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'He Has No Idea What To Do': Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton Hit Trump's COVID-19 Response

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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Former Vice President and former Secretary of State lambasted the ’s response to the pandemic on Monday, saying the president lacked empathy and had failed the American people as cases of COVID-19 surge around the nation. The pair both appeared for interviews on Joy Reid’s debut news program on , “The ReidOut,” on Monday to discuss President ’s ongoing response to the coronavirus. Both had harsh appraisals of the federal response amid reports that cases have in a majority of the U.S. and that the White House had in the next coronavirus relief bill.Advertisement“There is no leadership here. He’s surrendered. He raised the white flag. He has no idea what to do. Zero,” Biden said during a sweeping interview. “It’s only one thing he has on his mind: How does he win reelection. And it doesn’t matter how many people get COVID and/or die from COVID.” "He has no idea what to do," Joe Biden says of Pres. Trump's coronavirus response. "It's only one thing he has in mind. How does he win reelection and it doesn't matter how many people get COVID and/or die from COVID ... I've never seen a president who has been so self-serving." — MSNBC (@MSNBC)reported Monday that a record number of patients were hospitalized with severe illnesses due to the coronavirus. More than 3.8 million people have tested positive for the virus in the U.S. and have died. At the same time, Trump has maintained that the coronavirus will “disappear” one day.“I’ll be right eventually,” the president on Sunday. “You know, I said, it’s going to disappear. I’ll say it again: It’s going to disappear. And I’ll be right.”AdvertisementSuch comments prompted Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump, to say Trump wasn’t up to the nation’s top job while noting that anyone “who has watched over the last four years has to be concerned.”“Clearly he has failed,” Clinton told Reid. “He’s failed at the most fundamental job of being president. He doesn’t seem up to the job. He doesn’t seem capable of having the attention, the concentration, the focus, the discipline, to stay with the problem.” Hillary Clinton discusses foreign interference in 2016 and 2020 elections: "It's very clear that Russia succeeded. They believe that they were able to influence the minds and even votes of Americans, so why would they stop? They really want to pursue their agenda of dividing us." — MSNBC (@MSNBC)Biden added earlier in the hour that Trump appeared to be solely focused on winning the election rather than responding to the crisis, pointing to his calls for the country to reopen against medical advice and the president’s efforts to ostracize those who disagree with him. The White House has in recent days , the nation’s top infectious disease expert, who has continued to give the public bleak assessments of the pandemic even amid the reopening push from Trump. “This guy has no sense of empathy or concern for people. People are dying,” Biden told Reid on Monday. “He has made every serious mistake, and he has absolutely bludgeoned people that disagree with him.”AdvertisementA HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Former Vice President and former Secretary of State lambasted the ’s response to the pandemic on Monday, saying the president lacked empathy and had failed the American people as cases of COVID-19 surge around the nation. The pair both appeared for interviews on Joy Reid’s debut news program on , “The ReidOut,” on Monday to discuss President ’s ongoing response to the coronavirus. Both had harsh appraisals of the federal response amid reports that cases have in a majority of the U.S. and that the White House...

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