The president also called Trump, who was found guilty last week in his New York criminal trial, “unhinged.”
President Joe Biden called former President Donald Trump a “convicted felon” who “snapped” after the 2020 election at a campaign event Monday.
“For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency,” Biden told the crowd at the fundraising event in Greenwich, Connecticut. “But as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all-out assault Donald Trump is making on the American system of justice.”
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial. Biden addressed Trump’s conviction Friday, taking a swipe at the attacks Trump and his allies have lobbed at the justice system.
Yes, of course, but there are degrees of engagement with politics. I still think this route is worth pursuing, but there will be a not insignificant number of his supporters turned from reluctant to passionate over this as they (incorrectly, stupidly) perceive it to be a governmental attack on their preferred candidate. Trump had his best fundraising day of this year the day of the conviction. There’s a lot of political math behind whether you think it will galvanize Biden’s supporters more or if you think it will increase reluctance for Trump with independents, both of which I think are true. I wouldn’t fault someone for coming to either conclusion really and I think you would need harder polling numbers (that I’m sure Biden’s team has) to really make an informed decision.