For years, President Donald Trump has bashed his successor and predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his handling of the southern border, but on Tuesday, Trump said Biden “was not for open borders.”
Biden “never talked about open borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can flow into our country at will,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“It wasn’t his idea to open the border, and almost destroy our country, and cost us hundreds of billions of dollars to get criminals out of our country, and go through the process we are going through now,” Trump said.
Estimates of more than 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, at least 663,000 of whom had either been convicted of a crime or faced criminal charges, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The president instead laid blame for the mass influx of illegal immigration under the Biden administration at the feet of “the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the autopen. They stole the presidency of the United States, and put us in great danger. This is treason at the highest level! They did it to destroy our country.”
The 47th president has previously questioned the use of the autopen during the Biden administration to sign executive orders and pardons.
Trump made border and immigration issues a pillar of his 2024 presidential campaign, repeatedly criticizing Biden for his border policies.
“We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. … And he opened it up, and these killers are coming into our country,” Trump said of Biden during the 2024 presidential debate last June.
Now, Trump says that the “Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our country, totally unchecked and unvetted. All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these treasonous thugs that wanted to destroy our country, but couldn’t, because I came along.”
Trump’s redirection of blame for the Biden administration’s border policies follow the release of two pieces of information related to Biden’s health.
On Saturday, Axios published the complete audio recordings of Biden’s interviews with special counsel Robert Hur. The interviews took place over two days, Oct. 8 and 9, 2023, and reveal multiple instances in which Biden appears to struggle to recall certain details about his life.
Hur interviewed Biden as part of the probe over Biden’s handling of classified documents. Axios reported that the recording confirms “Hur’s assertion that jurors in a trial likely would have viewed Biden as ‘a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’”
Then, on Sunday, Biden’s personal office announced that the former president has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to Biden’s bones.
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