President Biden said Friday that the justice system “must be respected” and that it was “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim that the verdict in his New York trial was “rigged,” just days after he told his followers that the Supreme Court The court could not “prevent” him from carrying out his agenda.
“It's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict,” Biden said in response to the former president's comments about the New York against Trump verdict, which found Trump guilty Thursday of all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
“Our justice system has lasted almost 250 years and is literally the cornerstone of America. Our justice system must be respected. And we must never allow anyone to tear it down. It's as simple as that,” Biden added. .
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President Biden said Friday that the justice system “must be respected” and that it was “reckless” for former President Donald Trump to claim that the verdict in his trial in New York was “rigged.” (Getty Images)
Biden's comments came just two days after he boasted to supporters at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that the Supreme Court's ruling that his student debt relief plan was unconstitutional did not “prevent” him from pay off student loans.
“The Supreme Court stopped me from relieving student debt, but they didn't stop me,” Biden said Wednesday from Girard College.
Biden, like several other Democratic and Republican presidents throughout history, has taken aim at the Supreme Court for a series of rulings he made during his tenure in the White House.
During his State of the Union address in March, Biden took direct aim at the justices, insisting that they had underestimated the “electoral and political power” of women in their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. During an interview with MSNBC about her comments directed at the justices, Biden said, “Look, I think they made the wrong decision, I think they misread the Constitution, I think they made a mistake.”
Biden made similar comments about how the high court ruling “did not stop him” from canceling student loans in February while speaking at the Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, California.
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The Supreme Court in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
“Early in my term, I announced a major plan to provide millions of working families with debt relief for their college students,” Biden said at the time. “Tens of millions of people in debt were literally about to be written off. But my MAGA Republican friends in Congress, elected officials and special interests stepped in and sued us. And the Supreme Court blocked it. But that didn't stop me. “
Last June, The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that federal law does not allow Biden's Secretary of Education to cancel more than $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden promised at the time that his administration would continue to push forward with his student debt relief plan.
Shortly after the court's ruling, Biden said, “I think the court misinterpreted the Constitution.”
Earlier this year, Biden announced the Savings in Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. that cancels the debt for enrolled borrowers who have been paying for at least 10 years and have student loan debt of $12,000 or less. Those with larger debts will receive relief after an additional year of payments for each additional $1,000 they borrowed.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said: “Expressing disagreement with a Supreme Court decision – as all presidents do – is not the same as attacking the rule of law and undermine our judicial system.”
Following the verdict in Trump's trial, Biden took to social media on Friday to say, “No one is above the law.”
President Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 31, 2024. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He also used Trump's comments to raise money for his re-election campaign, claiming in another post on X that Trump “questioned our justice system.”
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“Donald Trump is threatening our democracy. First, he questioned our electoral system. Then, he questioned our judicial system,” Biden wrote on Friday.
Biden said Friday that Trump, who is the first president convicted of a felony, “will have the opportunity, as he should, to appeal” the conviction.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
