Donald Trump has ignored his impeachment scandal and posted a video mocking Joe Biden’s recent fall as he tries to bring focus to his 2024 presidential campaign.
The former Apprentice host was indicted this week on federal charges, including obstruction and violation of the espionage law for the classified documents he took to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving the White House.
He has been hit with 37 counts by the Justice Department, making him the first former president to face federal charges.
But Trump, who has yet to speak publicly about the charges, took to his platform at Truth Social to mock President Biden’s recent fall at a June 1 graduation ceremony.
He posted a video of him hitting a golf ball that was edited to hit Biden just as the octogenarian president fell over on stage at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
Donald Trump has ignored his impeachment scandal and posted a video mocking Joe Biden’s recent fall as he tries to bring focus to his 2024 presidential campaign
Trump, who has yet to speak publicly about the charges, took to the Truth Social platform to mock President Biden’s recent fall at a June 1 graduation ceremony.
He posted a video of him hitting a golf ball edited to hit Biden at the exact moment he fell over on stage at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
Trump shared the clip with his 5.8 million followers on Truth Social and was liked more than 10,000 times.
It shows him hitting a ball on the golf course before it passes to Biden on the podium. In the edit, it hits him on the back of the head and sends him tumbling.
He captioned the video “Fore,” a golf term used to warn those standing near the flight of a golf ball.
Biden, 80, laughed off the embarrassing fall at the United States Air Force Academy, joking “I got thrown in a sandbag,” before insisting that everything was fine.
His latest stumbling block is his fourth public fall since taking office in January 2021.
It comes just weeks after he lost his balance while visiting the Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima, Japan.
During that event, a railing was available on a set of stairs that the president had to navigate down.
He ignored the railing and stumbled, walking down and recovering his balance. Biden also stumbled when he boarded Air Force One on a trip to Selma, Alabama, in March.
Biden fell up the stairs when he boarded Air Force One in 2021 and fell on his bike near his beach house in Delaware last June. He was not injured in any of the incidents.
Biden, 80, laughed off the embarrassing fall at the United States Air Force Academy, joking “I got into a sandbag,” before insisting everything was fine
His latest stumbling block is his fourth public fall since taking office in January 2021
The 49-page indictment against Trump was unsealed Friday, accusing him of mishandling classified documents after leaving office in 2021, as well as obstructing justice.
It contains 37 counts related to those charges, as well as photographs showing heaps of document-filled boxes being illegally stored on his Florida estate for the better part of a year.
Trump was furious with the “corrupt Biden administration,” accusing them of election interference in a video posted minutes after news of the indictment from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
He said he would “of course” plead not guilty to the charges – including conspiracy and holding classified documents – when he appears before a Miami court on Tuesday afternoon in his second indictment in three months.
If convicted on the shopping list of charges, he could face up to 100 years in prison.
It is the second set of charges this year against Trump, which plunge the country into fresh legal and political uncertainty as he campaigns to return to office and after his defeat by President Joe Biden in 2020.
It means the leading candidate in the Republican primary will have to divide his time between the courtroom and the campaign trail as he tries to seal the GOP nomination.
Trump has been charged with possession of the secret documents and obstruction.
In addition, Trump was charged with willfully withholding national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and obstructing the conspiracy of justice.
The 49-page indictment against Trump was unsealed Friday, accusing him of mishandling classified documents after leaving office in 2021, as well as obstructing justice
It contains 37 counts related to those charges, as well as photographs showing heaps of document-filled boxes being illegally stored on his Florida estate for the better part of a year.
The Justice Department has published a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago search
It claims he stored the documents — 184 of which contained classified information — in a ballroom and bathroom at his resort, among other things.
Prosecutors have been investigating the transfer of presidential files to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida since last year.
Trump is about to make his first public appearance since handing over his bombshell indictment in Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday.
He will address the Republican audience and will likely try to rally support after vowing to fight federal charges.
The charges come after a jury in a civil court found on May 9 that Trump sexually assaulted advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman in 1996.
They found that he slandered her when he called her a liar and he was ordered to pay a total of $5 million in damages.