Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was found guilty and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”

His comments came a day after Trump’s criminal trial in New York concluded, when the former president was convicted of all 34 felony charges in a hush money case from the 2016 election.

Biden for months has stridently avoided involvement in Trump’s legal dramas, seeking not to fuel his Republican rival’s claims that his criminal troubles are the result of politically motivated prosecutions. But as the New York trial wound down, his campaign became much more vocal about it.

Seung Min Kim and Will Weissert, Associated Press