WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump On Friday, he drew criticism for posting a video on social media that included an image of President Joe Biden tied to a pig painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign quickly condemned the video, saying it suggested physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 presidential nominee as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery on immigration, while Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat In his speech, he emphasized that this ultimately resulted in a disadvantage. Storming the US Capitol.
“Trump regularly incites political violence, and it's time for the public to take him seriously,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement. Just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked to protect our democracy.”
“That photo was in the back of a pickup truck that was driving down the highway,” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chan said Friday night. Not only is he calling for this, but he is actually using the justice system as a weapon against him.”
The U.S. Secret Intelligence Service issued a statement saying it “does not confirm or comment on defense intelligence matters.”
The former president posted the video on his social media site Truth Social. His caption said the video was taken Thursday when the former president attended a rally in Long Island, New York. Wake for New York City Police Officers People who died in traffic jams.
The posted video shows a truck passing by with a flag proclaiming “Trump 2024” and support for police, with a photo of Biden looking helpless with his hands and feet bound in the back of the vehicle. It is depicted.
Trump Media & Technology Group Stock He began trading on the stock market on Tuesday, and the valuation increased his fortune by billions of dollars.
President Trump is seeking a return to the White House, painting an apocalyptic picture of the country if Biden secures a second term.
“If I don't get elected, the whole thing is going to be a disaster — it's not a big deal at least. It's going to be a disaster for the country,” he said at a rally in Ohio earlier this month. He warned while talking about the impact this would have on the country's automobile industry.
President Trump said immigrants were “contaminating the blood of our nation,” emulating the rhetoric of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. He also once referred to his opponents as “pests,” a term he claims reflects his authoritarian beliefs.
At one recent rally, Mr. Trump went so far as to denounce Mr. Biden's handling of the border issue as a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States.”
Last year, before he was indicted in New York over hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 campaign, Trump posted a photo of himself holding a baseball bat next to a photo of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on social media. posted.
In a 2018 speech, Biden discussed lewd comments Trump had made about women and expressed his disgust by suggesting: Willingness to physically fight the then-President.
“If we were in high school, we'd take him to the back of the gym and beat the hell out of him,” Biden said at the time, adding that men who disrespect women “usually do it right then and there.” The fattest, ugliest SOB,” he added. ”
