Biden's Controversial Statement: 'We Must Politically Lock Up Trump'

washington - President Joe Biden's recent statement calling for the political imprisonment of Donald Trump has sparked controversy ahead of the elections.

American President Joe Biden has stirred controversy by stating two weeks before the elections that Donald Trump should be locked up. The Republican campaign team seized upon the statement.

During a campaign stop at a party office in Concord, New Hampshire, the commander in chief said on Tuesday, 'We must lock him up.' He hastened to add, 'Politically lock up. Exclude. That's what we have to do.'

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has tried to steer clear of such rhetoric and has attempted to correct the audience during campaign events if the slogan 'lock him up' was heard.

Trump's campaign sees the statement as new evidence that Biden and Harris have 'always' had an agenda to prosecute political opponents because they cannot win fairly. 'The Biden-Harris administration is the real threat to democracy,' the Republicans said in a statement.

Trump, in turn, had mentioned the 'enemy within' last week and threatened to deploy the military against what he called 'radical left idiots' if necessary. Asked later who he meant by that domestic enemy, Trump specifically named Democrats Adam Schiff and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Schiff led the first impeachment attempt against the then-Republican president. Pelosi called for Trump's impeachment after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Democrats, meanwhile, are claiming that Trump is 'mentally unstable.' At a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in Detroit, the crowd went wild as successive speakers questioned the mental state of the Republican. Obama himself avoided the topic, preferring to focus on the lack of 'competence'.