Apparently Joe Biden hasn't heard what Keith Ellison had to say about whether Derek Chauvin was motivated by racism

 I will chime in later today on the big-spending, redistributive aspect of Biden's speech last night. For eff's sake, the sum total of the three American-This-and-That Acts is a bank-breaker of epic proportions:

The combined cost of all three bills — the already passed American Rescue Plan and the two infrastructure proposals, the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan — is $6 trillion, or nearly twice the gross domestic product of Germany.

But what I want to address presently is his doubling down on his dog-vomit claim that America is beset by systemic racism. Last night, he specifically tied it to the Derek Chauvin-George Floyd situation:

He described last year’s killing of George Floyd by a police officer at a now infamous Minneapolis location as evidence of “systemic racism that plagues American life.” 

Look, it's obvious from the nine-minute-plus video, as well as the verdict of the jury, that Chauvin murdered Floyd. But there's not a damn bit of evidence that he was motivated by racism in doing so.

Don't take it from me. It's the assessment of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose progressive bona fides are impeccable, and who has a lengthy track record of being preoccupied with race:

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday that there was no evidence that Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd last May was a hate crime.

Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges on Tuesday for Floyd's death, during which the former police officer kneeled on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison and is currently being held in solitary confinement.

When interviewer Scott Pelley asked Ellison whether the murder was a hate crime, the prosecutor replied: "I wouldn't call it that because hate crimes are crimes where there's an explicit motive and of bias. We don't have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd's race as he did what he did."

When Pelley pointed out prosecutors could have charged Chauvin with a hate crime under state law, Ellison said they only charge crimes for which they have "evidence that we could put in front of a jury to prove."

"If we'd had a witness that told us that Derek Chauvin made a racial reference, we might have charged him with a hate crime. But I would have needed a witness to say that on the stand. We didn't have it. So we didn't do it," he said.

Biden has a different way of being inflammatory than Trump did, but he is equally so.

I'm getting real tired of having presidents of the United States who are a danger to the United States.