Former US vice president Joe Biden says President Donald Trump may not “know what he’s doing” and coddles dictators.
The potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate tells CBS’s “This Morning” he’s concerned Trump “seems to have a love affair with autocrats” and “coddles” dictators, including North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Saudi ruling family.
Biden says Trump either “doesn’t know what he’s doing or he has an absolutely convoluted notion” of the US’s leadership in the world.
White House aides suggest that while Trump doesn’t criticize certain world leaders publicly, he’s willing to deliver tough messages behind closed doors.
Biden says he hopes Democrats don’t pursue Trump’s impeachment if the party takes over the House after November elections, saying, “I don’t think there’s a basis for doing that right now.”
— AP
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