Trump unleashes on Biden as legal problems mount

Former President Trump on Thursday unleashed a torrent of insults against President Biden, attacking him in personal terms as Trump’s legal problems continue to mount.

“What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country through his Open Borders CATASTROPHE, may go down as the greatest and most damaging mistake ever made in USA HISTORY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It is not even believable that such incompetence and stupidity could have been allowed to happen.”

Trump claimed Biden has the “mind, ideas, and I.Q. of a First Grader.”

In a subsequent post, Trump wrote he thinks Biden “is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe he has gone MAD, a stark raving Lunatic, with his HORRIBLE AND COUNTRY THREATENING ENVIRONMENTAL, OPEN BORDERS, & DOJ/FBI WEAPONIZATION POLICIES.”

“HE IS A MENTAL CATASTROPHE THAT IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL!”

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. Former Vice President Mike Pence is refuting claims from Trump’s legal team that Trump never asked him to reject votes from certain states while certifying the 2020 election.(AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Trump’s escalation in language comes as the former president faces growing legal problems, some of which Trump claims are the result of political persecution from his top opponent in the 2024 election.

Trump is facing felony charges in Manhattan over an alleged hush money scheme to keep quiet an affair in the months before the 2016 election. He is facing felony federal charges in Florida over his retention of classified materials after leaving office and he is facing federal charges in Washington, D.C., over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results and remain in power.

Trump is also expected to face charges in Georgia in the coming weeks over his attempts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020.

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The former president has repeatedly sought to frame the charges against him as election interference brought by Biden because Trump is leading in GOP primary polls. But Biden and White House officials have not publicly weighed in on Trump’s cases, and they have been adamant about maintaining independence from the Justice Department.

A New York Times/Siena College poll released last week found Trump and Biden tied in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, with each of them garnering support from 43 percent of voters.

Trump’s incendiary language also comes one day after a Utah man was shot and killed during an FBI raid linked to threats against Biden and other Democratic officials. 

The FBI said the incident occurred after special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo, Utah.