Prominent Democrats gave relatively restrained responses to the indictment.
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President Joe Biden declined to comment on Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as he exited the White House on Friday, sticking to the administration’s strategy of keeping a distance from the probe, as other prominent Democrats urged Trump to cooperate with the criminal justice process.Key Facts
Biden said he had no response to the indictment and instead pivoted to the detainment of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, telling reporters: “Let him go.
