Biden lays into ‘convicted felon’ Trump in fiery marketing campaign speech: ‘Something snapped in this guy for real’ | EUROtoday

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President Joe Biden referred to as out Donald Trump for what he’s – a “convicted felon” – in a fiery marketing campaign speech, the place he laid into his “clearly unhinged” Republican rival who “snapped” after shedding the 2020 election.

In the fast aftermath of Trump’s conviction on all fees in his New York hush cash trial final week, the president provided solely cautious touch upon his political foe.

But on Monday night, addressing a marketing campaign occasion on the personal residence of a rich Democratic donor couple in Greenwich, Connecticut, Biden didn’t maintain again.

“Folks, the campaign entered uncharted territory last week,” he instructed his viewers.

“For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency.”

“But as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all-out assault Donald Trump is making on the American system of justice.”

Biden warned of Trump’s “all-out assault” on the justice system in revenge for his felony conviction, saying it’s “reckless and dangerous” for Trump and his conservative allies to insist that the decision was rigged “just because they don’t like the outcome”.

The president continued by outlining the excessive stakes at play on this 12 months’s election.

“The threat that Trump poses would be greater in a second term than it was in his first term,” he mentioned.

“This isn’t the same Trump who got elected in 2016. He’s worse. Something snapped in this guy for real when he lost in 2020. He can’t accept he lost and it is literally driving him crazy.”

Biden continued: “Now he’s running again. And he’s not only obsessed with losing in 2020, he is clearly unhinged. Just listen to him.

“He says he wants to be – in his words – ‘a dictator on day ne.’ He says he wants to – in his words – ‘terminate the Constitution.’ When asked if he thought violence would occur if he lost again he said ‘it depends.’

“He calls convicted insurrectionists who are in prison now ‘patriots.’ And, if re-elected, he wants to pardon ‘every one of them’. Trump says if he loses again in November there’ll be – in his words – a ‘bloodbath.’”

Biden warned: “My God what kind of man is this? In fact, just this weekend, he said his MAGA supporters would reach a ‘breaking point.’”

Biden’s feedback got here days after Trump made historical past as the primary present or former US president convicted of a criminal offense.

The former president was discovered responsible of 34 fees of the falsification of enterprise information as a part of a 2016 election conspiracy to cease detrimental tales from reaching voters.

Biden additionally attacked Trump for his document on abortion, gun management, the atmosphere, his disastrous dealing with of the Covid-19 pandemic and his recurring disrespect for members of the armed forces.

He additionally roasted Trump over his infamous suggestion that Americans ought to inject disinfectant as a Covid remedy on the peak of the pandemic.

“He must’ve injected it into his brain,” the president jabbed.

Clearly fired up, Biden concluded by saying of Trump that he was “out selling Bibles and golden sneakers… selling his presidency to the highest bidder”.

“This guy does not deserve to be president, whether or not I’m running,” he mentioned.