US President Joe Biden said he is not confident that the US elections in November will be peaceful, citing previous statements by Republican candidate Donald Trump.
“I am sure that they will be free and fair. But I don’t know if they will be peaceful,” Biden told reporters during his speech in the White House press briefing room.
“The statements that Trump made and what he said last time when he didn’t like the outcome of the election were very dangerous,” he said.
Biden added that he is “worried about what they are going to do.” The president pointed to comments JD Vance made in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate when he dodged a question about whether Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
Biden mentioned this today, telling reporters, “I noticed that the Republican vice presidential nominee didn’t say he would accept the results of the election. They didn’t even accept the results of the last election.”
Prosecutors on Wednesday filed a new document in the federal election interference case against Trump, accusing him of acting for personal gain after the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to overturn the results.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith and his team made these arguments in their statement. Smith also pointed to some of Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as evidence that Trump knew he had lost the election but still tried to stay in power.
Trump criticized the statement in an interview with NewsNation later Wednesday, saying, “There’s nothing new there, nothing new, by the way.”
Cursor previously wrote that Trump’s wife unexpectedly spoke out against a key point of his program.
