Donald Trump is trying to turn the tables on President Joe Biden by arguing the Democratic incumbent is the actual threat to democracy.
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.”
Trump’s allegations about Biden, a Democrat, echo the ones that Biden has been making for years against his predecessor. As Trump has dominated the Republican presidential primary and talked about targeting his rivals and the news media if he wins the White House again, Biden has stepped up his own warnings, contending Trump is “ determined to destroy American democracy.”
On Saturday, Trump made his most explicit argument to date on why voters should instead see his rival as the bigger democratic threat. Trump repeated his longstanding contention that the four criminal indictments against him show Biden is misusing the federal justice system against his rival.
“He’s been weaponizing government against his political opponents like a Third World political tyrant,” Trump said to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as standing up as allies of democracy,” Trump continued, arguing: “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy, Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy.”
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.”
Interesting but horrible argument.
Trump repeated his longstanding contention that the four criminal indictments against him show Biden is misusing the federal justice system against his rival.
Yeah, but see you actually broke the law and need to be punished. And Joe Biden had nothing to do with you breaking the law or getting caught. If you had never run for president it's likely you would still be skating by breaking the law.
Trump has long promised to prosecute Biden in retaliation should he return to the White House.
Oh! You just want an excuse to do the same thing you say your opponent is doing. So weaponized justice system for me but not thee.
1 - obvious projection based on what’s already known about him
2 - using the words ‘destroy’ and ‘democracy’ in the same sentence to his cult...just to get the idea of destroying our democracy into the ol' zeitgeist
Holy hell - I had a MAGA woman pontificate about this recently, going on and on about the “mob rule” of democracy. I know how our government works, Tamara, and I still don’t support your fourth reich aspirations.
They have been doing this "well, actually" thing about democracy for as long as I can remember, most especially the Libertarians and the "classical liberal" type of Republicans.
But they have been mainstreaming this more and more and it's been turned up to 11, and I think there is a reason their thought leaders have been leading them down this path....and it's not a good reason.
As always, I recommend people read Democracy in Chains. If there is/are related documentary(ies) that forward the same information, I'd love to know about them.
Nah, his followers have selective amnesia where they individually forget anything he says that they don't like. Remember when he said he was going to confiscate guns without due process?
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On Saturday, Trump made his most explicit argument to date on why voters should instead see his rival as the bigger democratic threat.
Trump repeated his longstanding contention that the four criminal indictments against him show Biden is misusing the federal justice system against his rival.
Ammar Moussa, a Biden campaign spokesman, responded: “Donald Trump’s America in 2025 is one where the government is his personal weapon to lock up his political enemies.
Dozens of lawsuits were dismissed by courts and government and independent reviews have not found enough alleged fraud to throw the outcome into question.
Earlier in the day, at a rally in Ankeny, Iowa, Trump returned to allegations of Democratic election fraud, one of his favorite themes on the campaign trail.
He told the crowd to “guard the vote” in 2024, and focused on diverse cities he has often denigrated as examples of places where fraud would happen.
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