Trump says Biden court-packing evasions means Dems will '100%' move to add progressive justices

President Trump is lacing into his opponent Joe Biden for consistently refusing to disclose his position on adding more seats to the Supreme Court.

Biden said Thursday at a campaign event in Phoenix, Ariz., that he would reveal his court-packing position only "when the election is over." 

Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, have dodged the court-packing question each time it has been raised in the past few weeks.

"I think what he said was so disrespectful to the process and to the people," the president told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview Thursday night. "But what that means, really, is that they're going to do it, because obviously, that means 100% that's what they're going to do. They're going to end the filibuster, and they're going to do things that you wouldn't have thought."

Following Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death last month of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Republican lawmakers promised to confirm her prior to the Nov. 3 election. Citing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's refusal in 2016 to have the Senate vote on Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in a presidential election year, Democrats have been signaling that if they win the Senate and presidency, they might move to add progressive judges to the high court to block a conservative majority. 

The president, who has been off the campaign trail this week, due to his coronavirus diagnosis last Thursday night, returned to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday. The president's physician said Thursday that he has finished his treatment regimen without incident, will be tested for the virus on Friday, and will likely return to the campaign trail by the weekend. 

"I think we're going to have a tremendous victory," the president told Hannity.