Former President Donald Trump said during a campaign event on Friday that the Democrats successfully pulled off “a coup” by forcing President Joe Biden to end his failing presidential campaign.

Trump’s remarks come after Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign — although he still has not provided a reason why, which comes amid widespread media coverage over his cognitive decline.

“As you know, five days ago, we officially defeated the worst president in the history of the United States, Crooked Joe Biden. You know, I thought a lot about it. We defeated him,” Trump said at the rally in Florida.

“He was badly beaten,” he said, adding that Democrats repeatedly hounded Biden to get out of the race because his poll numbers showed that he could not beat Trump. “There was nothing nice about what they were doing.”

“How about that? It’s like a prizefighter. He’s losing badly, ready to be knocked out. And they say, well, wait, let’s stop the fight. Let’s put somebody else in,” he said. “It doesn’t work that way. And it’s not supposed to work that way. And this really was a coup by the Democrats. This was a coup. Nothing else. He got 14 million votes.”

“I hate to stick up for Biden, but, you know, he didn’t want to do what he did. He said, ‘I’ll never go out. I’ll never, ever go out.’ About two days later, ‘I’m proud to go out,'” Trump continued. “Because the fascists went after him. They threatened him with the 25th Amendment.”

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Trump said Democrats threatened Biden that if he didn’t take the easy way out, they would go with the hard way and force him out.

“I know as many people on that side as I know on our side, so to speak. But that’s what happened. They said, we can do it the hard way. We can do it the easy way. 25th Amendment, if you don’t go. And he said, ‘Oh, I’ll go,'” Trump concluded. “And now they’re trying to make him into a brave hero.”

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