Trump shares video with picture depicting Biden tied up behind a pickup truck

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on social media Friday that included a picture of President Joe Biden sure and restrained behind a pickup truck.

The 20-second video, which Trump indicated was taken Thursday in Lengthy Island, New York, exhibits a truck emblazoned with “Trump 2024” and a big image depicting Biden tied up and mendacity on his facet.

Trump was in Lengthy Island Thursday for the wake of fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.

When reached for touch upon the picture within the video, Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung mentioned, “That picture was on the back of a pick up truck that was traveling down the highway.” Cheung additionally accused “Democrats and crazed lunatics” of calling for violence in opposition to Trump and his household, arguing that “they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him.”

Cheung pointed to feedback by Biden in 2018, earlier than he declared his candidacy, when he mentioned that if he and Trump had been in highschool he’d “take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him” if he heard him demeaning ladies.

Biden marketing campaign spokesman Michael Tyler slammed Trump for posting the video.

“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by,'” Tyler mentioned in an announcement. “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.”

The White Home referred questions in regards to the video to the marketing campaign.

Trump has beforehand used violent imagery and rhetoric, each in his 2024 presidential marketing campaign and earlier than.

On March 16, he vowed that there can be a “bloodbath” if he was not re-elected, whereas talking in regards to the financial system. Final 12 months, earlier than his quite a few indictments, Trump warned about “potential death and destruction” if he had been to be charged within the Manhattan district legal professional’s hush cash case in opposition to him.

He also shared an article on Reality Social that had a picture of him with a baseball bat close to Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s head. The submit was deleted.

Extra just lately, Trump used his Reality Social platform to go after Judge Juan Merchan, who’s overseeing the hush cash case, in addition to the choose’s daughter after being hit with a partial gag order.

Trump faces four criminal indictments for prices associated to allegations of election interference, mishandling categorized paperwork and falsifying enterprise data associated to hush cash funds. He has pleaded not responsible to all prices.