“Donald Trump and Joe Biden both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania this week,” said reporter Benny Johnson of the conservative Newsmax television network. he wrote on Twitter in a post sharing the clip. “Here’s what they looked like back to back. Incredible.” The video, which has been viewed about 2.3 million times, shows a packed house at Mr Trump’s stadium rally on Saturday, compared to a more modest crowd at the president’s speech on Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Trump, in his first major speech since the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago investigationindeed it brought many supporters to the Mohegan Sun Area, which seemed to be in her territory with a capacity of 8,000 seats. The former president used the “Save America” rally — nominally a speech to support Republican office-seekers in Pennsylvania such as U.S. Sen. Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano — to attack federal law enforcement and to do unfounded claims about Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman using illegal drugs. Mr. Trump accused the Biden administration of “arming the FBI and Ministry of Justice like never before” and described the court-ordered search of his property as “the FBI breaking into the homes of their political opponents.” “The FBI and the Department of Justice have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical leftist crooks, lawyers and the media, who tell them what to do,” Trump said. Mr. Biden returned to his home state this week as part of his own series of midterm events in Pennsylvania. The Biden speech featured in the comparison video took place Tuesday in a gymnasium at Wilkes University, a small college with student body just over 2,000. At the event, Biden criticized Republicans for claiming to be the party of law and order, while supporting Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6. “So let me say this to mine MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you don’t condemn what happened on the 6th,” he said. “Do not tell me. I can not do it.” And he continued: “For God’s sake, whose side are you on? Whose side are you on? Look, whether you’re on the side of a mob or the side of the police. You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurgency. You cannot be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6th “patriots”. You can’t do it.” Two days later, Mr. Biden gave a primetime speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Constitution was drafted. “A lot of what’s going on in our country today is not normal,” he said, adding that the man he defeated nearly two years ago — former President Donald Trump — and his “Republican Muga” allies “represent an extremism that threatens the foundations themselves. of our Republic”. “This is a threat to this country,” he continued. This isn’t the first time Trump-crowd comparisons have been part of the political debate. Perhaps the first scandal of the Trump White House involved the then-president and his associates dubious claims about crowd size at Mr Trump’s inauguration in January 2017. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told skeptical NBC anchor Chuck Todd at the time that the debunked statements were not false, but based on “alternative facts.”
