United States: Joe Biden denounces Trump’s “incredible irresponsibility”

 

US President-elect Joe Biden denounced Thursday the “incredible irresponsibility” of Donald Trump, who still refuses to accept the result of the November 3 election. “I think (Americans) are witnessing incredible irresponsibility, unbelievably damaging messages sent to the rest of the world about how democracy works,” he added.

“I don’t know his motives but I think it’s totally irresponsible,” he said at a press briefing in Wilmington, Delaware. “It is difficult to understand how this man reasons”, he hammered. “I am convinced that he knows he lost and that I will be sworn in on January 20,” he continued. “What he is doing is simply outrageous.”

No national confinement

Joe Biden also said Thursday that he would not impose “national containment” despite the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States in recent weeks. “No circumstance could justify in my eyes a total national lockdown. I think it would be counterproductive,” the Democrat said at a press conference in Wilmington, Delaware.

“I will not stop the economy, period. I will stop the virus,” he said, assuring that he would follow the recommendations of scientists once installed in the White House on January 20. “I repeat, no national containment,” he insisted. “Because each region, each community, can be different”.

Joe Biden has made the fight against the pandemic the number one priority in his early term. He has already appointed the members of his crisis unit to coordinate this fight, and said on Thursday that wearing a mask was “not a political posture”. More than 250,000 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in the United States, the country most bereaved in the world by the disease.

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