Joe Biden Publicly Calls Trump “Racist” For First Time

The Washington Post reports:

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Wednesday called President Trump the country’s first racist to be elected to the White House. The former vice president’s blunt assessment came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union after a health-care worker expressed concern that Trump continues to blame Asians for the coronavirus pandemic.

Though Biden calls Trump the first racist to be president, history shows the United States has had leaders in the past who either were openly racists, such as enslavers, or expressed racist views or used racist language. The former vice president has repeatedly accused the president of stoking racism, or using words as a “dog whistle” to racists, but this appears to be the first time he has actually labeled the president himself that way.