Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that he was the target of an assassination attempt.

Donald Trump is doubling down on his claim that he was the target of an assassination attempt.

Donald Trump is now looping his baseless conspiracies into his fundraising emails.

On Monday, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee escalated his claims that President Joe Biden authorized the FBI to shoot and kill him during its 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, this time promising to punish his two-time opponent for the alleged assassination attempt.

“Biden’s day of reckoning is coming,” the Trump campaign wrote in a fundraising email distributed Monday. “He tried to publicly torture and humiliate me … but he failed. He tried to raid my home and take me out with deadly force … but he failed.”

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    103·
    5 months ago

    Aren’t Trump’s lawyers currently arguing in front of the supreme court that it would have been perfectly legal for Biden to do so, him being immune from all criminal prosecution while president?

    • Fisk400@feddit.nu
      51·
      5 months ago

      The main advantage lies have over truth is that lies does not need to mesh with other lies.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      573·
      5 months ago

      You’re surprised at hypocrisy from politicians?

      Biden unironically said “no one is approved the law” just a few weeks after saying Israel doesn’t have to stop their genocide because of international law, and the real problem was the ICC warrants.

      Why do you expect more from trump than Biden?

      We can’t even expect more from Biden than trump these days…

      That’s the natural result of using “not worse than trump” as the standard.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        231·
        5 months ago

        As stupid as this sounds, there is no irony is saying “no one is above the law” about an American in America while simultaneously saying the ICC and international law don’t apply/matter. In the US we have a legal system that everyone within our declared boundaries has to follow. The ICC and international law is something countries could/can sign for, and choose to follow as they please. In fact, the ICC issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin and several of the signatories (the largest being South Africa) simply said they wouldn’t follow the law and arrest him. It’s a piece of paper with no legal or military enforcement. Countries can simply choose to ignore the ICC and international law.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          426·
          5 months ago

          Mate, that’s not the only example…

          Do you think even with your addition to what he said:

          No American is above American law while currently in America

          Is true?

          Because man, I hate to break it to you…

          That’s never been true, and sure as shit isn’t now.

          Like, have you heard of the Sackler family?

          Or over half our Supreme Court justices?

          Or any of our corporations that break laws to make billions then pay a tiny settlement?

          An absolute shit ton of Americans are most definitely above American law.

          Edit:

          And besides, providing munitions that will be used in a genocide, is also against US law…

          So your point isn’t even relevant.

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
        101·
        5 months ago

        Biden unironically said “no one is approved the law”

        [citation needed]

          • Hawke@lemmy.world
            131·
            5 months ago

            Read the first paragraph or the headline of your link again, and then read what you wrote again. Slowly, If it will help.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              321·
              5 months ago

              President Joe Biden on Friday said that Donald Trump’s conviction in the hush money trial reaffirmed “the American principle that no one is above the law.”

              That is not a factual statement though…

              Lots of Americans are above our legal system.

              I can’t believe an American thinks differently in 2024 just because Biden said it.

              That’s incredibly concerning if you legitimately believe that’s true.

              This was the exception, not the rule, literally the first time ever an expresident was found guilty of some of their crimes they committed while president.

              • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
                132·
                5 months ago

                You put “approved” instead of “above” in your first post and the other user is trolling you about it.

                • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  39·
                  5 months ago

                  Thanks! That makes sense.

                  Also something a trump supporter would do, I hate how so many people online act like that these days. We’d be better off if more people were like you

                  • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    4·
                    5 months ago

                    Honestly though. If you keep up the insults, I’m probably just going to block you.

                    Don’t pretend that isn’t what you are doing with ‘trump supporter’

                    You want to bring up hypocrisy, here you go

                  • jumjummy@lemmy.world
                    51·
                    5 months ago

                    Something a Trump supporter would do? Are you talking about yourself? You absolutely come across as a Trump supporter.

                  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
                    24·
                    5 months ago

                    Yeah, I upvoted most of your comments too. Lots of rich and political people have gotten away with crimes forever. Its always an anomaly when a Martha Stewart or a Bernie Madoff ends up in jail

              • thoeb@lemmy.world
                81·
                5 months ago

                Maybe you should re-read what you wrote down as the quote in the original comment and compare it to the actual quote.

                • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  118·
                  5 months ago

                  I said:

                  When Biden said “no one is above the law”…

                  Headline is:

                  drumroll

                  Biden says Trump verdict shows no one is above the law

                  Can you explain why those are so different?