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CONCORD, N.H. — President Joe Biden sparked controversy Tuesday with a new attack line against former president Donald Trump, telling Democrats, “We’ve got to lock him up,” before moderating to suggest he meant figurative rather than literal incarceration.
After listing several dangers posed by a potential second Trump presidency at a Democratic Party campaign office here, Biden said: “I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like, if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up. We’ve got to lock him up.”
Yelp disabled comments for a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where former president Donald Trump manned the fry station during a weekend campaign stop, after the restaurant’s Yelp page was hit by a flurry of politicized reviews.
“Went to this McDonalds to try the new chicken big Mac and was stunned to see a convicted felon operating the drive through,” a reviewer wrote.