“It’s A Mandatory Read”: Biden Urges Checking Out Trump Second Term Plans Revealed In Dystopian Time Magazine Q&A
02.05.2024 - 00:47
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After calling Time magazine’s long interview with Donald Trump “shocking” and “reprehensible” earlier today, Joe Biden this evening doubled down on his predecessor’s dystopian second term plans.
“Trump did a long interview with TIME] magazine,” the president told an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander fundraiser at Washington DC’s Mayflower Hotel on Wednesday. “It’s coming out, you gotta read it. It’s a mandatory read.”
“This election is about competing values and competing visions for America,” Biden added to a crowd that had Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai among the attendees. “Trump’s values and visions are ones of anger, hate, revenge, retribution.”
In case his audience didn’t take his advice, the incumbent then cited a couple of the topics in the wide ranging “How Far Would Trump Go?’ piece like letting the states control abortion rights, monitoring women, and whole scale pardoning of January 6th insurrectionists, according to White House Pool reports.
In that sense, Trump’s talk with Time’s Eric Cortellessa, a rare sit-down with a non-conservative outlet, was both a coup for the former Celebrity Apprentice host and the once venerable magazine. Often garnering negative reactions, both Trump and Time got more attention than certainly the once omnipotent mag has received in years out of the interview.
Ever since the interview, which contains a full transcript and fact checking section, dropped on April 30, pundits and talking heads up and down the cable channels have been raging even more than usual than ever about the threat to democracy Trump embodies and the
More focused than in 2016 or during his White House years, the threats of mass