President Joe Biden taunted former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for being confined to a Manhattan courtroom while fighting a lawfare campaign being led, in part, by a former Biden Department of Justice official. But the incumbent took his indifference to the weaponization of law a step further: he is now fundraising off the lawfare circus.

Biden released a 14-second clip on Wednesday in which he finally agreed to debate Trump — after dodging the possibility for months. Biden closed out his highly-edited video by mocking Trump’s limited availability to — simply put — be a presidential candidate.

“So let’s pick the dates, Donald,” Biden said. “I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

Biden’s campaign doubled down by releasing a $32 T-shirt that says “Free On Wednesdays.”

Biden’s mocking remarks are a reference to the Democrat campaign strategy of weaponizing lawfare against Trump, as Biden trails in the polls. As Democrats hold out hope the lawfare circus will boost Biden’s popularity, they’ve expressed shock that Trump is “still ahead of Biden in recent polls” and wondered why the lawfare campaigns are “not hurting” Trump. A newly released New York Times/Siena College poll finds despite Democrats’ best efforts, Trump leads Biden overall in five key swing states among registered and likely voters.

Since his first lawfare trial began in April, Trump has been forced to appear in person every day — except most Wednesdays — at a Manhattan courthouse. District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted him last April on 34 charges related

Not long ago, Joe Biden promised to transform the American auto industry — “first with carrots, now with sticks,” is the analogy The Washington Post used.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d trust the president to drive my car much less dictate the future of industrial policy. Yet, Biden implemented draconian emissions limits for all vehicles, ensuring that within nine years 67 percent of all new passenger cars and trucks will be electric.

In the old days, a centralized state controlling manufacturing and commerce, production, prices, wages, and conditions in our biggest sectors would be called “fascist.” Today, we simply refer to it as the Green New Deal.

And, after forcing automakers to build more substandard, technologically regressive, overpriced, and unpopular electric cars, Biden has now slapped enormous tariffs on imports, not only ensuring that taxpayers continue to prop up a state-run project with billions but also guaranteeing that everyone will pay more for all cars.

On Tuesday, the White House enacted new tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum in the name of the American worker. There are somewhere around 14 million manufacturing jobs that rely on steel. They will pay the price. As will every consumer.

Biden also doubled tariffs on Chinese semiconductors from 25 percent to 50 percent. Populists on both sides will contend that these serve a national security purpose. That’s debatable. Though Biden didn’t even make that argument.

In any event, there’s no national security purpose for Biden to raise tariffs

The Washington Post and Politico released stories this week that appeared to purposefully equate Republicans’ questioning of questionable elections with violent election-related threats, a tactic used to justify the expansion of the weaponized Department of Justice’s election meddling.

The Post’s Philip Bump wrote about the “ongoing violent threat of election denialism” in a piece published Tuesday, which began with four dramatic anecdotes about threats toward election workers. He pins the blame for these threats very clearly on the fact that “Trump and his allies energetically promote the idea either that fraud occurred or that it might have.”

Troubled people will take Trump’s concerns about election integrity “dangerously seriously,” Bump warned, as he suggested they would have no reason to act out over election results “except that there was a broad effort by Trump and his enablers to present such results as nebulous and suspicious.”

Similarly, in a piece all about “election-related threats,” Politico’s Josh Gerstein wedged in a comment about how a Trump-Biden “rematch could stir up emotions particularly among Americans who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen.”

Both pieces were inspired by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments Monday discussing the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force, which supposedly exists to tackle an alleged “increase in threats against election workers, officials, and volunteers that followed the 2020 election.”

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The message is clear: we can’t have people asking questions about the vulnerabilities in our election