The president focused on Joe Biden, the Obamas and sending emails.
When Joe Biden was ready to take the most important step in his political career so far, President Donald Trump had a completely different kind of day on Thursday.
Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, was charged Thursday with fraud, and court documents show that New York prosecutors are working to re-file a lawsuit against another Trump associate: his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for mortgage fraud.
Earlier on Thursday, a federal judge rejected Trump’s motion to block the district attorney in Manhattan from receiving his taxes.
To add to Trump’s grief, more than 70 former Republican national security officials, including some former members of the Trump administration, came out in support of Biden.
Minutes before Biden was set to accept the Democratic nomination for president, Trump was on Twitter, targeting the former vice president and voting by mail.
Trump’s claim that he stands for “law and order” comes on the same day that his former campaign CEO and chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, was arrested and accused of defrauding donors in an online scheme.
Trump also claimed that Biden “allowed” excuses and “crime” although Biden, in response to the violent protests around America, took a firm stand. “We need to hold those who break the law accountable,” he said recently.
“We should never let what has been done in a march for equal rights be the reason for the march,” Biden said. “And that’s what these people are doing. And they need to be arrested – found, arrested and tried.”
Trump continued to tweet Thursday, claiming Democrats are sending demands for emails because enthusiasm for “Slow Joe Biden” is lagging behind and Democrats “worried that very few people will come out to vote.”
Trump did not name the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the desire for post-election voting. The virus has now killed more than 170,000 Americans.
When the Democratic National Conference kicked off last night, he asked why Democrats are against voter identity, still “need to have an ID card” to get into the DNC. The convention this week was completely virtual, and was publicly streamed to anyone who wants to attend online.
The Trump campaign’s attack on Biden comes just days before next week’s Republican convention. At the 2016 Republican convention, first lady Melania Trump faced severe setbacks after it was discovered she was being taken directly from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech.
On the last day of the DNC, Trump called in an interview for Fox News’ Sean Hannity, where he decided on the question of whether he would watch the evening of the convention. “I do not know [if] I will be able to see it all, “he said first, before adding,” I will see. I saw a lot of hate last night and the night before. I saw great hatred. ”
On the show, Trump criticized Michelle Obama for applying her speech. He also called former president Barack Obama “very divided” and said without him and Biden, Trump would not be president today.
Earlier in the day, Trump addressed Biden in a speech just miles away from the former vice president’s birthplace.
“Joe Biden is a puppet of the radical left movement trying to destroy the American way of life,” Trump said in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. “They do not want energy, they do not want guns, they do not want religion.”
ABC News’ Justin Gomez and Ben Gittleson contributed to this report.
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