Joe Biden “said the quiet part out loud” Tuesday, when he told a group of Democrats in New Hampshire that former President Trump needs to be thrown in jail.

While speaking at the Granite State’s Democrat Party headquarters in Concord, N.H., Biden ludicrously claimed that Trump believes he has the right to be able to “physically eliminate—shoot and kill” his detractors, so he must be stopped.

While Trump has never made that claim, many Democrats who opposed the ruling have made the argument that it gave presidents the right hypothetically to assassinate political opponents.

“Our democracy is at stake,” Biden, 81, said. “Think about it. Think about what would happen if Donald Trump wins this election.”

He also fretted that Trump wanted to replace “civil servants with loyalists.”

“So, I know this sounds bizarre,” he continued. “If I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up—We gotta lock him up!”

As the room reacted with a smattering of nervous applause, Biden added weakly, “politically lock up.”

Team Trump was quick to hit back at Biden’s slip of the tongue, The New York Post reported.

“Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala’s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can’t beat him fair and square,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “The Harris-Biden Admin is the real threat to democracy. We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden’s disgraceful remark.”

Ironically, the Harris Campaign has been running on the claim that Trump is the one planning to persecute his political opposition.

During her disastrous Fox News interview last week, Harris lashed out angrily at Trump, accusing him of wanting to lock up his political opponents.

“In a Democracy, the president of the United States of America should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it!” she raged.

Biden and Harris typically refrain from commenting on the four pending criminal cases against Trump, although Biden gave a wink and a nod to the lawfare during a campaign rally back in June, when he responded to chants of “lock him up!” by chuckling “there’s time for that.”

For the most part, Biden and Harris have let their Democrat colleagues do the dirty work as they assumed an uninvolved and disinterested pose.

However, in at least one of the cases, an anti-Trump prosecutor appears to have colluded with the Biden-Harris White House to get Trump.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s lover and top prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted in testimony before Congress last week that he had met with Biden-Harris White House officials on multiple occasions, although he refused to provide any pertinent details.

Wade’s testimony reinforced Trump’s contention he has been a victim of political persecution to help Biden and Harris get re-elected.

Biden, meanwhile, has taken to taunting Trump about his legal woes on the campaign trail, telling Democrats in Pennsylvania: “I think he’s running to stay out of jail.”

Trump, 78, was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign.

The 45th president’s sentencing in that case, which was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, is scheduled for Nov. 26.

Trump also faces pending federal and state charges in Georgia related to challenging his 2020 election defeat by Biden. And federal prosecutors are attempting to revive another case out of South Florida accusing Trump of mishandling classified records, which a judge dismissed in July.

If Trump wins the November election, it is widely believed that his Justice Department will set aside the two federal cases.

But if Trump does not win, “the party of Democracy” will make sure the political prosecutions drag on until he is locked up or deemed no longer a threat.