Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Jen Psaki Predicts Exactly When And How Biden Will Talk Trump Indictments

Don’t expect President Joe Biden to talk about the indictments of former President Donald Trump anytime soon, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki said this week.

“It would be hurting them, in my view, if the president was aggressively commenting on the specifics of these trials and all of these developments,” the former Biden White House press secretary told political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen on the latest episode of his podcast.

“It makes it politicized, right? I know that Trump and his people are going to argue that, but Joe Biden does not need to interject himself into that, in this moment,” said Psaki.

However, Psaki acknowledged that “we’re still in the summer of indictments,” and said Biden’s campaign “will have to and they will come up with a way” to address the charges against Trump if the 2024 election is a rerun of 2020.

“There is a values argument to be made, a contrasting agreement, that’s where I think they go with it,” she said.

“I don’t think he’ll say indictment,” Psaki added of Biden, suggesting he’d talk more about the need for a president who will stand up for the rule of law and democracy.

Biden’s comments would be “obviously about the legal issues without being about the legal issues,” she added.



Original Article
Source: Huff
Author: Lee Moran

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