PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday questioned Donald Trump’s “moral center” as a result of the Republican presidential candidate’s comments about America’s housing collapse.
At a rally for Hillary Clinton at Drexel University, Biden said that Trump had bragged at Monday’s presidential debate about profiting from the failed housing market. He said Trump’s policies are not helpful for the country, calling the candidate “painfully uninformed.”
“This is a guy who said it was good business for him to see the housing market fail,” Biden said. “What in the hell is he talking about?”
At the debate, Clinton said Trump had rooted for the housing collapse in 2006 because he saw it as a way to go in and make money. Trump responded, “That’s called business, by the way.”
Biden said that Trump “brags about gaming the system and bankruptcy” while “sitting on top of Trump Tower in a semi-golden palace.”