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Saturday, March 30, 2024
Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing rebuke
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump draws criticism for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign is quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the US Capitol.
“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” says Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
Imagine if Joe Biden tweeted out a video of someone driving down the road with an image of Trump tied up in the back of a pickup truck.
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 30, 2024
