President Biden accused former President Trump of “sexing with porn stars” and said he had “wildcat morals,” but the presumptive Republican nominee insisted he didn’t and accused Biden of being behind his legal case Blackhand, because “he couldn’t win fair and square.”
During Thursday night’s CNN presidential debate simulcast, Biden pointed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels Trump was found guilty of all charges in the hush-money investigation.
On May 9, Stormy Daniels was questioned by defense lawyer Susan Necheles during the criminal trial of former US President Donald Trump at the Manhattan State Court in New York City. He is being questioned on charges that he falsified business records to conceal payments he made in 2016 to silence porn star Stormy Daniels. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
Trump ordered to pay more than $80 million in E. JEAN CARROLL defamation trial
Biden also mentioned the lawsuit filed against Trump by Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of rape and defamation.
“How many billions of dollars in civil penalties are you liable for if you molest a woman in public? Because you did a series of things while your wife was pregnant – having sex with a porn star…?” Biden said. “You have the morals of a wildcat in the night, sir.”
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by four points, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. (Getty Images)
In the case of E. Jean Carroll, a federal jury ruled that Trump must pay her $83.3 million because she denied accusations that he raped her in the 1990s. Trump’s legal team had asked for a new trial and appealed the ruling, but that was denied in April.
But on Thursday night, Trump fought back and defended himself.
“Number one, I didn’t have sex with a porn star,” he said. “Second, this was a case that had been initiated, and they transferred a senior official — from the Department of Justice — to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to initiate the case.”
Trump was referring to Matthew Colangelo, who served as a senior Justice Department official in the Biden administration before leaving to join Bragg’s prosecution team.
The Democratic National Committee paid “political consulting” fees to former Justice Department official Joe Biden, who is now suing Trump.
In New York v. Trump, the jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of first-degree falsification of business records. Trump has vowed to appeal the verdict.
“This case will be appealed and won. We have a very bad judge, a terrible judge, and the prosecutors are top Democratic appointees,” Trump said.
Trump accused Biden of “going after his political opponents because he thinks it will hurt me.”
“But when the public finds out about these cases, because they know better than he does, he doesn’t know what these cases are, but when they find out about these cases, you know what they do — my poll numbers go up dramatically,” Trump said. Trump said. “You know this — because you’re covering it.”
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Trump also said his campaign “has received more money in the last two weeks than any campaign in our history.”
“I don’t think any campaign is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars just because the public knows it’s a scam,” Trump said. “This is a man going after his political opponents because he can’t win fair and square.”
