In Pennsylvania, Biden has a field day razzing Trump on everything but his trial

As he kicked off a series of events in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Joe Biden freely ripped into Donald Trump, who was in court for his criminal trial.

As he kicked off a series of events in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Joe Biden freely ripped into his nemesis. 

From his hometown, Scranton, Biden chided Donald Trump about his past tax plan for giving tax breaks to billionaires and his comments about Social Security. He joked about Trump’s personal financial predicament. He accused Trump of ballooning the federal debt, razzed him for suggesting that injecting bleach could battle Covid-19 and called him “Donald Herbert Hoover Trump.” 

What Biden didn’t do is touch the lowest-hanging fruit of all — the fact that at the same time, Trump was sitting in a New York City courtroom, the first president or former president in history to stand criminal trial. 

As eventful as the trial commencement has been and as salacious as the details of Trump’s case are — involving paying off a porn star to evade political reprisal — Biden didn’t budge from his longtime practice of steering clear of any specific talk about Trump’s legal predicaments. Though he has nibbled around the edges from time to time, Biden doesn’t delve into the indictments Trump faces even, it seems, when a criminal trial is actually underway.  

At the same time, Biden’s campaign was having a field day with memes coming out of the trial, ribbing Trump for possibly having nodded off in court. It also put out a news release this week titled: “After Stormy Abortion Ban Coverage, Trump Poll Memo Attempts to Hush Panic.” 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/pennsylvania-biden-trump-trial-rcna148050

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