Late Thursday afternoon, former President Donald J. Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, was unexpectedly found guilty on all counts. , the Biden campaign later warned that the threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater, and the threat to the ballot box is huge.
Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon
“Today in New York, we saw that no one is above the law,” Biden-Harris 2024 communications director Michael Taylor wrote in a statement to PoliticusUSA. “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed that he would never face consequences for breaking the law for personal gain. But today’s sentence does not change the simple reality facing the American people. To prevent Donald Trump from occupying the Oval Office, There’s still only one way: Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee, convicted or not.
“The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater. He is engaged in an increasingly frenzied campaign of revenge and retribution, promising to be a dictator “from day one” and calling for the “termination” of our Constitution , so that he could regain and retain power. A second Trump term means chaos, stripping Americans of their freedoms and inciting political violence — and the American people will reject it this November.
The Biden campaign is also raising money based on the verdict of their likely opponents, and as anyone with a political pulse would do if they were in their shoes, President Biden asked: “You know I hate to ask, but can’t There’s never been a more important moment for you to make your first donation and put this guy out of the White House once and for all.
So is this just politics? Obviously not. Today, for the first time in our country’s history, a felony was committed against a former president. This is historic. Of course, Trump is accused of much more serious crimes than the falsification of business documents, although that is itself a form of election fraud.
Trump also faces a Jan. 6 federal case involving his efforts to stay in power after losing a free and fair election and the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump is also facing an election fraud case in Georgia, where he was recorded trying to persuade election officials to reverse his losses by “finding” ballots.
Trump also faces a classified documents case in Florida involving his preservation and even sharing of highly classified classified documents, actions that could jeopardize U.S. national security and our intelligence assets.
Donald Trump was innocent until proven guilty in all three cases, but was convicted of all 34 felonies in the Manhattan hush-money case.
Given the allegations behind the case that Trump still faces, he’s clearly not someone a normal party would even support as a presidential candidate. But we are past those times.
This is who President Joe Biden will have to fend off to keep him from entering the Oval Office. Biden-Harris will need voters to do their jobs to ensure the White House does not turn into a den of career criminals and convicted rapists, just as jurors in Manhattan were challenged to perform their civic duty in mob-like circumstances Same.
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