No wonder Joe Biden and the Democrats want to lock up Donald Trump.

No wonder Joe Biden and the Democrats want to lock up Donald Trump.

They have been trying to do this since he was elected president in 2016. That’s when he committed the unforgivable sin of defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman to nearly become president.

Now he is on the verge of defeating Kamala Harris, the second woman to also nearly become president.

So it is clear that Trump is a clear and present danger, if not to the country and the Democratic Party, then at least to the Democratic women who want to become president.

And he’s also Hitler, if you listen to Harris and the Democrats, which makes you wonder if they even know who Hitler was and what he did, like the systematic murder of six million Jewish men and women during World War II. and children.

It’s understandable if they don’t. They don’t remember Hitler or the war. Harris, born in 1964, was not even there when Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1944, as the Soviet Army and Allies closed in on him. Joe Biden was two years old at the time.

But that hasn’t stopped them from going beyond answering Trump’s insult for insult in a presidential campaign that has fallen to a new low. Once you call someone Hitler, there is nothing left.

And Joe Biden now wants to lock up Trump or destroy him, acting as if he, his Justice Department and the Democrats haven’t been trying to destroy him for years, from his impeachment while he was president to his subsequent prosecution. They have been following him ever since.

A week ago, at a rare event for Harris’ campaign in New Hampshire, a strange-looking Biden said, “If I had said that five years ago, you would have locked me up. We have to lock him up.”

Then, apparently realizing what he had said, he added: “Lock him up politically – lock him up, that’s what we have to do.”

Biden could have added, but did not, that sending Trump to prison for his criminalization of American politics was what he had been doing all along.

And to be clear, when Biden talked about sending someone to prison, he was talking about Trump, not the other guy, his son Hunter.

If anyone is going to jail, it’s Hunter Biden, not Donald Trump.

While Trump faces sentencing on Nov. 26 for falsifying business records in a dubious case brought by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Hunter Biden faces years in prison on gun charges as well as federal tax evasion.

If Biden had been interested in uniting the country, as he promised when elected, rather than dividing it, as has happened, he might have taken a different path.

Now it’s too late.

But if he had been a benevolent leader, rather than a bitter old man rejected by his own party, he could have done a lot to unite the country once he walked out the door. And he could help Kamala Harris get out.

One way to do this is to offer Trump a pardon for the federal charges against him. Such a move would not only surprise the country, but would also go a long way toward easing the rift that has pitted people against each other.

If Harris were on his side and willing, Biden could show with one stroke of his pen that he is truly concerned about uniting the country and ending the malice that has split the country in two.

That would make it big. At the same time, he could also pardon Hutner. If not, Trump as president could repay the debt if he wins the election.

Such a move by Biden, with Harris’s agreement, would also help Harris by giving her the credibility, generosity and authority that she sorely lacks.

And despite his viciousness, Trump might even accept a pardon.

This did not happen. But it would make a good movie.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Write to him at [email protected].

Originally published: October 28, 2024 5:46 am