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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.

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[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Why would he even bother to comment, when doing nothing and being the better man requires literally no effort?

[-] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Let Trump continue to hoist himself by his own petard. Every new embarrassment results in him dropping in the polls.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Alright. Honest question.

Wtf is a petard? And why would somenody hoist somebody on one?

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

okay, that makes more sense than my assumption.

[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

We all know trump would take the high road and not talk about an opponent’s legal issues either!

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

how many times will Trump mention Hunter?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

More times than he could count.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So, greater than 10?

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] buddhabound@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I mean yes? The question is should the President comment on those functions.

[-] yip-bonk@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

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¢.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that dude makes enough noise by himself.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

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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[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Neato@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Biden stole this guy's punctuation, too!

[-] nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It should concentrate on learning Biden how to talk and walk..

[-] HWK_290@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Are you suggesting he's incapable of those things? What is this comment even supposed to mean?

[-] nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He proved several times he has serious troubles with both things. But he's old as fuck so make sense.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It should concentrate on learning Biden how to talk and walk..

Spoken like a true Republican

[-] nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It might not cross your mind that English is not my native language. So deepest apologies to your highness..

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Not forgiven.

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