In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in a rare public address.

Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.

Reprising a line from the 2020 campaign that saw him defeat Trump and end Trump’s first presidency, Biden told the crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday that the “battle for the soul of this nation is one that’s never really over”. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to introduce potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterms.

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    The guy led an insurrection against our own government. The evidence was overwhelming. We’ve executed people in this country for much, much less.

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        I’m not sure why people still think the guy who, a day before he was sworn in, said “He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So, it was pretty good, it was pretty good. So, thank you to Elon” legitimately won in a free and fair election.

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                Why does that matter? He’s one of the most prolific criminals in history, and he was caught with boxes of classified material in his home, which is a major crime. People have gotten the death penalty for less.

                None of that is to mention that he literally shut down his own election interference case, and now it’s turning out he makes Jeffrey Dahmer look like an amateur hobbyist.

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                Why the fuck are you all over this thread running defense for child rapist/murder/eater donald trump?

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                  It’s a sad state of affairs when people think that demanding proof of allegations before acting on them is running defense for people.

                  It’s literally the bedrock of our justice system.