Biden Calls To ‘Lock’ Up Trump. Immediately Backtracks
President Joe Biden said Tuesday at New Hampshire’s Democratic National Committee (DNC) office that the party needs to “lock up” former President Donald Trump, quickly adding he meant to “politically” lock him up.
Since 2019, Democrats have been calling for Trump to be behind bars, flipping the script on their previous criticism of Republicans and the former president for calling for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be locked up. While speaking to the DNC office in Concord, New Hampshire, Biden noted how close the race is becoming, claiming Trump believes he has immunity from “physically eliminating” threats.
“All of it’s on a knife’s edge. It’s on a knife’s edge right now. So this is really, really, really, really important right now. Folks, look, think about it. He is talking about doing away with the entire Department of Education — he means it, this is not a joke. This [is] a guy who also wants to replace every civil servant, every single one,” Biden said.
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“Thinks he has a right under the Supreme Court ruling on immunity, to be able if need be, if [it were] the case, to actually eliminate — physically eliminate, shoot, kill — someone who he believes to be a threat to him. So, I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up. We gotta lock him up,” Biden said as the crowd applauded. “Politically lock him up. Lock him out, that’s what we have to do.”
In 2023, four criminal indictments were brought against the former president involving alleged election interference and mishandling of classified documents. While special prosecutor Jack Smith pushed for Trump’s election interference case to be handled before the election in 2023, Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a pretrial schedule on Sept. 5, guaranteeing the trial would not happen before the election.
Republicans have criticized Democrats’ rhetoric against Trump, particularly following the first assassination attempt against him on July 13. Despite labeling Trump a Nazi, Hitler and a fascist since he took office in 2016, some liberal corporate media outlets suggested that the former president’s own rhetoric contributed to the attempt on his life.
Just a day after the first assassination attempt, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz claimed that Trump’s past comments, such as “bedlam” and “bloodbath,” contributed to the “violent rhetoric” in the U.S. that led 20-year-old Matthew Thomas Crooks to fire multiple rounds into the crowd at his Pennsylvania rally.
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“Lock him up” Says the guy that weaponized the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA and even the DOD against his political opposition. Says the guy that called parents protesting at school board meetings “domestic terrorists” and is locking up Catholics protesting at abortion clinics. Says the guy that authorized the biggest FBI manhunt in history over 3 years to hunt down, arrest and prosecute anyone who entered the Capitol on J6 with illegal “obstruction” charges; many on video being let in the doors by Capitol Police. Says the guy that met with every single prosecutor of the multiple fake prosecutions of Trump around the country. Says the guy who ordered a televised raid on Mar-A-Lago where Trump kept documents he was authorized to have in a secure location guarded by Secret Service; while he illegally took documents as VP (not President) and stored them haphazardly in his garage. Says the guy who he, and his family, took tens of millions of dollars in foreign bribes and then committed illegal “election interference” to draft a letter by “51 intelligence experts” to deny the evidence of the money laundering on Hunter’s laptop and throw the 2020 election. Says the guy that has committed treason by failing to follow federal immigration law and has destroyed the U.S. as a sovereign nation by allowing a foreign invasion of 12 to 14 million unvetted, unvaccinated, poor illegals; including cartels, 600,000 convicted criminals, drug and sex traffickers, murderers and rapists, hundreds of known terrorists and the Chinese made fentanyl that has killed a quarter of a million Americans since he took office. Of course it has been the Biden/Harris administration for the last 4 years and she is complicit. Haven’t you had enough of this America????