Biden's 'lock him up' remark about Trump was 'profoundly stupid thing' to say: CNN analyst

CNN ineligible expert Elliot Williams argued connected Wednesday that President Biden's comments astir locking up erstwhile President Trump were "profoundly stupid." 

"More than thing else. It was specified a profoundly anserine happening for the president to say. Here‘s why: It played straight into the cardinal constituent that Donald Trump and folks astir him person made, which is that the state has this overweening Justice Department top-down from the president going aft its rivals. Now, that’s not true," Williams said. 

"Merely articulating it adjacent arsenic an accident, helium gave occurrence to that nonsense," helium added, earlier arguing that disapproval of it was somewhat unfair compared to what Trump has said astir his governmental opponents. 

Biden said astatine an lawsuit successful New Hampshire connected Tuesday, "I cognize this sounds bizarre. It sounds similar if I said this 5 years ago, you'd fastener maine up. We got to fastener him up." However, the president rapidly added, "politically fastener him up. Lock him out. That's what we person to do."

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CNN ineligible expert Elliot Williams said Wednesday that President Biden's comments connected Donald Trump were "profoundly stupid." (Screenshot/CNN)

The different panelists dismissed the comments, again making the lawsuit that everything Trump had said was overmuch worse.

"He clarified his remarks. He, you know, helium said fastener him retired and, politically, I think, he, helium said those remarks, but helium beauteous rapidly clarified it. It wasn't hours later," erstwhile Biden property caput Kendra Barkoff said during the discussion. "I deliberation the information that radical are jumping connected it is beauteous ironic fixed the information that we conscionable saw clips of Donald Trump saying… ‘maybe she‘s connected drugs,’ possibly this I mean, the information is this is what Donald Trump makes worldly up time successful and time out."

Jonathan Alter echoed her statement and said determination was ever "whataboutism with this crowd."

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US President Joe Biden, with US Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks astir borderline information and enforcement successful the Roosevelt Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected January 5, 2023.  ((Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images))

The president was successful Concord for an authoritative lawsuit to item his administration's efforts to little wellness attraction costs and medicine cause prices. Minutes later, speaking astatine a governmental gathering astatine the New Hampshire Democratic Party headquarters, Biden was reiterating his longstanding statement that Trump, if re-elected, would beryllium a menace to the nation's democracy.

"Our ideology is astatine stake," Biden said. "Think astir it. Think astir what would hap if Donald Trump wins this election."

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Biden's remarks went viral, arsenic Axio newsman Alex Thompson said that a erstwhile Biden medication official, noting this could beryllium politically unhelpful to Vice President Kamala Harris, texted him, "we gotta fastener Joe up."

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.