Post by Logan on Mar 6, 2017 19:57:43 GMT -6
WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Joe Biden defended the courts and the news media, saying attacks against those institutions are dangerous.
Biden was speaking Wednesday night at the Newseum in Washington, where he accepted an award from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
News outlets report that the Democrat didn’t mention Republican President Donald Trump by name but said he was worried by the “almost drumbeat of denigration of the institutional structures that govern us.”
Biden said trying to delegitimize the courts is “corrosive” and makes it impossible to compromise. And he said questioning the legitimacy of the free press is “one of the most dangerous things out there.”
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/joe-biden-attacks-news-media-courts-dangerous/98662870/
Biden was speaking Wednesday night at the Newseum in Washington, where he accepted an award from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
News outlets report that the Democrat didn’t mention Republican President Donald Trump by name but said he was worried by the “almost drumbeat of denigration of the institutional structures that govern us.”
Biden said trying to delegitimize the courts is “corrosive” and makes it impossible to compromise. And he said questioning the legitimacy of the free press is “one of the most dangerous things out there.”
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/joe-biden-attacks-news-media-courts-dangerous/98662870/