Mixed messages: Biden says to not call Trump a liar for coronavirus inaccuracies after repeatedly doing so
by Emily Larsen
| March 24, 2020 02:22 PM
Joe Biden suggested that it is not productive to say that President Trump is lying when he says something inaccurate about the response to the coronavirus pandemic, despite his campaign repeatedly pointing out "lies" from the president about the respiratory virus in recent weeks.
"The American people don't want us in a political fight, and I want no part of a political fight either," the former vice president said Tuesday on The View. "But when the president says things that, in fact, turn out not to be accurate, we should not say, 'You're lying.' We should say, 'Mr. President, that's not the fact, here's the deal.'"
Biden, 77, gave an example. "When he said we had all the tests available. Well, they weren't available. Now, maybe he didn't know they weren't available, but it's important for people to know that they weren't available yet."
However, the former vice president's campaign has repeatedly called Trump a liar when critiquing the president's response to the global health crisis.
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