Jill gets her hands dirty! First lady slams Trump team for ‘shocking’ nonchalance on federal indictment, slams MAGA’s ‘hate and division’ and says ‘We can’t go back to those dark days’
- Jill Biden said she was surprised that Trump supporters supported him
- “They don’t care about the indictment. So it’s kinda shocking, she said
- Made his comment to Democratic donors in New York
- President Biden declined to comment on Trump’s indictment
Jill Biden came out to Donald Trump on Monday evening even as her husband Joe Biden repeatedly refused to comment on the criminal case against the former president.
But, in her first solo campaign since President Biden announced his candidacy for a second term in the White House, Jill didn’t hold back.
Speaking to Democratic donors at the home of Barry Ginsburg and his wife Merle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the first lady slammed Trump supporters for backing the former president through his indictment federal.
“They don’t care about the indictment. So it’s a bit shocking, I think,’ she said, according to reporters who attended the event.
“They don’t care about the indictment. So it’s a bit shocking, I think,’ Jill Biden told Democratic donors – above the first lady at an event earlier Monday
In contrast, President Biden declined to comment on the situation.
“I have no comment at all,” President Biden told reporters repeatedly in North Carolina on Friday.
Jill Biden was with him on this trip and saw his refusal to answer questions about it.
And that wasn’t the first lady’s only harsh language.
She dropped her pitch to Democrats donating millions to her husband’s re-election bid, describing the doomsday-like conditions the GOP would bring to the country if in power.
She accused MAGA Republicans of bringing “chaos and corruption, hatred and division” to the nation and warned that “We can’t go back to those dark days” when Trump was in the White House.
Trump, meanwhile, arrived in Miami where he is due in federal court on Tuesday on 37 counts related to his possession of classified documents.
Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday where he faces federal indictment; he is due in court on Tuesday on charges related to his possession of classified documents
The 49-page indictment alleges the former president deliberately lied to the Justice Department, got his lawyers to accept his scheme and even boasted he had documents he knew he had. shouldn’t have.
Of the 37 charges against Trump, 31 of them relate to classified and top secret documents he kept after leaving the White House in early 2021.
Jill Biden is on a huge three-day fundraising trip that will take her to affluent neighborhoods in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles as she helps the Biden campaign fill its coffers before the deadline ends. second quarter fundraising campaign in June .
The first lady is on a mission to persuade donors who have expressed skepticism that at 80, Joe Biden has the strength and stamina for a second term.
Speaking to 50 donors at an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she told them to “think about where we were three years ago.”
She did not name Trump but referred to his habit during his years in the White House of dismissing policies via Twitter.
“We know what lies ahead with the MAGA Republicans. We just know that, don’t we? We know it because we have lived it. We have seen it,” she said. “We know what it’s like to see American politics tweeted in late night tweet storms.”
President Joe Biden gave ‘no comment’ when peppered with questions about former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment while touring a community college in North Carolina on Friday
The Biden campaign has yet to release its fundraising totals, but will have to do so on June 30 when financial reports are due to the Federal Election Commission.
President Biden will make his own campaign swing next week when he travels to California to beg for dollars for his war chest. He will also make a stopover in Chicago, the birthplace of former President Barack Obama.
