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Biden campaign slams Trump for criticizing former vice president on foreign soil | TheHill

posted onMay 29, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE.” While in Japan, Trump repeatedly criticized Biden on Twitter and during a press conference alongside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The president said multiple times that he agreed with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's assessment that Biden was a "low IQ" individual. The Trump campaign countered Biden's statement by attacking his foreign policy record. "That’s rich coming from Joe Biden, who bashed President Trump while standing on foreign soil earlier this year in Germany," Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement. Murtaugh was referring to comments from Biden during the Munich Security Conference in February, where the former vice president chastised the Trump administration's foreign policy and practice of separating migrant families in his remarks without explicitly naming Trump. The president was not traveling at the time. Murtaugh went on to cite the Obama administration's efforts to broker a nuclear pact with Iran, as well its failure to uphold its "red line" in Syria as examples of "siding with a murderous dictator" as Biden suggested Trump had done with Kim.  "From the Iraq war to the Russia reset, Joe Biden has been wrong on virtually every foreign policy call in the last four decades," Murtaugh said. "Just ask former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates.” Trump has been fixated on Biden since the former vice president entered the 2020 race, tweeting repeatedly about him and predicting that he would be the eventual Dem... Link to the full article to read more

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