Politico broke a story that Joe Biden is going to end his “silence” about the trials of former President Donald Trump, when a verdict comes in for the “hush money” trial, according to “four people familiar with internal deliberations.”
The verdict may come as early as next week, with the closing arguments on Tuesday:
Biden intends to initially address the verdict in a White House setting — not a campaign one — to show his statement isn’t political, according to the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
If the jury convicts Trump, Biden’s team will then argue that the result shows Trump is ill-suited for office and that it demonstrates the extremes to which the former president would go to win again. The campaign’s social media team is considering leveraging the line of attack further, with discussions underway about referring to the…
