President Biden on Friday said the judicial system “should be respected” and that it was “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim the New York case was “rigged.” Days earlier, Trump told supporters that the Supreme Court could not “stop” him from pursuing his agenda.
“It’s reckless, dangerous and irresponsible to say there was fraud just because you don’t like the verdict,” Biden said in response to the former president’s comments on the case. NY vs. Trump The ruling Thursday found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
“Our justice system has been in place for nearly 250 years and is literally the foundation of America. Our justice system, our justice, must be respected. And we must not let anyone destroy it. That’s it,” Biden added.
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President Biden said Friday that the justice system “must be respected” and that it is “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim the New York trial verdict was “rigged.” (Getty Images)
Biden’s comments came just two days after he bragged to supporters at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that he couldn’t “stop” paying off student loans, even if the Supreme Court ruled the student loan relief plan unconstitutional.
“The Supreme Court blocked student loan forgiveness, but it didn’t stop me,” Biden said Wednesday at Girard College.
Biden, like other Democratic and Republican presidents throughout history, has denounced numerous Supreme Court decisions during his time in the White House.
Biden took direct aim at the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address in March, arguing that it had underestimated women’s “electoral and political power” in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In an interview with MSNBC about his comments on the Supreme Court, Biden said: Biden:“Look, I think they made the wrong decision. I think they read the Constitution wrong. I think they made a mistake.”
Biden made similar comments in February when he spoke at the Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, California, saying the Supreme Court decision “did not stop” student loan forgiveness.
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Supreme Court of Washington, DC (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin, File)
“At the beginning of my term, I announced a big plan to provide college loan debt forgiveness to millions of working families,” Biden said at the time. “We would have literally wiped out the debt for tens of millions of people who were in debt. But my MAGA Republican friends in Congress, elected officials and special interests stepped in and sued us. And the Supreme Court blocked it. But it couldn’t stop me.”
Last June, supreme court The 6-3 ruling said federal law does not allow Biden, the education secretary, to forgive more than $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden promised at the time that his administration would continue to move forward with a student loan debt relief plan.
Immediately after the court ruling, Biden said: “I think the court misunderstood the Constitution.”
Earlier this year, Biden unveiled the Savings for a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. Cancel a debt Enrolled borrowers with at least 10 years of repayment time and $12,000 or less in student loan debt are eligible. Borrowers with more debt will receive relief after making one year of additional payments for every additional $1,000 borrowed.
“Voicing opposition to the Supreme Court’s decisions, as all presidents do, is not the same as attacking the rule of law and undermining our judicial system,” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Following Trump’s court ruling, Biden on social media “No one is above the law,” he asserted on Friday.
President Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 31, 2024. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He has also used Trump’s comments to raise funds for his reelection campaign, and in another post from X he claimed Trump had “called into question our country’s justice system.”
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“Donald Trump threatens our democracy. First he called into question our electoral system. Then he called into question our judicial system.” Biden wrote: Friday.
Biden said Friday that Trump, the first president to be convicted of a felony, “will, of course, be given the opportunity to appeal his conviction.”
Fox News’ Lindsay Cornick contributed to this report.
