Chris Coons Defends Biden: Trump’s the Kind of Person Who Makes Up ‘Baseless Smears’

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COONS: "Look, it’s one thing to know that Donald Trump is the kind of person who is going to just make things up about his opponents. I’ll remind you famously that he accused Sen. Ted Cruz, his opponent in the 2016 election, of having a father who assassinated JFK. And before Joe decided to run for the presidency, we had a heart-to- heart talk about what it might look like if he continued his pattern of just making up baseless smears. But it’s another thing to actually have it happen. To have the President of the United States making up lies about your own family. And so, yes, when we were in Iowa together, former Vice President Biden expressed some agitation, some disappointment about this. But if you read his editorial in ‘The Washington Post,’ you hear a clear-eyed, forceful Joe Biden who is both pushing back on the president’s abuse of power and making it clear what he’s focused on. Joe is focused on the ways in which Donald Trump has turned his back on America’s families and that he’s focused on delivering proposals that will make the change that Donald Trump promised but hasn’t delivered, reducing prescription drug prices, ending gun violence on the streets of America, strengthening our schools, combating climate change. Joe Biden, yes, is upset and disappointed about the ways in which Donald Trump is attacking his family, but his focus is on advancing the interests of America’s families. And I think that contrast is an important one and a sharp one, especially on a day like today where Donald Trump has made a decision to abandon the Kurds who fought alongside us in Syria in a move that will only advantage Russia and Iran, and that is exactly the ill- considered decision that made Jim Mattis resign in protest. So, if you want to know who’s going to be the best person to lead this country for our position of security and strength overseas or for America’s families here at home, I think it’s Joe Biden.”