President Biden said on Friday that the justice system “should be respected,” and that it was “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim that the verdict in the New York trial was “rigged,” just days after he told his supporters The Supreme Court cannot “stop” him from carrying out his agenda.
“It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said in response to the former president’s remarks about the case. New York v. trump card The verdict on Thursday found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
“Our justice system has been around for nearly 250 years and it is truly the cornerstone of America. Our justice system, justice should be respected. We will never allow anyone to tear it down. It’s that simple,” Biden added.
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President Joe Biden said on Friday that the justice system “should be respected” and that it was “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim that the verdict in the New York trial was “rigged.” (Getty Images)
Biden’s remarks came two days after he boasted to supporters at a rally in Philadelphia that the Supreme Court ruling that his student debt relief plan was unconstitutional did not “stop” him from canceling student loans.
“The Supreme Court stopped me from canceling student debt, but they didn’t stop me,” Biden said Wednesday at Girard College.
Like several other Democratic and Republican presidents throughout history, Biden has taken aim at the Supreme Court for a number of its decisions during his White House tenure.
During his State of the Union address in March, Biden took direct aim at the judges, insisting they underestimated women’s “electoral and political power” in their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Look, I think they made the wrong decision, I think they read the Constitution wrong, and I think they made a mistake,” Biden said of his remarks against the justices in an interview with MSNBC.
Speaking at the Julian Dickson Library in Culver City, Calif., in February, Biden made similar comments about the high court ruling “not preventing” him from canceling his student loans.
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The Supreme Court is located in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin, File)
“Early in my term, I announced a major plan to provide college debt relief to millions of working families,” Biden said at the time. “Tens of millions of debtors are actually about to have their debt canceled. But I’m in Congress Republican friends, elected officials and special interests in the U.S. stepped in and sued us. But that didn’t stop us.”
Last June, Supreme Court The 6-3 vote ruled that federal law does not allow Biden’s education secretary to cancel more than $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden pledged at the time that his administration would continue to advance his student debt relief plan.
“I think the court misinterpreted the Constitution,” Biden said shortly after the court’s ruling.
Earlier this year, Biden announced the Savings for Valuable Education (SAVE) program cancel debt Available to registered borrowers with $12,000 or less in student loan debt who have been repaying the loan for at least 10 years. Those with more debt will need an extra year of payments for each additional $1,000 they borrow before they can qualify for relief.
“Expressing dissent with a Supreme Court ruling, as all presidents do, is not the same as attacking the rule of law and undermining our judicial system,” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
After the verdict in Trump’s trial, Biden claimed on social media on Friday that “no one is above the law.”
On May 31, 2024, President Biden delivered a speech in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He also used Trump’s rhetoric to raise funds for his re-election campaign, claiming in another post on X that Trump “questioned our justice system.”
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“Donald Trump is threatening our democracy. First, he questions our electoral system. Then, he questions our judicial system,” Biden wrote on Friday.
Biden said on Friday that Trump, the first president to be convicted of a felony, would “get the opportunity, as he should, to appeal his conviction.”
Fox News’ Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
