Trump attended the wake for a slain NYC police officer, while Biden, Clinton, and Obama were attending a fundraiser for Biden, at Radio City, where they raised 26 million for Biden's re-election campaign. Even the anti-Trump media pointed out the contrast. The man who killed the police officer had been arrested 21 times and released. NYS Governor Hochul, a Democrat who has caused crime to rise in NYC, was ejected from the wake, and the video is all over the internet.
In the January 6th aftermath, Charles Sicknick said that Trump waited three days after his son's dead body, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, was released from the hospital to lower the flags at the White House to half-staff.
The first one to call us was Joe Biden and he was crying on the phone," he said Friday. "The only thing Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump.
On Thursday, retired Capital Police Sergeant Aqulino Gonell said this about Trump's appearance at the New York policeman's wake:
This is the same person that calls capital rioters 'patriots', political prisoners, and hostages instead of calling them what they really are...convicted criminals. As an opportunistic grifter that he is, he claims to support the police, law and order, the rule of law and yet, he has not met with any officers from Capitol Police.
Lawyer Ron Filipkowski wrote on X on Thursday afternoon:
Nobody exploits a murder like Trump. Meanwhile, he wants to pardon people who beat up cops on J6.
Biden's $26 million NYC fundraiser was planned weeks in advance and well-publicized; it was quite successful and attended by two past presidents. In my opinion, Trump, in order to create a headline, was on the lookout to latch onto something during that time frame to then use as a contrast to Biden's "elite" fundraiser. His campaign likely scouted alternate contrasting events Trump could attend but got "lucky" with this statistically likely officer's death.
This was primarily just a fortuitous, opportune campaign stop for Trump, since he was already in New York dealing with his hush money trial. This made it easy to swing by for the cameras for his photo op, guaranteeing that his MAGA faithful will speak out positively about him attending.
In more Trump news, concern about Trump's mental fitness continues to grow, and even the right-wing Daily Mail is now probing Trump's rapid decline into dementia.
"Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing":
He often rambles — sometimes incoherently — for long periods of time. His remarks tend to be scrambled, disjointed and filled with factual errors.
These 'semantic disruptions,' the verbal mixing up of facts, could be early signs of dementia.
The concern is we're seeing these slips more and more at rallies that are at night, which go on for several hours. In dementia patients, symptoms of their condition often become worse at night, which is referred to as 'sundowning.'
This is a new report about Trump's escalating dementia. While Biden isn't a fantastic public speaker, and he has struggled with his lifelong stammer, Trump's gaffes are often absolutely nonsensical, in my opinion.
When you drill down into the details, there's a big difference between getting some details mixed up vs. mistaking your rape victim for your ex-wife and thinking Obama is still President and your current presidential opponent.