The Biden campaign responded to Trump’s rambling, lie-filled speech by offering one reality check for every felony conviction of the ex-president.
Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon
How did Biden react to Trump’s post-conviction press conference?
Here is the Biden campaign’s response to Trump’s speech as provided to PoliticusUSA:
- “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.” (Other people typically don’t pay hush money to a porn star they had an affair with)
- “They want to prevent you from having cars.â€Â (uh, no)
- “I have a gag order, which no one has ever been under before.â€Â (other people have also been given a gag order during their trial)
- “Think about it, I’m the leading candidate. I supervise Biden By a wide margin, and I’m leading the Republicans to the point where that’s over.â€Â (the primaries have been over for over two months)
- “This is being done by Washington.† (the trial took place in New York)
- “It was very unfair.” (It was not)
- “I wanted to testify… to this day I would have liked to testify.” (He could have testified. He chose not to)
- “I’m out there and I don’t mind being out there.” (He’s really sorry to be out there.)
- “It was a rigged process.” (It was not.)
- “As for the trial itself, it was very unfair.”(It wasn’t.)
- “Let me tell you the good news.” (There was no good news.)
- “He wouldn’t allow us to have witnesses.† (The Trump team had witnesses.)
- “The unselected committee of criminals.† (tbh fantastic fantasy football team name.)
- ‘By the way, and nothing ever happened. There was nothing.† (Do you understand this because we don’t.)
- “I don’t feel 77.” (He looks older)
- “So it’s not hush money, it’s a non-disclosure agreement that is completely legal. Completely common. Everyone has it.”(So he admits it)
- “It should have been a non-case and everyone said it was a non-case.” (???)
- ‘You saw what happened to some of the witnesses who were on our side. They were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but is actually a devil. He looks so beautiful and soft.â€Â (Wohhh)
- “Our elections are corrupt.” (No, they’re not.)
- “Languages… we’ve never heard of.† (We have heard of these languages.)
- ‘Nobody knows where they get it from [money].â€A (FEC reports)
- “I could go through the books of every businessman in town and I could find things that I think in theory we could sue him.” (No, he couldn’t.)
- “Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Gregg Jarrett, look at all these people, Mark Levin, all very talented people.”(These are not talented people.)
- “I’m honored to be involved in this because someone has to do it.” (you don’t have to “hand it over” to them under any circumstances)
- “There was nothing wrong. These were standard. This was standard stuff, all standard stuff, everything that had to do with standard, there was no crime here.† (A jury of his peers unanimously disagrees)
- “Everyone says there’s no crime here.” (A jury of his peers unanimously disagrees)
- “I don’t want it to have an adverse effect. I don’t know, I want to win this case legitimately, not because they were stupid and did things they shouldn’t do.â€Â (huh?)
- “People come from all over the world. And many of them are not good people.† (In this corner of the world we don’t understand this.)
- “Our kids can’t have a Little League game anymore.† (kids have Little League games, we promise)
- “Crime is rampant in New York.”(Crime is downin NYC)
- “For example, it was a beautiful sunny day and it was really raining.”(Many days during Trump’s trial had nice weather.)
- “I have to go to prison for 187 years.† (actually not true at all)
- “Joe.” Bidenthe worst presidentin the history of our country. He’s the worst presidentin the history of our country.â€A (This is in fact you.)
- “They have beautiful tents, they have propane heaters.”(Bass Pro Shop?)
Trump’s speech was damage control
There was an air of desperate damage control in Trump’s speech. For everyone covering the trial, much of it was a repetition of lies he had been telling outside the courtroom for weeks during the trial. Legal experts quickly debunked the lies, but the political consequences were more serious.
CNN noted that Trump did not use his teleprompter and called the ex-president ranting and incoherent.
When Trump is in this mental state, he starts to panic and make his biggest mistakes.
Trump is about to become even more reckless and dangerous, which could lead to a total implosion of the former president’s campaign.
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