{"id":1828,"date":"2023-08-02T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2023-08-02T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:28:27","slug":"trumps-indictment-blocks-out-bidens-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/trumps-indictment-blocks-out-bidens-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s indictment blocks out Biden&#8217;s bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President Trump&#8217;s\u00a0bombshell, four-count indictment\u00a0over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election monopolized media and political attention Tuesday evening\u2014 overshadowing a string of not-so-great stories for President Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>As his<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>most-likely 2024 challenger faces a growing list of serious, criminal charges, Biden faces his own political battles over his son&#8217;s business dealings, the border and the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving the news:\u00a0<\/strong>Nearly simultaneously with the indictment being filed, Fitch Ratings\u00a0downgraded the U.S. credit rating, citing the country&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/29\/cbo-federal-deficit\">deteriorating fiscal position<\/a>\u00a0and political instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The White House was quick to argue that the deterioration occurred under Trump.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that extremism by Republican officials\u2014from cheerleading default, to undermining governance and democracy, to seeking to extend deficit-busting tax giveaways for the wealthy and corporations\u2014is a continued threat to our economy,&#8221; Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hours before,<\/strong>\u00a0the Washington Post reported\u00a0that border officials are again seeing a rise in illegal border crossings after a lull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This comes as the Biden administration\u00a0will likely be forced by courts\u00a0to end a key, restrictive asylum policy next week. Officials have credited the asylum rule for helping keep border numbers at manageable levels in recent months.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All this came one day after a key witness\u00a0testified to Congress\u00a0that Hunter Biden sold &#8220;the illusion of access&#8221; by putting his father on speaker phone with business partners \u2014 adding fuel to GOP&#8217;s attacks of &#8220;influence peddling&#8221; by the Biden family even as they struggle to draw a clear line to the president.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yes, but:<\/strong>\u00a0The news\u00a0hasn&#8217;t been all bad\u00a0for Biden this week. Economic growth is\u00a0still chugging along, unemployment is\u00a0hitting record lows\u00a0in many states, and inflation is\u00a0coming down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The White House pitch about the success of &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; is also getting drowned out \u2014 though they may be happy to let Trump&#8217;s legal woes soak up the headlines for now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What to watch:&nbsp;<\/strong>Trump allies were quick to try to paint the detailed, 45-page indictment as political \u2014 including by raising suspicion about the timing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;The corrupt beurocrats [sic] of the Biden regime charge Trump literally the day after every single disastrous Biden crime family story,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr.\u00a0posted on X.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meanwhile, Democrats pounced on the new indictment&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/02\/democrats-react-trump-jan-6-indictment\">with unusual intensity<\/a>, describing it as &#8220;the most serious&nbsp;and most consequential thus far[.]&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The bottom line:\u00a0<\/strong>New polling shows\u00a0a Trump and Biden neck and neck in a still-hypothetical 2020 rematch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump&#8217;s legal battles and Biden&#8217;s economic stewardship over the next 15 months could both play significant roles in the outcome of the 2024 election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;bombshell, four-count indictment&nbsp;over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election monopolized media and<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/trumps-indictment-blocks-out-bidens-bad-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s indictment blocks out Biden&#8217;s bad news<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}