Biden: "Reporters Said They Would Immigrate If Trump Was Elected"

U.S. President Joe Biden said that journalists would leave the United States if former President Donald Trump were to regain power.

President Joe Biden of the United States. [Image source=Yonhap News]

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On the 22nd (local time), EFE and Bloomberg reported that President Biden made the remarks while speaking to former broadcast news anchor Katie Couric at a fundraising event held in California. Biden said, "Although you were not part of the same network, two of your former colleagues personally told me that Trump threatened to put them in jail, so they said they would have to leave the country if Trump wins (the election)." However, President Biden did not disclose the identities of the two journalists who made these statements.

He went on to say in a strong tone that former President Trump was the first president since the Civil War to tolerate 'political violence.' Referring to the incident on January 6, 2021, when some of Trump's 'extreme supporters' who rejected the 2020 election results stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., Biden said, "I may not be the best president, but I am confident that I am much better than the previous president." He criticized Trump by saying, "He tolerates political violence," and added, "No president since the Civil War has embraced and encouraged it."

Regarding Biden's remarks about 'journalist immigration,' Steven Cheung, spokesperson for Trump's presidential campaign, retorted, "This is just another example of journalists with an overactive imagination and an excessively inflated ego trying to make themselves the center of attention."

Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, has long claimed that mainstream media outlets are hostile toward him. He also stated that Politico reporters who first published an article after obtaining a draft opinion overturning the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed women's abortion rights in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case should be arrested if they do not reveal their sources of information.

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