6:59 p.m. ET, January 26, 2024
Biden sticks to technique of claiming nothing on Trump authorized circumstances after E. Jean Carroll determination
President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign and the White House have declined to remark after a Manhattan federal jury determined former President Donald Trump ought to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll for public statements he made in 2019 disparaging her and denying her rape allegations.
It’s much like the method his crew has taken with Trump’s different authorized circumstances, staying quiet to keep away from any notion of political interference. They’ve proven no indicators of shifting from that method at the same time as Biden has ramped up his criticism of his predecessor on the marketing campaign path.
It highlights the cautious balancing act Biden faces as he tries to color Trump as an unfit chief and risk to democracy whereas avoiding particularly mentioning the authorized circumstances that will probably be entrance and middle on this 12 months’s election.
Biden surrogates: But Senator Chris Coons, certainly one of Biden’s high allies and marketing campaign co-chair did weigh in, saying the punitive damages within the civil case replicate the character of Trump’s conduct.
Coons mentioned Trump “realized nothing” after a May 2023 verdict that discovered Trump responsible of sexual abuse. He mentioned Trump “solely continued to attack and defame her and in consequence goes to pay file damages.”
The Democratic senator mentioned that “tells you one thing about his character and his conduct.”
