The Democratic Presidential candidate came out swinging at Donald Trump during a “60 Minutes” sit-down ….
NORAH O’DONNELL: President Trump has said publicly, “Joe Biden and his son are stone cold corrupt.” And chances are, he’s watching this interview. Anything —JOE BIDEN: I — Mr. Pre —NORAH O’DONNELL: — you want to say to him?JOE BIDEN: Yeah. Mr. President, release your tax returns. Let’s see how straight you are, okay old buddy? I put out 21 years of mine. So show us your tax returns, bud — wh — what are you hidin’? You want to deal with corruption? Start to act like it. Release your tax returns or shut up.
Boom. He was more forceful and succinct than we have seen in the debates so far. Asked about Trump’s children — a daughter and son-in-law working in the White House with a mound of conflicts and two sons running international business operations as Trump directs business to his properties — Biden was matter-of-fact:
JOE BIDEN: I wasn’t raised to go after the children. Their actions speak for themselves. I can just tell you this, that if I’m president, get elected president, my children are not going to have offices in the White House. My children are not going to sit in on Cabinet meetings.NORAH O’DONNELL: What’s improper about that?JOE BIDEN: It’s just simply improper because you should make it clear to the American public that everything you’re doing is for them. For them. And the idea that you’re going to have his children his — son-in-law, et cetera, engaged in the day-to-day operation of things they know nothing about.NORAH O’DONNELL: You don’t think that Jared Kushner should be negotiating a Middle East peace solution?JOE BIDEN: No, I don’t. (LAUGH) I don’t. What — what credentials does he bring to that?
Without a sneer or anger, he conveyed the disgust that many Americans feel for a president who has taken hypocrisy to new heights.
On a day Trump was offering nauseating self-congratulations and touting a raid to kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a raid made more dangerous and difficult by his own incoherent foreign policy directives, Biden sounded confident without a hint of the narcissism….