Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.

The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”

There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”

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    Well… we know how the Biden regime acted when the capitol race riot was led by white supremacists, don’t we?

    The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting? Are you upset that the largest investigation ever is taking more time than you’d like?

    Do you want the President to have complete and direct control of the DoJ? Do you want the DoJ to toss out all Federal Sentencing guidelines?

    Do you want what you want right now, damn the future consequences?

    Tell me you want a dictatorship without telling me you want a dictatorship.

    PS: I don’t believe that you’re actually stupid enough to think the White House has anything to do with what is going on on college campuses, so I didn’t address that absurdity.

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      Just like so many short sighted people.

      “I’m okay with totalitarian dictatorship if they’re doing things I like.”

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      The ones they are literally still tracking down & prosecuting?

      You mean the white supremacist lynch mob they could have easily stopped on Jan 6th but didn’t? That one?

      The ones that will be getting out once your good cop hands over to the bad cop come November?

      It really seems that, no matter what suit they have in the Waffle House, the neo-nazis and the klan-boys gets to do whatever they want - and get away with it.

      anything to do with what is going on on college campuses

      The buck never stops with (insert current Wall Street shill peddled by the Dems here), does it liberal?

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        Oh you mean when trump was president? Tell me how you expect Biden to have acted on his executive authority on the day he was set to be confirmed as having won his first presidential election.

        I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.

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          Oh you mean when trump was president?

          All you’re telling me is that Trump can sicc a white supremacist lynch mob on the capitol and get away with it scott free… while Biden can (supposedly) do absolutely nothing about his (yes, his) goon squads violently repressing campus protests against US policy?

          What is your end-game here, liberal? How long do you think this “lesser evilism” schtick can go before it hits rock bottom?

          I assume you blame the 08 crash on Obama too.

          Yeah… we’re still waiting for Obama to prosecute the capitalists that crashed the economy - I guess the hundreds of billions in handouts he gave to these very same capitalists happened in order to prosecute them better, yes?