Unleashes tirade on
Former President Donald Trump unloaded on President Biden in a no-holds-barred statement released minutes after the 81-year-old announced he would be dropping his re-election bid.
“Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President and is certainly not fit to serve — And never was!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.
“He only attained the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement. All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t,” Trump’s screed continued.
“And now, look what he’s done to our Country, with millions of people coming across our Border, totally unchecked and unvetted, many from prisons, mental institutions, and record numbers of terrorists.”
He continued, “We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump in a phone call with CNN also weighed in on Biden’s historic decision to drop out of the 2024 race.
“He is the worst president in the history of our country. He goes down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country,” Trump said.
Trump, 78, has long believed he ultimately would not end up facing Biden come November. On Sunday, he said Vice President Kamala Harris would be easier to defeat than the incumbent, should she be the Democratic nominee.
“He has no clue, he doesn’t. If you look at him, he doesn’t know where he is,” the Republican nominee for president said of Biden in May, during an interview with “Cats & Cosby Show” hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby.
“You know that, I know that, everybody knows that. And I doubt he will even be running, frankly, I just can’t even imagine it.”
When asked by Dr. Phil McGraw in June about Biden’s chances of seeing his re-election
campaign through, Trump said, “I have said no for a year.”
The former president’s rhetoric changed after the June 27 debate in Atlanta, where Biden struggled to give coherent answers, misspoke on numerous occasions and froze for several seconds before oddly proclaiming that he “beat Medicare.”
“Yes, I think he will be the nominee,” Trump told Fox News the day after the debate.
“No, I don’t think so,” Trump said, when pressed on rumblings that Biden could be replaced.
“They wouldn’t have done any better [in the debate]. No one else would have been better.”
Trump maintained his position during a rally in Virginia later that day, indicating he didn’t “really believe” reports that the Democratic National Committee could shake up the race by ousting Biden, because “he does better in polls than any of the Democrats they talk about.”
The former president, however, mused on possible Biden replacements, name-checking Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
“Kamala is someone who would be on the [list],” Trump said, calling it Biden’s “single best decision” to tap her as vice president. “Nobody wants that [on top of the Democratic ticket],” the former president argued.
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Crooked Joe Biden was not fit run for fit to serve - And never was! - Donald Trump