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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 17, 2021

You are an incredible woman, Miss Opal. You really are. As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth. In Juneteenth 1939 when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. But such hate never…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 17, 2021

By making Juneteenth a federal holiday, all Americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 17, 2021

Today signing would go down as one of the greatest honors of his presidency.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

I think the President has talked talks about different things more than anything else, ending the pandemic, which is the key to everything else, economic recovery, racial justice, and the climate.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

By making Juneteenth a federal holiday, all Americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history. Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. They don’t…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

Every generation has to reestablish the basis of this fight for democracy. I mean for real. I`ve never seen including during since the Civil War, such an outward assault.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

This is about practical, straightforward, no nonsense decisions that we have to make or not make.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

This is not a Kumbaya moment as we used to say back in the 60s in the United States, like let’s hug and love each other. But it’s clearly not in anybody’s interest, your countries or mine for us to be in a situation where we’re in a new…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

I pointed out to him that we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn`t exactly what it is but it is significant. And if, in fact, they violate these basic norms, we will respond. Cyber. He knows.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

This is a day of profound, in my view, profound weight and profound power.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

I told President Putin my agenda is not against Russia, or anyone else. It’s for the American people. It’s not about just going after Russia when they violate human rights. It’s about who we are. We need to have some basic rules of the…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

I also told him that no President of the United States could keep faith with the American people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

This is about how we move from here. This is about practical, straightforward, no nonsense decisions that we have to make or not make. We`ll find out within the next six months to a year whether or not we actually have a strategic dialogue…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

Look, this is not about trust. This is about self-interest and verification of self-interest. That’s what it’s about.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

Whether I stopped it from happening again -- he knows I will take action, like we did when -- this last time out. We, in fact, made it clear that we were not going to continue to allow this to go on.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 16, 2021

How could I be the President of the United States of America and not speak out against the violation of the human rights? I pointed out to him that that's why we're going to raise our concerns about cases like Alexei Navalny and I raised…

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