Biden condemns Trump response to hush cash verdict
President Joe Biden on Friday referred to as former President Donald Trump‘s response to his conviction in New York on criminal hush money charges “reckless” and “harmful.”
“It is irresponsible for anybody to say this was rigged, simply because they do not like the decision,” Biden stated on the White Home, hours after Trump held a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan condemning the criminal case.
Trump, 77, was convicted Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court docket of 34 felony counts associated to a scheme to hide hush cash paid to porn star Stormy Daniels earlier than the 2016 presidential election. Throughout his press convention Friday, Trump stated of his prosecution in New York state courtroom, “That is all accomplished by Biden and his individuals. That is accomplished by Washington.”
Biden, who is about to face Trump within the November election, stated his Republican opponent’s conviction reaffirmed “the American precept that nobody is above the regulation.”
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a press convention, the day after a responsible verdict in his felony trial over expenses that he falsified enterprise data to hide cash paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis on Could 31, 2024.
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“Donald Trump was given each alternative to defend himself,” Biden stated. “A state case, not a federal case, was heard by a jury of 12 residents, 12 People, 12 individuals such as you, like thousands and thousands of People who served on juries.”
“This jury was chosen the identical method each jury in America has been chosen,” the president stated. “5 weeks after cautious deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict.”
Biden famous that Trump can have the possibility to attraction his conviction after he’s sentenced July 11.
However the Democrat stated “it is reckless, it is harmful” for Trump to argue that the felony case was politically motivated and that the end result was “rigged” by the trial decide and others.
“Our justice system has endured for almost 250 years,” Biden stated. “And it actually is a cornerstone of America, our justice system … justice must be revered.”
“And we should always by no means enable anybody to tear it down. So simple as that. That is America. That is who we’re.
That is who we’ll all the time be, God prepared.”
