Don’t comment after Trump impeachment rejection statement
Can’t afford to cling to the past to win the 2022 midterm election
Urgently to deal with pending issues such as economic stimulus bills
Seeking solidarity with the public at the G7 video summit this weekend
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[아시아경제 뉴욕=백종민 특파원] US President Joe Biden is cautiously approaching the rejection of the impeachment bill for former President Donald Trump.
President Biden previously expressed his stern stance on the impeachment of former President Trump, but when the Senate proceedings were finished, he switched to a passive response. This is seen as a willingness to devote all of the power to promoting his policy rather than maximizing the conflict with the Republican Party using the experience of the former administration of Barack Obama as a teacher on the other hand. President Biden also announced that he will step up offensive against Chinese President Xi Jinping.
President Biden has not commented individually for more than 24 hours after the Senate’s ruling to invalidate the impeachment proceeding against President Trump on the 14th (local time). He said in a White House statement shortly after the ruling a day earlier that Trump’s allegations of inciting a civil war are uncontroversial and that President Trump was guilty, but refrained from making further comments.
Politico, a media outlet specializing in politics, interpreted this as having significant implications for President Biden’s move. Multiple sources said President Biden will prepare for the former and current governments and focus on accelerating policy enforcement in the future.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) also judged that the end of the impeachment process provided an opportunity for the Biden government to take a full-fledged policy line with less burden. The fact that urgent issues remain, such as the handling of the $1.9 trillion worth of economic stimulus bill, is why President Biden chose the future rather than the past liquidation.
Politico also said that President Biden’s refusal to discuss the dissolution of former President Trump’s impeachment is that he took the experience of the Obama administration as a teacher. President Biden remembers that, immediately after Obama took office in 2009, he failed to actively respond to the Republican offensive on core policies such as health insurance reform and was deprived of political leadership. The dominant evaluation is that this situation was, in effect, an opportunity for the Republicans to win the 2010 midterm election, which was an intermediate evaluation of the regime. In the midterm elections at that time, the Republican Party won the majority of the House.
Considering that the Democratic Party struggled and lost seats in the House elections held alongside the last presidential election, the White House has devised a strategy to clarify policy drives and focus on the next midterm election. It seems that the situation that the attention of the politicians, which was focused on the impeachment of former President Trump, will be directed to the current government’s policy is also considered.
Instead of Trump restoring the alliance and preparing for Xi Jinping attack
In fact, through a tweet that day, President Biden celebrated the inauguration of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and took steps to restore the alliance.
The White House also announced that President Biden will attend a video summit of seven major countries (G7) on the 19th to discuss China, climate change, and Corona 19 response.
After taking office, President Biden, who has been raising the level of pressure on China, is paying attention to what kind of countermeasures he will seek with the alliance after a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Republican Party is also aware of this situation and has put forward a position that it must overcome the conflict in the process of impeachment of former President Trump and unite and oppose the agenda of President Biden.
In an interview with Fox News, Senator Lindsey Graham, an aide of former President Trump, declared in an interview with Fox News that “My goal is to win the midterm elections in 2022 and stop Biden’s radical policy.”
Meanwhile, former President Trump has escaped the impeachment, but the prosecution’s investigations against him are getting tighter. The WSJ reported that the New York prosecutors are investigating the properties owned by former President Trump, such as the Trump Tower and Trump International Hotel in Manhattan. New York prosecutors have been investigating allegations of former President Trump’s loan fraud.
New York = correspondent Baek Jong-min [email protected]
