WASHINGTON — The new year started off well for President Biden. As Republicans squabbled publicly over a House speakership election, the president and his old Senate colleague Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the chamber's Republican leader, embraced in front of a bridge over the Ohio River, in a gleeful show of bipartisanship.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks, in Washington
The next day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre found herself in the uncomfortable position of having to serve as the administration’s crisis manager. She did so in large part by referring reporters to the president’s private attorneys, who had found the documents on Nov. 2, and to the Justice Department, which is now investigating the matter.
Then, on Thursday, came the revelation of a second trove of documents found in the garage of Biden’s private residence in Wilmington. Hoping to talk about the day’s encouraging Consumer Price Index figures, Biden was instead confronted with questions about how some of his decades-long political experience could allow sensitive files to languish in a garage.
Thus arrived the first real challenge – not yet a crisis, perhaps, but certainly a problem – of 2023 for a White House that, between the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, had been desperately hoping for a comfortable stretch ahead of what is sure to be a tumultuous presidential season. "In the short term, it's a very uncomfortable issue for the White House. But in the long term, it could play pretty favorably for them," a former Department of Justice spokesmanThat could well turn out to be the case; but in a hyper-partisan media environment, it may not make a difference. Uncertainties and unknowns are bound to linger, since the documents in question are classified. And the Department of Justice, as a rule, does not discuss ongoing investigations.
As for the suddenly dour White House, Thursday’s press briefing proved a case study in how difficult it will be to change the conversation when reporters know exactly what conversation they would like to have. Much like she did the day before, Jean-Pierre labored to perform what is quickly becoming the least pleasant job in official Washington.
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