The Mask Slips: Watch As Biden Says, 'We Gotta Lock [Trump] Up'

Posted • October 22, 2024: Talk saying the quiet part out loud … get a load of this: Biden in NH lists what Trump would do as president and says: “we gotta lock him up” and then, appearing to realize how his comments would be taken, adds: “politically, lock him up.” -- Let’s break this down a bit, shall we? First off, he complains about the horrors Donald Trump might engage in, namely that Trump is talking about getting rid of the Department of Education, replacing every civil servant and then, Biden says Trump “thinks he has a right under the Supreme Court ruling on immunity to be able to, if need be,” more or less kill a person “he believes to be a threat to him.” None of those things are cause to lock a person in prison. We don’t believe Trump can completely abolish the Department of Education or replace all civil servants without congressional authorization (but we haven’t looked into it), but if Trump tries to do either of those things illegally, the solution is for any aggrieved parties to sue in civil court. It isn’t a crime.

(For the record, we haven't heard of Trump threatening to fire and replace every civil servant. But we have heard suggestions that Elon Musk might get in there and fire about 80% of the executive branch.) As for the killing part, we quoted a great deal of Biden’s words on the killing part because taken literally, Biden is accusing Trump of believing he could kill a man, if necessary, in self-defense. And we are pretty sure he can, legally, anywhere in America. We don’t believe there is a single American jurisdiction (state or territory) that says that if a person has a reasonable belief that they are in imminent danger of death, that they aren't allowed to kill that person. And if Biden is trying, in his diminished capacity, to say Trump believes he can kill people who pose a political danger to him, that’s simply not supported by any evidence. And if you want to know what the Supreme Court actually said in the immunity decision, we wrote about it, here.

And then Biden attempts to pretend that his comment about locking Trump up is metaphorical—not talking about prosecution. Except we have never heard a person use that metaphor before. So, this is further evidence that Trump is indeed being prosecuted for his politics, not based on his conduct, especially in the cases brought by the federal government. And apart from the political fallout, we wonder if this might be used to renew challenges to his federal prosecutions. As we point out regularly, the First Amendment protects citizens against political or viewpoint discrimination and so if Trump could prove his prosecution is political, the courts could stop it for that reason. Of course, the retort is going to be “but Jack Smith is an independent prosecutor. He made the decision himself. Biden wasn’t involved.” This is what we said before, in addressing that objection […]

So, all these complaints that Trump will lock up political opponents? Projection. And projection is very often an expression of guilt. Seriously, a lot of Democrats’ fear of Trump amounts to nothing more than a fear that he will be as awful to them as they have been to him. (…)

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