CONCORD: US President Joe Biden has called for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to be locked up “politically” for being a threat to democracy.
“We have to lock him up […] lock him up politically. Leave it out. That's what we have to do,” President Biden said as he urged Democrats at a New Hampshire campaign office to win the Nov. 5 election.
Claiming that Trump wanted to ignore the safeguards of the US Constitution, the president warned that the country's democracy was at stake if the Republican candidate triumphed over Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Trump, when he ran for president in 2016, repeatedly presided over rallies where crowds chanted “lock her up,” a reference to then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. He did not discourage them from that song.
This year, during rallies for Harris, her crowds sometimes chant “lock him up,” a reference to Trump, who has been convicted of 34 felonies related to covering up money paid to a porn star to keep her silent. He also faces charges of illegally attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss.
But Harris silences the chants and says the Department of Justice will take care of that matter while she seeks to defeat the former president at the polls.
