Actress Ashley Judd called for President Biden to step aside, doing so by attacking former President Trump and her loved ones who plan to vote for him.
Actress Ashley Judd joined a growing list of celebrities and high-profile Democrats who have called for President Biden to step aside, doing so by attacking former President Trump and her loved ones who plan to vote for him.
High profile individuals from George Clooney to elected Democratic lawmakers have called for Biden to stand down as questions about his mental fitness for the job dominate the national conversation. Judd penned a USA Today opinion piece bluntly headlined, “I’m calling on Biden to step aside. Beating Trump is too important”, which featured harsh criticism of people in her family who support the former president.
“I love these Trump folks as if my life depended on it, and at times, it literally has. I do not love the beliefs they believe and cling to… as I listened to one of my dearest people share some of those beliefs and thoughts, it hurt. I was shaken. My body felt like it was on fire”, Judd wrote.
“The words activated in me profound alarm in the aftermath of the recent debate at which President Joe Biden, a deeply decent man, was incapable of countering Trump, while he, unchecked, gushed a firehose of galling lies”, she continued. “And so, I now ask President Joe Biden to step aside.”
Judd wrote that she realized she needed to speak out after one of her “closest people” informed mall security guards that a group of Black kids were “up to no good” and sitting on the hoods of cars in the parking lot, which she saw as an act of racism that Trump has normalized. She wrote, “I do not necessarily think all Trump supporters believe, feel, act and speak like this”, but she believes Trump himself does.
