The White House has opted this Tuesday for silence before the imputation of the former president of the United States Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to revoke the result of the 2020 elections, an announcement that has caught the current president, Joe Biden, on vacation in the beach.
A government spokesman, Ian Sams, has declined to comment on the accusation of Trump.
“We refer them to the Justice Department, which is conducting its criminal investigation independently,” Sams said, quoted by CNN.
The White House often avoids commenting on investigations and prosecutions to defend the Justice Department's independence and avoid being accused of political interference.
Biden's vacation
As the grand jury's indictment of Trump was unsealed in Washington, DC, Biden, who is in Delaware this week for vacation, dined with first lady Jill Biden at Matt's Fish Camp Lewes, on Lewes Beach that state.
The place is near Rehoboth Beach, where the president has one of his private residences and is spending these days off. This morning Biden was out for a bike ride.
Republicans divided over impeachment
Republicans have been divided over the new indictment this Tuesday of former US President Donald Trump.
Mike Pence, formerly Trump's vice president and currently one of his rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination, has suggested that the allegations should disqualify the former president from the party's primaries.
In a statement collected by The Washington Post newspaper, Pence assured that “anyone who puts himself before the Constitution should never be president.”
In the same sense, the also Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, former governor of Arkansas, has asked Trump to resign from his campaign for his “moral responsibility” in the attack on the Capitol, in which he tried to stop the confirmation of the electoral victory. of the current president, Joe Biden.
Criticism of the Department of Justice
Very different has been the tone and message of McCarthy, leader of the Lower House, who criticized the “double standards” of the Justice Department for impeaching him. “Just yesterday a new poll showed that President Trump is hands down Biden's main political opponent.. All in USA. they could see what was going to happen next,” McCarthy wrote on the social network X (Twitter).
For his part, Trump's main opponent to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential elections and current Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, refused to explicitly refer to the former president, assuring that he has not read the accusation.