President Joe Biden told NBC News in an interview airing Monday that it was a “mistake” to say he wanted to put a “bull's-eye” on Republican nominee Donald Trump, but argued that the rhetoric coming from his opponent was more incendiary while warning that Trump remained a threat to democratic institutions.
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00:00On a call a week ago, you said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.
00:04There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that word.
00:08I didn't say crosshairs. I was talking about focus on.
00:11Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was,
00:16there was very little focus on Trump's agenda.
00:19Yeah, the term was bullseye.
00:21It was a mistake to use the word.
00:23I didn't say crosshairs. I meant bullseye. I meant focus on him.
00:27Focus on what he's doing. Focus on his policies.
00:31Focus on the number of lies he told in the debate.
00:34I mean, there's a whole range of things.
00:37Look, I'm not the guy that said, I want to be a dictator on day one.
00:41I'm not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election.
00:44I'm not the guy who said they wouldn't accept the outcome of this election automatically.
00:49You can't only love your country when you win.
00:52I've thought less about the trajectory of the case than two things.
00:56One, what his health is. That was secure, number one.
01:01And number two, what happens from here on in terms of the kind of coverage
01:06that the president and vice president and former president and new vice president get in terms of...
01:13Look, I've never seen a circumstance where you ride through certain rural areas of the country,
01:20and people have signs there, big Trump signs with a middle sign saying F. Biden
01:26and a little kid standing there putting up his middle finger.
01:30I mean, that's the kind of stuff that is just inflammatory and a kind of viciousness.
01:37Look, 14 million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic Party.
01:44Okay?
01:47I listen to them. It's not unusual.
01:49He's going to surround himself with people who agree completely with him.
01:52I have a voting record. I support him.
01:55Even though if you go back and listen to the things that J.D. Manch said about Trump.