Twenty-four hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s would-be in Butler, Pennsylvania, the 2024 presidential election was in full swing.
Here’s some of what President Joe Biden was posting on X in the hours before Trump was shot.
Biden seemingly likened Trump to a dictator in a post on his personal account less than 24 hours before the shots rang out at the former president’s campaign rally:
Biden continued his barrage against Project 2025, an initiative launched by The Heritage Foundation to provide the next conservative president with policy and personnel recommendations. (Trump posted a statement recently. saying, “I have not seen [Project 2025], have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it.”) Biden’s reelection team even created a website touting some false claims about the project.
Biden also posted “We must stop him,” earlier in the day on Friday. This post included a list of policies Trump will purportedly implement on day one of his administration, if he is elected. (Project 2025 has fact checked many of the claims the left has made about policies being advocated by the project.)
Biden again called Trump a “dictator.”
Biden also called Trump a “convicted felon,” who should have “no more free passes.”
Biden did eventually make a statement about the shooting, from his private residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, saying, “The idea that there’s political violence, or violence in America like this, is just unheard of … Everybody must condemn it.”