The Biden campaign is bracing for a verdict in former President Trump’s criminal trial, weighing how best to go on the attack should their November opponent become a convicted felon. The campaign sought to use the media spectacle in Manhattan on Tuesday by holding a press conference outside the courthouse just as Trump’s attorneys set off on closing arguments. In attendance were actor Robert De Niro and officers who were at the Capitol on Jan.
6, to speak on behalf of President Biden to warn of the dangers of another Trump presidency. Now with jury deliberations underway, and a verdict that could come at any time, Biden and his campaign will likely have to tackle the outcome head on – but that could come with consequences. “Because we don’t have a verdict, the Biden campaign right now is in a very delicate situation where the last thing you’d want to do is to play up this big trial and then have Trump be found not guilty,” said David Hopkins, an associate professor of political science at Boston College.
The White House has thus far avoided weighing in on Trump’s trial at all costs, aiming to combat any impression that it is putting its thumb on the scales in an ongoing legal matter involving a political opponent. But the Biden campaign and Biden himself in recent weeks have attempted to at least wade into the matter, making winking references to the former president’s legal proceedings, such as when Biden quipped that Trump was “free on Wednesdays,” a n.