Joe Biden has spent the last several months laying out the reasons why it would be a terrible idea to give Donald Trump a second term in officeā€”reasons that include everything from Trumpā€™s assault on reproductive rights to his pledge to be a dictator only ā€œon day one.ā€ And on Wednesday, the president added another entry to the list: the fact that his opponent appears to have completely lost touch with reality.

Speaking to supporters at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Biden reportedly referred to Trumpā€™s claim that he and Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalnyā€”who recently died in an Arctic penal colonyā€”had suffered similar treatment, with the president remarking, ā€œSome of the things that this fellowā€™s been saying, like heā€™s comparing himself to Navalny and saying thatā€”because our countryā€™s become a communist country, he was persecuted, just like Navalny was persecuted. I donā€™t know where the hell this comes from.ā€ Biden added: ā€œI mean, if I stood here 10, 15 years ago and said any of this, youā€™d all think I should be committed. It astounds me.ā€

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    9 months ago

    Joe could throw trump in prison without due process and probably tie it up in courts for at least a few weeks.

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      9 months ago

      Biden should throw Trump in jail, then say he has immunity since heā€™s the president. Trump either has to take it, or set precedent against his own cases.

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        9 months ago

        A tiny part of me is hoping the supreme court does rule that presidents are immune and then biden just fucking drone strikes Mar-a-Lago and resigns before they can indict him.

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          9 months ago

          This is why the supreme court cannot find that. Because that would mean the Dems have only one option left and that would be doing it first.