirus outbreak and mentioned the president referring to it as the 바카라China virus,바카라 Biden responded by blasting Trump and 바카라his spread of racism.바카라
"The way he deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they're from, is absolutely sickening,바카라 the former vice president said.
바카라No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We've had racists, and they've existed. They've tried to get elected president. He's the first one that has.바카라 Biden also suggested that Trump is using race 바카라as a wedge바카라 to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic.
Many presidents 바카라 including the nation's first, George Washington 바카라 owned slaves.
President Woodrow Wilson, the country's 28th president, is having his name removed from Princeton University's public policy school after recent protests against institutional racism and police brutality.
Wilson, who served in the early 20th century, supported segregation and imposed it on several federal agencies.
At 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.
바카라I've done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible of exception of Abraham Lincoln," the president said.
바카라Nobody has even been close.바카라 Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser for Trump's reelection campaign, said in a statement that 바카라no one should take lectures on racial justice from Joe Biden."
Biden has vowed that, if elected, he will begin addressing 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 바카라battle for the soul of the nation바카라 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, Virginia, by saying there were 바카라some very fine people" on both sides.
When Trump said last year that four Democratic congresswomen of color should 바카라go back바카라 to their countries, Biden called it a 바카라flat, racist attack.바카라
