Biden calls MAGA crowd “most extreme political organization in American history”

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President Joe Biden referred to the MAGA supporters as “the most extreme political organization” in “recent American history.”

His comment came after he was asked about the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

As written, it also tears into landmark LGBTQ civil rights cases.

Biden warned that if Roe v. Wade is struck down, conservatives might try to ban LGBTQ children from classrooms.

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“This is about a lot more than abortion,” Biden told reporters. “The idea that somehow there is no right of privacy … What happens if you have a state that changes the law, saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children?”

“Is that legit under the way the decision is written?” he continued. “What are the next things that are going to be attacked?

“Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history.”

MAGA is short for former U.S. president Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

Biden added: “I believe I have the rights that I have not because the government gave them to me… but because I’m just a child of God. I exist.”

Without the Roe precedent, there are 26 states that will likely ban all or most abortions, according to pro-choice policy group Guttmacher Institute.

Five of the nine justices had given their preliminary opinion to overturn Roe, reported Politico.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,’ Justice Samuel Alito wrote. ”We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”