As former President Donald Trump’s defense team is set to give its closing arguments in his hush money trial, his opponent’s campaign will be holding a press conference outside.
In a notice on Tuesday, the Biden campaign said, “The Biden-Harris campaign will hold a press conference with special guests outside of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.”
The move comes as Trump has claimed President Joe Biden directed the trial as a political persecution again his main rival.
While the campaign appears to be trying to draw attention to the trial to attack Trump, some have suggested Biden should have worked to ensure the former president faced no charges.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Stephanie Rule on early this month, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said, “I think President Biden made an enormous error. He should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward. It was a win-win for Donald Trump.”
Rule then asked, “Is that Joe Biden’s job?”
“I’ve been around for a while. If LBJ had been president and he didn’t want something like this to happen, he’d have been all over that prosecutor saying, ‘You better not bring that forward or I’m gonna drive you out of office,’” Romney responded.
However, he did not stop there:
“Had I been President Biden when the Justice Department brought an indictment, I would have immediately pardoned him. I’d have pardoned President Trump. Why? Because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned the little guy. And number two, it’s not gonna get resolved before the election, it’s not gonna have an impact before the election, and frankly the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.”
Romney added, “I think the American people have recognized that President Trump did have an inappropriate affair with someone who is a porn star. I think they realize that. I think they realize that he took classified documents he shouldn’t have and didn’t handle them properly. I think they understand that as well. I think they realize that he’s been lying about the election in 2020. They know those things, so these things are not changing the public attitude, and frankly we ought to get beyond these and focus on the big issues that really matter to the American people: our inflation, our border, what’s happening around the world.”
