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Nancy Pelosi Endorses Joe Biden: ‘The Personification of Integrity’
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, calling him “a leader who is the personification of hope and courage, values, authenticity, and integrity,” as the presumptive Democrat nominee faces a sexual assault allegation from his former Senate staffer, Tara Reade.
Pelosi, in a prerecorded video shared Monday to social media, praised Biden as a “voice of reason” with experience in helping enact legislation like the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus program.
“I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States because he will be an extraordinary president,” Pelosi said. “He knows how to get the job done.”
She added: “When our nation faced the Great Recession, it was Joe Biden who led the implementation – and the accountability – of the Recovery Act, helping create and save millions of jobs. When the Democratic Congress was passing the Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden was a partner for progress in the White House and also championed the Cancer Moonshot.”
Pelosi’s endorsement follows former President Barack Obama, who waited until Biden all but wrapped up the nomination to announce his support for his former vice president.
The House Speaker’s endorsement also comes as new evidence supporting Reade’s assault claim has resurfaced. A 1993 video, dug up by NewsBusters, appears to show Reade’s mother discussing her daughter’s “problems” with a “prominent senator” on CNN’s Larry King Live.
#BREAKING: HERE is the video from August 11,1993's 'Larry King Live' described by @TheIntercept (and Tara Reade) as allegedly featuring her mother calling in and alluding to Reade's sexual assault claims against @JoeBiden (blog here by @ScottJW) newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott …
“I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him,” a woman whom Reade identifies as her mother is heard saying.
The call was first reported by The Intercept. The Biden campaign denies Reade’s allegations.
In an interview with the AP, she detailed a 1993 encounter that she says occurred when she was asked by a supervisor to bring Biden his gym bag, as he was on his way down to the Senate gymnasium. She says Biden pushed her against a wall in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building, groped her, and penetrated her with his fingers.
“He was whispering to me and trying to kiss me at the same time, and he was saying, ‘Do you want to go somewhere else?’” she said. “I remember wanting to say stop, but I don’t know if I said it out loud or if I just thought it. I was kind of frozen up.”
Reade said that she pulled away and Biden looked “shocked and surprised,” and replied, “Come on, man, I heard you liked me.”
Reade, who was a staff assistant in Biden’s office at the time, said she wasn’t aware of any direct witnesses to the encounter. She told the AP she did raise accusations of sexual harassment, but not assault, against Biden in multiple meetings with her supervisors, including Marianne Baker, Biden’s executive assistant; Dennis Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff; and Ted Kaufman, the senator’s chief of staff.
In a statement provided by the campaign, Baker said that in the nearly two decades she worked for Biden, “I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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DURING THE EIGHT YEARS OF THE OBAMA-BIDEN BANKSTER REGIME WE NEVER HEARD GROPER
JOE COMPLAINT ABOUT THE LOOT HANDED OVER TO THEIR BANKSTER DONORS OR A COMMENT
ON SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (ENDORSED BIDEN) AND HER CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS
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Biden
repeatedly unloaded on big business and big banks, noting that “this is the
second time we’ve bailed their asses out,” accusing the Trump administration of
managing the stimulus for their benefit. He railed about banks like Wells Fargo
that are “only alive because of the American taxpayer” giving their large
corporate clients the first shot at CARES Act aid intended for small
businesses.
Biden wants a new
stimulus 'a hell of a lot bigger' than $2 trillion
By Michael Grunwald
Joe Biden wants a more progressive approach to
economic stimulus legislation than Washington has taken so far, including much
stricter oversight of the Trump Administration, much tougher conditions on
business bailouts and long-term investments in infrastructure and climate that
have so far been largely absent from congressional debates.
In a fiery half-hour interview with POLITICO,
the presumptive Democratic nominee sounded a bit like his angrier and less
moderate primary rivals, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, though
in unexpurgated Biden style. The former vice president said that the next round
of coronavirus stimulus needs to be “a hell of a lot bigger” than last month’s
$2 trillion CARES Act, that it needs to include massive aid to states and
cities to prevent them from “laying off a hell of a lot of teachers and cops
and firefighters,” and that the administration is already “wasting a hell of a
lot of money.”
Biden has been running a low-profile campaign
during the pandemic, tweeting, filming videos and appearing on Sunday shows
from his Delaware home while President Donald Trump has briefed the nation
daily from the White House. Biden has let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak for the Democratic Party during the debates
over economic relief, offering supportive public statements that have faded
into the background.
But stimulus is a subject close to his heart,
and he passionately contrasted his own management of President Barack Obama’s
$800 billion Recovery Act in 2009 with President Donald Trump’s approach to the
trillions of dollars flowing out of Capitol Hill.
The Obama stimulus was wildly controversial,
but it won bipartisan praise for its strict oversight and unusually low levels
of fraud. In the interview, Biden was at his most indignant when he recounted
how he recruited a gruff law enforcement veteran and government watchdog named
Earl Devaney to oversee the Recovery Act in 2009, and how President Donald
Trump fired the Pentagon inspector general who had been selected to oversee the
CARES Act almost immediately after he signed it.
“I wanted to bring in the toughest
son-of-a-b***h in the country—I really mean it, I’m not joking—because we
wanted to make sure we did it by the numbers with genuine oversight,” Biden
said. “Right now, there’s no oversight. [Trump] made it real clear he doesn’t
have any damn interest in being checked. The last thing he wants is anyone
watching that $500 billion going to corporate America, for God’s sake.”
