President Trump said Tuesday that “son of a bitch” former President Joe Biden “wanted me in here” during a tour of the newly built Alligator Alcatraz migrant camp in the Everglades.
“Biden wanted me in here, OK?” the 45th and 47th president told reporters inside a large white tent lined with dog kennel-style chain-link-fence pens for prisoners.
“It didn’t work out that way, but he wanted me in here, that son of a bitch,” Trump exclaimed alongside Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Trump, 79, faced four criminal cases as he campaigned against Biden last year for a second non-consecutive term.
He would have faced a de facto life sentence if convicted of the most serious counts related to allegedly mishandling national security documents and attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
The Republican is the first former president to face criminal charges and consistently claimed the four cases were the result of “weaponization” of the Biden Justice Department.
Biden, who dropped his re-election campaign last July after Democrats mutinied over his apparent cognitive decline, has denied involvement in the cases.
Only one of the four cases went to trial before the election — with Trump convicted in May 2024 of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to conceal “hush money” payments during the 2016 campaign, but receiving no penalty.
The Republican alleged that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, coordinated the case with Biden aides.
Trump also faced federal charges in South Florida over his handling of official records from his first term, a federal election-related case in DC and a state election case in Georgia.
His victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5 torpedoed the prosecutions and ruled out the already remote possibility of jail time in New York.
A Biden spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
