WASHINGTON—On Friday morning, President Biden strode out of the West Wing and across the South Lawn. Above the roaring helicopter blades of Marine One, a reporter asked him if he had any thoughts about the indictment of former president Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury.
But he has never commented on Trump’s legal challenges, which include a federal investigation into his handling of classified documents, a Georgia inquiry into electoral interference and District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case in New York.Invariably, the Department of Justice says nothing.
And that is precisely how the White House wants things to stay. With partisan sentiment already on such florid display on Capitol Hill, the president and his advisers believe that he benefits by remaining well above the fray. With him was the state's Republican governor, Tate Reeves, as well as Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, also a member of the GOP., which took place as House Republicans were in the midst of a contentious speakership fight.
If the mood in Mississippi was understandably much more somber, it nevertheless broadcast a similar message, one the White House is especially eager to promulgate ahead of next year's presidential election: that Biden is a serious president, focused on serious business, while some Republicans and conservatives
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