President Joe Biden and White House officials have not been briefed about the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Aug. 9.
“We did not know about this and we have not been briefed about this,” Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington.
Echoing a White House official’s earlier statement, the press secretary said Biden and the rest of the White House learned about the Aug. 8 raid from public reports and were not notified before it happened.
“No one at the White House was given a heads up,” Jean-Pierre said.
The White House would say little about the raid, including whether it or Biden had a response to critics who say the raid should not have been carried out because of concerns about polarization, with Trump appearing set to run against Biden in 2024….