One of the things people say they love most about President Joe Biden is his brutal honesty when it comes to speaking his mind on issues that he considers to be of greatest importance.
Biden is also known to let loose with some salty language from time to time, and his thoughts on the things failed former president Donald Trump says in his campaign speeches have indeed led him to reach into his bag of profane language, according to HuffPost.
CNN White House correspondent MJ Lee appeared on air Tuesday to discuss how Biden has directed his campaign staff to deal with the Trump campaign.
The key is to apparently let Trump be Trump.
Lee said that Biden has asked senior campaign aides to highlight the “crazy shit” that Trump says in public, according to sources Lee spoke to for a CNN story published Tuesday.
Some examples Lee cited in her piece include Trump’s recent suggestion that he would “encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to other NATO members and his attacks on Nikki Haley’s husband, who is currently on military duty.
As Lee explained to CNN host Brianna Keilar:
“What we’ve learned is that President Biden himself personally instructed some of his top campaign aides to be even more aggressive in highlighting some of [former] President Trump’s more inflammatory and wild comments. We’re told that the thrust of the president’s direction was to significantly ramp up the campaign’s efforts to highlight the ‘crazy shit that Trump says in public.’”
Twitter/X users who saw the video were delighted, both by Biden’s strategy and the fact that CNN had the guts to say “crazy shit” out loud.
