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At Richmond fundraiser, Biden says he wouldn't be running if it weren't for Charlottesville
The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | August 28, 2019 | Graham Moomaw

Posted on 08/28/2019 12:06:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would not be seeking the presidency if it weren’t for the white supremacist violence that occurred in Charlottesville in August 2017 and President Donald Trump’s response to it.

At a fundraiser in Richmond, about an hour east of Charlottesville, Biden said he had been prepared to re-enter private life after forgoing a run against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“I had not planned on running for the presidency,” Biden said. “And I mean that sincerely.”

Biden said his calculation changed “when those folks came out of the fields carrying those torches, chanting the anti-Semitic bile and their veins bulging, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan, with such ugliness.”

“I never thought I’d see something like that again in my life. That’s when I decided,” Biden said.

Since Trump said there were “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville rally, Biden said, his rhetoric has “gotten worse.”

(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...


TOPICS: Virginia; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: biden; charlottesville; trump
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What a crock of Shiite.
1 posted on 08/28/2019 12:06:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So his promise to his dying son meant nothing..................


2 posted on 08/28/2019 12:08:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s obvious that Biden hates White people and does not want their votes.


3 posted on 08/28/2019 12:09:00 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So he is running for the Presidency based on an outright, already disproven LIE?!? Uh, ok!


4 posted on 08/28/2019 12:10:17 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: txrefugee

This guy can’t STFU!!!

Which is GOOD.

But still, wow.

That’s why hillary was locked away. And she still lost.


5 posted on 08/28/2019 12:10:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company PeoTill the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The little Plate in his head went and got loose again. Anyone have an Allen wrench??


6 posted on 08/28/2019 12:13:15 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please let him be their nominee. Please


7 posted on 08/28/2019 12:15:35 PM PDT by Spruce
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Charlottesville was an elaborately staged play to set the stage for the “white nationalist” narrative.


8 posted on 08/28/2019 12:15:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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The little Plate in his head went and got loose again. Anyone have an Allen wrench??

Make sure you turn it the right way or else his ass might
fall off.


9 posted on 08/28/2019 12:16:03 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The concept of Que cards should have occurred to him by now...


10 posted on 08/28/2019 12:21:33 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He thereby admits his campaign is based on a lie.


11 posted on 08/28/2019 12:43:26 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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Did he know what state he was lying in?


12 posted on 08/28/2019 12:45:09 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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“when those folks came out of the fields carrying those torches, chanting the anti-Semitic bile and their veins bulging, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan, with such ugliness.”

WTF??

13 posted on 08/28/2019 12:45:42 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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All his virtue signalling won’t change the fact that he’s an old white guy with a history of sexist and racist gaffes.

He’s slightly more “woke” than Archie Bunker, and that isn’t going to fly with at least 30-40% of the Democrat party.


14 posted on 08/28/2019 12:49:04 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Joe was there. It was truly horrible.


15 posted on 08/28/2019 12:53:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll bet he made the decision when the families of Charlottesville visited him in the White House in 2017.


16 posted on 08/28/2019 12:58:36 PM PDT by kempster
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I keep hoping that some ambitious young reporter would actually do a real expose of what happened in Charlottesville Va. The original permit to assemble was issued to a small number of residents that wanted to protest the removal of a cherished statue of Robert E. Lee in their park. The media then publicized this leading to the piling on of Antifa and Neo-Nazis wackjobs none of whom actually had a permit to be there. Instead of protecting the citizens of Charlottesville the incompetent local police chief conspired with the governor, Terry McAulife to provoke a police riot by directing the two groups into a confined area thus leading to the violence and death of a young woman. Trump’s condemnation of the violent groups is well documented but ignored by Biden who is apparently basing his campaign on an well debunked lie. Maybe some people will fall for this pandering but I hope the true story eventually surfaces during the election assuming he actually gets the nod.


17 posted on 08/28/2019 1:01:46 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was Northam there? Did he and Joe wear blackface for yucks? Did they kill a black newborn baby for yucks and cheers from the UVA / VCU crowd?

By the way... the University of Virgina and Virginia Commonwealth University are the biggest abortion providers in Virginia. Their hospitals. Nice, hunh.


18 posted on 08/28/2019 1:10:51 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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They are going to ride that lie forever. It shifts the narrative. The only responce to someone who starts in on Charlottesville is “liar”, and then move on.


19 posted on 08/28/2019 1:43:01 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: ExTxMarine

Yes he is running against Trump based on a proven lie about what trump actually said.

Joe, go the hell home and put your feet up.

That way you don’t have to remember where you are or what did and did not happen while you were VP.


20 posted on 08/28/2019 1:48:59 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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