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Trump counter-threatens Biden, says ex-vice president would 'go down fast and hard'

At a rally Tuesday, Biden said he would 'beat the hell out of' Trump if they were in high school together and Trump disrespected women.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a rally in support of Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb Tuesday March 6, 2018 at the Union Carpenters Training Center in Pittsburgh.

Now comes the spectacle of a president and a former vice president talking about physical violence against each other.

Responding to what he called a threat from former vice president Joe Biden, President Trump tweeted Thursday that Biden is only trying to act like a tough guy.

"Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault," Trump said. "He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!"

Biden, who is considering a run for the presidency against Trump in 2020, was discussing the problem of sexual assault Wednesday when he cited the infamous 2005 tape of Trump talking about how he grabbed women.

"If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him," Biden said to loud cheers from an audience in Miami.

Biden, selected by Barack Obama for the running mate slot in 2008, had made the same remark back in 2016, just after the release of the Trump tape and ahead of the election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

For good measure on Wednesday, Biden also pushed back on Trump's assertion that his comments about grabbing women was just locker room talk.

"I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life," Biden said. "I'm a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room."

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