Pres. Biden did not call Trump supporters garbage. He called the the rhetoric from the comic supporter on stage at MSG garbage. I’ve read about this, and seen the WH transcript, but somehow, the other story keeps being disseminated, even though Pres. Biden is not running for President, so I feel this should be addressed. I looked around for the most mainstream media outlet that told the full story at the beginning where people can see it, rather than writing it up as a did-he-or-didn’t-he, or worse, as a he-did with a later tiny retraction that will remain unseen. It wouldn’t hurt to mention this if the subject arises out there in the world. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal when the same media outlets don’t bother informing the country about any of the stuff the Republicans say about their political oppo, on the regular.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bidens-response-to-garbage-joke-about-puerto-rico/
President Biden reinserted himself into the contentious campaign to succeed him, appearing to call former President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage” on a video call with Latino activists Tuesday evening. Republicans seized on the comments, while the White House offered a different explanation of what Mr. Biden said.
The president was responding to a joke made at a Trump rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, in which Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
In the video clip obtained by CBS News, it sounded like Mr. Biden, who was speaking by video to left-leaning group Voto Latino, might be denouncing Trump supporters as “garbage.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” he seemed to say. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.”
But the White House denied that the president had said this about Trump supporters and released a transcript with a statement noting that “supporters” was in fact “supporter’s,” and Mr. Biden was referring to Hinchcliffe and his joke.
A White House transcript says this is what Mr. Biden said: “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know —or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr— in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
“The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,'” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. (snip-More, but it’s mostly Republican commentary about it with no ownership of what they’ve actually said.)
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