"(Trump) does not have the basic fundamental sensibilities and values that almost every American politician, left, right, and center, I know, has. They disagree on how to make things better for people, but they don't take pleasure from knowing that they will benefit," Biden said.
"That's what Wall Street did. That's where Wall Street, the greatest allocator of capital in the history of the world, went awry, because it decided that they could take advantage, betting against the American people," he said at the Drexel University in Pennsylvania.
"It makes him smart. Tell that to the janitor here who's paying taxes. Tell it to my dad who, when he was alive, busted his neck working 60 hours a week, paid all his taxes. Tell that to the mothers and fathers who are breaking their neck to send you here who are paying their taxes," Biden said.
"I really mean it. It angers me. It angers me. He acknowledge that when the housing market collapsed, and maybe a lot of your parents, if they didn't lose their home, they lost the equity in their home," he said.
"I've been there for eight presidents, Democrat and Republican, I've disagreed and I've agreed. But every president I have served with, including the Republicans, has had a moral center about what it was to be an American. About what we're supposed to do," he said amidst cheering from the audience.
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