A top aide from President Joe Biden‘s 2024 re-election campaign sought to minimize a fundraising pitch that drew backlash from conservative figures and Republican officials.
Campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond was pressed on Sunday to answer for Biden soliciting donations on Thursday around the time former President Donald Trump — the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 race — was arrested in Georgia on charges related to the 2020 election.
“As Trump’s motorcade was pulling into the Fulton County Jail, President Biden sent out a fundraising pitch saying, ‘apropos of nothing, I think today is a great day to give to my campaign.’ That’s not particularly subtle,” said Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC’s “This Week.”
Apropos of nothing, I think today’s a great day to give to my campaign. https://t.co/Tj5cURqgQT
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 24, 2023
“But are Trump’s legal problems going to be part of your campaign against him?” she asked.
“No,” Richmond said in…
