Before he could explain himself, President Biden told a group of Democrats on Tuesday that they needed to lock up former President Trump.
Biden was at the offices of the New Hampshire Democratic Party when he said that the upcoming election puts “democracy at risk.” The GOP candidate, Trump, was seen by Biden as a major threat to the rule of law.
Trump would replace government workers with supporters, the president said. He also said Trump would see the recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity as giving him the right to “eliminate” anyone he sees as a threat.
“I understand that this sounds strange. You would have jailed me if I told you this five years ago. “He needs to be locked up,” Biden said to cheers. In a political sense, lock him up.
Trump and his fans often said the same things about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, and Biden’s comments were no different. Democrats, like Vice President Harris, have been careful not to use similar language while Trump is in a lot of legal problems.
This year, the former president was found guilty of 34 felonies in New York in connection with a hush-money scam. He is still being charged by the federal government in Washington, D.C., for trying to stay in power after losing the race for president in 2020.
As president, Biden has been careful not to comment openly on Trump’s legal problems so that he can stay separate from the Justice Department. Trump has said many times that the cases against him are politically driven.
Right away, the Trump team used Biden’s comments to say that he agreed with the idea that the investigations into Trump were political.
A spokesman for Trump said in a statement, “Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala’s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can’t beat him fair and square.” “The Harris-Biden Administration is the real danger to freedom.” We want Kamala Harris to speak out against Joe Biden’s disgusting comment.
Harris, the Democratic candidate for president, has often pushed back when her own supporters have yelled “lock him up” in reference to Trump. She has said that the courts would handle the issue while she focused on winning the election.
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