";s:4:"text";s:2818:" “Joe Biden is pushing a platform that would demolish the U.S. economy, totally demolish it,” Mr. Trump said.Mr. It shows your company is active and growing. Well, we have to, we don’t want them. “Very simple. Someday, I’ll tell you why. “He said that the idea that China is our competition is really bizarre,” the president said. And more.“We could go on for days,” he said at one point, and it sounded plausible.At times, it was hard to understand what he meant.
“The appearance came on a day when Mr. Trump seemed eager to challenge convention and, at times, basic facts. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act, the ostensible reason for his appearance, was treated as an afterthought.In effect, the news conference turned into a campaign speech to substitute for the one Mr. Trump was scheduled to give last weekend in New Hampshire only to cancel amid concerns about flagging attendance, Most of the time, the president paid little attention to the text he seemed to have brought with him, but he eventually read from what he claimed was Mr. Biden’s campaign agenda but was in fact a misleading compilation assembled by his own political advisers.“Joe Biden’s entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party,” Mr. Trump declared.Reading from what he was given, he quoted Mr. Biden. The appearance came on the same day that the president’s estranged niece, Mary L. Trump, a clinical psychologist, The focus of the evening session with reporters took a turn after Mr. Biden received extensive television coverage earlier in the day for his $2 trillion climate plan, according to a senior official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
)Even for those who follow Mr. Trump regularly and understand his shorthand, it became challenging to follow his train of thought.For instance, in discussing cooperation agreements with Central American countries to stop illegal immigration, he had this to say: “We have great agreements where when Biden and Obama used to bring killers out, they would say don’t bring them back to our country, we don’t want them.