President Biden: Trump is lying about his Project 2025. If you ever have any doubt, take a look at his new Vice President. They want to impose a nationwide ban on abortion. They want to prosecute political enemies. They want to cut Social Security and Medicare. They want to eliminate the Department of Education. They want to cut school lunches. They want to allow employers to stop paying overtime. They want to give the very wealthy and big corporations a new tax cut. We cannot let that happen
President Biden: Just look at Project 2025. Have you heard about it? It’s the blueprint for a second Trump term, and every American should read it. Project 2025 is run and paid for by Trump’s people. Project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and on our personal freedom that has ever been proposed in the history of this country
President Biden lays out his second term agenda:
—Restore Roe v. Wade
—Sign John Lewis Voting Rights Act
—Expand Social Security and Medicare
—End all medical debt
—Raise the minimum wage
—Pass the PRO Act for workers
—Ban assault weapons
—Lead the world on clean energy
—Permanent child tax credit
—$35 insulin cap for all
—Build more housing
—Invest in child care and elder care
President Biden: If you want to know how bad a businessman Trump really is, just think about this. He inherited his wealth only to squander it. He’s filed for bankruptcy 6 times. He even went bankrupt running a casino. How is that even possible? Doesn’t the house always win?
Trump says he will round up millions of Latinos into mass detention camps as part of Project 2025 and then says it will be “larger” than a 1950s military-style operation called “Operation Wetback”
President Biden: Trump hasn't done anything in 10 days. He's been riding around a golf cart in Mar-a-Lago with his wealthy friends. I'm not running because of the rich guys. I'm running for the American people. I beat Donald Trump last time, I'll beat him this time
President Biden: The issue of this election is, what kind of America do we want to be? Do we want to be a country of anger, revenge, and retribution? Or a country of hope, optimism, and possibilities? I want a country where women have a right to make their own health care decisions. Trump wants an America where abortion is banned and women are punished. I want an America where health care is a right, not a privilege. Trump wants to throw tens of millions of people off of Obamacare. I want an America where the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share. Trump wants to give the very wealthy an additional tax handout. I want to protect Social Security and Medicare. Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare so he can cut taxes for the very wealthy. I want to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks. Trump promised the NRA he will do ‘nothing’ about guns. I want January 6 insurrectionists to serve their full prison terms. Trump wants to pardon them
President Biden: I beat Donald Trump before and I’ve gotten more done than any president has. You've been wrong about everything so far. You were wrong about 2020. You were wrong about 2022, remember the ‘red wave’? You were wrong about 2023
President Biden: Did you ever hear how Trump explained the Fourth of July when he was president? I’m not making this up, he said George Washington's army won the Revolutionary War by taking control of the airports from the British. Talk about me misspeaking? Airports from the British in 1776? He is a stable genius
President Biden: I’m running against the biggest liar and the biggest threat to our democracy in American history. That's not hyperbole. As I said before, he has the morals of an alley cat. He lies about the economy. He's one of only two American presidents who left office with fewer jobs than when he came into office. You know who the other one was? Herbert Hoover. That's why I call him Donald ‘Herbert Hoover’ Trump
President Biden: Now, the American people will have to do what the court should have been willing to do but will not. The American people have to render a judgment about Donald Trump's behavior. The American people must decide whether Donald Trump's assault on our democracy on January 6 makes him unfit for public office, the highest office in the land. The American people must decide if Trump's embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable. Perhaps most importantly, American people must decide they want to entrust the presidency to Donald Trump, once again, now knowing he'll be more emboldened to do whatever he pleases, whenever he wants to do it
President Biden: It will now depend on the character of the men and women who hold the presidency to define the limits of the power of the presidency because the law will no longer do it. I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law. I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. She said ‘In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.’ So should the American people dissent. I dissent
President Biden: The presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It's an office that not only tests your judgment, perhaps even more importantly, it's an office that can test your character. Not only do you face moments when you need the courage to exercise the full power of the presidency, you also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits of the power of the office of presidency. This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America. Each of us is equal before the law. No one is above the law, not even the president of United States. Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity fundamentally changed that for all for all practical purposes. Today’s decisions means that there are virtually no limits on what the President can do
