Biden: Military parade 'undercuts everything about our power'

Source: The Hill




BY JOSH DELK - 02/08/18 02:38 PM EST

Former Vice President Joe Biden says President Trump's request for a military parade "undercuts everything about [U.S.] power."

In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday, Biden said the president's request for a military parade isn't needed to display the United States's power.

"If he means rolling missiles down Pennsylvania Avenue, I think it undercuts everything about our power," Biden said. "We don't have to display our power, our physical power. God Almighty! The most powerful nation in the history of the world. I don't know what it is with him."

The president has reportedly asked top Pentagon officials to begin organizing a grand military parade in celebration of the armed forces, after he was inspired by the Bastille Day parade in France during a July visit to the country.

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Biden on Trump’s FBI attacks: Putin must think his strategy 'is working’

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 02/08/18 02:33 PM EST

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Former Vice President Joe Biden accused President Trump of playing into Russian President Vladimir Putin's hands on Thursday when Trump goes after top officials at the FBI.

Biden told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that the Russian leader must be thinking "it's working" when he sees Trump attacking the law enforcement agency. Among the FBI officials Trump has criticized is former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who resigned at the end of last month.

"What is Vladimir Putin's objective the last six to ten years?" Biden asked during the interview.

"It is to delegitimize the west. Delegitimize them. So here you have the president of the United States of America saying that the single most important domestic law enforcement agency is not relevant, is not reasonable, is not honest, is not all those things," he continued.

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