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Biden in Reno: “Trump pursued a personal political vendetta against me”
Biden forcefully rebuts Trump’s Ukraine accusations, ignores Warren’s momentum
RENO, NV — “I’m not surprised Donald Trump asked a foreign government for help to beat me,” Joe Biden declared at an October 2, 2019 campaign event held in the student center of Truckee Meadows Community College.
“I’m not surprised that the head of the NRA met with Trump to prop him up,” Biden added, in reference to Wayne LaPierre’s recently-scrutinized visit to the White House. “I’m not surprised that the president’s allegations of wrongdoing against me have been debunked across the board by every major publication.”
As expected, the former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate was forceful in refuting allegations of wrongdoing in Ukraine, in relation to President Trump’s mushrooming Ukraine scandal.
But Biden was also curiously silent regarding the candidate who has emerged as his most dangerous challenger — Senator Elizabeth Warren — who, the same night, was campaigning just thirty miles away in Carson City. Nor did he mention Senator Bernie Sanders, the day after the candidate was hospitalized for a heart operation.
