Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing a rebuke from campaign
The U.S. Secret Service released a statement saying it “does not confirm or comment on matters of protective intelligence.”
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew criticism Friday for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign was quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“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,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung responded Friday night: “That picture was on the back of a pickup truck that was traveling down the highway. 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.”
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Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing a rebuke from campaign https://t.co/SphLChCAmK
— POLITICO (@politico) March 30, 2024
I know from experience how the Secret Service interacts with people who make threats against POTUS, even ones they can't carry out. This, from a former President, is totally out of bounds. It's time to stop letting Trump break the rules. Long past time. https://t.co/fZ0r0KcaGy
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 29, 2024
Maybe someone should do ads that show Reagan, Bush, Carter, Clinton, also all tied up in the same way and say: "Are you okay with this? Is this who you are, as an American? Do you think this is funny?" https://t.co/5En75cKik2
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 30, 2024
People who keep bringing up Kathy Griffin seem to forget that she got a visit from the Secret Service and her career got torched. What she did was wrong – and she was never a former Commander in Chief trying to regain control of the armed forces and the FBI.
"Whatabout" is lazy. https://t.co/67wArb4GEq— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 30, 2024
I have never seen this. But this is abhorrent, and if Biden tweeted it out, I'd be appalled and would say so. But Biden hasn't, and wouldn't, and that's all the difference in the world. https://t.co/ZKVOzrY2zx
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 30, 2024
Former RNC chair Michael Steele called former President Trump a “visceral animal” after Trump shared a video depicting President Biden tied up in the back of a truck and a string of attacks against judges overseeing his court cases. https://t.co/unggWsscaY
— The Hill (@thehill) March 30, 2024
Thank you to the more than 1.5 million people who took the time to read this message. I am not leaving this alone.
I write about coups. This life-size image of Biden imagines the sitting president of the United States as a victim of an authoritarian takeover. https://t.co/raVxjnFkkD pic.twitter.com/DG00EMj9KK
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) March 31, 2024
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