Joe Biden, who appears to be claiming that his qualifications for the presidential election in 2024 are that the other guy is bad, lashed out Friday in a campaign speech that charged that, “We nearly lost America” on Jan. 6, 2021.

And President Trump, the leader so far among candidates for both parties in that race, responded.

A report from Fox News said he accused Biden of being the “true threat to democracy.”

“The Democrats rigged the last election and they are trying it again,” Trump told the network. “But it won’t work because they have shown how bad and incompetent they are.”

He said, “Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States — he is incompetent, he is crooked, and in many respects, he is Benedict Arnold. He is destroying our country like no one else has done before.”

Trump cited Biden’s policy of keeping the nation’s southern border open, and allowing in millions of illegal aliens. Other problematic issues for Biden are his inflation-surging economy, his pro-abortion and pro-transgender agenda that includes mutilating surgeries for children, his foreign policy that portrays America as week, and more.

“He is responsible for this. We are a failing nation — a nation in decline — and it is all because he is the worst president in the history of our country,” Trump said.

It’s because of that “gross incompetence” that Biden is “a true threat to democracy,” he said.

Biden also took a beating on social media for his attempt to intimidate voters by threatening the end of America.

A report at Twitchy collated a number of responses, including, “Did Joe join his son on crack?!?!?!?”

Twitchy noted, “Biden’s faux concern about ‘democracy’ while his DOJ tries to throw a political opponent in jail is something else.”

The commentary explained, “Biden has in the past mocked the idea of people who don’t have fighter jets being able to take on the government but now he wants everybody to believe an unarmed mob and random trespassers almost overthrew the entire nation? This might be Biden’s biggest whopper ever, and that’s a high bar to clear.”

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