The US Sun DONALD Trump has said Joe Biden is lying or “mentally gone” for claiming there were no Covid vaccines when he took office.
The former President broke his silence in an interview with Newsmax, to hit back at Biden’s remarks, made in a CNN town hall earlier this week.
During the town hall in Milwaukee, Biden said: “It’s one thing to have the vaccine – which we didn’t have when we came into office – but a vaccinator: How do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?”Trump, among other critics, slammed Biden and noted that coronavirus vaccines were available since mid-December.“We were giving millions of shots, millions of doses,” Trump told Newsmax host Greg Kelly over the phone.
“So he was either not telling the truth or he’s mentally gone. One or the other.”
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Trump continued his attack on the President, adding: “Joe Biden’s been killed on that thing.”“Even the haters said, well wait a minute, this vaccine was announced long before.”The former president also said that Biden received the coronavirus vaccine “long before January 20” when he was inaugurated as the 46th president.
Trump did not hold back in driving the point home.
“He is getting lit up on that one. Even the bad ones. Even the ones that aren’t exactly fans, they were saying that was a bad statement.”
Trump said that it was maybe worth giving Biden the benefit of the doubt in that he could be joking “because frankly that was a very dumb statement.”Trump also teased that he would be running for President in 2024 – after the Democrats’ second failed attempt to impeach him.Asked by Kelly if he’s run, he said: “I won’t say yet. But we have tremendous support.”
Trump said that his poll numbers were “through the roof” adding: “I’m the only guy who gets impeached and my numbers go up.”
“Figure that one out. Let’s say somebody gets impeached. Typically your numbers would go down, they would go down like a dead balloon.
“But the numbers are very good, they are very high. I think they are higher than they were before the election, and they were high at the election.’
Trump said his supporters “like the job” that he did when he was in office.
“We did a great job. We lowered taxes, got rid of regulations. We rebuilt our military. Lowered taxes.”
But he said he wouldn’t be returning his previous launch pad of Twitter, after the social media site banned him.
“It’s become very boring. We don’t want to go back to Twitter,” he said.
The former President has been holed up in Mar-a-Lago since losing the election but has been recently hinting at a come back as 70 per cent of GOP voters say they want him back in 2024.
Ex-President Donald Trump said President Joe Biden made ‘a very dumb statement’ about the vaccines not being there when he entered the White House Credit: Getty Images – Getty
Biden took office criticizing the Trump administration’s handling and rollout of coronavirus vaccines, saying they were being distributed and administered at too slow of a pace.
The Democrat set a goal to administer 100million vaccines in his first 100 days in office.
On Tuesday during the town hall, Biden said that every American who wants to take the coronavirus jab will be able to access it by the end of July.
“We’ll have over 600million doses – enough to vaccinate every single American,” Biden said.
Biden seemed to contradict himself on the vaccine availability during the town hall.
