INTELLIGENCE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You wonder why people in the intelligence community wondered from the very beginning whether they could share data with him [Donald Trump], because they don’t trust him. They don’t trust what he’ll say or do. He seems to have no conception — I know I sound — he seems to have no conception on what constitutes national security, no conception of anything other than, what can he do to promote himself?
This is the guy who said maybe the way to deal with hurricanes is drop a nuclear bomb on them. I mean, seriously, he said it…
Or, you know, the problem with the Revolutionary War was, they didn’t have enough airports. I mean, I just — it’s beyond my comprehension…
He should not be the — unrelated to my running, he should not be the commander in chief of the United States military. It’s just — no commander in chief has ever, ever, ever acted like this man.”
-Joe Biden, “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” cnn.com, Sep. 10, 2020