ABC Blames Trump for Biden's 'Garbage' Smear, Rips Blue-Collar Workers

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 31, 2024
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On Thursday, ABC News program The View spent much of their first segment kvetching about the Trump campaign continuing to make President Biden’s candid belief that Trump supporters were “garbage” an issue in the final days of the election. They ultimately blamed former President Trump for what Biden said and decried “white men” and “the blue-collar working man” for “falling for this.”

After playing some soundbites of Trump in a garbage truck and one stage in a Hi-Viz vest, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin blamed him for the word “garbage” ever being injected into the election at all:

GOLDBERG: Let's just start with the fact that he's been -- he brought up America being a garbage can. I assume that meant that those of us who live in America were garbage. And I guess everybody's freaked out now because we're all in the can together. Some people thought they were out of the can. But when he says the country is a can and says it over -- well, I'll let you do it.

HOSTIN: Well, yeah, I was saying, you know, this morning, he owns that language. He owns that rhetoric because he is the one that introduced it. He's the one that at his rally had a comedian talking about Puerto Rico being an island of garbage.

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