PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday slammed Joe Biden's "radical left" staffers for donating to a group that pays bail for George Floyd protesters who have been arrested.

According to Reuters, at least 13 of Biden's campaign gave money to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes cash bail and uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis.

Trump tweeted of the donations: "Sleepy Joe Biden’s people are so Radical Left that they are working to get the Anarchists out of jail, and probably more."

"Joe doesn’t know anything about it, he is clueless, but they will be the real power, not Joe. They will be calling the shots! Big tax increases for all, Plus!"

Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates told Reuters that Biden opposes cash bail, describing it as a "modern day debtors prison."

The campaign for the presumptive Democratic nominee didn't say whether the donations were coordinated among campaign staffers.

A Biden staffer named Colleen May, who said she is an organizer for Biden in South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Florida posted a photo of her $50 donation receipt alongside a tweet that read: "It is up to everyone to fight injustice."

On Saturday, Trump's campaign said it was “disturbing” that Biden’s team “would financially support the mayhem that is hurting innocent people and destroying what good people spent their lives building."

Trump expressed on Twitter sympathy for Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died last week in Minneapolis after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on the back of his neck for nearly nine minutes as he said, "I can't breathe."

The president said he ordered an expedited investigation from the Department of Juice and FBI regarding Floyd's death, and tweeted: "My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!"

“I feel very, very badly,” Trump said on Thursday of Floyd's death. “That’s a very shocking sight.”

In the days since Floyd died, Trump has called protesters "thugs" and said on Saturday that state and local authorities have to be "much tougher" on anti-police protests taking place across the United States.

Speaking in Florida on Saturday after the SpaceX astronaut launch, the president said he understood the “pain that people are feeling” and supports “the right of peaceful protesters.”

“But what we are now seeing on the streets of our cities has nothing to do with justice or with peace,” he said. “The memory of George Floyd is being dishonored by rioters, looters, and anarchists.”

Tens of thousands of people have been peacefully, but also angrily, protesting Floyd's death in at least 140 cities in the country.

As of Monday, more than 4,100 people were arrested demonstrating against police brutality and racism.

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