Biden says Trump shouldn’t be Commander in Chief ‘for my son’

President Joe Biden choked up on Wednesday as he lashed out at Donald Trump, saying the Republican presidential nominee is “unfit to be my son’s commander in chief.”

Biden’s scathing comments referenced both his late son Beau Biden, who served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. Delaware Army National GuardPresident Trump reportedly called deceased US service member in French Grave When he was president, he was a “sucker and a loser.”

The incumbent Democratic congressman made the remarks during a speech to a group of United Steelworkers members in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“But one of the things about myself is, as I’m doing that today, I’m reminded of something that my opponent said not too long ago in Paris,” Biden said.

“They asked him to visit American graves and he said no. He wouldn’t do that because they were all suckers and losers,” Biden said of President Trump. He cited reports on the rationale.

“I’m not making this stuff up. The staff that was with him admitted that today. He’s an asshole, he’s a loser, he’s not qualified,” Biden said, his voice choking for several seconds, then. “To become a commander,” he added. Mainly for my son. ”

A Trump campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on Biden’s remarks.

Beau Biden, who was Delaware’s attorney general, served in the National Guard’s Attorney General’s Corps. He was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2008, spending seven months on active duty with the Defense Forces.

Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 while his father was serving as vice president in former President Barack Obama’s administration.

In October, President Trump’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, admitted: CNN Details from the 2020 article atlantic This included derogatory comments about U.S. military personnel.

An Atlantic article written by Jeffrey Goldberg discusses then-President Trump’s cancellation of a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because rain prevented a helicopter flight. It begins with a description. The Secret Service had no intention of taking him there.

“Neither claim was true,” Goldberg wrote.

“According to four people with direct knowledge of the discussions that day, President Trump balked at the idea of ​​visiting because he feared his hair would be messed up by the rain and because he didn’t think it was important to honor America’s war dead. I refused,” Goldberg wrote. .

The article said, “In a conversation with executives on the morning of the scheduled visit, President Trump said, ‘Why do we have to go to that cemetery? It’s full of losers.'”

“In a separate conversation during the same trip, President Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘sucks’ to be killed.”

“What can I add that hasn’t already been said?” Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, told CNN in October.

“People who wear military uniforms to protect their country, who are shot down or seriously injured in battle, who are tortured for years as prisoners of war, because they are of no use to us,” People who think everything ‘sucks,”’ Kelly said.

“Someone who didn’t want to appear in front of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good on me.'” Blatant disdain for Gold Star families, all Gold Star families, on TV during the 2016 election campaign. He was a person who lashed out, saying that the most precious heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect America were “losers” and would not visit their graves. In France. “

In response to the article, President Trump’s spokesperson told CNN, “John Kelly did not serve the President well during his time as Chief of Staff, and these lies that he made were exposed.” He is a complete clown in the story.”