Biden Lashes Out When Confronted With ‘Genocide’ Comparison To Trump On MSNBC

President Joe Biden lashed out on MSNBC over a comparison between himself and President Donald Trump that included an accusation of “genocide” and the suggestion he’s worse than Trump.

MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart scored an exclusive interview with Biden that he aired over the course of several days on his weekend shows.

On Sunday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, Capehart aired an exchange in which the president bristled at a quote from a New York Times column. Michigan CAIR head Dawud Walid told Charles Blow, “As bad as Mr. Trump’s rhetoric was, and him putting a travel ban on five Muslim countries, he wasn’t overseeing and actively arming a genocide.”

Capehart confronted the president with that sentiment, and the president pushed back by challenging Capehart’s assertion that view is “widely shared”:

JONATHAN CAPEHART: You’re heading to Michigan. Where, you know, on the campaign trail, probably in the next few days, where more than 100,000 people voted uncommitted in the primary to protest your handling of the situation in Gaza, some have said they will never vote for you.

One told Charles Blow of The New York Times, and I’m quoting, “as bad as Mr. Trump’s rhetoric was, and him putting a travel ban on five Muslim countries, he wasn’t overseeing and actively arming a genocide.”

Those are tough words. What’s your response to that widely shared sentiment?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: It’s not widely shared! You guys make judgments you don’t — you’re not capable of making! That’s not what all those people said!

What they said was they’re very upset. And I don’t blame them for being upset. There are families, there there are people who are dying! They want something done about it! And they’re saying, “Joe, do something, do something.”

But the idea that they all think it’s genocide is just not — that’s a different situation.

Look, I can fully understand, and can’t you? You have a family member there, a family member. Families are, come from a family that that is still isolated there and may be victimized. It’s understandable they feel that way. And that’s why I’m doing everything I can to try to stop it.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.