President Joe Biden is in a race to win reelection against former US President Donald Trump, and Hunter Biden’s two judicial investigations could very well” cast a cloud” over the government’s ability to plan and engage with voters before the 2024 public vote.
The president’s child will encounter his second trial, involving felony gun charges in Delaware, on June 3. The trial involving individual tax fraud claims in California was originally scheduled for the end of June, but it will start in September following a delay earlier this month.
Each scenario represents the second criminal indictments against a baby of a resting president, but Biden allies , show the , Washington Examiner , that both the White House and Biden campaign probably did not respond immediately to the proceedings.
One strategist claimed that” President Biden is incredibly proud of his son, and he’ll likely be following his trials as any concerned parent would be following his trials.” ” But do n’t expect the campaign to be covering Hunter,” she said. They want it to “make the least noise possible””.
Joe Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre have largely avoided discussing Hunter Biden’s legal case, aside from reiterating that the president and first lady are in love with and support their son.
A White House official stated in a statement that the president and first lady’s job is “really about being there for their son as parents and showing him love and support.”
Following Hunter Biden’s two trials, Biden supporters would be watching him for any direct inferences, according to a report from NBC on Friday, and would then decide whether or not responses will be required on a case-by-case basis.
Multiple Democratic strategists familiar with Joe Biden’s campaign strategy acknowledged , to the , Washington Examiner , that Hunter Biden’s trials would receive heavy media coverage but suggested that Trump’s own criminal trials could undercut attacks levied against Joe Biden by Republicans about his son’s charges.
However, some Democratic strategists worry that while Trump’s trials appear to be strengthening his grip on Republicans, Hunter Biden’s trials will be harder for Joe Biden to shake.
One of these strategists stated,” The April fundraising numbers show that extreme MAGA Republicans do n’t care that their nominee will be the first man to run for the White House facing multiple felony indictments.” President Biden needs to bolster the Democratic Party’s support base after the conflict in Gaza and establish a connection with independents in the process.
” It certainly casts a cloud over the campaign”, a second strategist stated. ” President Biden wants to draw as many contrasts between himself and Trump as possible, and Hunter’s presence in court wo n’t make that job any easier.”
Even with his family, Biden has put a premium on spending time with him, but even those close calls could stoke negative media coverage of Hunter Biden’s trials.
For example, Joe Biden visited Hallie Biden, the widow of his late son Beau Biden, on Sunday evening. After Beau Biden’s passing in 2015, Hallie Biden and Hunter Biden had a brief relationship, and the White House was forced to say retroactively that the two did not discuss Hunter Biden’s June trial at the time of the meeting.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates stated in a statement on Monday that the president had a visit to his daughter-in-law ahead of the ninth anniversary of Beau Biden’s passing on May 30.
Furthermore, Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden’s youngest daughter, plans to publish a “tell- all memoir” regarding her “tumultuous relationship” with the president’s son on Aug. 20, during the Democratic National Convention.
” Lunden is finally ready to step into the light and tell her story”, a preview of Roberts’s memoir reads. She recounts the chaos, the broken relationships, and ultimately the incredible love she found raising and guarding the long-unknown grandchild of the current US President.
The Biden team held a press conference outside the courthouse just before the closing arguments in that case on Tuesday to further the Trump’s New York hush money trial.
At the gathering, former Capitol Police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, both of whom were present during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, addressed Trump as a serious threat to democracy.
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” If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted”, De Niro claimed. ” And elections — forget about it, that’s all. That’s done. I can tell you right now that if he enters, he will never leave. He will never leave”.
” This election is about Donald Trump and his vision for the office of president of the United States, not as a public servant who answers to the elected, but as an authoritarian who answers to, and serves only himself,” Fanone continued.
