President Joe Biden ’s campaign reacted to Donald Trump ’s criminal conviction shortly after the former president was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to his 2016 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Through a statement issued on social media, the campaign wrote that “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law.” “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain.
But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” the campaign added of Biden’s predecessor and current opponent. The campaign noted that a criminal conviction would not bar Trump from continuing this campaign for the presidency, or serving in office.
“The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater. He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one’ and calling for our Constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain and keep power. A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence – and the American people will reject it this November,” the campaign wrote.
Other prominent Democrats reacted to the verdict with similar sentiments. Illinois Governor J.B.
Pritzker wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “.
