President Joe Biden criticized former President Trump’s rhetoric and the media in an interview with NBC.
President Joe Biden said there’s no place for violence in American politics and criticized the media in a roughly 20-minute interview that aired on NBC on Monday night.
Biden sat down with NBC News’s Lester Holt at the White House earlier on Monday, two days after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
Biden, who is still trying to recover from a disastrous debate performance last month, was soft-spoken and at times appeared unable to finish articulating his thoughts, resulting in some rambling answers. He reiterated that he’s staying in the race despite calls from some Democrats to step down.
During the interview, Biden described his conversation with Trump following the rally shooting on Saturday as „very cordial“ and said that the former president thanked him for calling.
„There’s no place at all for violence in politics in America. None. Zero“, he said.
Holt said the shooting had sparked conversations about the rhetoric used in American politics, noting Biden had recently called Trump an „existential threat“ and said that it was time to put Trump in the „bull’s-eye.“
Biden responded that he „didn’t say crosshairs“ and that what he was trying to say was „there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.
