Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is under fire from President Joe Biden’s campaign over a social media post.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform Friday to share a video of a pair of trucks belonging to his supporters. On the back of one truck, there was a life-size image of Biden tied up. According to his post, Trump saw the trucks Thursday on Long Island in New York. After it was reposted on the platform over 4,000 times and liked over 17,000, it prompted a response from the Biden campaign.
Shocking, even for the depraved monster that he is. Trump has posted a video on Truth Social that depicts an image of President Biden tied up and bound in the back of a pickup truck. pic.twitter.com/l7wPWbTv3j
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 29, 2024
“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a ‘bloodbath’ or when you tell the proud boys to ‘stand back and stand by,’” Biden’s campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler said in a statement to CNN. “Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6.”
Tyler was referring to Trump’s speech in Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month when he disparaged electric vehicles and made campaign promises to maintain the auto industry should he be reelected. The 2024 candidate blasted China for its part in building car factories in Mexico. He suggested the automobile industry will undergo a “bloodbath” if he’s not reelected.
“That picture was on the back of a pick up truck that was traveling down the highway,” Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him.”
In 2018, before Biden launched his own 2020 campaign against Trump, he suggested he would have taken Trump “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” the second time the former vice president had shared the sentiment. Later, he apologized for saying it and claimed he regretted sinking “down in the mosh pit with this guy.”
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele appeared Saturday on MSNBC to suggest Trump cannot think before he speaks because it “is way above Donald Trump’s paygrade, or I think, intellectual capacity because he’s a visceral animal, politically and in business.” Steele lamented that Trump has proven to be “a bad actor in this space” but continues to hold on to his political career.
“I mean, I don’t get it at all,” Steele said. “I’m confused about how the system still does not respond to the thing in front of it.”
Trump has also targeted New York Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter, a marketing firm president with Democratic politicians as clients. Online, Trump referred to her as a “Rabid Trump Hater.” Merchan, who is overseeing the former president’s hush money trial, issued a gag order against him on Tuesday.
Thursday was the first day of the wake service for New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller, which Trump attended in Queens. Biden was also in New York that same day for a scheduled fundraising event with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
