Donald Trump, President Biden’s leading adversary in the 2024 election, is being prosecuted by Biden’s Justice Department — a highly sensitive dynamic that is already fodder for Republicans.
“It sets our country up for a bizarre moment, with a sitting president trying to put an ex-president in jail,” Brinkley said. “It’s super tricky. … It is a very fine dance that Biden has to do. He has to use all his finesse and make sure he doesn’t get trapped into attacking Trump in an unsavory manner about the Miami case. He makes one screw-up with that, and it blows up big.”
“It’s the national security, not the political implications, that could involve Biden,” he said. “A lot of diplomacy has to be going on, and it could escalate to his level to assure foreign governments that, ‘Yes we can handle our national security information.’” About an hour later, the Justice Department released a statement reiterating its independence, and Biden later admitted, “The way I said it was not appropriate.”
“Merrick Garland’s DOJ: One standard of ‘justice’ for Republicans, parents, and traditional Catholics. Another for Democrats,” tweeted Rep. Jim Jordan , who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. Sen. Marsha Blackburn added: “Where are the investigations against the Clintons and the Bidens? What about fairness? Two tiers of justice at work.”
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