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(Also his saying Trump is a threat to democracy was very inflammatory.)
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-interview-trump-shooting-bullseye-b2580289.html
Biden admits saying ‘bullseye’ was a ‘mistake’
while discussing Trump agenda
The president refutes false equivalency comparing his statements in a
call to supporters to Trump’s anti-democracy rhetoric
Alex Woodward
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President Joe Biden said it was a “mistake” to use the word “bullseye” during a campaign call urging supporters to focus on Donald Trump’s
agenda, as the former president’s allies attempt to cast blame on
Democrats for the attempt on Trump’s life.
Last week, Biden told supporters on a private call to shift focus away
from his poor debate performance last month and “put Trump in a
bullseye” instead.
“The truth of the matter was, and I guess [what] I was talking about at
the time was, there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda,” Biden said
in an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt on Monday.
On Saturday, a gunman struck Trump’s ear with a bullet at a campaign
rally and killed a man in the crowd. There is currently no evidence that
the 20-year-old gunman fired an AR-15-style rifle because he was
influenced by Biden’s “bullseye” line, despite Holt’s questioning.
“It was a mistake to use the word. I didn’t say ‘crosshairs’. I said ‘bullseye.’ Focus on what he’s doing. Focus on his policies. Focus on
the number of lies he told in the debate,” Biden told Holt during an interview at the White House on Monday.
“Look, I’m not the guy who said I want to be a dictator on day one,” he added. “I’m not the guy who refused to accept the outcome of the
election. I’m not the guy who said he won’t accept the outcome of this election automatically. You can’t only love your country when you win,
and so the focus was on what he’s saying, and I mean, the idea—”
Holt interrupted the president to ask whether he has “done a little soul searching on things you may have said that could incite people who are
not balanced.”
“How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when the president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything?” Biden replied.
Critical objections to Trump’s platform were previously waved away by
his supporters as alarmist or fear-mongering, but his allies now appear
to be blaming those statements for Saturday’s assassination attempt.
During a call with donors last week, Biden said he is “done talking
about the debate” after his disastrous performance against Trump on June
27 prompted prominent Democrats to call for him to publicly end his
re-election campaign. Biden has insisted he is staying in the race.
“We need to move forward. Look, we have roughly 40 days til the
convention, 120 days til the election. We can’t waste any more time
being distracted,” Biden said on the private call, according to Politico.
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump,” he added. “I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
Trump’s allies also have repeatedly dismissed warnings from law
enforcement officials that Trump’s rhetoric has fuelled credible threats
of violence, and that Trump-allied far-right extremism poses a threat to national security.
Joe Biden apologies for using the word ‘bullseye’ when referring to
Donald Trump, prior to the attempted assassination of the former
president, during an interview with NBC
Joe Biden apologies for using the word ‘bullseye’ when referring to
Donald Trump, prior to the attempted assassination of the former
president, during an interview with NBC (NBC)
Biden appeared frustrated at the apparent false equivalency.
“I am not engaged in that rhetoric,” Biden said on Monday. “Now, my opponent is engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about there being a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses, talks about how he’s going to forgive … suspend
the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what had happened at the Capitol.”
Asked by Holt whether he believes the attempted assassination had
“changed the trajectory” of the presidential race, Biden replied: “I don’t know and you don’t know either.”
“I’ve thought less about the trajectory of the case [than] two things:
one, what his health is, and number two, what happens from here on, in
terms of the kind of coverage that the president and vice president and
former president and new vice president get,” he said.
“I’ve never been in a circumstance when you ride through certain rural areas of the country and people stand there with big Trump signs saying
‘F Biden’ and a little kid is standing there putting up his middle finger,” Biden said. “That’s the kind of stuff that is just inflammatory and vicious.”
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Comment by Djohnson.
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Djohnson
10 hrs ago
Joe Biden had something to do with this, look at his eyes and angry
facial demeanor when talking about President Trump. Joe is the Dictator
and people have figured it out, he and his top officials need to be investigated.
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5 hrs agoReply to Djohnson
project 2025 and trumps promises as to how he will break the
constitution a president swears to uphold by breaching the separation of
powers to run state apparatus into his personal tools of revenge and suppression entirely disagree with you about who is the would be
dictator and what that word even means.
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31 min agoReply to Robin Baldock
haaa haaa Trump Deramgemnet Syndrome.
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The Secret Service never expected anyone to shoot Trump. Shooting people
is more something "conservatives" would do. Liberals are more
democratic- no guns, just a bunch of people with signs, protesting.
They're usually the ones to get shot...
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1 hr agoReply to Redacted - view message
so you are choosing to join the burn it all down crowd that made
scenario so drastic, dragging it away from progress into regression.
Their diligent work has paid of in flipping you to their cause.
So you see; working with incremental change inch by inch is effective
after all, they did not wait for things to fall into their lap but saw a reasonably progressing post war world and realised that with hard and
ceaseless work they could reverse it and are on the verge of perhaps
complete success.
There is a lesson in there somewhere.
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