President Joe Biden is labeling a heckler an “idiot.”
During an event on Labor Day, Biden said, “As I said last week, we remain in the battle… for the soul of America.”
As he spoke, one person could be heard heckling the president, which appeared to catch his attention.
“By the way… Alright, God love ya,” Biden said, addressing the heckler.
He continued, “Let him go! Let him go! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no… Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
“No, no, everybody’s entitled,” Biden added.
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Biden responds to heckler: Let him go. Everyone is entitled to be an idiot pic.twitter.com/fFbeiHcMAt
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Later in his remarks, Biden said, “Those of you in this country, Democrats, Republicans, and mainstream Republicans and independents, we have to be stronger and more determined and more committed to saving American democracy than the MAGA Republicans and that guy out that door are destroying democracy.”
“Cause democracy is at state. We gotta remember who we are. We’re the United States of America,” he added.
After the heckler is removed, Biden mentions the need to be "more committed to saving American democracy than the MAGA Repubublicans and that guy out that door are [to] destroying democracy." pic.twitter.com/RloY4nVtLc
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During a speech on Thursday night, Biden claimed, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” He did appear to try to soften his rhetoric as well by stating that “not even the majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans.”
But at the same time, he claimed the Republican Party is “dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”
“They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots,” he added.
But on Friday, he stated, “I don’t consider any Trump supporters a threat to the country.”
He continued, “I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it’s used, refuses to acknowledge an election that has been won, insists upon changing the way you count votes, that is a threat to democracy. Democracy. Everything we stand for. Everything we stand for rest upon the platform of democracy.”
The president also said, “When people voted for Donald Trump, and still support him now, they weren’t voting for the attack on the Capitol. They weren’t voting for overruling an election. They were voting for the philosophy he put forward.”
Finally, Biden claimed he was only speaking about a “failure to recognize and condemn violence when it’s used for political purposes, failure to condemn… attempts to manipulate an electoral outcome, failure to acknowledge when elections are won or lost.”
