In his first appearance since the New York jury trial He found Donald Trump guiltyf 34 numbers President Joe Biden, who falsified business records, took a thinly veiled look at the former president’s attacks on the justice system.
“It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say it was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
The president’s comments came hours after Trump blamed him for his legal troubles in testimony to the press and supporters, said: “All this is done by Biden and his people. Washington does it. No one has seen anything like this.”
Criticizing both the prosecutors and the judge overseeing the case, Trump said: “This is a sham, a sham trial. He shouldn’t have been there. We should not have that judge.”
“The American principle that no one is above the law has been reaffirmed,” Biden said in a statement on Friday, praising the 12 jurors for carefully deliberating and reaching a unanimous decision.
“Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself,” Biden said, adding that the case was “heard by a jury of 12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you.”
Trump has repeatedly criticized the New York criminal case, the judge overseeing it, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought charges against him, as well as some of the witnesses who testified in court.
Verbal attacks led to judge Juan Mercan in March to apply a partial blocking order It barred Trump from speaking publicly about potential jurors, individual prosecutors and “witnesses whose potential involvement is known or reasonably foreseeable.”
Trump repeatedly criticized Mercha for issuing the order, arguing that the judge “abandoned my constitutional right.”
Merchan then managed Trump repeatedly violated traffic rulesthreatened to fine him a total of $10,000 and throw him in jail.
Biden and Trump have not met face-to-face before this election cycle, but the two will share a stage for the first general election debate In Atlanta at the end of June.
It is possible that the two candidates will be asked about the former president’s legal problems during the debate. Trump often blames Biden for his legal troubles, falsely accusing the incumbent of “weaponizing” the Justice Department.
Trump is still indicted in three other cases — one in Georgia, where he is accused of working with more than a dozen others to overturn the results of the 2020 election there, and two federal cases related to efforts to overturn and attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election. from classified documents.