The White House has largely avoided publicly answering questions from reporters for more than two weeks as legal headaches for President Joe Biden continue to mount.
Biden started August vacationing at his family home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, before briefly returning to Washington, D.C., on Monday, Aug. 7. The president did hold a public event that day, a ceremony honoring the 2022 World Series champion Houston Astros, but the White House did not hold a briefing before Biden departed for Arizona.He then traveled to New Mexico and Utah later in the week, and though the president returned to Washington, D.C.
It isn't unusual for a president, especially one seeking reelection, to vacation and load up on travel during the summer months. However, the lack of a briefing on Friday, the same day Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that David Weiss would be elevated from lead prosecutor to special counsel overseeing federal investigations into Hunter Biden's tax and business affairs, is raising eyebrows.
It's worth noting that former President Donald Trump's third White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, went nearly an entire year, July 2019 to April 2020, and the entire length of her tenure in the position without holding a press briefing. "I never talked business," the president responded Wednesday when pressed about Archer's testimony."I knew you'd have a lousy question."
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