Connecticut
Biden Labels Trump a ‘Convicted Felon’ During Connecticut Fundraiser: ‘Something Snapped in This Guy’
President Joe Biden accurately labeled former President Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” at a Connecticut fundraising event, perhaps signaling an aggressive campaign approach following Trump’s 34 guilty verdicts last week.
“For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency,” Biden said at a fundraising event in Greenwich, Connecticut, according to multiple reports. “But as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all-out assault Donald Trump is making on the American system of justice.”
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial over payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. Biden briefly commented on Trump’s conviction Friday, saying, “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 told reporters at the White House last week.
According to an NBC News report, Biden repeated that note Monday night:
Biden made similar remarks Monday, saying, “It’s reckless and dangerous for anyone to say that’s rigged just because they don’t like” the outcome.
“Something snapped in this guy for real” after the 2020 election, Biden said. “It’s literally driving him crazy.”
Biden also called Trump “unhinged.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he has been the victim of a “WITCH HUNT,” engineered by the Biden DOJ in the New York State trial, but even Trump’s former lawyer, Joe Tacopina, ridiculed that claim, saying it is without merit.
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The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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