ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [4-2-19] that former Vice President Joe Biden is ‘being taken care of pretty well by the socialists,’ suggesting that a recent wave of criticism of the potential 2020 presidential candidate is the product of attacks hatched by his own party’s left wing. Criticism of the former vice president has spiked in recent days as multiple women have come forward to say that past physical interactions with Biden, a notoriously tactile politician, left them feeling uncomfortable. While Biden’s accusers have each said their interactions with him were not sexual in nature, the criticism has cast a shadow over his possible entrance into the 2020 presidential race, in which he is expected to be a top contender. Speaking at the spring fundraising dinner for House Republicans’ campaign arm, Trump jabbed at the former vice president and insinuated, as Biden’s own team has, that the accusations had been planted by a rival campaign.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump says Biden accusations are work of Dem ‘socialists’,” Politico, April 3, 2019 7:24 am