‘Stu­pid per­son’: Trump comes out swing­ing on Biden’s home turf ahead of Penn­syl­va­nia pri­ma­ry

SCHNECKSVILLE, Penn­syl­va­nia — For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump wast­ed no time in launch­ing attacks against Pres­i­dent Joe Biden dur­ing a cam­paign ral­ly in Penn­syl­va­nia, a cru­cial bat­tle­ground state that Biden claims as his home turf and has emerged as a cen­ter focus of the 2024 elec­tion. 
Short­ly after tak­ing the stage at the Sch­necksville Fire Hall in Lehigh Coun­ty on Sat­ur­day evening, Trump quick­ly began lob­by­ing attacks against Biden on a num­ber of plat­forms, such as the econ­o­my and immi­gra­tion. How­ev­er, the for­mer pres­i­dent began by tar­get­ing the pres­i­dent over his han­dling of issues over­seas, par­tic­u­lar­ly point­ing to the Iran­ian attack on Israel that occurred just hours before Trump took the stage. 

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump greets atten­dees dur­ing a cam­paign event in Sch­necksville, Penn­syl­va­nia, on Sat­ur­day, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Joe Lam­ber­ti)

Trump argued the attack on Israel by the Hamas mil­i­tant group, as well as the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine, would not have occurred if Biden was not elect­ed, prompt­ing the cro …