“The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden,” Mr.
Trump said at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday afternoon. “I’m not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed. He had a rough debate. But that doesn’t mean that you just take it away like that.”
“For some reason, and I know he regrets it — you do, too — he picked her,” Mr. Trump said. “And she turned on him, too. She was working with the people that wanted him out.” (Mr. Biden endorsed Ms. Harris for president 27 minutes after he dropped out of the race.)
“I hate to be defending him,” Mr. Trump said, “but he did not want to leave. He wanted to see if he could win.”This sudden outpouring of sympathy for a man he recently called “a broken-down old pile of crap” was somewhat surprising.
Perhaps there was some projection at play: Was the dismay Mr.
Trump expressed for his erstwhile opponent really just dismay at the predicament in which he now finds himself?
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