President Biden’s reelection campaign blasted former President Donald Trump for golfing on his day off from court after he complained that his criminal hush money trial was keeping him off the campaign trail.
“We found out where Trump was. He was golfing. Not campaigning. Golfing,” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.
“But, when your entire campaign is about enacting revenge and retribution for yourself and doing nothing to make Americans’ lives better, it makes sense you wouldn’t feel the need to actually speak to voters,” Mr. Moussa said.
The statement came after CNN reported Thursday that Mr. Trump spent his day off from court for his New York criminal trial Wednesday playing golf at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
Mr. Trump told reporters in the courtroom hallway Tuesday that the hush money trial “should have never been brought.”
“I should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, in North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning,” he said.
The trial isn’t held on Wednesdays, but Mr. Trump was back in court Thursday.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with reimbursement payments to his former attorney Michael Cohen. His lawyers have said the payments to Mr. Cohen were actual legal expenses and not part of a cover-up. The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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