President Biden HAS come out throwing punches at the guy he beat 3 years ago for the White House….
The president accused Trump of leaving the U.S. a “mess” when he came into office during the height of the Covid pandemic and when the economy was “reeling.” Biden swiped his opponent on mass shootings, the economy, abortion rights and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“He got us to imagine what life was like under Trump and what it would be like again if Trump were to be reelected,” said Betsy Sheerr, a retiree who attended the event and was a Democratic Party activist and communications specialist. “He drew a sharp contrast between the two views.”
Biden ended his speech with the lofty prediction that he could win Florida, though he lost the state to Trump by more than three percentage points in 2020 and polling shows him trailing by double digits. The president’s speech was right in Trump’s backyard: Jupiter is located in Palm Beach County, where Trump is a resident and where he’s been charged with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-A-Lago estate after leaving the White House.
According to a pool report of Biden’s comments, the president did not address the Middle East crisis during the fundraiser, even in the wake of a drone strike launched by Iranian proxies in Jordan that killed three American soldiers. He did address the matter briefly to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday morning, saying, without details, that the U.S. planned to respond.
Biden also only briefly mentioned Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in passing and didn’t mention Trump’s indictments, said Biden donor Bonnie Lautenberg, an artist and wife of the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey who attended Tuesday’s event in Jupiter that had roughly 100 guests.
The president boasted about the current state of the economy, taking a moment to bash comments Trump made during a TV interview this month, when he said he hoped the economy would nose-dive before the election. Trump said at the time that he didn’t want to wind up like former President Herbert Hoover, who saw the stock market crash during his first year in office…..