President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first major speech since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, lamenting how heated politics have become, but pivoting back to fiery attacks on the former president’s claims and policy proposals — avoiding personal attacks but at one point accusing him of “lying like hell.”
As the the GOP gathered for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in battleground Wisconsin, he traveled to Las Vegas to rally Black voters in battleground Nevada — in what was billed as an official event but sounded like a campaign rally.
“I’m truly honored to be here at this tense moment in this country,” he said, addressing the NAACP’s national convention, referring to Saturday’s shooting just three days before.
“It is a tense moment just a few days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, we’re grateful he was not seriously injured,” Biden said. “We continue to pray for him and his family. It’s time for an important conversation in this country.”
“Our politics has gotten too heated,” he continued. “As I’ve said in the Oval Office on Sunday night, as I’ve made clear throughout my presidency, we all have responsibilities to lower the temperature and condemn violence in any form. You gotta remember, in America we’re not enemies, we’re friends, we’re neighbors.”
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