Via Free Beacon:
Vice President Joe Biden in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews falsely claimed that he had never insulted or denigrated the tea party on Tuesday evening.
Matthews asked Biden why Democrats had not been fighting on issues like immigration, trade, and foreign wars which Donald Trump used to rally supporters in the Republican primary.
“You never heard me criticize the tea party. The reason I didn’t is because a lot of people are scared, beat up, and they lost a lot,” Biden said.
In a closed-door meeting with black clergy in 2014, Biden reportedly called the tea party “crazy.” CNN reported the exchange from someone who had been in the meeting. Biden’s office declined to confirm or deny his remark at the time.
Biden also reportedly referred to tea party members of Congress as “acting like terrorists” after tense negotiations over raising the debt ceiling in 2011.