Melania Trump’s fired up the crowd with an admission about the President

First Lady Melania Trump got a healthy laugh from the crowd with an understated line about her husband as she returned to the campaign trail.

First Lady Melania Trump returned to the campaign trail today for the first time since catching the coronavirus and she got a healthy laugh from the crowd with an understated line about her husband.

She indulged in a rare attack on Joe Biden, echoing her husband’s argument that the Democrat got nothing done during his long years in Washington.

But it was a line about her husband that drew the biggest laugh.

“I do not always agree with the way he says things. But it is important to him that he speaks directly to the people he serves,” she said.

First Lady Melania excuses Pres. Trump’s extreme tweets: ‘I do not always agree with the way he says things’ pic.twitter.com/vD6XP8n9CS

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However, her real criticism was directed towards Mr Biden.

“He suggests that he could have done a better job,” Mrs Trump said, referring to Mr Trump’s handling of the pandemic.

“Well, the American people can look at Joe Biden’s 36 years in Congress and eight years in the vice presidency, and determine whether they think he’ll finally be able to get something done for the American people.”

I thought this line worked pretty well for Mr Trump during the final presidential debate, giving him perhaps his strongest exchange of the night with Mr Biden.

It came as Mr Biden tried to defend his support for legislation cracking down on crime in the ’80s and ’90s. That legislation led to a significant increase in the number of Americans – particularly African-Americans – who were incarcerated.

“In the eighties, we passed – all senators, 100 per cent voted on it, a bill on drugs and how to deal with it. It was a mistake. I’ve been trying to change it since,” Mr Biden said.

“That is why I have been arguing that we should not send anybody to jail for a pure drug offence. They should be going into treatment across the board.”

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, first lady Melania Trump called her husband a “fighter,” defending his use of social media: "I don’t always agree the way he says things, but it is important to him that he speaks directly to the people he serves." https://t.co/RFZDC5tAhs pic.twitter.com/snG7ilplRj

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The President hammered him on why he didn’t get any of that done during the Obama administration.

“So why didn’t he get it done? It is all talk and no action with these politicians. Why didn’t he get it done?” said Mr Trump.

“‘That is what I’m going to do when I become president.’ You’re vice president, along with Obama as your president, for eight years. Why didn’t you get it done? You had eight years to get it done and now you’re saying you’re going to get it done, because you are all talk and no action.”

“We got a lot of it done, we got 38,000 prisoners out of jail. They were released from federal prison. There were over a thousand people who were given clemency,” Mr Biden argued.

“Why didn’t you do it in the eight years, a short time ago?” Mr Trump interjected again.

“Why didn’t you do it? ‘I’m just going to do this and that.’ You put tens of thousands of mostly black young men in prison and now you’re saying you’re going to undo that.

“Why didn’t you get it done? You had eight years with Obama. You know why, Joe, because you are all talk and no action.”

“We had a Republican Congress. That is the answer,” said Mr Biden. There was an awkward pause afterwards as the moderator waited for him to say more, but he was done.

“You’ve got to talk them into it, Joe. Sometimes you’ve got to talk into it, like I did with criminal justice reform. I did talk Democrats into it,” the President told him.