{"id":61992,"date":"2024-06-27T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61992"},"modified":"2024-06-27T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:27:27","slug":"trumps-refuttle-to-biden-calling-him-a-threat-to-democracy-i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61992","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Refuttle to Biden Calling Him a Threat to Democracy: &#8216;I Know You Are, But What Am I?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first presidential debate of 2024 is just hours away. And the candidates are preparing for it in their own unique ways: Biden by studying the issues and polishing his message. And Trump by studying his cult rally rants and giving interviews to Fox News and other MAGA media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump Responds to Biden Calling Him a Threat to Democracy: 'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-snowflakes.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Snowflakes\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51049\" \/><\/p>\n<p>True to form, Trump doesn&#8217;t believe that he needs any preparation because, in his warped and ego bloated mind, he is the greatest orator that ever lived and can beat <em>&#8220;Sleepy Joe&#8221;<\/em> with his eyes closed. Which is how he thought he would beat the 34 felony charges he was convicted of in New York <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where he was caught repeatedly falling asleep<\/a><\/strong>. That obviously didn&#8217;t work. So now Trump is embarking on a full-scale <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BidensWins\/status\/1804597912086716540\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refuttle<\/a><\/strong> with the tired PR tactic of trying to coerce the debate moderators to swing his way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61977\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and His MAGA Minions are \u2018Working the Refs\u2019 for the CNN Debate. Will CNN Fall for It?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, after spending years viciously and falsely maligning Biden as a walking corpse who <em>&#8220;can&#8217;t put two sentences together,&#8221;<\/em> Trump is now afraid that <em>&#8220;Jacked Up Joe&#8221;<\/em> will slaughter him with the help of performance enhancing drugs to supercharge his debating skills. Never mind that such drugs don&#8217;t exist and, if they did, why wouldn&#8217;t everyone be using them? Including Trump. (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61954\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps he is<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the Trump campaign team has settled on a strategy that they are confidant will lead to victory in November. It&#8217;s a simple strategy that is often employed by elementary school bullies who have no intellectual recourse when confronted by substantive criticism. It&#8217;s the old <em>&#8220;I Know You Are, But What Am I?&#8221;<\/em> gambit. And Trump himself trotted it out on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61512\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, the morning of the big debate <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112689069203113634\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raging<\/a> in all caps that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, AND A THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL AND EXISTENCE OF OUR COUNTRY ITSELF!!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar? That&#8217;s because it is what President Biden and every patriotic Democratic politician and pundit have been saying about Trump for months. It&#8217;s a visceral warning of an imminent threat that is supported by Trump&#8217;s own words and actions. In fact, it has not been just Democrats issuing this warning. It has also been delivered by dozens of the people who know him best: His own staffers and former officials in his administration&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The people who know Trump best say that he&#39;s a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>So who are you gonna listen to? Them, or Fox News? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tmFNgMNUbY\">https:\/\/t.co\/tmFNgMNUbY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1806371168125128841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a few of the Trump associates who have sounded the alarm include his former Chief of Staff (John Kelly), Secretary of State (Rex Tillerson), Secretary of Defense (Mark Esper), Attorney General (Bill Barr), National Security Advisor (John Bolton), U.N. Ambassador (Nikki Haley), Communications Director (Alyssa Farah Griffin), and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s <em>&#8220;rubber v glue&#8221;<\/em> ploy has been in effect on a variety of policy issues. Whenever he is criticized on matters related to jobs, the economy, Social Security, immigration, etc., he immediately mirrors the attack, swatting it back to Biden with no factual basis whatsoever. He does the same thing with matters of character. Despite being notorious for lying, criminality, and cognitive decline, Trump tries flutily to paste those personality defects onto Biden.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a new strategy either. Recall in 2016 when Trump regurgitated Hillary Clinton&#8217;s charge that he was <em>&#8220;puppet&#8221;<\/em> of Vladimir Putin, and his pitiful reply was <em>&#8220;No puppet. You&#8217;re the puppet.&#8221;<\/em> What a comeback!<\/p>\n<p>Trump is so devoid of any shred of intelligence that he can&#8217;t even come up with an original criticism of Biden. He merely attempts to bounce his own flaws back to the President, who clearly has none of the problems that plague Trump. It&#8217;s a rather pathetic display of ignorance and impotence. But neither Trump nor his team have any other options. So look for more of that feeble framing in the debate, and the campaign going forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61944\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Fear and Desperation Show as He Says Biden is Both \u2018The Worst\u2019 and \u2018A Worthy\u2019 Debater<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61459\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adderall J. Trump Thinks He Can \u2018Demand\u2019 Biden Take a Drug Test Before the Debates \u2013 Or What?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61155\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Floats Conspiracy Theory that Biden is Plotting to Assault Trump to Avoid Debating Him<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first presidential debate of 2024 is just hours away. And the candidates are preparing for it in their own unique ways: Biden by studying the issues and polishing his message. And Trump by studying his cult rally rants and giving interviews to Fox News and other MAGA media. Click here to Tweet this article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200,16],"tags":[554,1140,377],"class_list":["post-61992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-snowflakes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-g7S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61944,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61944","url_meta":{"origin":61992,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Fear and Desperation Show as He Says Biden is Both &#8216;The Worst&#8217; and &#8216;A Worthy&#8217; Debater","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/21\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"As the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle approaches, the candidates are preparing for their epic battle in strikingly different ways. 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