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Biden: Law enforcers are themselves ‘abusing’ power PELOSI: ‘MORBIDLY OBESE’ WAS TASTE OF TRUMP’S ‘OWN MEDICINE’

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Washington, May 21: Joe Biden has warned that those “tasked with enforcing the law are abusing their powers,” offering a measured critique of the Trump administra­tion a day after he declined to respond to President Donald Trump’s attacks directly. Speaking on Wednesday to Columbia University Law School graduates via video, Biden urged them to “protect the very foundation­s of democracy.” “Trust in self-governance. Because right now, it’s under attack,” the presumptiv­e Democratic presidenti­al nominee said.

“The very people tasked with enforcing the rule of law are abusing their powers, protecting their friends, weakening the very principles that make our country work.” His comments come amid escalating

Washington, May 21: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she called President Donald Trump “morbidly obese” because he’s put down women for their weight. And besides, she suggested, the president could lose a few pounds himself as the Covid-19 bears down on the nation’s capital.

“I gave him a dose of his

rhetoric from Trump and his allies pushing conspiracy theories and alleging improper behaviour during the Obama administra­tion. Asked on Tuesday night how he’d respond to the allegation­s, Biden own medicine. He’s called women one thing or another over time, and I thought he thinks that passes off as humour in certain cultures,” Pelosi said. “I was only quoting what doctors had said about him, so I was being factual in a very sympatheti­c way." For the record, the president is obese, but not morbidly so. said, “I don’t want to get down in the mud with these guys.” Biden said Trump was trying to distract voters from his inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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