Trump: “I’ve invited Biden to debate. He can do it anytime he wants, including tonight.”

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Donald Trump said he’s “invited Biden to debate” in remarks to the press after another day of trial in his New York criminal case.

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York as part of a hush money scheme to bury stories that he feared could hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. He is the first former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges.

“I just want to say that I’ve invited Biden to debate. He can do it anytime he wants, including tonight. I’m ready,” Trump told reporters before he left the courthouse Friday afternoon.

“I invited him to the courthouse that he has us tied up in with his administration. This is all being done through Washington. It’s all a well-coordinated attack on a political opponent,” the former president claimed. “But I’m here. I’m ready, willing, and able.”

“We’re willing to do it Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, or Friday night on national television. We’re ready. Just tell me where. We’ll do it at the White House. That would be very comfortable, actually,” Trump continued. “But you tell me where. But we’re ready. He’s obviously not showing up now. We heard nothing. But he said today that, oh, I’d love to debate. But he won’t debate. I don't think he’ll debate. Maybe he will. Maybe he will. I’m not sure he has a choice. But that’s the story. So, here we are. We’re ready, willing, and able. And we don’t see him, and I don’t think he’ll be here. But maybe next week he’ll do it. I doubt it, but maybe next week.”

Biden told Howard Stern in a live radio interview Friday that he’d be “happy” to debate Trump.