Just minutes after a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign emphasized that “no one is above the law.” The campaign highlighted the importance of defeating Trump not only legally but also in the court of public opinion.
“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain,” said Biden-Harris 2024 communications director Michael Tyler. “But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.”
Biden, who was in Delaware commemorating the ninth anniversary of his son Beau’s death when the verdict was rendered, had no public events scheduled Thursday evening. “We respect the rule of law, and have no additional comment,” stated Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House counsel’s office.
Vice President Harris, aboard Air Force Two en route to Los Angeles when the jury read the verdict, has not publicly commented on the decision.
While Biden has criticized Trump on the campaign trail, he has avoided commenting on Trump’s legal issues, emphasizing the importance of an independent Justice Department. However, days before the verdict, the Biden campaign held a press conference outside the New York courthouse featuring several officers involved in the response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and actor Robert De Niro. “The fact is whether he’s acquitted, whether it’s a hung jury, whatever it is, he is guilty, and we all know it,” De Niro said amidst pro-Trump protestors.
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