Biden instructed aides to dial up attacks on Trump's wild comments

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN

Published 12:16 PM EST, Tue February 20, 2024


CNN — President Joe Biden personally directed his senior campaign aides in recent days to focus more aggressively on former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments, according to two sources familiar with the president’s edict.

The thrust of Biden’s direction, delivered to his senior-most staff, was to significantly ramp up the campaign’s efforts to highlight the “crazy s**t” that Trump says in public, according to those sources.

The previously unreported instruction from the president appears to demonstrate that Biden himself believes it is critical to paint his presumptive Republican opponent as unhinged and unfit for office. For weeks, his campaign has said they are fully prepared for Trump to emerge as the GOP nominee.

The president’s reelection team has long been focused on hammering home what they say are black-and-white contrasts between Biden and Trump when it comes to their temperaments and world views. Biden campaign advisers say that warning voters about what another four years under a Trump presidency would look like is central to their general election strategy – on everything from foreign policy to reproductive rights to the protection of democratic institutions.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-wild-comments/index.html

[Stargazer99]

1. It's about time

[thesquanderer]

3. Too bad Biden has to spend campaign funds telling the public what mainstream media should already be telling them.

Media is afraid they won't look balanced if they tell the truth. That strategy doesn't work when one of the candidates is unbalanced.

[ColinC]

2. Sounds like an incredibly level headed, mentally sharp decision

Go Biden!

[Ocelot II]

4. They don't need to *paint him* as unhinged and unfit for office.

He is unhinged and unfit for office.

[Leghorn21]

5. MJ Lee at CNN spells it out for us:

Lee: We’re told that the thrust of the President’s direction was to
significantly ramp up the campaign's efforts to highlight the crazy shit
that Trump says in public.

Link to tweet

[JohnnyRingo]

6. When your opponent says something detrimental.

Plug it into a Marshal amp and turn it up to eleven.

[Brother Buzz]

7. The orange anus is so easily triggered - This is gonna be great!

Oh, but to be a fly on the wall during one of their brainstorming sessions.

If they installed a suggestion box in the West Wing, I bet it would be stuffed within hours.

[pfitz59]

8. The orange anus will provide all the ammunition

Biden needs. TFG is unable to shut his freaking piehole.

[Hekate]

9. They're all on it, including Kamala Harris

[NowsTheTime]

10. Pedal to the Metal Joe!

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It's bad enough with just the House being controlled by Maga right now.

[KS Toronado]

11. Where are they going to get more aggressive ?

Twitter, TV ads, billboards, mailings, town-hall meetings
All the above I hope.

Would love to see Biden do a televised town-hall with only Rs in the audience asking R type stupid questions.
Might need Jen Psaki with her notes as backup. Biden could wash away so many fears RW media and
Boяis Тяцмp have brainwashed them with.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. "Would love to see Biden do a televised town-hall"

He might do that later. Right now, he is doing a billion fundraisers and banking it because since (D)s own no media (other than what Soros is in the process of buying), we get no "free" press like 45. So we have to pay for our message.

[KS Toronado]

13. This election does feel like the poor against oligarch's wealth & power.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It always is

although Citizen's United made it a million times worse.

[KS Toronado]

15. Be nice if we could come up with a lawsuit against Citizen's United

Maybe along the lines of "They're diluting the only thing citizens have ...our vote"?

I'm far from being an intellectual when it comes to all the in's & out's of how our Government works.

But let's say come next year with Biden in the White House and both Houses solidly Democratic, could they
pass a law outlawing Citizen's United that the SCOTUS could not put their 2 cents worth in on?

[BumRushDaShow]

17. What Citizen's United did was to basically overturn the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance law

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bipartisan_campaign_reform_act_of_2002

Now, neither McCain nor Feingold are in Congress anymore and SOMEONE should revise that law to crack down on the unregulated "dark money" the Ruling unleashed without a check and balance.

The irony of "Citizens United" was that they sued because their propaganda film "Hillary: The Movie" was being refused an airing as "electioneering" (by a corporation), and that refusal was upheld on appeal but overturned by the SCOTUS (they claimed "First Amendment" (and won)).

[KS Toronado]

18. Be nice if we had some anti-propaganda laws

But that will probably never happen, could both sides ever agree on what is & isn't propaganda?

[Novara]

16. I've said for a long time we have to get in the gutter with them.

It's all they know. Hit him hard, Biden campaign! Taking the high road gets us nowhere.

The campaign should be acting like this is an existential crisis, BECAUSE IT IS.

[Kennah]

19. Don't pick a fight with an old man

:snark:

[Happy Hoosier]

20. I'd love to see ads mocking Trump running 24/7....

... nothing irks TSF more than mockery.