Joe Biden on Trump's PTSD remarks: 'How can he be so out of touch?'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/04/joe-biden-donald-trump-veterans-ptsd-remarks

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Vice-President Joe Biden has attacked the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, for remarks suggesting that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don’t.

“How can he be so out of touch?” Biden asked in an interview that aired on Tuesday on CNN. The vice-president also said Trump is “not a bad man”. But he added: “His ignorance is profound, so profound.”

Biden also said government leaders in general, including Democrats, have not communicated well enough with American people feeling “scared” about their future.

“We don’t speak to them enough,” he said. Biden suggested that the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, needs to speak more fiercely about issues she cares about, but also said “every time she expresses emotion, she gets clobbered”.

He called Trump “this megaphone out there” and said supporters “think he speaks to them because they haven’t been listening to what he’s been saying”.