Biden campaign's latest broadside: A 'feeble' Trump is 'lying about having money'

• The campaign of President Joe Biden called Donald Trump "feeble" and "weak and desperate – both as a man and a candidate for President."
• The salvo came after a judge set an April 15 date for Trump's criminal hush money trial, and after an appeals court cut his civil fraud bond to $175 million from $454 million.
• Trump spent the afternoon "lying about having money he definitely doesn't have," Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement.

A court ruling that slashed Donald Trump's civil fraud appeal bond was a financial win for the former president. But the campaign of his rival, President Joe Biden, found a way to capitalize on the news.

"Donald Trump is weak and desperate – both as a man and a candidate for President," the Biden campaign said in a searing statement Monday afternoon.

"He spent the weekend golfing, the morning comparing himself to Jesus, and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn't have," said Biden campaign spokesman James Singer, in response to a Trump press conference earlier in the day.

"His campaign can't raise money, he is uninterested in campaigning outside his country club, and every time he opens his mouth, he pushes moderate and suburban voters away with his dangerous agenda," Singer said in a statement.

"America deserves better than a feeble, confused, and tired Donald Trump."

Trump campaign spokesmen did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

The Biden campaign's salvo ratcheted up an offensive against Trump that seeks to flip the script on questions that have dogged Biden, 81, about his own age and physical stamina.

It also followed a pair of major developments Monday in Trump's criminal and civil court cases.

In Manhattan, a judge in Trump's