Commentators, insiders deride Biden calling to ‘politically’ lock Trump up: ‘No cleanup that is possible’ [Video]

President Biden sparked a wave of both outrage and mockery as he called for his predecessor to be “politically” locked up.

Biden was in Concord, New Hampshire, to tout his healthcare and prescription drug cost legislation when he said former President Trump wants to eliminate his political adversaries and detractors. “I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up,” Biden said. “We got to lock him up. Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.”

While Biden appeared to have caught himself in the moment, clarifying he did not mean imprisoning his political opponent, the incident nonetheless went viral across social media and both political parties.

Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson claimed that a former Biden administration official, noting this could be politically unhelpful to Vice President Kamala Harris, texted him, “we gotta lock Joe up.”

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