Why Biden isn’t weigh­ing in on Trump’s legal trou­bles

Why Biden isn’t weighing in on Trump’s legal troubles

In the mid­dle of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s storm of legal trou­bles, the man most able to ben­e­fit from it has been notice­ably silent — a pur­pose­ful move.
Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, while mak­ing an occa­sion­al side quip, has large­ly refrained from com­ment­ing on Trump’s 34 felony counts for fraud­u­lent busi­ness records. Accord­ing to Politi­co, this strat­e­gy is delib­er­ate, as his camp is wary of giv­ing the for­mer pres­i­dent any ammu­ni­tion to sup­port his claim that the cas­es are polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence from Biden’s admin­is­tra­tion.

For­mer pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump talks to mem­bers of the media while vis­it­ing a bode­ga, Tues­day, April 16, 2024, whose own­er was attacked last year in New York. Fresh from a Man­hat­tan court­room, Don­ald Trump vis­it­ed a New York bode­ga where a man was stabbed to death, a stark piv­ot for the for­mer pres­i­dent as he jug­gles being a crim­i­nal defen­dant and the Repub­li­can chal­lenger intent on blam­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden for crime. Alba’s attor­ney, Rich Car­di­nale, sec­ond from left, and Fran­sis­co Marte, pres­i­dent of the Bode­ga Asso­ci­a­tion, looked on. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwa­mu­ra)

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