Biden Spokesman John Kirby Claims Biden “Respects The Rule Of Law” Despite Corruption Allegations
On 6/12/2023, a reporter asked Biden Spokesman John Kirby, “As this President is someone who is a student of history and part of history, to see the person that he was the next in line for, to be going through this moment.”

MR. KIRBY: The President respects the rule of law and the democratic institutions of the United States of America and takes very seriously his role as President of the United States and — and advancing that. And he also, as you’ve heard Karine say much better than I can, he fully respects the independence of the Justice Department and allowing the Justice Department to do their job unimpeded and uninterrupted, certainly by him or anybody on his staff.

Q: Biden identified Trump as threats, less threat when Trump in jail? A: not to answer
Reporter: Thank you, Karine. And thank you, Admiral. I should like first to take one more stab at getting you to say something substantive about the Trump case.

MR. KIRBY: Go for it. (Laughter.)
Reporter: And then —
MR. KIRBY: I will be just as unsatisfying to you — (laughter) — as I have been to everybody else today.
Reporter: That’s so prejudicial.

MR. KIRBY: But I also want to be — I got Mauritius up here — (holds up a page from the briefing book) — and nobody asked me. (Laughter.) Nobody. And I was ready today. (Laughter.)

Reporter: That’s — that is not —
KJP: I know he’s not (inaudible).
Reporter: — the subject of my — of my second thrust. But first on the Trump case, and then I want to ask about Americans detained in foreign countries. President Biden, in a speech that was an official speech and not a campaign speech last year in Philadelphia, identified Donald Trump and his supporters as threats to the American homeland. And you amplified those comments in one of your Zoom briefings that you held not long thereafter. Does the enrollment of Donald Trump in the American criminal justice system as a defendant, which necessarily entails certain restrictions on his movements and so on, provide for the American people some reassurance that he is less of a threat than he was when the President made those remarks?

MR. KIRBY: James, I’m just not in a position to speak to that one way or the other.

A: short series of questions A: I was ready for Mauritius
Reporter: And then, finally, a short series of questions about Americans who are detained in other countries.

MR. KIRBY: “Short series”? (Laughter.)
Reporter: Yes.

MR. KIRBY: “Series”? There’s no- — there’s no such thing as a “short series.” Those two words don’t go together.
Reporter: Your interjections do not make things shorter. (Laughter.) All right. First question is this —

MR. KIRBY: (Exhales.) (Laughter.)
Reporter: You’ve spoken often about your efforts ongoing to secure the release and return of Americans who are wrongfully detained in foreign countries.
MR. KIRBY: Yeah.

Reporter: That very formulation implies another category of Americans: the opposite category, whatever you’d want to call it — Americans who are rightfully detained or lawfully or justly detained. First question of three short questions: Does the administration recognize the existence of such a category of Americans? And if so, are they also the object of your efforts to get them —
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Reporter: Thank you.
MR. KIRBY: Yeah. Thank you.
KJP: (Inaudible.)
MR. KIRBY: Thank you. (Laughs.)
KJP: Thank you.
Reporter: Thanks, Kirby.
MR. KIRBY: I just want it on the record that I was ready for Mauritius. (Laughter.)
KJP: For Mauritius. Yes, yes. For the record, Mauritius was ready. I saw it. (Laughter.)

Reporter: This administration, like all administrations, share information for oversight with the Gang of Eight. There are two members of the Gang of Eight so far, that I’ve seen — one of them who says what happened with the documents at Mar-a-Lago is really not a big deal; another one says it’s okay because there’s a lock on the bathroom door. So is there a reason, perhaps, to have a discussion with some folks on the Hill about
stuff? (Laughter.)

MR. KIRBY: Is there a reason to have a conversation with people on the Hill about stuff? (Laughter.)

Look, I appreciate where you’re coming from. I appreciate where all of you guys are coming from on this. I’m just simply not going to talk about this ongoing case. That is really for the Justice Department to speak to. And I’m just not going to be able to go beyond that.

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WH: Biden “Respects The Rule Of Law” A: identified Trump as threats, less threat when Trump in jail?