WASHINGTON – President Biden joked Monday that he was trying to “keep” former President Donald Trump out of the November election.
The 81-year-old Democratic president delivered the punchline after saying his Republican opponent “wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare” during a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the White House Rose Garden. It seems that the decision was made by improvisation.
Referring to a recent interview with President Trump, 77, Biden said, “He says there’s a lot that can be done in terms of cuts.”
“I have one really serious idea about how to cut it,” Biden added, pausing to laugh as if to himself, before adding, “The candidate.”
Mr. Biden has almost daily accused Mr. Trump of orchestrating four pending criminal charges, including an ongoing hush-money trial in New York City for allegedly falsifying business records in 2016. Nevertheless, he cracked a joke.
“this is [Democratic Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg did it for political reasons for Biden,” President Trump told reporters in court Monday morning. “This is Biden’s trial. He is a crooked president.”
Trump noted that Matthew Colangelo, the prosecutor who led the case against him in New York, was the third-ranking official in the Biden Justice Department until he joined the case against him against Bragg in December 2022. It pointed out.
Although the criminal conviction does not bar Trump from holding public office, some Democratic officials have argued that Trump led the rioters in the 2021 Capitol riot that disrupted the certification of Biden’s victory. They are trying to keep him from voting. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down those efforts in March.
Biden’s reference to President Trump’s desire to cut Social Security and Medicare was in reference to a recent CNBC interview in which the former president said, “There’s a lot we can do in terms of entitlements and cuts.” was.
President Trump later told Breitbart News: “There’s so much cuts and waste in so many other areas, but we’re never going to do anything to undermine Social Security.”
