January 14, 2023
Baghdad / Obelisk: The issue of secret documents found in Joe Biden’s house will apparently represent an obstacle in the way of the US president, who is considering running for a second term in 2024.
“It will have a negative impact,” said Alan Lichtman, professor of politics at American University. But the question is to what extent.
Biden has not yet confirmed that he will run for another four years in 2024, but he is expected to announce his decision within weeks, while his annual State of the Union address on February 7 will be an opportunity to present his program to a huge television audience and Congress.
Thus, the scandal of the documents, or even the debate about whether it is a scandal, is not welcome.
During a White House briefing Friday, reporters pressed his spokeswoman, Karen Jean-Pierre, for answers about how the Biden team handled the discovery of the documents.
He found classified documents in a desk Biden used after he left his term as Vice President Barack Obama in 2017 and at his home in Delaware. Questions abound about the timing of the discovery of the documents and their contents, while Jean Pierre referred the journalists to the Ministry of Justice, which appointed an independent public prosecutor to investigate the incident.
To date, there is no indication of criminal wrongdoing. The White House says the failure to return these documents after Biden left the Obama administration was a lack of attention. “I repeat, we take this very seriously,” Jean-Pierre said. The President takes classified information and classified documents very seriously.”
Biden’s team is cooperating with investigators, and Attorney General Merrick Garland quickly appointed a special attorney general to head the investigation into what happened.
Biden’s defenders say that what happened is a far cry from the actions of former President Donald Trump, who is under investigation for his handling of classified documents.
Trump took hundreds of classified files from the White House to his home in Florida, and worse, he resisted attempts by officials to retrieve the documents until a judge signed an FBI search warrant.
In recent years, Switzerland has also moved away from the traditional concept of neutrality and turned more toward the international community.
Despite the vast difference between the two facts, there is no escape from the fact that this complex situation will negatively affect Biden.
The announcement came as Biden was well in the middle of his first term.
Inflation, his biggest political weakness, has fallen from a high of 9.1 percent in June to 6.5 percent in December.
As for the economy, the key to any political campaign, it is generally strong, and if a slowdown occurs, there are indications that it will be a so-called soft landing, rather than a painful recession.
Biden also visited the Mexican border on Sunday for the first time since taking office. For two years, he’s faced attacks on Fox News that see him as a president who doesn’t bother going to see the frontiers fighting illegal immigration.
Even the polls look better.
According to a survey conducted by the “Five-Thirty-Itcom” website, Biden received an approval rating of 43.9 percent, compared to a rejection of 51 percent, but things are going in the right direction for the Democratic president.
Prior to that, in July, his approval rating was 37.5 percent.
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