Biden’s breathtaking political cynicism laid bare in his ‘both sides’ response to Jew-hating protests
NY Post
Joe Biden has long attributed his decision to run for president to 2017’s tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s response to them.
“It was a wake-up call for us as a country — and for me, a call to action,” said Biden in 2020, referring to Trump’s infamously inadequate statement following the neo-Nazi rally and murder of a counterprotester.
Yet while the rest of the country stood aghast at the overt expressions of antisemitism on America’s elite campuses over the weekend, the president remained silent, delegating the task of reacting to a deputy press aide.
When he finally did address them Monday at a reporter’s behest, this is all he mustered: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
In the same breath as his brief, apathetic condemnation of virulent hatred, he provided a justification for it.
As it turns out, while Trump’s reaction to the Charlottesville rally was a useful symbol for the Biden campaign, it must not have sincerely shocked the conscience of its principal.
