Biden: Trump Doesn’t Understand People’s Fears About the Virus; He Doesn’t Take Responsibility

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BIDEN: “What bothers me, what bothers me so much is the president of the United States doesn’t take responsibility. The president of the United States acts like this is not — nothing is his fault, nothing is his responsibility. You know, Franklin Roosevelt made the case that, look, just tell the American people the truth — I’m paraphrasing — they can handle it, but you got to let them know what you are doing. You got to let them know you understand their pain. The worst thing in the world is being — going through this in isolation and thinking nobody hears me. Nobody knows what I’m going through. And think of all of the people we all know, the people we grew up with. They’re scared to death and they don’t even have — and they’re looking to practical things, Joe. They’re looking at things like, OK, guess what? I don’t have insurance and this guy’s trying to do away with the insurance that I had, this — this Affordable Care Act thing. They’re not even sure of the detail, but what I’m going to do? And he’s in court. He’s in court trying to take it away. He is talking about doing things that, in fact, make no sense to people, to average people. He is talking about getting us back to work when they don’t even have the ability to get — I got a call yesterday. How do I get a test, Joe? Joe, I think I’m — I think I have a problem, Joe. I got a — I sat with a guy yesterday on — on a telephone and he’s telling me, he said, I don’t know, he said, ‘Look, I — I worked at the hospital.’ And he said, ‘Then I got — I got myself a position where I got the virus, so they quarantined me and — and they put me in the hospital and I made it out, and so I’m out, but they don’t want me with my family. I’m on the third floor.’ I spent 15 minutes with him on the phone saying — he said, ‘I have a 3-year old and a 4-year old. They come to the door outside and they just knock on the door and say, “Daddy, daddy, can I see you, daddy? Can I see you, daddy.”‘ So we spent time going through it. I used to do it with my kids when we were little and I couldn’t see it, and we’d play games. I’d say, knock — make up a game, knock — knock on the door and say — this is — you know, practical things. The guy is scared to death and he’s worried about his children. He’s worried about his wife. I mean these are practical things and the president talks about just like, ‘OK, it is going to be OK, we’re going to open tomorrow, we’re going to do this. I mean it just — I must tell you, it drives me crazy. I don’t know what he doesn’t understand about people’s fears.”