Analysis: Joe Biden tried to rise above politics. It didn’t work with Donald Trump, writes John Bowden
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Joe Biden’s last day in the White House was spent resuscitating America’s political norms, a task he had embarked on since first coming to the presidency in 2021.
But despite Biden’s last act, welcoming Donald Trump to the presidential apartment with a ceremonial assembly for tea, the new Bristling president appears to destroy those criteria within the framework of revenge.
The last hours of Biden as commander -in -chief were confusing for many of their organizations when he maintained a commitment of the company with the movement of non -violent power, which understood to show visual symptoms of the smallest non -public not public to a man he believes that would have been a fascist and a risk to American democracy.
It is a grace that Trump does not return. And with his first week back to the part of the White House, the 47th President has already submerged head in a revenge campaign.
His resentment wishes to reach new heights on Wednesday night, while Sean Hannity of Fox broadcast the first television interview with Trump since the president occupied the workplace at noon on Monday. In the interview of approximately an hour, the president seemed to threaten Biden with Crook procedures in long -term judicial cases in the corruption of the relative circle.
“This guy is running everyone,” Trump complained about Hannity. “The funny thing, the unhappy thing, is that he didn’t forgive himself,” she added worryingly.
The 46th President granted unconditional pardons to several relatives, adding to his brothers Frank and James Biden (and James’s wife, Sara Biden), Sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband, John Owens.
Biden said his family has been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me —the worst kind of partisan politics,” adding that he had “no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
He appears to have been correct, as Trump on Wednesday laid the groundwork for going after the former president further: “If you look at it, it all had to do with him,” said the new president, referring to people surrounding Trump who were convicted of crimes.
HANNITY: “Joe Biden ran and said he would never do preemptive pardons.”TRUMP: “I was given the option, they said, ‘sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself?’ I said I’m not going to pardon anybody.” pic.twitter.com/1ZHQFrXk83
“We had other people who suffered. You have [Steve] Bannon in prison. You asked Peter Navarro to go to prison,” said the president, arguing that a precedent had already been established. “You had other people who suffered and much worse than that, they lost their fortunes. “
In an imaginable reference to Rudy Giuliani, who was ordered through a court to pay a great pain to a couple of electoral elections that he defamed, Trump added: “They lost their nest egg, paying it to the lawyers. “
Such threats deserve not to be taken at a Trump nominal price. It was the same president who has continuously promised to “lock” his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, although his Ministry of Justice never introduced any delicate investigation into anyone in the Clinton relative circle during his first term.
But in this case, the federal government’s risk of pursuing a highly politically motivated prosecution of its former opponent comes after a whirlwind of a few days of attacking other appointees through Biden, National Security Council (NSC) staff, and other federal workers in an ideological purge in an ideological purge.
Any prosecution will likely be a decision ultimately made by a Trump political loyalist, Pam Bondi, whom the president is set to install as attorney general in the coming days.
Trump, having endured four separate (and in the end, largely inconsequential) criminal prosecutions and intense ridicule after leaving office in 2021, seems more motivated than ever to get even with his enemies. And nothing Biden did during the post-election transition period made things any better — least of all his use of presidential pardons.
Democrats are now considering their party’s failure to defeat Trumpism after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. This failure will now likely be resolved for decades, as the emboldened and vindictive Donald Trump promises to resolve the scores.
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