On Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s recent speech about his decision not to seek reelection, characterizing it as an internal “coup” within the Democratic Party.
“I think it was a coup,” Trump said. “They didn’t want him running. He was way down in the polls, and they thought he was going to lose. They went to him, and they said, you can’t win the race, which I think is true, unless I did something very foolish, which I wasn’t going to do, and I think he was so far down, and they said, ‘You’re not going to win, and you’re not in great shape, and you did poorly in the debate.’ I think the debate started everything.”
The ex-president linked Biden’s decision to withdraw from his presidential candidacy to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former President Barack Obama.
“I know a lot of people on the other side, too, that they went, and they forced him out between Pelosi and Obama and some others that you see on television,” he continued. “It was interesting,” he continued. “I’d watch them on television, and they act so nice. ‘Oh, yes, we loved you — we loved you behind the scenes.’ I know for a fact they were brutal.”
