Biden Slams Trump’s Obsession With Conspiracy Theories: ‘What In God’s Name Are We Doing?’

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden addresses a Super Tuesday event in Los Angeles on March 3, 2020. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday afternoon swiped at President Donald Trump’s penchant for outlandish conspiracy theories, including his embrace of the infamous QAnon conspiracy theory.

During a Q&A with the press, Biden described the QAnon conspiracy theory, which alleges that Trump is on a secret mission to take down a satanic cabal of pedophiles powered by the global elite, as “totally bizarre.”

The presidential hopeful also jabbed at Trump’s evidence-free claim that there was a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” wearing “black uniforms with gear” that was going to disrupt the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week.

“Anybody found that plane?” Biden asked. “What in God’s name are we doing? Look at how it makes us look around the world. It’s mortifying. It’s embarrassing. And it’s dangerous.”

“If the President doesn’t know better, which he has to know better, then my Lord, we’re in much more trouble than I ever thought we were,” he added.

Watch Biden below:

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  1. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    ‘What In God’s Name Are We Doing?’

    Great question!

    But it’s not WE who are doing ginning up conspiracy theories.

    Say…

    Have you heard that ANTIFA has stolen the Spruce Goose from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Orygun?

    Yes…the fiends are planning to use it to bomb White Nationalists with bran muffins, kale and Taylor Swift videos on their next venture into Portland! :astonished: :scream:

    Not many people know this ®

  2. Donald Trump in 2016: “The world is laughing at us.”

    In retrospect I guess that was actually a campaign promise, and one he managed to fulfill.

  3. Here in Cumberland Republican County PA it does does matter if you are a dumb fuck uneducated POS or an educated POS you will go along with whatever Dumb Fuck Donnie has to say.
    Trump followers has nothing to do with education, it has to do with shit infected brains.

  4. I love it. I wish the press would ask the idiot in the white house about what those Hawaiian investigators of his found, too.

    Everyone is now smarter for having listened to Biden’s answer.

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