How Trump reacted to the Biden ‘garbage’ footagepublished at 06:31 Greenwich Mean Time
Trump learned about the Joe Biden footage while he was on stage in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with Senator Marco Rubio and immediately referenced Hillary Clinton’s 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters “deplorables”.
“Garbage I think is worse right?” Trump said, before adding, “But please forgive him, for he not knoweth what he said”.
Biden denies he was referring to Trump supporters collectively, and says he was speaking about comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who used a Trump rally to refer to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage”.
Trump later weighed in again on his Truth Social website, accusing Harris of “running a campaign of hate”.
He wrote: “She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters ‘garbage’.”
“You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People,” he added.