{"id":2001245,"date":"2023-08-15T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-white-house-defends-bidens-silence-on-election-focused-indictments\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:48:45","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-white-house-defends-bidens-silence-on-election-focused-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-white-house-defends-bidens-silence-on-election-focused-indictments\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends Biden&#8217;s silence on election-related indictments of Donald Trump."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-white-house-defends-bidens-silence-on-election-focused-indictments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The White House Stands Firm on Protecting Democracy<\/h2>\n<p>The White \u200cHouse is taking a cautious \u2063approach \u2063to the Justice Department&#8217;s prosecutions of former \u2062President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempts to overturn \u2062the 2020 election. However,\u2064 President Joe Biden&#8217;s \u2062administration is emphasizing the importance\u200c of safeguarding democracy.<\/p>\n<p>During a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-extends-southern-california-stay-at-home-order-for-at-least-another-three-weeks\/\" title=\"Newsom Extends Southern California Stay-at-Home Order For at Least Another Three Weeks\">press briefing<\/a> on\u200b Air Force One en route to\u200b Milwaukee, Wisconsin, \u2064White House \u200bdeputy press secretary\u2063 Olivia Dalton addressed the situation.\u200d She highlighted President Biden&#8217;s commitment to protecting the\u200d foundations of democracy and restoring the independence of the\u2063 Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard the president speak\u2064 on a number of occasions about empowering the\u2064 soul of our nation and making sure that we&#8217;re protecting our foundations of our democracy,&#8221; she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you&#8217;ve \u2063also heard this president, even before he was in office, talk about\u200c the importance of restoring the independence of the DOJ,&#8221; she\u200c said. &#8220;And so we have to hold both of\u2063 those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dalton directed reporters to local authorities in Georgia for inquiries regarding Fulton County District Attorney\u200c Fani \u2062Willis&#8217;s decision to indict Trump and 18 co-defendants under the state&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced \u2062and Corrupt Organizations Act. Trump himself faces 13 charges, including violating\u2064 the RICO law, soliciting a public\u200c official to violate an oath, and \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-court-website-posts-document-with-13-charges-against-trump-and-then-deletes-it\/\" title=\"Georgia court website briefly published a document listing 13 charges against Trump, which was later removed.\">filing false documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-white-house-defends-bidens-silence-on-election-focused-indictments\/\" title=\"White House defends Biden's silence on election-related indictments of Donald Trump.\">media coverage dominated<\/a> \u2062by Trump, Dalton defended Biden&#8217;s ability to raise awareness \u2063about his record before the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You all will make your editorial decisions, but \u2064this president will stay focused on delivering for the American people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That is his job, and that is his priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is maintaining distance from the Justice Department&#8217;s prosecutions of Trump&#8217;s election overturn attempts. Deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton emphasized Biden&#8217;s message on safeguarding democracy when questioned about this dynamic following Trump&#8217;s indictment by special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}