Why It's Important For Biden To Speak After Trump's Verdict Is Handed Down

President Biden's remarks after Trump's verdict is handed down will in some ways be more important than anything the ex-president says.

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Biden To Speak After The Jury Hands Down Their Verdict In Trump’s Trial

At some point, likely this week, the jury will be handed the case in the Trump hush money trial, and those jurors will return a verdict. It is predictable what defendant Donald Trump will say. Either Trump will proclaim that the trial was a rigged Biden conspiracy, or he will say that the jury was a group of brilliant people who found him innocent.

What Trump says won’t matter.

Anyone who has been watching and listening to Trump can probably script out in advance what Trump is going to say.

The interesting reaction to the case will come from President Biden, who, according to Politico, will be delivering remarks from the White House after the verdict is announced:

If the jury convicts Trump, Biden’s team will then argue that the result shows Trump is ill-suited for office and that it demonstrates the extremes to which the former president would go to win again. The campaign’s social media team is considering leveraging the line of attack further, with discussions underway about referring to the ex-president online as “Convicted Felon Donald Trump.”

His team is also preparing for a barrage of Republican and Trump attacks if the former president’s acquitted or if there’s a hung jury.

Trump and his aides have convinced themselves that the candidate being a convicted felon will not matter to voters in the fall, which seems more like wishful thinking when the polling so far seems to indicate that a sizable portion of Independents and non-MAGA voters would definitely not be ok with voting for a convicted felon for president.

Biden’s remarks will be important for the nation after the verdict is announced.