Biden attacks Trump and invokes Charlottesville after NATO summit – By W. James Antle III (Washington Examiner) / March 24, 2022
President Joe Biden chastised former President Donald Trump, repeating his claim that the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia, riot led him to run against Trump in 2020, while in Brussels on Thursday for summits to address the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden attacked Trump without mentioning him by name after a reporter asked about “widespread concerns in Europe” that the 45th president or someone like him would be elected in 2024 and undermine the NATO alliance.
“I had no intention of running for president again … until I saw those folks coming out of the fields in Virginia carrying torches and carrying Nazi banners and literally singing the same vile rhyme that they used in Germany in the early ‘20s — or ‘30s, I should say,” Biden said. “And then, when the gentleman you mentioned was asked what he thought and a young woman was killed, a protester, and he asked — was asked what he thought, he said, ‘There are very good people on both sides.’ And that’s when I decided I wasn’t going to be quiet any longer.”
