Biden: If Trump doesn’t have a racist bone ‘that means he has no bones’

Former Vice President Joe Biden said this week that if President Trump doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, the president must have “no bones.”

ABC News’s Molly Nagle asked Biden about a Tuesday tweet in which Trump wrote, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” The tweet followed outrage over statements Trump made about four progressive congresswomen of color, telling them to “go back” to other countries.

“That means he has no bones,” Biden responded.

{mosads}Asked about most Republicans not voting Tuesday night to condemn the recent remarks by Trump, Biden said the party has “lost its nerve.”

“I don’t believe that the vast majority of Republicans in the Congress feel this way, but right now he owns the Republican Party.”

Asked about President Trump’s remark that he doesn’t “have a racist bone in my body,” former Vice President Joe Biden tells ABC News’ @MollyNagle3, “That means he has no bones” https://t.co/1nezlJ8jix pic.twitter.com/8QRiCMf7SC

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 17, 2019

The vote was largely split along partisan lines, with four Republicans and Independent Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) joining Democrats in calling the president’s tweets racist. 

Biden is among more than two dozen people competing for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination. He has been the front-runner in most major polls.