President Donald Trump’s local newspaper supports Joe Biden

A newspaper in Donald Trump’s home state of Florida has endorsed President Joe Biden.

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palm beach post, The city, which is in the same county as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, wrote in an editorial Wednesday that Trump’s second term “will be greatly feared by the public.”

newsweek asked Trump’s representatives for comment via email.

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Polls ahead of the Democratic and Republican primaries show Trump is the most likely to become the Republican presidential nominee again, with a matchup against Biden the most likely outcome. But while voters in both parties have expressed concerns about Biden and issues such as his age; post He said undecided readers should “look at recent developments surrounding Trump with new eyes.”

The editorial said undecided voters may want to consider two recent civil lawsuits in New York in which Trump was fined hundreds of millions of dollars.

Trump was forced to pay $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in restitution and $65 million in punitive damages to the former president. Elle Columnist E. Gene Carroll said of his 2019 remarks:

In a separate civil libel trial in May 2023, a jury ruled that Trump had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. I put it down.

The former president has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and said he would appeal the latest ruling, handed down in January.

A judge said earlier this month that Trump must pay $354.9 million in fines after being found responsible for corporate fraud.

Trump, who was ordered to take out bank loans in New York and be banned from serving as a company director for three years, has always denied wrongdoing and his lawyers said they would appeal.

Adding to Trump’s legal concerns, he faces 91 criminal charges in four indictments in Georgia, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C.

He said the four criminal indictments against him, the Carroll civil case and the New York civil fraud case, were all politically motivated.

Trump called his recent $354.9 million fine on his Truth social media platform “election interference.”

President Trump’s lawyer Christokise recently said: newsweek “I remain confident that the Appellate Division will ultimately correct the countless catastrophic errors made by a trial court that was unfettered by law and reality,” the former president said.