As Trump prepares for court, Biden avoids commenting on indictment
dodges questions about the matter. His campaign doesn’t respond to them. And Biden himself wants nothing to do with it. “I have no comment on what happened,” he told reporters Friday while in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Biden, who made restoring the independence of the Justice Department a central campaign promise in 2020, now aims to reinforce that principle as both a matter of politics and policy. Republicans defending Trump have already sought to accuse Biden of directing the prosecution, and they’re alleging a double standard in how the Justice Department brings cases.
“What I can say — and you’ve heard us say this over and over again — this is a president that respects the rule of law. This is a president that wants to make sure … that the Department of Justice is truly independent,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. “He said that during the campaign he’s restoring certainly the integrity of the Department of Justice. That is something that is important to this president.
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