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Biden chokes up while talking about deceased son and Trump's disparaging remarks about service members

“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan, who both served in the military

President Joe Biden choked up Wednesday talking about the military service of his family members and former President Donald Trump's disparaging remarks about service members.

“They asked [Trump] to go visit American gravesites. He said, 'No.' He wouldn’t do it. Because they were all 'suckers' and 'losers,'” Biden told a crowd of union workers. “I’m not making that up. The staff who were with him acknowledge it today. Suckers and losers.”

He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.

Biden's comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”

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  • This is the best summary I could come up with:

    He paused for a moment and added, “That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle.” Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan both served in the military before Trump took office.

    Biden's comments referred to Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris for the centennial of the end of World War I, when he declined to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers” and fallen soldiers at the U.S. cemetery “losers.”

    Former White House chief of staff John Kelly confirmed last year that Trump privately made the remarks, which The Atlantic first reported.

    “Joe Biden is repeating an old and tired lie about President Trump to deflect from the fact that he has is the weakest Commander in Chief in history,” national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

    Biden has often cited Trump's 2018 remarks, but Wednesday was the first time he had tied them directly to his son and his uncle.

    Biden, who was in Pittsburgh for the second stop of a three-city tour of Pennsylvania, said he was reminded of Trump’s comments about service members while he was visiting a war memorial in Scranton.

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  • Imagine dying for the military lmao.

    • Imagine living in a country where some people's only way out is to sign up to die for their country. Now imagine there's someone making fun of them for it.

      • Was homeless at 17 for the better part of 2 years. Tried to kill myself with inhalants many times. Found out the service was taking in meat shields like they were going out of style. Watched thousands die in Iraq and still deal with the guilt and self-destructiveness today. It is getting better, good people found me and chose to love me.

        There's a part of me that does not disagree with the comment, I honestly wanted to die in that place. But it's so disrespectful to say, and you nailed it.

      • Some people's "only way out" in nazi germany was to join the nazi party. Should they get our sympathy too? These people aren't dying for their country, they're dying for corporate profits.

  • Fuck you biden, you piece of shit. Your dumb son chose to go all the way to another country in the name of imperialism. Those 30,000+ Palestinians you helped slaughter didn't get to choose. Downvote if you love genocide and going to other countries to kill people.

    • You know, if you "biden bad" people are trying to convince us you're not right wing agent provacateurs, you're doing a terrible job. Mocking someone for being sad their son died is just about the Trumpiest thing I can imagine.

      I know, I know, it's very difficult for you to resist the urge to be cruel, but you have to pretend to be a good person if you want to convince liberals to vote 3rd party.

      • I'm not mocking biden for his son dying, I'm calling biden a piece of shit for supporting genocide. He speaks highly of the commander in chief position, as a position that is deserved or not, but I'd say him impotently going along with israel's genocide means he doesn't deserve the position either. I called his son dumb because choosing to join the military to fight in the Iraq invasion was dumb when he obviously didn't come from a poor family and thus didn't even need to do this due to a lack of job opportunities.

        You finger wag about cruelty and being a good person while defending a supporter of genocide. I know you can't view the world as anything other than red vs blue, but I never said anything about who to vote for. Full disclosure, I vote for democratic party candidates down the ballot every single election, I've never voted for a republican in my life. However, this doesn't matter to you because as long as anyone doesn't toe the party line 200%, then your reading comprehension goes out the window and you make up a million assumptions, gallantly fighting a strawman.

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