Trump reacts to Biden 2024 announcement by reading his own statement from hours earlier
Should the two recieve their respective parties nominations, it would be a repeat of the 2020 presidential election
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump aggressively attacked President Joe Biden and called him “the most corrupt president in American history” and making false claims in a statement and video after Mr Biden announced his 2024 re-election bid
Mr Biden officially launched his re-election campaign for president on Tuesday 25 April, where he called on Americans to help him “finish the job.”
Just ahead of his announcement on Monday evening, Mr Trump released a lengthy press release making multiple false claims about himself and Mr Biden.
Hours later on Tuesday, Mr Trump appeared in a video where he read his statement word-for-word.
Mr Trump accused Mr Biden of leading the US “to the very brink of World War III” as well as allowing “millions of illegal aliens” who Mr Trump claimed are “coming in from mental institutions and prisons” to attribute a lack of security to the president.
Much of Mr Trump’s rhetoric was reminiscent of the same claims he made in 2016 to win the presidency.
He called the US-Mexico border under his administration “the most secure border in US history, by far,” adding that the US “Never had a border like this.”
Notoriously, “the wall” that Mr Trump promised during his presidency was never finished, nor did it stop people from crossing into the US illegally.
Mr Trump made no mention of that in his press release and claimed that those crossing the US-Mexico border were “very dangerous.”
Mr Trump made no mention of his border failings in his press release and claimed that those crossing the US-Mexico border at the moment were “very dangerous” – a claim he also made in 2016.
The former president used words like “socialist” and “calamity” to describe Mr Biden’s policies. This rhetoric escalated when Mr Trump began to speak on Mr Biden’s economic policies and the current state of the US economy.
Mr Trump wrote, “Our currency is crashing and the dollar will soon no longer be the world standard, which will be our greatest defeat in over 200 years.”
There is no evidence that the US dollar is crashing to the point of no longer being a world standard. Mr Trump used these exaggerated false claims as a fear-mongering tactic.
Undoubtedly, Mr Biden’s presidency has been marked by a dramatic increase in inflation.
The issue will likely become a forefront topic in the presidential race and Mr Trump will capitalise on this to pin himself as the stronger candidate.
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