Jill Biden rips into ‘dangerous’ Trump, claims he’ll take away LGBTQ rights: First Lady calls ex-president a ‘thug’, tells crowd how Joe has allowed trans Americans back in the military and gay men to donate blood
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Jill Biden on Friday accused Donald Trump of being ‘dangerous’ and a ‘thug’, and urged voters to ‘fight like f***’ to give her husband Joe Biden a second term.
The first lady, speaking to Human Rights Campaign volunteers, described her husband as a champion of LGBTQ rights and Trump as ‘dangerous’ to society.
“Donald Trump is a bully,” she said to cheers from the crowd. ‘He is dangerous to the LGBTQ community, to our families, to our country and we cannot let him win. We have to fight like f*** until Joe and Kamala have another term.’
‘Donald Trump is a bully,’ Jill Biden told the Human Rights Campaign
Biden gave a fiery speech to the crowd of 500 volunteers, rallying them to support Biden and Vice President Harris in November.
She told the story of how, when she was 13, she went to confront a neighborhood kid who was mean to her little sister Bonnie.
‘I had no idea what to say to him. But when he opened the door without thinking, I pulled back and punched him right in the face,’ she said.
She then used her story as a warning that bullies must be stopped.
“When thugs threaten our loved ones, when they take away our basic rights and deny our basic humanity, when they put our country and our democracy at risk, there is only one thing to do: we fight,” she said.
“We must begin now.”
She also described what President Biden has done for society: Marriage equality is now the law of the land, gay men can donate blood, trans Americans can serve in the military and end convergent therapy.
She noted that under President Biden, the LGBTQ community is “free to walk down the street as your authentic self.” Employees who use your chosen name and pronouns. Children with two mothers or two fathers on the playground. Communities that support you – understand you.’
Jill Biden has stepped up her attacks on Donald Trump (above), her husband’s GOP rival
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden speak at a campaign event in Philadelphia last month
After her speech, Jill Biden spent about 15 minutes speaking with volunteers at the Human Rights Campaign
Jill Biden has stepped up her attacks on the former president, who is challenging her husband for a second term in the White House.
She warned the crowd that under Republican rule their rights would disappear.
‘History teaches us that our rights and our freedoms do not disappear overnight. They disappear slowly, suddenly, silently: a book ban, a court order, a don’t say gay law,” she said.
‘One group of people lose their rights and then another and then another. Until one morning you wake up and you no longer live in a democracy’.
She then warned them of the coming battle, noting that “it’s up to us how it ends.”
Her remarks came as the Biden campaign launched ‘Out for Biden-Harris,’ an initiative to mobilize LGBTQ voters.
The Biden re-election team notes that the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Equality PAC have all endorsed President Biden for a second term.