As the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Chicago this week, former President Trump took to his Truth Social and repeatedly, falsely, described President Biden’s decision to quit the race with one fraught word: coup.
“The Democrats staged the first ever ‘Coup’ in America,” Trump wrote Monday afternoon. “Sorry Joe, you’re losing to Trump, BIG, and you can’t beat him — You’re Fired.”
On Tuesday, Trump went further, asserting violence by “Comrade Kamala Harris” and her fellow Democrats.
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“That was a coup. It was a vicious, violent overthrow of a president of the United States,” he said during a news conference at the sheriff’s office in Livingston County, Mich., with uniformed deputies standing behind him.
The word “coup” — and the false implication that Democrats illegally pushed Biden out of the race last month in order to replace him with Vice President Kamala Harris — has become increasingly common in Trump’s speeches and Truth Social posts in recent days as his campaign tries to adjust to his new opponent and her rise in the polls.
Aug. 20, 2024
Asked about Trump’s coup claims on Monday, President Biden told CNN: “I think he has a problem.”
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