The Biden campaign responded to Trump’s rambling, lie-filled speech by offering a reality check on each of the former president’s felony convictions.
Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon
How did Biden respond to Trump’s post-conviction press conference?
Here’s the Biden campaign’s response to Trump’s speech, provided to POLITICO America:
- “If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone.” (Others allegedly don’t usually pay hush money to porn stars with whom they have affairs)
- “They want to stop you from owning a car.”(Uh, no)
- “I was given a gag order, and no one has ever been put under a gag order.”(Others were also subject to gag orders during the trial)
- “Think about it, I’m the leading candidate. I’m leading BidenA big lead, and I’m leading the Republican Party to its demise.(The primary election has ended for more than two months)
- “This is Washington’s doing.” (The trial took place in New York)
- “It’s very unfair.” (no)
- “I wanted to testify… and I still want to testify to this day.” (He could have testified. But he chose not to)
- “I’m right there and I don’t mind being there.” (He very much mind being there.)
- “This was a rigged trial.” (no.)
- “As far as the trial itself goes, it’s grossly unfair.”(But in fact, it’s not.)
- “Let me tell you some good news.” (No good news.)
- “He didn’t allow us to have witnesses.” (The Trump team has witnesses.)
- “An unselected committee of thugs.” (Seriously, fantasy football team names.)
- – By the way, nothing happened. Nothing at all. (Do you understand this, because we don’t.)
- “I don’t feel 77.” (He looks old)
- “So it’s not hush money, it’s a completely legal NDA. Totally common. Everybody has one.(So he admitted it)
- “This was supposed to be a non-case, and everyone said it wasn’t a case.” (???)
- “You saw what happened to some of the witnesses on our side, who were literally crucified by this man who looked like an angel, but he was actually a devil. He looked nice and gentle.(Wow)
- “Our elections are corrupt.” (No, they’re not.)
- “The language… we haven’t even heard of.” (We have heard of these languages.)
- “Nobody knows where they got it from [money].”(FEC report)
- “I could look through the books of any businessman in the city and I could find something that theoretically I think we could prosecute him for.” (No, he can’t.)
- “Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Greg Jarrett, you look at all those guys, Mark Levine, they’re all very talented guys.”(None of these people are talented people.)
- “I’m honored to be a part of it because someone has to do it.” (In any case, you don’t need to “give it to them”)
- “There’s nothing wrong with it. These are standard. This is standard stuff, all standard stuff, it’s all about standards, there’s no crime here.” (A jury of his peers unanimously disagreed)
- “Everyone says there’s no crime here.”(A jury of his peers unanimously disagreed)
- “I don’t want it to backfire. I don’t know, I want to win this thing legitimately and not because they were stupid and did something they shouldn’t have done.(Um?)
- “We have employees from all over the world. And a lot of them are not good people. (In this corner of the earth, we don’t understand that.)
- “Our kids can no longer play Little League.” (We guarantee the kids are playing Little League games)
- “Crime is rampant in New York.”(New York City crime rate dropped)
- “Like, it’s a beautiful, sunny day, but it’s actually raining.”(The weather was nice on many days during Trump’s trial.)
- “I deserve 187 years in prison.” (actually not true at all)
- “Joe” Biden,the worst Presidentin our nation’s history. he is the worst Presidentin our nation’s history.(Actually, this is you.)
- “They have nice tents with propane stoves.”(Bass store?)
Trump’s speech was damage control
Trump’s speech had an air of desperate damage control. To anyone covering the trial, much of it was a rehash of lies he told for weeks outside the courtroom during the trial. Legal experts were quick to debunk the lies, but the political fallout was far more serious.
CNN noted that Trump did not use a teleprompter and called the former president ranting and out of touch.
When Trump is in this state of mind, he starts to panic and make his biggest mistakes.
Trump is about to become even more reckless and dangerous, which could cause the former president’s campaign to completely collapse.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press corps and a congressional reporter for PoliticusUSA. Jason holds a BA in Political Science. His graduate work focuses on public policy, particularly social reform movements.
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