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What the incumbent president thinks of his rival is well known. Now Donald Trump has once again delivered a complete blow against Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Meanwhile, prominent Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump.
US President Donald Trump attacked his opponent at an event in Florida. (October 16)
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Joe Biden and his family are criminals, the president complained.
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Elections will be held in the United States on November 3.
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Two and a half weeks before the US presidential election, incumbent Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on the family of his challenger Joe Biden. “Joe Biden is a corrupt politician,” the Republican said Friday during a campaign appearance in Ocala, Florida. “And the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.” He added: “The Bidens got rich while America was robbed.”
Trump described the “mainstream media” as “enemies of the people” and accused them of not reporting on “the greatest story in the world”; he was referring to the alleged corruption of Democrat Biden.
When Biden’s name was mentioned, Trump supporters chanted “Lock him up.” This was the slogan that Trump supporters had used in the election campaign four years ago to challenge Hillary Clinton. Trump has long raised corruption allegations against former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter without evidence, which have now been fired by the “New York Post” tabloid.
Unverified emails posted
The newspaper tried in recent days to link Joe Biden to his son Hunter Biden’s earlier deals in Ukraine and China. The newspaper published emails alleging that Hunter Biden was trying to cash in on his father’s office as vice president at the time. The newspaper also evaluated the emails as evidence that Joe Biden, contrary to his testimony, knew about his son’s controversial foreign business. Joe Biden denies that he was guilty of anything. The authenticity of the emails has not been confirmed.
How the emails reached the public is also questionable. They are said to have been found on a laptop in a repair shop. The “New York Post” received a hard drive copy from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s longtime personal attorney and close confidante, last weekend. The copy was made by the owner of the repair shop before the FBI seized the laptop in December 2019, the newspaper reported.
Hunter Biden was a member of the Burisma gas company supervisory board from 2014 to 2019. Trump accused Biden, among other things, of using his position as vice president in the Barack Obama administration (until 2017) to try to protect his son of the Ukrainian judiciary. Biden rejects that. Trump wanted to get investigations in Ukraine. The conflict sparked an impeachment process against Trump, which failed in February due to a Republican majority in the Senate.
At a distance from the president
Meanwhile, several prominent Republicans are turning their backs on Donald Trump. The focus is on dealing with the crown crisis. Trump’s confidant Chris Christie criticized, among other things, protective measures at the White House. He assumed he was in a “safe zone” there. “I was wrong.” Christie had helped Trump, among other things, prepare for the television debate with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. He was then treated for about a week in hospital for Covid 19 disease.
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he had not been in the White House since early August, due to concerns about coronavirus risks there. Some political observers in Washington saw his comments as a license for Republicans to no longer hold back from criticizing Trump. Trump is far behind Biden in the polls.
Republican Senator Ben Sasse, meanwhile, attacked the incumbent on a broad front in a conference call with voters. Trump spends money “like a drunken sailor” and “kisses dictators on the buttocks,” Sasse grumbled in a recording posted by the conservative Washington Examiner website. Trump’s leadership in the Corona crisis was neither sensible nor responsible. Sasse also warned that Republicans could permanently lose influence over voters because of Trump.
The influential Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, openly acknowledged that his Democratic Party colleagues have good prospects in the November 3 presidential election. “You have a good chance of winning the White House,” Graham said at a committee meeting Thursday. He himself must fear his re-election in the state of South Carolina in November.
