On Friday, disregarding all facts to the contrary, President Joe Biden outrageously claimed that “Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself” in a trial prosecuted by a Manhattan district attorney who campaigned promising to convict him and presided over by a conflicted judge.
“Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself,” Biden, who has prompted growing scrutiny regarding his diminishing mental capacity, claimed at the start of a press event the day following Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of an amorphous, so-called “hush money” offense.
Biden claim is contradicted by widespread, national media coverage reporting, including that:
- Judge Merchan refused to allow Trump’s attorneys to call expert witnesses for the defense,
- Judge Merchan placed a gag order on Trump to prevent him from speaking out and making his case to the American public.
- Judge Merchan contributed to the Biden campaign and his daughter is a Democrat activist.
- Judge Merchan’s instructions to the jury left the jurors with virtually no other choice, but to vote to convict Trump.
- Judge Merchan banned Trump's attorneys from explaining to the jury the tortured logic and novel theory used to concoct the charges against Trump.
- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg publicly committed himself to convicting Trump.
Biden went on to make another axiomatically false claim: “It was a state case, not a federal case.”
In reality, as has been widely reported, Manhattan D.A. Bragg and Judge Merchan usurped a misdemeanor reporting case under federal jurisdiction – which the Justice Department did not pursue – twisted it into a felony charge, and prosecuted it, all without specifying any predicate crime or its elements.
