WASHINGTON, D.C. – Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign early Thursday morning accusing President Donald Trump of embracing racism, citing the Republican incumbent’s much-debated reaction to the 2017 Charlottesville incident and declaring how, at that moment, Biden purportedly “knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”
“With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it,” Biden said in his launch video shared via social media platforms.
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The former Vice President — whose entry into the crowded 2020 contest was cast into doubt by multiple allegations of inappropriate touching — also warned that Trump was on the verge of being able to “fundamentally alter the character” of the United States, a possible callback to President Obama’s own campaign pledge to “fundamentally transform” the county.
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