Former vice president and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is being hit with criticism Thursday over a 2015 video showing him offering nuanced praise: 'I actually like Dick Cheney.'
Former vice president and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was hit with criticism Thursday over a 2015 video showing him offering nuanced praise for Dick Cheney.
Biden said during the event that Cheney was an extremely"powerful" vice president and had his own national security team. Biden added Cheney"had a very different relationship with President Bush" than Biden did with during his two terms with President Barack Obama. The pair discussed several topics, including their sadness about how Hubert Humphrey was treated and their potential advice to future vice presidents. But Biden's comments regarding the deeply unpopular Cheney irked many progressive and liberal factions of the Democratic Party who have long criticized Biden as an"old guard" corporate moderate.
"Without any exaggeration, Dick Cheney is one of the most evil men to set foot in this world, a man behind whom a trail of war crimes follow, and Biden think he's a"decent man". Is this your man, Democrats?," tweeted AJ+ producer Sana Saeed.
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