Why Biden Won’t Talk About Trump

Playbook: “The reason for the silence is pretty simple. Candidate Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 on a restoration of time-tested governing norms — including the thick, bold line between the West Wing and the Justice Department that had been drawn after Watergate and, to Democrats, had been dangerously thinned during the Trump administration.”

“Then the special counsels and subpoenas and indictments and arrests started, sparking a frustrating almost-daily stalemate between the Beltway press corps and Biden’s foremost defenders at the White House and inside his political orbit.”

“Biden in fact sent explicit orders that individuals or entities associated with him are not to discuss the criminal investigations into Trump — from his reelection campaign to the DNC to anyone speaking as Biden’s surrogate.”

“But four indictments and 91 felony counts later — and Trump’s political power within the GOP only growing — some Democrats are getting antsy. The old rules, they argue, are ill-suited for a bruising battle with Trump, especially considering the heart of Biden’s reelection argument: that Trump and Trumpism are dangerous to democracy.”