A righteous Donald Trump is on the attack, saying it is current President Joe Biden who is destroying democracy in America and not himself, as he is so often accused of by the left and his media detractors.
This past weekend, the former president turned the tables on his likely rival in November, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump still contests is “the destroyer of American democracy.”
Trump’s allegations about Biden, a Democrat, echo the ones that Biden has been making for years against his predecessor. As Trump has dominated the Republican presidential primary and talked about targeting his rivals and the news media if he wins the White House again, Biden has stepped up his own warnings, contending Trump is “ determined to destroy American democracy.”
On Saturday, Trump made his most explicit argument to date on why voters should instead see his rival as the bigger democratic threat. Trump repeated his longstanding contention that the four criminal indictments against him show Biden is misusing the federal justice system against his rival.
“He’s been weaponizing government against his political opponents like a Third World political tyrant,” Trump said to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as standing up as allies of democracy,” Trump continued, arguing: “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy, Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy.”
Prior to making those comments about Joe Biden, at a rally in Ankeny, Iowa, Trump continued his allegations of Democratic election fraud, one of his favorite themes on the campaign trail. He told the crowd to “guard the vote” in 2024 and focused on the Democrat-run inner cities where such election shenanigans tend to occur as examples of places where fraud would happen again in 2024.
“You should go into Detroit, and you should go into Philadelphia, and you should go into some of these places, Atlanta, and you should go into some of these places, and we’ve got to watch those votes when they come in,” Trump told his supporters.