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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said he regrets not speaking out against President Trump sooner. “Barack and I agreed we would be quiet for the first year to let the new administration get up and running,” Biden told the audience at the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner on Saturday night. Making the sign of the cross over his chest, he said, “God forgive me” for not voicing concern sooner. Biden said it was Trump’s handling of violence in Charlottesville last year that finally prompted him to speak up. Noting that the “goons” who showed up for a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville spewed the same “anti-Semitic vile” as Nazi Germany, Biden suddenly grew stern. “This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” he said. “What has become of us? Our children are listening and our silence is complicit.”