President Donald Trump called on Friday night for Joe Biden and his family to be jailed, escalating his attacks on his Democratic opponent for unsubstantiated allegations as he fights to reverse his poll deficit.
Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary, “Trump declared at a rally in Macon, Georgia, stirring up the crowd that shouted” lock him up “in favor of the Democratic candidate’s jail time.
“We have learned in recent months: Joe Biden is a corrupt politician,” Trump told his supporters, “and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.
Trump frequently demanded that his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, be jailed for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. It was believed that it was the first time that he used that type of attack against the Bidens.
The FBI refused in 2016 to recommend charges against Clinton for sending a small number of classified emails through a private server at her New York home.
Following Biden in most opinion polls with the election less than three weeks away, Trump has zeroed in on a New York Post report from earlier this week that highlights documents purporting to show Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings. , Hunter, in Ukraine and China.
The Post article, which cites unverified emails from an abandoned laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop, alleges that Hunter Biden introduced a Ukrainian businessman to his father, who has said he has never spoken to his son. about its international business. The emails did not provide evidence of a meeting. The businessman, according to the article, thanked Hunter Biden for “the opportunity to meet his father.”
Biden’s campaign said its calendars did not show any record of the former vice president meeting with the businessman.
The laptop’s hard drive was turned over to Trump’s ally Steve Bannon, who turned it over to Rudy Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello. Giuliani, a former New York mayor and Trump attorney, gave it to the Post.
“I have no answer. Another smear campaign,” Biden said Friday when asked about the reports.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Trump was warned last year that Giuliani had become the target of Russian intelligence for an influence operation. Giuliani’s efforts to obtain disparaging information about the Bidens from Ukrainian officials contributed to Trump’s impeachment in the House of Representatives.
Biden and Trump are scheduled to meet for a presidential debate in Nashville next Thursday, their final meeting of the 2020 campaign.
During the rally, Trump raised the possibility of defeat for Biden, although he took it lightly.
“I shouldn’t be kidding because you know what, competing against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me,” he said. “Can you imagine if I lose? All my life, what am I going to do, am I going to say, I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I’m not going to feel so good. I may have to leave the country, I don’t know. “
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