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Guardian: 'My friends died,' heckler shouts. 'So did my son,' Joe Biden shoots back🇺🇸 It was a retort perhaps only one American politician could have produced, and one that silenced the room.
Faced with a determined heckler during a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden reached for a very personal response in Cleveland on Thursday.
“My friends died, my American friends,” the heckler was shouting, remonstrating with the vice-president over US policy in Syria.
“My friend died,” he repeated, challenging Biden to explain his recent demand that Kurdish allies withdraw from captured Isis territory.
Interrupted again while trying to explain the complex Middle East policy, something snapped on stage after the third shout of “my friend died”.
“Will you listen? So did my son, OK?” shot back the vice-president, instantly silencing both the heckler and those in the crowd who had been trying to drown out the disruption by shouting: “Hillary, Hillary.”
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