Ex-president responds to judge ordering Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence as Joe Biden bats away rival’s insults
Joe Biden yesterday gave an interview to ABC News during his visit to France. The president was in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-day, but American politics are never far from his mind, and Biden was asked about the executive order he signed before departing Washington DC this week, which will shut the US southern border to new asylum seekers when it becomes “overwhelmed”.
Interviewer David Muir wanted Biden’s reaction to comments from Donald Trump that the order was “weak and pathetic”. The president seized on the opportunity to do something he and his re-election campaign have done with increasing regularity: insult the former president. Here’s what Biden said:
Is he describing himself? Weak and pathetic? Come on, look, everybody knows what’s happened. We had a deal, it was much broader than this, much better, much more accepted, across the board, and he got on the phone and told the Republicans, don’t support it. It will hurt me, it will help Biden.
Biden is set to speak at 10am ET on democracy at Pointe du Hoc, a promontory on the Normandy coast where a fierce battle took place on D-day.
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