President Joe Biden said Tuesday that some of the men and women once charged with protecting America at home and abroad are responsible for the growth of white supremacy groups.
Biden made the claim while appearing in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
During the session, he was asked by Joel Berkowitz, a professor of foreign languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, about “ongoing threats to our country from Americans who embrace white supremacy and conspiracies that align with it. What can your administration do to address this complex and wide-ranging problem?”
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“It is complex, it’s wide-ranging and it’s real. You may — I got involved in politics to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan,” said Biden, whose record on civil rights was denounced during his presidential campaign by Vice President Kamala Harris while she was competing for
