Joe Biden ignites for calling Mike Pence a "brave man"

FOrmer vice president, Joe Biden, who led scathing criticism of President Trump, himself launched harsh criticism on Thursday when he described his successor as the # 2 office of "kind". honest "during a speech in Omaha.

"The fact is that he was followed by an honest guy, our Vice President, who spoke to this group of allies and leaders and said," I am here on behalf of President Trump. " A silence of death. Silence dead, "Biden said of Mike Pence, referring to the international community's reaction to the Vice President's speech at the Security Conference in Munich earlier this month.

Cynthia Nixon, a liberal activist and actress, was quick to challenge Biden's description of Pence.

"You just described as" honest man "the most anti-LGBT elected leader in the United States," she tweeted to Biden. "Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community."

Biden told Nixon that she was right. "I wanted to emphasize, in a foreign policy context, that in normal circumstances, a vice president would not respond silently on the world stage," he said.

"But being anti-LGBTQ is nothing decent, and that includes the Vice President," he wrote.

Biden acknowledged in January that his affinities for Republicans had put him in the Democrats' bath.

"I'm in trouble," Biden told the US Mayors Conference in Washington, DC "I read in The New York Times today that one of my problems is that if I I was going to run for president, I like Republicans. OK, bless me, father, because I sinned, "he said, making the sign of the cross.

Biden is expected to join an increasing number of Democratic candidates who are fighting over Trump in the 2020 elections. He revealed earlier this week that his family is urging him to run for president.