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Joe Biden: “Those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate than those…”

On the recordApril 25, 2019
Those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate than those with the courage to stand against it.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Biden critiques Trump's statement regarding the events in Charlottesville, emphasizing the moral implications of equating hate with those opposing it.

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