Former President Joe Biden spoke in Reheboth Beach, Delaware after the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally.
Here is the full transcript of the president’s remarks:
I have tried to get a hold of Donald. He’s with his doctors. Apparently he’s doing well. I plan on talking to them shortly. I hope when I get back to the telephone.Look, there’s no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick. It’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this.And so I want to thank the Secret Service and all the agencies, including the state agencies that have brigades in making sure that people and we have more detail to come. Relative to other injured, other people, maybe injured in the audience? I don’t have all that detail. We’ll make that available to you. I may be able to come back later tonight, but we’ll put out a statement if we don’t. If I’m not able to give — If it’s not convenient for you all.The bottom line is that the Trump rally was a rally that he should have been able to could be conducted peacefully without any problem. But the idea that there’s
political violence, or violence in America like this is just unheard of. It’s just not appropriate. I mean, everybody, everybody must condemn it. Everybody.I’ll keep you informed. And if I am able to speak to to Donald, I’ll let you know that as well. So far, it appears he’s doing well. Number one. Number two, that there’s thoroughly investigating what happened to anyone else in the audience I have. We have some reports, but not final reports. And every agency, the federal government. And I’m going back to my phone to speak with the federal agencies that are being put together again to give me an updated briefing as they happen. They learned more in the last couple hours. So thank you very much.
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