Joe Biden tells Chicago crowd, 'Big nations cant bluff'
Former Vice President Joe Biden is undecided about running for president in 2020, but during a visit to Chicago Wednesday he spoke like a candidate — aiming jab after rhetorical jab at President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden rounded off his remarks by referencing Trump’s nearly two days of silence before condemning the White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis who engaged in violence during a march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
“Folks, did any of you ever think you’d ever see Nazis coming out from under the rocks and out of the fields in the dark, carrying torches, reciting the same anti-Semitic bile . . . that brought down Europe? Did you ever think that would occur? And those who came to oppose them would be judged in relative terms as them both causing the problem?
“Ladies and gentlemen, silence is complicity. Silence is complicity.”
The address, made in a ballroom at the Palmer House Hilton off Michigan Avenue, was hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Biden focused a large chunk of his speaking time on Putin without ever touching directly on alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
“Putin and his cronies want only to preserve their wealth and their power,” he said.
At every turn Putin has sought undermine democratic institutions and weaken the bonds of western allies, Biden said.
“Appeasement will not work. So far, our sitting president has been unwilling to call out Putin for Russia’s meddling in our democracy or criticize his actions. Astonishing,” he said.
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