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The fallout from the racist joke told at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally continued on Tuesday evening when Joe Biden had to issue a denial that he called supporters of the former president “garbage”.
Following the remarks, which the White House maintains were misconstrued and taken out of context, the Trump …