Biden’s First 2024 Campaign Speech Recycles Old Attacks on TrumpJoel B. Pollak 5 Jan 2024
President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign on Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with recycled attack lines against Donald Trump that he had previously used in the 2020 presidential campaign.
Biden claimed — as if it were a fact — that Trump had called fallen soldiers (Biden called them “dead soldiers”) “suckers” and “losers,” an unsubstantiated accusation by unnamed sources that was refuted at the time by more than a dozen people who went on the record, including some who opposed Trump.
Biden also attacked Trump for considering the use of the Insurrection Act in 2020 — which Biden described as a frightening use of the military on American streets, omitting the fact that Black Lives Matter rioters were rampaging through America’s cities.
Much of the speech was devoted to the third anniversary of the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021; Biden moved his speech a day earlier to avoid bad weather. He made no mention of similar left-wing “insurrections,” such as a left-wing shutdown of the California State Assembly this week — which resulted in no arrests at all, even though legislators had to flee the building.
It was Biden’s first campaign speech of 2024, but he devoted almost no attention to his past achievements, or his plans for a second term, but focused instead on his 2020 and likely 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, whom he described as a threat to democracy. Biden cited a “word cloud” that had been created by the Daily Mail to describe terms that respondents had associated with Trump, and which Trump re-posted. The words included “revenge” and “dictatorship,” which Biden cited as if Trump had actually said he stood for those things. (The most prominent word in Joe Biden’s own “word cloud” was: “nothing.”)
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