Biden calls for Trump to be jailed 14 days before 2024 election: ‘We gotta lock him up!’

By Steven Nelson

Retiring President Biden stunned listeners Tuesday by calling for his predecessor Donald Trump to be jailed — 14 days before the presidential election in which Trump is the Republican nominee.

“If I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up: We gotta lock him up,” Biden, 81, said during a visit to a Democratic campaign office in Concord, NH, the Granite State’s capital.

After a four-second pause during which his audience enthusiastically applauded, Biden added in an apparent backtrack attempt: “politically, lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do.”

The president and his aides typically refrain from commenting on the four pending criminal cases against Trump, who contends that a quartet of local and federal indictments last year were politically motivated to aid Biden’s then-re-election campaign.

Biden has tauntingly referenced Trump’s legal woes before, however, saying last week that “I think he’s running to stay out of jail” during an appearance in Pennsylvania.

Trump, 78, was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. 

The 45th president’s sentencing in that case, which was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, is scheduled for Nov. 26.

Trump also faces pending federal and state charges in Georgia related to challenging his 2020 election defeat by Biden. And federal prosecutors are attempting to revive another case out of South Florida accusing Trump of mishandling classified records, which a judge dismissed in July.

If Trump becomes the 47th president on Nov. 5, the new administration’s Justice Department leaders likely would seek to set aside the two federal cases. 

Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, are in a close contest according to swing-state polling — with RealClearPolitics averages showing Trump marginally ahead across the board, but within survey margins of error.

Harris, 60, usually treads carefully when discussing whether Trump should be jailed — often telling supporters who chant “lock him up!” at her rallies that the court system will make that decision. 

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification on Biden’s remarks, which quickly triggered outrage among Trump’s supporters.

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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has filed a complaint against the UK’s Labour Party for what it claims is “interference” in the US election.

A statement on DonaldJTrump.com on Tuesday night said “The Trump-Vance Campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against the Harris-Walz Campaign and the Labour Party of the United Kingdom for illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference in our elections”. 

The linked complaint addressed to the Federal Election Commission refers to reports in British newspaper The Telegraph about people associated with Labour going to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris. 

It claims that reports “surrounding the relationship between the Harris campaign and the Labour Party create a reasonable inference that the Labour Party has made, and the Harris campaign has accepted, illegal foreign national contributions”. 

The letter also refers to a report in the Washington Post which claims that advice has been offered between the Labour Party and Ms Harris’ campaign, and other reporting regarding meetings between senior Labour staff and the Democratic campaign. 

The complaint cites a social media post, which now appears to have been deleted, in which a Labour staff member apparently said there were “nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks” to swing states. 

It is understood that trips have been organised in a personal capacity and accommodation has been arranged by volunteers for the Democrats. 

Sir Keir Starmer met with Mr Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, during a trip to New York last month. 

The UK Prime Minister visited Trump Tower for talks ahead of the US election, and said he wanted to meet Mr Trump face-to-face because “I’m a great believer in personal relationships on the world stage”. 

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