President Trump’s reelection campaign swiped at former Vice President Joe Biden for speculating that the president may not voluntarily leave office if he loses November’s general election.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh accused the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee of trying to “undermine confidence in our election,” on Thursday.
“This is just another brainless conspiracy theory from Joe Biden as he continues to try to undermine confidence in our elections. It was the Obama administration that tried to subvert an election by spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, and Biden himself was part of the effort to sabotage the incoming Trump administration because they couldn’t live with President Trump’s victory,” Murtaugh told ABC News.
“President Trump has been clear that he will accept the results of the 2020 election,” he added.
Biden on Wednesday said Trump is “going to try and steal this election,” adding that he’s “absolutely convinced” that the military will “escort” the president from the White House if he does not win reelection and refuses to step down. The former vice president also referenced the ex-military leaders and Trump White House officials, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis and former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who have recently condemned Trump.
“You have four chiefs of staff coming out and ripping the skin off of Trump, and so many rank-and-file military personnel saying, ‘Whoa, we’re not a military state. This is not who we are.’ I promise you, I’m absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch,” Biden added.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also said Biden’s claims were unfounded.
“That’s a ridiculous proposition,” she told Fox News in an interview Thursday. “Leave it to Democrats to go out there and grandstand and level these conspiracy theories.”
