Biden campaign reacts to Trump's Mount Rushmore speech: America is 'suffering' from 'divisive president'

Biden campaign reacts to Trump's Mount Rushmore speech: America is 'suffering' from 'divisive president'

Biden campaign reacts to Trump's Mount Rushmore speech: America is 'suffering' from 'divisive president'

(CNN)The Biden campaign on Saturday said the United States is "suffering" as a result of having a "divisive" president who doesn't "give a damn about anything but his own gain," responding to President Donald Trump's Mount Rushmore speech on Friday.

"Our whole country is suffering through the excruciating costs of having a negligent, divisive president who doesn't give a damn about anything but his own gain - not the sick, not the jobless, not our constitution, and not our troops in harm's way," campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement of Trump. "Even as the outbreak ramps up, he's admitted to ordering that the federal testing response be watered down."

Bates said Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is "running on the opposite values - to win this battle for the soul of our nation, bring the American people together, and rebuild the middle class stronger than ever before, bringing everyone along."

The Trump campaign hit back on Saturday, saying that "the idea that Biden, with his 40 plus years of DC failure, has any notion or ability to strengthen our union is absurd."

"Because of political pressure from the left, Biden is forced to agree that America was fundamentally flawed from the beginning and remains so today. By contrast, President Trump is proud of our history and believes strongly in our present greatness," Trump's campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.

Murtaugh added, "The culture war has been declared by the leftist mobs roaming the streets of our cities and toppling public monuments, and they are Joe Biden's allies."

With Mount Rushmore as his backdrop, Trump on Friday railed against a "merciless campaign" by his political foes to "wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values" by removing monuments some say are symbols of racial oppression. Trump repeatedly decried attempts to examine faults in America's past and maligned protesters as a nefarious left-wing mob that intends to "end America."

Source:  https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/04/politics/biden-trump-july-fourth/index.html