Wasn't it
Senator Joe Biden that voted in 1975 to restore Robert E. Lee's citizenship?
But then forty-four years later,
Biden trashes Trump about Charlottesville, Virginia.
That's going to look real good when Biden has to go up against Trump. I am sure his [Biden] excuse will be: "Man, I am getting old. Cut me some slack."
Joe Biden ferociously supported the 1994 Crime Bill that put a generation of Black Men behind bars. Trump, on the other hand, was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform, which had tremendous support, and helped fix the bad 1994 Bill.
“Super Predator" was the term associated with the 1994 Crime Bill that Sleepy Joe Biden was so heavily involved in passing. That was a dark period in American History, but has Sleepy Joe apologized? No!
Biden repeatedly used the racist dog whistles of “predators on our streets” who were “beyond the pale” in a 1993 speech on the justice system, reported
CNN. The “Super Predator” term was said by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1996. The term was rightfully viewed as racially charged and Clinton called it “a poor choice of words” when pressed
during a Democratic presidential debate in 2016, more than two decades later when it became an issue for her.
Joe Biden’s Role in ’90s Crime Law Could Haunt Any Presidential Bid,” a story by
The New York Times declared.
Biden became Senate Judiciary Committee chair in 1987. His crime legislation spree in the 1980s and 1990s did more harm than good, and his many years of lawmaking may hamstring him with Democratic voters who resent his harsh drug and crime legislation and
connect it to today’s devastating opioid crisis.
Trump's bipartisan work on criminal justice reform stands in sharp contrast to Biden. Trump
signed the First Step Act, which gives judges more leeway when sentencing drug offenders and offers more opportunities for prison rehab programs, on Dec. 21, 2018. Even CNN host and criminal justice reform advocate Van Jones could not help but praise Trump when it passed the Senate,
calling the president the “loudest champion on criminal justice.”
“That crime bill was one of the foundations of mass incarceration and a very painful era in our nation’s history,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “Biden has to be accountable for every vote they take and what’s on their record. And I think that was a huge mistake.”