MOSCOW, July 15 President Joe Biden made an «outrageous» slip of the tongue during a special address to the nation on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, The Daily Mail writes.
As the publication notes, the head of the White House said that turning politics into a «battlefield» is unacceptable.
«But in his six-minute address, the president made several outrageous slips of the tongue, including calling the ballot box a 'battle box' and former President Donald Trump 'former Trump,'» the article says.
Biden said during his address from the Oval Office that political passions «need to die down» and violence should not become the norm in the United States. The head of state noted that political passions in the country have «heated up quite a bit» as the November elections approach.
The assassination attempt on the Republican presidential candidate took place on Saturday at his campaign rally. The politician was shot in the ear and security guards took him away from the event. According to Trump, he lost a lot of blood. The ex-president has already been discharged from the hospital after a medical examination.
The attacker managed to fire several shots towards the stage, after which he was eliminated. The suspect is 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Pennsylvania. He was hiding on the roof of an industrial building about a hundred meters from the stage — outside the area where the event was held. A spectator of the campaign rally was also killed in the incident, and two more people were seriously injured.