Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.
The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on his Truth Social site. The post says it was recorded Thursday on Long Island, where Trump traveled this week to attend a wake for a recently killed police officer.
In the video, two trucks decorated with giant Trump flags and altered American flags are driving on a highway. On the tailgate door of one of the trucks is the image of Biden lying horizontally, bound and gagged.
Trump has a history of sharing and promoting violent images featuring his perceived enemies.
Nothing on this list is specific to Biden's presidency.
Every (modern) US government / congress has funded Israel, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex. These have always been gigantic concerns and now you're looking at this president and blaming him??
Current events aside, Trump was FAR more supportive of Israel than any other president this century, of not ever. I mean, you think shit's bad now? Imagine if Trump were president during this war.
Trump + Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/100-times-president-trump-supported-israel/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50468025
Trump + Military Industrial complex
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/donald-trump-goes-all-in-for-the-military-industrial-complex/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewkorda/2020/09/10/trump-is-a-hypocrite-but-hes-right-about-the-military-industrial-complex/?sh=51b11e7d78da https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-military-industrial-complex-eisenhower-pentagon-losers-suckers.html
Biden + Military Industrial complex
There's two wars going on right now so of course the current president is asking congress to appropriate more money towards those causes.
Trump + Prison industrial complex
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-first-year-has-been-private-prison-industrys-best
Biden + Prison industrial complex
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/biden-s-order-terminates-federal-private-prison-contracts-here-s-n1255776
"They" is used regarding the opioid criss and the 2008 financial crisis which obviously is not specific to Biden or his presidency.
Both Biden and Trump have taken positive steps towards solving the opioid crisis.
Biden + opioid crisis
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/briefing-room/2021/11/17/fact-sheet-actions-the-biden-harris-administration-has-taken-to-address-addiction-and-the-overdose-epidemic/
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/05/19/biden-administration-announces-15-billion-funding-opportunity-state-opioid-response-grant-program.html
Trump + opioid crisis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32113-9/fulltext https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-signs-sweeping-opioid-bill-vow-end-scourge-drug-addiction-n923976
It was during the Obama administration that the economy was essentially saved so I'm not sure what this has to do with Biden's presidency. The "middle class" has literally been dying since the early 1970s when productivity and wages started to diverge. The death of the middle class sits firmly on the shoulders of Republicans who oppose federal minimum wages and more regulations on Wall Street, corporations, and consumer protections. So, to blame Biden's presidency on the death of the middle class is just not based in reality at all.
Trump + Middle class
https://apnews.com/article/bbd344ade2b74e17a172ac5a371ba756 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-covid-response-economy-jobs-taxes-inequality-1080345/
Biden + Middle Class
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/11/biden-economics-middle-class-workers-heather-cox-richardson https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/
The list then goes on to mention congressional election campaigns and buying stocks which quite obviously has nothing to do with Biden or any president ever. FWIW, here's a bipartisan bill banning stock trades
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2023/07/20/1188869588/new-bill-would-fine-congress-members-for-trading-stocks-and-owning-blind-trusts/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/senators-propose-banning-stock-trades-us-congress-president-2023-07-25/
So, yeah for me, I'm more concerned about a candidate running for president posting an image of a current president bound up. That tells me that this person is not fit to be the leader of the country where I reside. I have no problem with Joes and Janes doing it (I'm 100% in support of this) but I personally hold my presidential candidates to a higher moral value than the rest of the public. That also includes holding the current president and congressional leaders to account when they don't voice their condemnation of mass civilian casualties. However, given the two choices we've got, frustratingly, there's not much of a choice.
So, when pressed over and over again to simply identify the "lies", the best you come up with is that it's all true but it's also true about other presidents?
Does anyone in your life take you seriously?
Buddy, are you feeling okay? Do you know where you are and what day of the week it is? Blink twice if you need help.
You may not get it now, but hopefully you will someday