Joe Biden  accused Donald Trump of fomenting violence in American cities as the president endorsed his supporters who fired paintballs at protesters in Portland, and ignored pleas to stay away from Kenosha despite high tension after police shot a Black man there.

With accusations that Trump is encouraging a breakdown in law and order while labeling himself the law and order president, amid the ongoing reckoning over racism and police brutality nationwide, his Democratic rival declared Trump “a toxic presence”.

Speaking from the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Biden delivered his most direct response yet to the president’s misleading claims about his governing agenda and what he sees as Trump’s fear-mongering that if Biden wins the election unrest will be the norm and “no one will be safe”.



In a speech in Pittsburgh, Biden said Trump has spent four years “poisoning the values this nation has always held dear, poisoning our very democracy”.