A Hollywood fund-raiser Saturday night time meant to bolster President Biden’s warfare chest changed into a platform for a few of the most concerted and hardest assaults up to now on former President Donald J. Trump by the Biden marketing campaign, as entertainers, Barack Obama and even Jill Biden assailed Mr. Trump’s ethics and his suitability to return to the White Home.
Ms. Biden, after being launched by Barbra Streisand, mentioned the selection was between her husband, “who honors the rule of legislation as a substitute of attempting to bend it to his approach,” and Mr. Trump, “who wakes up each morning caring about one individual and one individual solely: himself.”
“Mr. Trump has informed us repeatedly why he needs the White Home — to offer himself absolute energy, to not be held accountable for his prison motion,” Ms. Biden continued. His goal, she informed the group, “was to destroy the democratic safeguards that stand in his approach.”
Mr. Obama invoked Mr. Trump’s felony convictions — one thing that Mr. Biden has for probably the most half averted doing — to applause from the group.
“We’ve the spectacle of the nominee of one of many two main events sitting in court docket and being convicted by a jury of his friends on 34 counts,” Mr. Obama mentioned. Itemizing off a collection of what he described as offenses by Mr. Trump, he famous that “you have got his group being prosecuted for not paying taxes. Put aside all the opposite stuff he says —”
President Biden picked up his microphone: “He paid none.”
The tenor of the occasion in downtown Los Angeles was totally different from one other star-studded fund-raiser simply three months in the past at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. The shift got here after Mr. Trump was convicted by a New York jury on Might 30 of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information, a verdict that produced a surge of contributions from his supporters that narrowed the fund-raising hole between the 2 candidates and raised issues amongst Democrats throughout the nation, nowhere greater than in Los Angeles.
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