{"id":2358737,"date":"2024-10-24T02:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-gotta-lock-him-up-biden-drops-dangerous-statement-against-trump-as-election-gets-closer\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T02:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:23:03","slug":"we-gotta-lock-him-up-biden-drops-dangerous-statement-against-trump-as-election-gets-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-gotta-lock-him-up-biden-drops-dangerous-statement-against-trump-as-election-gets-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Gotta Lock Him Up&#8217;: Biden Drops Dangerous Statement Against Trump as Election Gets Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-gotta-lock-him-up-biden-drops-dangerous-statement-against-trump-as-election-gets-closer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In \u2062a recent statement,\u200c President Joe Biden called for former \u200dPresident Donald Trump to\u200c be &#8220;locked up&#8221; politically, a remark made\u2062 during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-circuit-breaker-on-election-night\/\" title=\"The question looms: just how does it come to be that three quarters of Republican and nearly one third of Democrat voters all believe that the election was stolen from Trump?\">campaign event<\/a> in New Hampshire. Biden\u200c suggested that Trump poses a \u2062significant threat to the nation&#8217;s institutions, alleging Trump intends to dismantle various government functions.\u200b While Biden insisted he was\u2064 not \u200dadvocating for Trump&#8217;s literal incarceration,\u2064 the context of his remarks has been interpreted by critics as a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">thinly veiled political threat<\/a>, especially given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ruling-on-illinois-candidate-slating-prohibition-could-come-this-week\/\" title=\"Decision Expected This Week on Illinois Candidate Slating Prohibition\">ongoing legal actions<\/a> against Trump, \u200bwhich many view as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to Biden&#8217;s comments, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt \u200daccused \u2063the Biden administration of pursuing a strategy of\u2064 political persecution against Trump, arguing that the administration feels \u200cunable to defeat\u2063 him in a fair electoral contest. She characterized the\u2064 Biden-Harris administration\u2062 as a real threat to democracy, calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to condemn Biden&#8217;s remarks. \u2064 <\/p>\n<p>the rhetoric \u2064highlights \u200dthe escalating \u200dtensions and polarization in American politics\u2064 as both sides \u2064engage in a fierce battle leading up to the election. Critics of Biden argue \u2062that his comments illustrate\u2064 a panic in light of \u200cTrump&#8217;s rising favorability in polling, suggesting \u200dthat Biden and the Democrats are resorting \u200dto desperate measures as they fear losing the upcoming election to\u200b Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, perhaps feeling his legacy is in peril, called for former President Donald Trump to be &ldquo;locked up,&rdquo; adding &ldquo;politically&rdquo; whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the comment at a Democratic campaign office in Concord, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/22\/us-news\/biden-calls-for-trump-to-be-jailed-14-days-before-2024-election-we-gotta-lock-him-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Trump] is talking about doing away with the entire Department of Education,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s talking. He means it, not, this is not a joke. This is a guy who also wants to replace every civil servant, every single one, thinks he has a right under the Supreme Court ruling on immunity to be able, if need be, if he, if it was the case, to actually eliminate, physically eliminate, shoot, kill someone who he believes would be the threat to him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s been shot at by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-service-makes-telling-move-trump-returns-site-near-assassination-proving-lied-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would-be assassin<\/a> and came within an inch of likely losing his life.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>He hasn&rsquo;t called for his political rivals to be killed, if that&rsquo;s what the president was suggesting. That would certainly make major headlines.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean, so I know this sounds bizarre,&rdquo; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs42.com\/news\/health\/ap-health\/ap-biden-and-bernie-sanders-highlight-lower-prescription-drug-costs-in-new-hampshire-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a>. &ldquo;It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you&rsquo;d lock me up. We gotta lock him up &mdash; politically lock him up. Lock him out, that&rsquo;s what we have to do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN &ndash; Biden called for Trump&rsquo;s imprisonment, saying, &lsquo;We gotta lock him up.&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2GyHwGLWsA\">pic.twitter.com\/2GyHwGLWsA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheInsiderPaper\/status\/1848850516970717401?\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Does it make it better, if it&rsquo;s done politically?<\/p>\n<p>The Post reported that &ldquo;a person close to Biden&rdquo; said the remark meant the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-point-finger-at-debate-team-that-coached-trump-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Republicans point finger at debate team that coached Trump - Washington Examiner\">president wasn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t calling for Trump to be incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s funny because his Justice Department and other Democrats have been trying to do that for the last year-and-a-half plus, thankfully to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>All those prosecutions have certainly been politically motivated, so locking him up &ldquo;politically&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t really seem any better.<\/p>\n<p>Biden further argued, &ldquo;If Trump wins, this nation changes. There&rsquo;s only two things we can do: guarantee that he doesn&rsquo;t, or if he does make sure that we have the strongest Democratic majority we can get.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kI0Y-LrYiio?si=JBIX_l1__JEIK6CS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Biden obviously sees the polling favoring a Trump win over Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite the Democrats relentless lawfare, Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-already-scrambling-blue-wall-collapses-slipping-behind-another-key-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ahead<\/a> in the swing state polling.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/donald-trump-cant-lose-incredible-early-voting-trend-continues-political-expert-mark-halperin-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting early<\/a> in unprecedented numbers, even outpacing Democrats in some places.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his fellow Democrats are getting nervous &mdash; hence the &ldquo;we gotta throw Trump in jail&rdquo; rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded to the president&rsquo;s comments, posting on X, &ldquo;Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala&rsquo;s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can&rsquo;t beat him fair and square.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala&rsquo;s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can&rsquo;t beat him fair and square.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris-Biden Admin is the real threat to democracy. We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden&rsquo;s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tJkyjgYv7l\">https:\/\/t.co\/tJkyjgYv7l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kleavittnh\/status\/1848869983729946701?\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump is not the threat to democracy; it&rsquo;s Joe Biden and the Democrats.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Biden stated that Trump is advocating for the elimination of the Department of Education and intends to replace all civil servants. He implied that Trump believes he has the right to eliminate anyone he perceives as a threat. However, it&#8217;s worth noting that Trump has not called for violence against his political opponents. Biden continued by saying it might sound strange but emphasized the need to politically &#8220;lock him up&#8221; and prevent him from winning again. A source close to Biden clarified that he wasn&#8217;t calling for Trump&#8217;s actual imprisonment, despite ongoing legal actions against Trump by Democrats over the past year and a half. Biden expressed concern about Trump&#8217;s potential victory changing the nation and stressed the importance of ensuring strong Democratic representation if that happens. In response, Trump\u2019s campaign spokesperson accused Biden of admitting their strategy is politically motivated persecution because they can&#8217;t defeat him fairly in elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3620,35835,34059,37408,3634],"class_list":["post-2358737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden","tag-campaign-strategy","tag-election-2024","tag-political-rhetoric","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}