During a Thursday CNN town hall, Joe Biden appeared to mock those who reject vaccine mandates because they believe in “freedom.”

The Daily Wire reports:

“Should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Biden. “And if not, should they be — stay at home or let go?”

“Yes and yes,” Biden responded. “And, by the way — by the way, I waited until July to talk about mandating, because I tried everything else possible.  The mandates are working.  All the stuff about people leaving and people getting — you have — you have everyone from United Airlines to Spirit — all these airlines.  They’re — we’re not going to get all — 96, 97 percent of the people have gotten the vaccine.”

“All the talk about all these folks who are going to leave the military if they were mandated — not true.  You got about a 90-something percent vaccination rate,” he continued. “I mean, so there’s a — the idea is that — look, the two things that concern me — one, are those who just tried to make this a political issue. ‘Freedom.  I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.’  No, I mean, come on. ‘Freedom.’”

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