President Joe Biden is not looking to make former President Donald Trump's legal troubles central to his 2024 pitch, the co-chair of his reelection campaign said Sunday. "The president has said from the beginning that he wanted an independent Justice Department . so we're not going to comment," Cedric Richmond said in an interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz. "We're not going to focus on Donald Trump's legal problems."
they can on this for the campaign. we also know the campaign and the super pac are paying trump s legal bills. he s not paying them himself. this is strategically smart, which is a bizarre thing to say when you talk about a presidential candidate being indicted and a mug shot and so forth. in the short term, if most of the republicans who are running against donald trump, john martin said they re running against him in name only, if they re doing that, backing him up every step of the way, why not do this? i should note, i mean, typically we hear from the trump campaign pretty quickly when they ve raised a lot of money. i reached out to several officials tonight. i haven t heard back. if they did, maybe that s an indication they didn t. i don t know. karen, do want to ask you though, speaking of the broader republican field, vivek ramaswamy was asked today about his vision of what he wants to do with down sizing the federal government. and he said he wants to treat it
raise money and monetize for the campaign but also we know the campaign and super pac are paying trump s legal bills. he is not paying them himself. this is also strategically smart, which is a bizarre thing to say when you talk about a presidential candidate and former president being arrested and indicted with a mug shot and so forth. in the short-term, it most of the republicans who are running against donald trump, if they are doing that backing him up every step of the way, why not do this? i should note, typically, we hear from the come campaign pretty quickly when they embrace a lot of money. i reached out to several officials. i have not heard back. maybe that was an indication they didn t. karen, speaking of the broader republican field, vivek ramaswamy was asked about his vision for what he wants to do with downsizing the federal government. he says he wants to treat it like twitter.