I’m trying to understand what the point of this speech was. Is this due to fact that the DOJ is about to indict Trump? Or is there some other reason for this speech - no one in Washington just comes out and does something like this without some reason.
It was a campaign speech to galvanize his base before the election - telling them it’s a fight rather than address the issues because he’s got nothing on the issues.
IMHO, they need to shift blame as the MAGA Trump endorsed candidates won primaries, the FBI raid didn’t get the reaction they want, etc. and they need some distraction. Also, I suspect they have some very bad internal polls re: nov elections.
Rank and file "average" Democrats are continuing to leave the plantation -- err, party. Joe's obviously been hiding for a month since the ridiculous raid on Mar-a-Lago, so he had to make a well-publicized "reappearance." This is one of those speeches that tries to shore up disappearing support, but all it did was make Joe look more than ever like the senile, angry old man he is.
What the Democrat marketers apparently don't realize as they trot Joe out for these speeches is that Biden is a deeply unpleasant man. Whatever your political pursuasion, nobody, nowhere, likes a deeply unpleasant man.
And when he uses that "my word as a Biden" line, as he has for decades, the only reaction from sane people is: "He really said that?"