Donald Trump branded President Biden “a very nasty and vicious racist” during a speech on Friday at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala in Columbia, South Carolina.
In response, the White House referred Newsweek to comments made by Biden-Harris 2024 Black media director Jasmine Harris before Trump’s address, in which he branded the Republican presidential frontrunner an “anti-Black tyrant.”
The former president, and 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner, Trump accused Biden of “palling around with notorious segregationists” and drafting a 1994 crime bill “that devastated the Black community.”
Trump has himself repeatedly been accused of promoting racism. including by Biden. In July 2020, the Democrat said the then-White House leader was the first racist “to get elected president.” Biden’s campaign team later said there had been a number of other racist presidents but added that “Trump stands out – especially in modern history.”
Speaking at Friday’s gala, Trump said: “On top of everything else, Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He’s been a racist whether you like it or don’t like it.
“Biden spent years palling around with notorious segregationists, you know that. He boasted that his home state was a slave state,” Trump added. “He was very proud of that; he thought it was great. If you go back and look at his body language, the way he said it, he was very proud of it.”
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