Biden news: Trump blasts ‘crazies’ in Easter message, as president’s son accuses him of ‘smears’
Donald Trump swiped at “radical left crazies” and revived his persistent lie that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him and his supporters in his Easter message on Sunday.
In his message to the nation, President Joe Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated from Covid-19. Vaccinations spiked to 4 million shots per day for the first time on 3 April, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“By getting vaccinated and encouraging your congregations and your communities to get vaccinated, we not only can beat this virus, but we can also haste the day when we can celebrate the holidays together again,” Mr Biden said.
White House officials appeared across US media on Sunday to promote his expansive infrastructure plan, arriving on the heels of a $1.9 American Rescue Plan to combat the economic fallout from the public health crisis.
Senator Bernie Sanders wants the president to think big, and is leading members of Congress to ensure the $2 trillion plan also supports the nation’s “human infrastructure” – expanding healthcare, childcare and affordable housing, among others, he told CNN.
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told the network that the White House is open to lawmakers using the budget reconciliation process to pass an infrastructure package but is asking Republicans to “come to the table” with ideas, after they routinely dismissed the proposal’s contents and the president’s pitch to raise the corporate tax rate, rolling back cuts made under Donald Trump, to pay for it.
“So the president is very concertedly reaching out to Republicans to say, ‘Come to the table. If you don’t like a component of it, tell us … what you want to see’,” she said, adding that federal funding for roads and bridges, broadband internet expansion and US manufacturing supply chains “are all things that Republicans have introduced bills on”.
Meanwhile, Mr Biden’s son Hunter Biden has revealed what it was like to endure smears from Mr Trump on an “almost daily” basis during the 2020 election race.
In an excerpt of his new book Beautiful Things, the younger Biden accuses Mr Trump of having regularly “invoked my name at rallies to incite his base”.
Hunter Biden writes that he was forced to call police after Mr Trump’s supporters appeared outside the driveway gate of a private house he was renting with his wife, who was then five months pregnant.
He said he and his family continued to receive threats following the incident.
