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kpete

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Wed Jul 27, 2016, 09:56 AM Jul 2016

Biden: World Leaders Ask Me For Assurance That Trump Won’t Be Prez

Vice President Joe Biden claimed Wednesday that Donald Trump’s ignorance of foreign policy has prompted world leaders to assure him that he won’t really assume the presidency.

“Every place I go, whether I'm reaching across the table to try to solve a problem with Xi, the president of China, or I'm down in New Zealand with the prime minister, they go, ‘Tell me, Trump—that can't happen, can it?” Biden said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I'm not joking.”

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“The thing that bothers me is I don't see any attempt for him to go out and get people who really know on the Republican side,” Biden said, pointing to Trump’s recent remarks that he would consider defying Article 5 of NATO by declining to provide military aid to U.S. allies.

The Vice President said he didn’t “buy” charges that Trump was a friend to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but said that any presidential candidate should be aware of “what Article 5 is.”

“I know he's trying to be tough but he's going to go out and carpet bomb,” Biden said, referring to comments Trump made in primary debates about bombing “the hell” out of ISIS. “You want to make friends and influence people in the Middle East, you're going to go carpet bomb innocent people and bad people at the same time? That's going to help us fight against ISIS? The things he says make absolutely no sense.”



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Biden: World Leaders Ask Me For Assurance That Trump Won’t Be Prez (Original Post) kpete Jul 2016 OP
Hearing this will actually embolden many of Trump's supporters davidn3600 Jul 2016 #1
" The things he says make absolutely no sense.” Well put. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #2

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. " The things he says make absolutely no sense.” Well put.
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:10 AM
Jul 2016

And they scare the shit out of the sane world.

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