The Biden campaign wasted no time in celebrating the verdict. On May 30, 2024, after the guilty verdict was announced, the Biden team took to social media to herald the outcome as a triumph for justice. However, their swift and fervent response has sparked considerable controversy and backlash, particularly among conservative circles.
After Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in deep blue Manhattan, the Biden campaign said in a statement, “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law.”
The Biden Harris Headquarters on (X) posted this video of Sleepy Joe:
“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain,” the release snarked.
However, the celebratory tone adopted by the Biden campaign has not been without its critics. Many conservative commentators and Trump supporters have accused the Biden team of exploiting the verdict for political gain and using it as a tool to discredit Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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The response from the Trump camp was swift and fierce, with accusations that the Biden campaign was engaging in political grandstanding and gaslighting.
The snide comment comes as Trump has been adamant the “election interference” “all comes out of Washington, DC.
“This is election interference. It all comes out of Washington. They have their reps [representiaves] here,” he said on May 10, telling media members, “I’m sure you know that.”
“It’s to damage Crooked Joe Biden’s political opponent – happens to be me. And we’re leading big in the polls, and the American people get it; it’s a scam,” he added.
Per the Examiner’s Ashley Oliver:
Bragg did not hire Colangelo for his white-collar prosecutorial experience, which was lacking at the time he joined Bragg’s office. Rather, Bragg valued Colangelo’s “broad knowledge” of the Trump Organization, according to a New York Times report published at the end of 2022, during the same time frame that Bragg was seeking to ramp up his prosecution efforts against Trump.
Notably, legal expert Jonathan Turley has slammed the case as “absurd,” while Fox News analyst and former defense attorney Greg Jarrett has asserted the trial bore “no resemblance” to the “cherished constitutional promise” of the right to a fair trial.Biden’s campaign also relied heavily on fear-mongering in its statement about the unprecedented conviction of the former president of the United States and presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
For instance, Biden claimed that Trump is running an “unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one.’” However, Trump has made clear he does not seek “revenge” in a potential second term.
“I don’t care about the revenge thing. I know they usually use the word, ‘Revenge. Will there be revenge,’” Trump said during a town hall event with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham in February. “My revenge will be success.”
Moreover, in the “dictator” comment the campaign pointed to, Trump clearly referred to the executive orders he would institute on day one regarding the border and energy sector if elected.
“I’m going to be — I’m going to be, you know, he keeps — we love those guy. He says, ‘you’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator,” Trump said.
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