The Trump campaign said it would not comment on
the firing of Pentagon inspector general Michael Atkinson beyond the
president’s public comments on April 4, when he attacked Atkinson for giving
Congress the original whistleblower report about his call with the Ukrainian
president that eventually led to his impeachment. “I thought he did a terrible
job. Absolutely terrible,” the president said at the time. “He took a fake
report and brought it to Congress, with an emergency. Okay? Not a big Trump
fan—that, I can tell you.”
Biden repeatedly unloaded on big business and
big banks, noting that “this is the second time we’ve bailed their asses out,”
accusing the Trump administration of managing the stimulus for their benefit.
He railed about banks like Wells Fargo that are “only alive because of the
American taxpayer” giving their large corporate clients the first shot at CARES
Act aid intended for small businesses. Over the last month, 26 million Americans have
lost their jobs, and Biden said many of those jobs could be gone for good if
mom-and-pop operations get left behind.
“We knew from the beginning that the big banks
don’t like lending to small businesses,” Biden said. “I’m telling you, though,
if Main Street businesses don’t get help, they’re gone.”
The CARES Act and three smaller coronavirus
relief bills have all passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, and
Biden was careful to avoid criticizing Pelosi and Schumer even as he criticized
the results of the compromises they negotiated. He said he’s “in constant
conservation” with both Democratic leaders, letting them know his priorities
without interfering with their negotiations; he credited them with securing
major increases in unemployment benefits and other improvements to Republican
proposals that were initially skewed even further towards big business.
He was clearly disappointed that Pelosi and
Schumer failed to secure any new aid to states in this week’s $484 billion
package, but he suggested that could work out politically, because in the next
round they’ll be able to blame Trump and other Republicans for looming state
budget cuts and layoffs of first responders.
“They got what they could get,” Biden said.
“I’ve been in too many negotiations to second-guess anybody else’s.”
Still, Biden suggested that after four rounds
of legislation designed primarily to stanch the economic bleeding, the next
round should include more forward-looking investments that could help the
economy start to recover and grow once the virus is contained. He suggested a
“trillion-dollar infrastructure program that can be implemented really
rapidly,” as well as “dealing with environmental things that create good-paying
jobs.”
Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell have suggested that “green stimulus” would be a non-starter with
Republicans, but Biden said investments in light rail, clean drinking water,
and half a million electric vehicle chargers on the nation’s highways could
help retool the economy for the future.
Biden also argued that long-term growth
initiatives are America’s only hope to rein in a budget deficit that has
suddenly ballooned to an unprecedented $4 trillion, and is sure to continue to
expand as Washington continues to spend. He said that repealing the bulk of
Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut would help limit the red ink—“It wasn’t worth the
powder it will take to blow it to hell”—but ultimately, restoring jobs and
investing in the future is “the only thing that grows the economy back so the
deficit doesn’t eat you alive.”
Biden has loved talking about stimulus ever
since he ran the Recovery Act, and he sounded comfortable returning to the
topic from his Delaware home, although there were a couple of typically
hard-to-follow tangents, and one brief coughing interruption that he attributed
to swallowing a peanut the wrong way.
His main theme was the contrast between his
legendary harassment of the Cabinet secretaries, governors and mayors in charge
of spending Recovery Act dollars—he reminded me that he spoke with every
governor except Alaska’s Sarah Palin, most of them repeatedly—and “the
malpractice of this administration.”
“There’s no coordination. There’s no
accountability. Come on, the guy waits to hold up money because he wants to
make sure his name is on the checks!” Biden said.
Biden has been firing off a steady stream of
tweets attacking Trump for failing to make sure America has enough tests and
protective equipment, for complaining about his media coverage, and most
recently for suggesting that drinking bleach might help cure the virus. But
while Biden clearly hopes to persuade some 2016 Trump voters to back him in
November, he also needs to make sure that progressive Sanders and Warren
supporters don’t stay home.
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THE WEEK. THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY IS NOW A ‘POPULIST’
This week, Biden has taken flak from the left
for including the corporate-friendly Democratic economist Lawrence Summers on
internal calls. But on Friday night, he denounced corporate America as “greedy
as hell,” echoing the structural critiques of the modern economy that fueled
the Sanders and Warren campaigns.
He called for stronger assurances that
small-business loans will go to small businesses, and that aid to larger
corporations will come with strings prohibiting stock buybacks, executive
bonuses or worker layoffs. But he also went beyond policy prescriptions, saying
the pandemic might convince Americans that grocery clerks “and all the other
folks out there saving our rear ends and risking their lives for eight bucks an
hour” deserve a better deal. He thinks there could be a backlash against big
corporations who have poured their profits into buybacks and dividends rather
than worker training and research and development. He thinks the virus could
deal a blow to short-term economic thinking and anti-government political
thinking.
“I think there’s going to be a willingness to
fix some of the institutional inequities that have existed for a long time,”
Biden said. “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.”
BLOG:
DURING THE EIGHT YEARS OF THE
OBAMA-BIDEN BANKSTER REGIME WE NEVER
HEARD GROPER
JOE COMPLAINT ABOUT THE
LOOT HANDED OVER TO THEIR BANKSTER
DONORS OR A COMMENT
ON SEN. DIANNE
FEINSTEIN (ENDORSED BIDEN) AND HER
CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS
FARGO!
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