Biden Draws The Line
Biden Rejects Advisor’s “Trump Takedown” Line
“I get that it hits Trump spot on, but I can’t do it,” Biden insists
So now we have it — President Biden and former President Donald Trump will be battling each other in a November election rematch after their primary wins Tuesday night.
In a video posted to social media by the Trump campaign, Trump called it a “great day of victory,” but said “we’re not going to take time to celebrate. We’ll celebrate in eight months when the election is over.”
Biden’s statement was more formal. — “Freedom and democracy are at risk here at home in a way they have not been since the Civil War. Donald Trump is running a campaign of resentment, revenge, and retribution that threatens the very idea of America.”
As for Trump, it is likely that we will hear more of the type of rhetoric he exhibited at a campaign rally he held in Rome, GA this past Saturday. He wasted no time launching into (as it was described by the New York Times) an “angry, dark, hate-filled rant”.
For nearly two hours, Trump attacked President Biden with digs at his mental and physical health, as well as highlighting grievances against other political opponents and prosecutors who are bringing cases against him. He also used inflammatory language to stoke fears about immigration, and of course repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
In addition, in an act similar to Trump’s mocking of a political reporter when he was running for president in 2016, Trump mocked President Biden’s lifelong stutter, which crossed a line for more than one Biden advisor.
This was Trump in 2016:
And this is Trump now:
It’s just the Trumpian way.
One of Biden’s advisors, actually a couple of them according to our sources, wanted Biden to respond by making a particular statement, but he refused to do it. The advisors argued that Trump has now sunk to his customary low, and he needs to be called out for it.
Again, Biden steadfastly refused.
“Listen, I get that saying it hits Trump spot on,” Biden insisted, “but I can’t do it. I just won’t do it.”
“But it’s so perfect,” his advisors were heard to argue. It speaks of exactly what Trump wants to do to the country. It might need a little elaboration — to bring it into context — but it nails Trump and all of his horrible ways.”
“But that’s the point,” Biden argued back. “Don’t you see? The context is too costly. That woman has been through enough. I won’t make matters any worse for her than it is right now!”
Exactly what is it then, that Biden refused to say?
The line is a statement, an analogy of sorts, that his advisors have been wanting Biden to use for some time now, ever since the case of E. Jean Carroll has been in the news. Here it is:
“There is one thing Trump has made clear. What Trump wants most to do, if he is ever president again, is to take America lingerie shopping, and he’ll do it over and over again.”
(“Take America Lingerie Shopping” — Not so much the shopping Trump treated Ms. Carroll to, but what happened in the dressing room.)
As we reported, Biden refused to say this, and he never will. And it makes no sense to say something like — “If the situation was reversed, Trump would use something like this on Biden” — because a reversal of this situation would be unthinkable, it would never happen.
We all know these two men have a core decency difference that will never be breached.
But here’s a similarity of the two that is also telling:
Neither one will call the other an “honorable man”.
Trump won’t say it because he could never bring himself to say something good about Biden. And Biden won’t do it because it is simply not true.
Reportedly, Trump’s money is running short. Will he revert to his old money making scheme? —
