"Fearmongering": Trump hits back at Biden over "threat to democracy' remark in his 2024 campaign speech
Joe Biden's first 2024 campaign speech, Donald Trump accused him of «fearmongering and claimed that Biden was attacking him on the democracy issue because he couldn't run on other matters, The Hill reported.
Biden described Trump as a clear threat to democracy who could not be trusted with a second term, it added.
Trump, while addressing his remarks to supporters in Sioux Centre, Iowa, characterized Biden's speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a „pathetic fearmongering campaign event“ and said that Biden was only attacking him on the issue of democracy because he could not run on other issues.
»Joe Biden's record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure. Other than that, he's doing quite well," Trump said, mocking Biden's delivery of his speech.
«Biden, if you take a look at what he's doing on the border or inflation, or our military, that horrible day in Afghanistan, you look at what he's done with energy,» Trump added. «All throughout the world, we're an embarrassment as a country. We've become an embarrassment as a country.»
Trump at one point cast doubt on the election results in 2020, suggesting the roughly 75 million votes cast for him were inaccurate and the total was actually higher. Numerous court challenges brought by Trump allies in 2020 seeking to challenge the results were rejected or dismissed by various judges across the country, reported The Hill.
Trump, the front-runner to win the GOP presidential nomination, was speaking at the first of several scheduled events in Iowa this weekend.
The former president is hoping that his supporters lift him to a dominant victory and squash any potential momentum for former
