“He raped her,” Biden cites judge’s ruling in Trump’s sexual abuse case at rally
President Joe Biden sought to draw policy contrasts Friday night with former president Donald Trump, directly tying him to the conservative policy blueprint known as “Project 2025.”
He attacked Trump in a number of new ways, including explicitly saying that Trump raped a woman. Biden read from a judge’s ruling against Trump in the defamation case of E. Jean Carol.
“Donald Trump was found liable for sexual assault by a judge who told us not to be fooled by Trump brushing it off,” Biden said. “This is what the judge wrote quote, the judge in that case wrote ‘Mr. Trump’s attempt to minimize sexual abuse, finding it frivolous. Mr. Trump raped her.’”
“That’s the judge’s language, not mine,” Biden added. “He raped her. As many people understand the word rape.”
Among his other direct attacks on Trump, Biden called the former president a “loser,” and a “convicted criminal.” He accused Trump of “riding around in his golf cart, filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball,” and said he “filed for bankruptcy 6 times.”
“He even went bankrupt running a casino,” Biden said. “I didn’t think that was possible. Doesn’t the house always win in a casino?”
Biden also pointed out Trump’s own verbal slips – the day after Biden himself called Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky “President Putin” and referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”
“I guess they don’t remember that Trump called Nikki Haley ‘Nancy Pelosi,’” Biden said.
The president mostly spoke using a teleprompter but did seem to veer off script at several points in the speech.
(CNN)