FLASHBACK: Joe Biden condemned Trump's actions to stop violence in Portland

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke on Monday in Pittsburgh, denouncing the recent violence in Portland including the cold-blooded killing of a Trump supporter by a man who identifies as Antifa.

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke on Monday in Pittsburgh, finally denouncing recent violence in Portland. This involved the cold-blooded killing of a Trump supporter by a man who identifies as Antifa.

However, back in July, Biden condemned President Donald Trump's decision to send federal agents to Portland to quell the unchecked civil unrest.

Biden previously wrote in a press statement: "We have a president who is determined to sow chaos and division, to make matters worse instead of better. We all remember the appalling scenes in front of the White House, when peaceful protestors were gassed to make way for a Trump photo op."

The former vice president referenced the clearing of protestors outside the White House in June by US Park Police. The chief of police asserted that officers were attacked while installing a new fence, indirectly denying securing the area so Trump could visit the fire-damaged historic St. John's Church, a site of arson in the nation's capital. Despite what Biden alleged and widely spread to his supporters, there was no tear gas released as federal law enforcement only used smoke canisters and pepper balls for crowd control, the New York Post reported.

Moving on to the deployment of Department of Homeland Security officers to Portland last month, Biden characterized federal intervention as an overreach of policing, KATU-TV had reported.

"Now Homeland Security agents—without a clearly defined mandate or authority—are ranging far from federal property, stripped of badges and insignia and identifying markings, to detain people," he continued.

Biden then insisted that the country needs a president who will "enforce the law faithfully rather than put his political interests first."

Now as Portland is nearing 100 consecutive days of unlawfulness and polling has revealed a growing pool of disaffected voters disgusted with the "mostly peaceful protests," Biden is finally taking a firm stand against violence.

In his rare public appearance in Pittsburgh, which resides in his home swing state of Pennsylvania, Biden decried violence under any political banter and "challenged the president do the same."

"He wouldn’t even repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder because of his attacks on others," Biden stated following his speech, referring to still-developing case of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha.

However, the alleged Portland killer, Michael Forest Reinoehl, is an impassioned Black Lives Matter activist and identifies on social media as "100% Antifa all the way."

Biden blamed white nationalists, right-wing militias, and Trump directly for the violence across major Democratic-led US cities. He failed to mention Antifa, despite the fact that the far-leftists are responsible for a majority of the criminal activities.

"So once again, I urge the President to join me in saying that while peaceful protest is a right—a necessity—violence is wrong, period. No matter who does it, no matter what political affiliation they have. Period," Biden signed off, mis-affiliating the wrong political party as Democrats have turned their cheeks to more than three months of unlawfulness.

His vice presidential pick, Sen. Kamala Harris, even endorsed mass protests and helped to fund alleged criminals' release from jail. Her advocacy aided in bailing out a suspect who shot at police, a woman accused of second-degree murder, and a twice-convicted rapist.

At the beginning of August, Trump called on Biden and Harris to publicly denounce Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization as his administration is moving to classify the radical group and expose the true evil-doers for their reign of destruction. Following Trump's challenge, the Democratic ticket has yet to do the same.

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