On the tail of the arrest of the Speaker of the House’s husband for drunk driving, some are recalling the time when President Biden dismissed drunk driving as unworthy of felony punishment. Biden’s comments may make Paul Pelosi feel better about putting lives at risk on the road, but it may not make the thousands of families who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers feel any better about their heartrending loss.
The comments came when Biden appeared at a January Democrat candidates forum in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2020 when the topic of illegal aliens came up.
During his answer, Biden lamented that many children of illegals sit at home unsure that their parents will return home from work because they may be snapped up by Immigration officials sometime during the day.
One example he gave is that an illegal alien might be arrested and then deported after being caught drunk driving.
But during his comments, he also insisted that he does not consider drunk driving to be a felony offense, the Washington Examiner reported at the time.
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During the forum the then candidate for president said, “They [the children] go off to school wondering whether their mom comes and picks them up, is she not going to be there because an ICE agent was there to arrest her? Or she takes them to the doctor, that she’s going to not be there because she is ‘undocumented’ and an ICE agent is going to pick him up.”
He then added, “You change the culture by saying you are going to get fired. You are fired if, in fact, you do that. You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed, and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.”
The video of Biden’s proclamation is interesting because the Democrat audience during the taping were stunned to silence when Biden dismissed the severity of drunk driving. And even the two hosts of the event seemed unsure of what to say to Biden’s rant.
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