Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of 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 at the back of 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 image was on the again of a decide up truck that was touring down the freeway.” Cheung additionally accused “Democrats and crazed lunatics” of calling for violence towards Trump and his household, arguing that “they’re truly weaponizing the justice system towards 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 health club 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 picture from Donald Trump is the kind of crap you submit once you’re calling for a massacre or once you inform the Proud Boys to ‘stand again and stand by,'” Tyler mentioned in an announcement. “Trump is often inciting political violence and it’s time folks take him significantly — simply ask the Capitol Cops who had been attacked defending our democracy on January 6.”

The White Home referred questions concerning 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 “massacre” if he was not re-elected, whereas talking concerning the economic system. Final 12 months, earlier than his quite a few indictments, Trump warned about “potential loss of life and destruction” if he had been to be charged within the Manhattan district lawyer’s hush cash case towards him.

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

Extra not too long ago, Trump used his Reality Social platform to go after Choose Juan Merchan, who’s overseeing the hush cash case, in addition to the decide’s daughter after being hit with a partial gag order.

Trump faces 4 prison indictments for prices associated to allegations of election interference, mishandling categorised paperwork and falsifying enterprise information associated to hush cash funds. He has pleaded not responsible to all prices.