Cooling rhetoric doesn't mean will stop telling truth about Trump: Biden

President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail Tuesday for the first time since the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, continuing his call to calm the divisive rhetoric on both sides, but also arguing that doing so "doesn't mean we should stop telling the truth as he tore into his Republican rival.

Addressing the NAACP convention in Las Vegas, Biden said addressing political violence in the country should mean curbing all kinds of bloodshed including better combating police brutality and banning weapons like the AR-style rifle used in the weekend attack on Trump.

It's time for an important conversation in this country. Our politics have become too heated, Biden said.

That didn't stop him from listing why Trump's administration was hell for Black Americans, including the former president's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, skyrocketing unemployment amid early lockdowns and attempts to, as Biden put it, erase Black history.

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