President Biden accused former President Trump of “having sex with a porn star” and said he has “the morals of an alley cat,” but the presumptive Republican nominee maintained he does not and accused Biden of standing behind his legal cases because he “can't win fair and square.”
During CNN's simulcast of the presidential debate Thursday night, Biden noted that Trump was convicted on all counts in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation related to hush money payments to the actress. adult film Stormy Daniels.
Stormy Daniels is questioned by defense attorney Susan Necheles during the criminal trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., May 9, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
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Biden also highlighted the case brought against Trump by E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of rape and defamation.
“How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for sexually abusing a woman in public? For doing a whole host of things: having sex with a porn star… while your wife was pregnant?” Biden said. “You have the morals of a stray cat overnight, sir.”
Former President Donald Trump leads President Biden by four percentage points, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. (Getty Images)
In the E. Jean Carroll case, a federal jury decided that Trump must pay her $83.3 million for denying allegations that he raped her in the 1990s. Trump's legal team requested a new trial and appealed the ruling. , but was rejected in April.
But Trump, on Thursday night, hit back and defended himself.
“First of all, I didn't have sex with a porn star,” he said. “Secondly, that was a case that was initiated and they moved a high-ranking (Department of Justice) official to the Manhattan district attorney's office to initiate the case.”
Trump was referring to Matthew Colangelo, who served as a senior Justice Department official in the Biden administration and left to join Bragg's prosecution team.
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A jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records in New York against Trump. Trump has vowed to appeal that verdict.
“That case will be appealed and won. We had a terrible judge, a horrible judge, the prosecutors were all high-ranking Democrats, appointees,” Trump said.
Trump accused Biden, saying he “attacked his political opponent because he thought he was going to hurt me.”
“But when the public found out about the cases, because they understand it better than he does, he has no idea what those cases are, but when they found out about these cases, you know what they did: My poll numbers went way up,” Trump said. “You know that, because you're reporting on it.”
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Trump also said his campaign “raised more money in the last two weeks than ever in the history of any campaign.”
“I don't think any campaign has received hundreds of millions of dollars because the public knows it's a scam,” Trump said. “He's a guy who goes after his political opponent because he can't win fairly.”
