No love lost between Trump and Biden as inauguration looms

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the email about US politics for global readers. On Wednesday, Biden warned that no one should “jump to conclusions” about the terror attack in New Orleans — hours after Trump had done exactly that by implying on social media that the suspect was a foreign terrorist who recently crossed over the southern border. I can’t.” In what appeared to be an implicit criticism of Trump’s character and leadership style, Biden said this of Carter: “The rest of the world looks to us … and he was worth looking to.” On Thursday, in another repudiation of Trump, Biden awarded one of America’s highest civilian honors to Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming who split with Trump over his refusal to accept the result of the 2020 election. “With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER.” Trump isn’t wrong to raise the possibility that terrorists could infiltrate the US over the southern border.