The 2024 presidential race heats up and, as expected, supporters of President Joe Biden, who presently seeks for re-election for a second presidential term, and former President Donald Trump, the standard bearer of the Republican Party, have thrown shades and dirts against the two contenders.
President Joe Biden Faces Renewed Molestation Allegations
The POTUS has been lambasted anew after an extract from the personal diary of his daughter, Ashley, admitting taking showers with her father made rounds online. President Biden has not only criticized for the inappropriate act but many netizens also dubbed the said behavior as child molestation.
For starters, a woman named Aimee Harris from Florida discovered Ashley's journal, which she subsequently sold to the organization Project Veritas, which is associated with the right-wing ideology. On the other hand, she is said to have discovered the diary concealed beneath a mattress in Ashley's previous residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
"I have always been boy crazy. hyper-sexualized @ a young age ... I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),” a diary entry dated January 30, 2019 read.
"I relapsed. F***ing again. The difference this time around was that I told Elizabeth, Mom + Dad this morning. Mom + Dad worried but incredibly supportive. I am so lucky to have them on my side,” another entry dated March 16, 2019 read.
President Biden, who is frequently referred to as a pedophile on social media by fans of Trump, was criticized after the contents of the journal were made public.
“#TrumpPedoFiles is the same situation as the mental acuity issue. Whatever Joe Biden has done or is doing, Democrats are going to try to shift it to Trump with no evidence. Joe Biden molested and made his daughter take showers with him. She admitted it in her own handwriting,” Right In Illinois wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“Odd that everything they accuse Trump of, they do,” another netizen stated. “If anybody else had done this, they would be in jail but pedoJoe gets away with it. Why?” a third X user penned.
“Biden’s daughter claims she was molested as a girl while she & her father were showering together. This is definitely not Presidential behavior,” Jont Trubek commented on the issue in 2021. President Biden has yet to comment on the resurfaced allegations.
In April, a woman from Florida was given a sentence that included one month in prison and three months of home detention for the crime of stealing and selling the diary of President Joe Biden's daughter to the conservative organization Project Veritas. The crime occurred four years ago.
Aimee Harris was given a sentence in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who referred to the behavior of the woman to be "despicable," Politico reported. Aimee was originally from Palm Beach, Florida.
In August 2022, Aimee entered a guilty plea to a conspiracy charge, saying that she had taken $20,000 of the $40,000 that had been paid by Project Veritas for personal belongings that belonged to Ashley Biden, the daughter of the president.
Following the discovery of the diary and other materials at a friend's residence in Delray Beach, Florida, in the year 2020, Aimee, who was overcome with emotion, expressed her regret for allowing Ashley Biden's private writings to be sold. According to the prosecutors, Ashley Biden had assumed that her belongings were safely preserved at the residence after she had temporarily stayed there in the spring of 2020.
“I do not believe I am above the law,” Aimee made this statement after a prosecution advocated a jail sentence for her, citing the fact that she had failed to appear at multiple sentencing dates on the grounds that she was preoccupied with taking care of her two children, who were seven and eight years old.
“I’m a survivor of long term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,” she told the judge.
In the presence of a lawyer representing Ashley Biden, who was observing from the spectator part of the courtroom, Aimee expressed her regret to the president's daughter, saying that she regrets making her upbringing and life public.
During the announcement of the punishment, Judge Laura mentioned that Aimee and a co-defendant named Robert Kurlander, who was from Jupiter, Florida, had initially attempted to sell Ashley Biden's possessions to the 2020 presidential campaign of then-President Donald Trump, but they were unsuccessful.
The judge stated that Aimee, in addition to being driven by money, had planned to have an effect on the political landscape of the nation.
Aimee and Robert had both entered guilty pleas to the charge of conspiring to carry stolen items over state lines. Robert has not yet been punished for his involvement in the scheme.
Defense counsel Anthony Cecutti argued that his client should not be sentenced to prison, given the horrible experiences she has had in her life as well as her efforts to care for her children as she is recuperating from abuse and violence.
“She carries the shame and stigma of her actions,” he said.
In his statement, Assistant United States Attorney Robert Sobelman argued that Harris had demonstrated a "pattern of disrespect for the law and the justice system." He requested that Harris be sentenced to prison.
“Ms. Harris is not the victim in this case. Ms. Biden is the victim in this case,” Solberman stated.
His statement was that over the summer of 2020, Aimee had taken Ashley Biden's diary, a digital storage card, books, clothing, baggage, and "everything she could get her hands on" in the aim that she would be able to "make as much money as she could."
“She wanted to damage Ms. Biden’s father,” Solberman said.
When Aimee was told to report to prison in July, he did so. While she was leaving the courthouse, she chose not to talk to anyone. The attorney for Ashley Biden also declined to respond, despite the fact that he had sent a letter to the judge on behalf of his client the day before, which was not immediately included in the court record.
#TrumpPedoFiles Trends Online Amid Mainstream Media Silence
Meanwhile, details from recently disclosed court documents in Florida pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein case are trending on X under the hashtag #TrumpPedoFiles. This has contributed to the fact that Donald Trump is at the center of a social media tempest.
On Tuesday, members of the House of Representatives had a meeting to examine the candidacy of President Joe Biden. However, Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, brought attention to an urgent subject that the mainstream media has mostly ignored.
"We hear a lot from our constituents on different issues, but something I've heard that doesn't seem to be being covered are the Epstein files,” Rep. Ted stated.
The representative brought attention to the fact that the records contain allegations of rape and images of juveniles, both of which link Trump from the charges. The hashtag #TrumpPedoFiles is currently trending on X, which indicates that this material has achieved great popularity on social media.
"And by the way, he was convicted in a civil court for sexual assault and convicted in a state court for 34 felonies. Donald Trump should drop out of the race," Rep. Ted said.
The documents were ordered to be unsealed by Circuit Judge Luis Delgado the previous week, which was just a few days before the Fourth of July holiday. "The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal," Judge Luis penned.
For the most part, the mainstream media has ignored the information that has emerged from these documents, despite the fact that there is a huge amount of public interest and attention on social media. According to a story from The Washington Post, between the years 2004 and 2006, Donald discussed multiple phone discussions with Epstein.
Business Times has reached out to President Joe Biden and Republican Party standard bearer Donald Trump for comments.
