Joe Biden blasts Donald Trump’s ‘criminal’ pandemic response

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden talks with reporters at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of Covid-19, calling the president’s downplaying of the pandemic “criminal”.

“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up. The president should step down,” the Democratic presidential nominee said to applause from a CNN drive-in town hall crowd in Moosic, outside his hometown of Scranton.