Trump claims Biden’s ‘lock him up’ remark proves the criminal cases against him are politically motivated
Former President Donald Trump responded Wednesday to President Biden suggesting that he should be locked up with less than two weeks to go until Election Day.
Trump, 78, argued that the 81-year-old president’s verbal slip proves his claim that the Harris-Biden administration’s Justice Department has been engaging in “election interference” by bringing charges against him during his presidential campaign.
“‘We gotta lock him up’ – I told you – he said that,” Trump said at a rally in Duluth, Ga., partially quoting Biden’s stunning remark Tuesday.
“Then he denied it – ‘Oh, oh, oh, I didn’t mean that, ah, ah’ – because he’s not legally allowed to say – he can’t say that,” the former president argued.
Biden backtracked seconds after the slip, as the audience in a Concord, N.H., Democratic campaign office cheered.
“Politically, lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do,” the president clarified.
Trump isn’t buying it.
“I’ve been telling you that it’s election interference,” he said. “This is all it is. He said, ‘We gotta lock him up.’ This is illegal. It should cause cases.”
“[T]hese are crooked people. This is all election interference,” Trump reiterated, after claiming that he’s been indicted more than notorious gangster Al Capone.
“[T]hese lawsuits are being run by the Department of Justice, the FBI – Biden is behind it all, believe it or not, and he proved that yesterday with his stupid statement,” the Republican nominee for president added.
However, Trump noted that his popularity has only increased amid the legal cases against him.
“It’s crazy, right? Because the people got it,” Trump said.
The 45th president was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign.
His sentencing in that case, which was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, is scheduled for Nov. 26.