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Home Front: Politix

‘I beat you like a drum’ in 2020 election: Biden to Trump

2019-10-07

[PRESSTV] US Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
has lashed out at President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
for his efforts to "destroy" the former vice president and his family, vowing to beat the US president "like a drum" in the 2020 election.

Biden accused Trump on Sunday of "abusing the power of the presidency" by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone call to investigate him and his son, Hunter, over their financial dealings.

The 76-year-old said Trump has "corrupted the agencies of his administration ‐ including the State Department, the National Security Council staff, the Justice Department and the office of the vice president" in his pursuit to do so.

"Enough is enough," Biden wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. "Every day ‐ every few hours, seemingly ‐ more evidence is uncovered revealing that President Trump is abusing the power of the presidency and is wholly unfit to be president. He is using the highest office in the land to advance his personal political interests instead of the national interest."

The former US vice president said Trump's action showed that "he considers the presidency a free pass to do whatever he wants, with no accountability."

"Our first president, George Washington, famously could not tell a lie. President Trump seemingly cannot tell the truth ‐ about anything," Biden noted. "He slanders anyone he sees as a threat. That is why is he is frantically pushing flat-out lies, debunked conspiracy theories and smears against me and my family, no doubt hoping to undermine my candidacy for the presidency."

The 2020 presidential candidate, however, underscored that he would not allow Trump to intimidate him despite a push to tarnish his reputation.

"To Trump and those who facilitate his abuses of power, and all the special interests funding his attacks against me: Please know that I’m not going anywhere," Biden concludes in his op-ed. "You won’t destroy me, and you won’t destroy my family. And come November 2020, I intend to beat you like a drum."

Posted by:Fred

#16 Oprah?

Posted by: Lex 2019-10-07 19:34

#15 Who else do they have that's viable? I don't see anyone who can beat Trump.

Posted by: JohnQC 2019-10-07 18:25

#14 Even Wall Street is getting the willies about Warren

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-07 18:12

#13 Joe, "the blue-collar champion of the people" (sarc on) is not going to be the front runner for the 2010 race. Probably Pocahontas I'm guessing.

Posted by: JohnQC 2019-10-07 18:04

#12 I like the joke that ends "the smartest black man of all time just jumped out of the plane with a rucksack..."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-07 15:47

#11 Joke from the 1980s:

Nixon, Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden are sitting on the deck of a cruise ship. Over the PA system the captain announces that the vessel is taking on water, and that passengers need to immediately head for the lifeboats.

Carter tells Dick, Teddy and Joe: "As good Christians, we should let the women and children go first."

Nixon mutters, "F--- the women!"
Kennedy: "Do we have time?"
Biden: "Do we have time?"

Posted by: Lex 2019-10-07 12:19

#10 Someone should ask Biden if Trump was ever caught plagiarizing a speech.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-10-07 10:58

#9 Shades of Jimmy Carter and his faux-hardboy act vs Kennedy in 1980: "I'm gon' whip his ass."

Posted by: Lex 2019-10-07 09:16

#8 He's Delaware Tough!

Snark o' the day material.

Posted by: BA 2019-10-07 08:36

#7 He's Delaware Tough!

Posted by: Elmavimp Glinegum6967 2019-10-07 04:56

#6 Yet another "out behind the barn" punk moment. Joe, devoid of Soetoro, is nothing.

Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-07 04:14

#5 "You won’t destroy me, and you won’t destroy my family..."

Right, Trump won't destroy you Joe, you and your family is doing a fine job of destroying yourselves without Trumps help!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-07 01:27

#4 First Biden is not Trump's rival in the 2020 election. He is the rival of about 20 others to become that rival, and his chances of becoming Trump's rival have been falling steadily for a variety of reasons.
Second, Trump, in the famous phone call merely expressed his opinion that Biden's public brag that he forced the Ukraine government to fire its head prosecutor was horrible, and he hoped Zelensky would find out the truth about it. Trump did not mention the apparent corrupt dealings of Hunter Biden with a Ukrainian gas magnate who was a big time donor to the Clinton foundation.

Third braggarts are not generally reputed to be tellers of truth. Quite possibly Biden's brag was a product of his own insecurities and his wish to appear as a big shot rather than an insignificant Vice-President. Zelensky investigation of the brag might actually prove it false thus releaving some of the horribleness that Trump referred to and thereby improving Biden's reputation.

Posted by: Daniel 2019-10-07 01:12

#3 Look we're dealing here with a man who was Obama's anti-assassination insurance (no matter how they hate me, they won't do anything that might make Joe POTUS)

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-07 00:42

#2 Curtains.
Drop out now, Joe, before you put your family through even more pain. It's over.

Posted by: Lex 2019-10-07 00:36

#1 Joe won't be the dumbocrap nominee. Maybe Master Beto can teach him how to spend his spare time.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-07 00:21

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