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Just in case you missed it ...
Lawrence: Biden speaks to NATO and AFL-CIO after Trump read a teleprompter full of lies
MSNBC — 7/10/2024 the AFL-CIO event starts about 10:00 mark.
[Link to same segment on MSNBC, in addition to the YouTube clip above.]
After two weeks of public discussions about the viability of the Biden-Harris campaign, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes Joe Biden’s campaign speech in which he delivered remarks to union leaders and celebrated the economic success of his administration – versus Donald Trump’s campaign speech where he lied about everything, including President Biden’s economic policy.
Lawrence O’Donnell asking why the media critics are MIA? [11:25]
The President’s physical and mental abilities is now under a microscope. [… But] the microscope only seems to be turned on when people can find something wrong. Whenever he seems to be behaving completely normally, that microscope seems to be turned off. No one seems to be interested in what that looks like.
Now we are going to show you the president's comments in full and again I would not normally run all of these, but this is the first time since the debate that we have seen the president speaking, extemporaneously without a teleprompter, no script, not answering questions in a question and answer format with an interview or debate moderator. And so we are going to show you this, because not only do people say he cannot do this, there are people saying he has not done it.
There are people that don't know he did this today, who are talking in public discussions about what the president is capable of and they are not even watching what he is doing. So we can all watch this video together. You can judge what you are looking at.
C-Span link to just the spontaneous comments by Joe Biden to the leaders of the AFL-CIO.
President Biden Attends Meeting With Union Leaders at AFL-CIO
President Biden delivered remarks at a meeting with national union leaders at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC. “We’re gonna build this country from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down,” he said, and drew a contrast between himself and his Republican presidential challenger Donald Trump on plans for the economy and labor. He was introduced by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. This event occurred amid talks within the Democratic Party on whether President Biden should remain as the Democratic presidential candidate, following widespread criticism of his debate performance against former President Trump.
Compared to Trump’s dishonest angry ramblings, scrappy Scranton Joe shows how he is still fighting for us — and not for himself. Just like he has always done for decade after decade, after decade. Just as he will continue do til the bitter end.
Where is that corporate media “microscope” when Joe Biden is having a great day?
Where is that corporate media “microscope” when Donald Trump is “just being Trump”?
Inquiring Voters really should want to know — WHY they judge Trump by an entirely different (and forgiving) standard ???
Especially when acting honestly, acting normally, acting competently are character traits, nowhere to be found in Trump’s Communication Retribution toolkit.
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When compared to the “alternative” … America could do far, far worse than Scranton Joe …
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