Biden likens Trump to Nazi Goebbels
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he expects "personal attacks and lies" from Donald Trump within their first televised debate on Tuesday, comparing the Republican president to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
"It is going to be difficult," the former vice president acknowledged within an interview broadcast on Saturday on MSNBC.
"My guess is, it will likely be just straight attack. They will be mostly personal. That's the only thing he knows how to do," he said of Trump.
The debate on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio is definitely the first time the 77-year-old veteran politician has faced the president he has promised to unseat. The men will meet again for just two more debates prior to the Nov 3 election.
But some of his supporters fear that Biden, who is susceptible to blunders and slip-ups, may waver in these televised duels under the rhetorical blows of the Republican billionaire - who's also susceptible to blunders and slip-ups, but who is far more aggressive.
"He doesn't discover how to debate the reality. He's not that smart," Biden also claimed. "He doesn't know much about foreign policy, he doesn't know much about domestic policy. He doesn't know much about the detail."
Due to this fact, Biden predicted, "it will likely be mostly personal attacks and lies; but I think the American persons are on to him."
Trump himself never ceases to mock what he says is his rival's lack of dynamism, nicknaming him "Sleepy Joe" and attacking his mental acuity.
"He's type of like Goebbels," Biden said. "You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge."
"It's not like it's going to come as a surprise. And so I'm prepared to venture out and make my case as to why I believe he's failed and just why I think the answers I must proceed can help the American persons and the American economy, and make us safer internationally." - AFP
