Trump Unexpectedly Defends Biden After North Korea Attacks Top Dem Rival

President Donald Trump as he departs the White House on June 2, 2019, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the kickoff of his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 18, 2019. (Photo... President Donald Trump as he departs the White House on June 2, 2019, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the kickoff of his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 18, 2019. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON,DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump defended 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Sunday morning after North Korea’s state-run news agency called Biden a “rabid dog” who “must be beaten to death with a stick.”

“Mr. Chairman, Joe Biden may be Sleepy and Very Slow, but he is not a ‘rabid dog,'” Trump tweeted. “He is actually somewhat better than that, but I am the only one who can get you where you have to be.”

Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a media outlet controlled by North Korea’s autocratic regime, attacked Biden last week after the Democratic candidate called out the country’s leader Kim Jong Un for being a “murderous dictator.”

“Rabid dogs like Baiden [sic] can hurt lots of people if they are allowed to run about,” KCNA commentators said. “They must be beaten to death with a stick, before it is too late.”

Trump’s surprising defense of Biden comes amid both the Trump administration’s collapsing denuclearization negotiations with North Korea and the House impeachment investigation into Trump’s efforts to coerce Ukraine into investigating Biden.

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  1. Well that firms it up. This out of sync Walter Reed visit is a competency check, laying the ground for a president whose health is failing and must live out his days in isolation. And away from prosecution. Defending Biden is obviously an attempt to put foundation under all of that.

  2. That is not even close to a defense, and it’s irresponsible to say so. It’s a blatant attempt to turn the focus back on himself (trump), while seeming to offer yet MORE concessions.

  3. I don’t think the Federalist Society gala speech was the setting that Trump wanted for Barr to defend him. But having said that it’s good to know that those who belong to the Federalist Society and cheered Barr’s speech on how being POTUS is really akin to being king can now be identified.

  4. That’s not a defense in any way. Trump just didn’t like that it sounded like NK is afraid of Biden.

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