The president has taken shots at Trump over a number of issues in recent months, but he has stayed largely silent on the four separate indictments against his predecessor.

The president has taken shots at Trump over a number of issues in recent months, but he has stayed largely silent on the four separate indictments against his predecessor.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    52·
    10 months ago

    Why would he even bother to comment, when doing nothing and being the better man requires literally no effort?

    • MajesticSloth@lemmy.world
      29·
      10 months ago

      It also gives them no ammo to say this is all some liberal attack. Even though they’ll still keep saying it is. Reality doesn’t often play a part in the cult of his followers.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      16·
      10 months ago

      Exactly. Let Trump continue to hoist himself by his own petard. Every new embarrassment results in him dropping in the polls.

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      It also would be a bit inappropriate I think, given that it’s his Executive branch that’s prosecuting him in a number of these cases. Even though it sure seems like he’s maintaining distance from the Justice dept and allowing them their independence (unlike his predecessor), the optics of a President using the Justice dept to attack a political opponent, then using it in political campaign attacks would look kinda bad. The Georgia case though I think would be fair game, but better to just let that case speak for itself and not potentially influence it.

      • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        10 months ago

        I agree. Pretty much everybody knows about the cases by now, and you’re either sane and are looking at the very least waiting to see how this plays out in court or you’re a trump supporter and assume the system’s rigged against him anyway. I see more of a chance of it backfiring by trying to capitalize in the indictments than getting more people on his side.