The Biden-Harris campaign has released a statement after a jury returned its verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial. Given that Joe Biden’s son is facing federal criminal charges in two jurisdictions and goes on trial next week, the statement itself is completely asinine and tone deaf.
It reads:
“In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law.
“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.
“The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater. He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one’ and calling for our Constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain and keep power. A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence – and the American people will reject it this November.”
A second Trump term means chaos? More chaos than we already have? We already know what a Trump presidency means and chaos is not what we experienced during the first three years of Trump’s presidency. The only “chaos” from 2017 through early 2020 was due to sham impeachment hearings by the Democrats – sham hearings that were a fitting prelude to the institutionalized lawfare Trump’s been subjected to since Democrats knew he was coming back as the GOP’s 2024 nominee.
It really takes some stones for Joe Biden to say “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain” given the indictment against Hunter Biden and everything the IRS whistleblowers testified to last year, when they said they were not allowed to pursue any leads that could eventually reveal evidence that Joe Biden committed a crime.
President Biden was slated to deliver remarks from the White House after the verdict was released, but has postponed those remarks.
