The president has taken shots at Trump over a number of issues in recent months, but he has stayed largely silent on the four separate indictments against his predecessor.
Why would he even bother to comment, when doing nothing and being the better man requires literally no effort?
It also gives them no ammo to say this is all some liberal attack. Even though they’ll still keep saying it is. Reality doesn’t often play a part in the cult of his followers.
Exactly. Let Trump continue to hoist himself by his own petard. Every new embarrassment results in him dropping in the polls.
Alright. Honest question.
Wtf is a petard? And why would somenody hoist somebody on one?
Grenade. It’s a saying meaning blown into the air by your own hand grenade.
It’s from Shakespeare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
The answer is pretty interesting- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
okay, that makes more sense than my assumption.
It also would be a bit inappropriate I think, given that it’s his Executive branch that’s prosecuting him in a number of these cases. Even though it sure seems like he’s maintaining distance from the Justice dept and allowing them their independence (unlike his predecessor), the optics of a President using the Justice dept to attack a political opponent, then using it in political campaign attacks would look kinda bad. The Georgia case though I think would be fair game, but better to just let that case speak for itself and not potentially influence it.
I agree. Pretty much everybody knows about the cases by now, and you’re either sane and are looking at the very least waiting to see how this plays out in court or you’re a trump supporter and assume the system’s rigged against him anyway. I see more of a chance of it backfiring by trying to capitalize in the indictments than getting more people on his side.
We all know trump would take the high road and not talk about an opponent’s legal issues either!
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I think you mean hoist himself by his own petard
Hang himself by his own retard, is - in my opinion - a suitable alternative here
So two people want to be abelist then.
The joke is a bit on the line but I think we can all laugh at the misuse of phrase. Let’s just nip it in the butt shall we?
This really goes to show the precariousness of the system…the Justice Department theoretically controlled by the President is investigating someone running against him. One more reason Biden is showing himself as up for the job, this takes some tact.
But I don’t know what the alternative system is. If the Justice Dept is fully independent (like, another branch of government) then it prevents the conflict of interest to some extent but you can still get Supreme Court style ideological takeover that could be biased or accused of bias. In some states the AG is a stepping stone to higher office, certainly the AG could run for President and there would still be a conflict.
There’s a constitutional reason the justice department falls under the president. It is a function of the executive branch, from Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution: “…shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed…”. The DoJ is the enforcement arm of the executive branch.
I mean yes? The question is should the President comment on those functions.
how many times will Trump mention Hunter?
More times than he could count.
So, greater than 10?
Member that time when Al Gore said yeah we don’t want Bill Clinton to campaign for us?
Man if I was trying to pop enough republiQan heads in whatever states, I’d be harping on Don the Con non-stop. 100 different ads about what a lying, low-life loser he is.
Member when they went low and we went high? Red America is so far down the sewer, pretending they’re not is just a flat-out mistake. My 2¢.
Why? The MEGA lot are not a bunch of people who are known for thinking skills. Trump is their Messiah, they’re not going to listen to anything Biden has to say.
The people who think that Trump is an idiot already think he’s an idiot and continuously pointing this out won’t change anything.
I guess the risk is galvanizing the already red-faced cult that exists in support of Trump. Would it be worth convincing those conservatives left of the MAGAts to drop the Trump train if it meant giving the cult all the red meat it could ever want?
Well yeah, of course not. Neither he nor any of his staff will mention it. It would be improper and likely illegal.
Focusing in on the Trump campaign would just detract from their main audience, so they might as well leave it be. Everybody knows what’s going on with him anyways
Yeah that dude makes enough noise by himself.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Joe Biden’s re-election campaign isn’t going to focus on Donald Trump’s legal woes, co-chair Cedric Richmond said Sunday, as the president continues to refrain from talking directly about his predecessor’s four criminal indictments.
“The president has said from the beginning that he wanted an independent Justice Department, and we have to do just that,” Richmond, who previously was a top aide to Biden in the White House, said in an interview on ABC News’ “This Week.”
As Trump traveled to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday night to surrender on charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, a battleground state, Biden posted a link to donate to his campaign on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Trump was also indicted this month, along with 18 co-defendants, on felony state charges in connection with alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
“It was really the most amazing part of the debate to me, was the idea that, you know, the majority of my competitors believe that you can have a convicted felon as our nominee for president and that they’d support that and that he could win,” Christie said.
Meanwhile, an attorney for Trump denied that his team has concerns over the mounting criminal charges, which it has dismissed as a political hit job.
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guessing we’ll see about that in a few months when the commercials really start to ramp up
does not need to only has to lie his ass off about anything just like Trump and people bow down at the vote box
climate change, voting rights, bodily autonomy, protecting protected wildlife areas, etcetera he promised it all what about cop city or oil drilling on Native Sacred Land doubling as protected wildlife area he greenlit to be drilled for oil
where are the real candidates? Jill Stein was tied to a chair by Obama for wanting to debate with everyone else the person who Biden ran as vice president with Bernie ran and embodied all of what the “democrats” supposedly stood for
not able to vote btw Biden took mine and others away through a series of laws voted on jointly by republicans over the decades F##K THE DEMOPUBLICANS
Biden stole this guy’s punctuation, too!
It should concentrate on learning Biden how to talk and walk…
Remember that time Trump had toilet paper stuck to his shoe and he walked all the way to his jet, in full view of the world, and even then, no one told him? I think about that sometimes and I just laugh and laugh…
Are you suggesting he’s incapable of those things? What is this comment even supposed to mean?
He proved several times he has serious troubles with both things. But he’s old as fuck so make sense.
It should concentrate on learning Biden how to talk and walk…
Spoken like a true Republican
I’m Czech so I don’t take parts in politics of the USA. You don’t have to either cause it doesn’t matter. Corporations controll your politics anyway… Left, right, middle, they care only about power and money.
The word you were looking for is ‘teaching’. You’ll have to forgive me for not taking the opinion of somebody who doesn’t know the difference between those two words very seriously.
It might not cross your mind that English is not my native language. So deepest apologies to your highness…
Not forgiven.
