Biden campaign’s latest broadside: A ‘feeble’ Trump is ‘lying about having money’

A
court
ruling
that
slashed

Donald
Trump‘s
civil
fraud
appeal
bond
was
a
financial
win
for
the
former
president.
But
the
campaign
of
his
rival,
President

Joe
Biden,
found
a
way
to
capitalize
on
the
news.

“Donald
Trump
is
weak
and
desperate
–
both
as
a
man
and
a
candidate
for
President,”
the
Biden
campaign
said
in
a
searing
statement
Monday
afternoon.

“He
spent
the
weekend
golfing,
the
morning
comparing
himself
to

Jesus,
and
the
afternoon
lying
about
having
money
he
definitely
doesn’t
have,”
said
Biden
campaign
spokesman
James
Singer,
in
response
to
a
Trump
press
conference
earlier
in
the
day.

“His
campaign
can’t
raise
money,
he
is
uninterested
in
campaigning
outside
his
country
club,
and
every
time
he
opens
his
mouth,
he
pushes
moderate
and
suburban
voters
away
with
his
dangerous
agenda,”
Singer
said
in
a
statement.

“America
deserves
better
than
a
feeble,
confused,
and
tired
Donald
Trump.”

Trump
campaign
spokesmen
did
not
immediately
respond
to
CNBC’s
request
for
comment.

The
Biden
campaign’s
salvo
ratcheted
up
an
offensive
against
Trump
that
seeks
to
flip
the
script
on
questions
that
have
dogged
Biden,
81,
about
his
own
age
and
physical
stamina.

It
also
followed
a
pair
of
major
developments
Monday
in
Trump’s
criminal
and
civil
court
cases.

In
Manhattan,
a
judge
in
Trump’s
criminal
hush-money
case
set
a
trial
date
for
April
15.
The
decision
was
a
blow
to
Trump,
whose
lawyers
argued
the
trial
should
have
been
pushed
back
to
give
them
time
to
read
a
tranche
of
recently
submitted
records.

While
that
hearing
was
going
on,
a
New
York
appeals
court
in
Trump’s
business
fraud
case
shrunk
his
bond
requirement
to
$175
million
and
gave
him
10
days
to
post
it.

Trump
had
been
unable
to
post
an
appeal
bond
equal
to
his

$454
million judgment
in
that
case,
and
New
York
Attorney
General
Letitia
James
was
poised
to
begin
seizing
his
assets
as
soon
as
Monday.

But
the
appeals
court
ruling
slashed
the
bond
by
roughly
60%,
a
major
victory
for
Trump.

Trump
had
previously
claimed
he
would
have
to
sell
properties
in
a “fire
sale”
to
come
up
with
enough
cash
to
pause
the
penalty
from
coming
due.

But
he
also
continued
to
claim
that
he
was

flush
with
cash,
and
that
he
simply
wanted
to
save
some
of
it
to
use
on
his
presidential
campaign.

Asked
in
a
press
conference
Monday
afternoon
if
he
would
start
contributing
his
own
funds
to
his
White
House
bid,
Trump
said, “it’s
none
of
your
business.”

“I
might
do
that,
I
have
the
option.
But
if
I
have
to
spend
$500
million
on
the
bond,
I
wouldn’t
have
that
option,”
Trump
said
outside
of
40
Wall
Street,
a
building
that
bears
his
name
but
is

not
actually
owned
by
Trump.

On
Sunday,

Biden
mocked
Trump
on
social
media
after
the
former
president
boasted
that
he
had
won
two
golf
trophies
at
his
own
golf
club
over
the
weekend.
Biden’s
post
went
viral,
racking
up
more
than
25
million
views
as
of
6:15PM
Monday.