In 2020, Trump depicted Biden as a feeble old man. Now, facing criminal charges and eyeing a rematch, he's recasting Biden as a nefarious mastermind manipulating the justice system.
Sept. 4, 2023, 11:00 AM UTCWASHINGTON — In 2020, the moniker was “Sleepy Joe.” Now, it has been revised to “Crooked Joe.”
Trump has deployed the term “Crooked Joe” in a wave of recent posts and interviews, making repeated and baseless claims that Biden is at the helm of a conspiracy to target him using law enforcement. But even as he attempts an etch-a-sketch to redraw his portrait of Biden, Trump sometimes slips back into old habits by portraying the man who defeated him as a confused and feeble old fellow who may not even make it to 2024.
There is no evidence that Biden is behind Trump’s indictments — two from special counsel Jack Smith, and one each from prosecutors in New York and Georgia who don’t answer to Washington. Yet the claims have beenBiden has declined to comment on Trump’s cases, saying the Justice Department operates independently from his White House. He has also stayed silent on criminal charges against his son Hunter Biden, who is the subject of a special counsel investigation.
Now, Trump is trying to turn that image upside down. At times, Biden’s political team has co-opted the updated narrative, blending it with an anti-Biden rallying cry to create a “Dark Brandon”that shows a red laser-eyed Biden who is ruthlessly, and successfully, facing down critics to pass his agenda.
In the first debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy accused the Democratic Party in power of using a “police force to indict its political opponents.” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., inveighed against “the weaponization of the Department of Justice” under Biden.that Biden is too weak and frail to survive another four-year term and warning that Vice President Kamala Harris would become president if he’s re-elected.
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