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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