With the impeachment proceedings now over, the White House plans to increase its efforts to spotlight the fight against the pandemic and push past Trump's chaos.
Biden White House seeks to turn page on Trump
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIREFebruary 14, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) The end of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House.
But while President Joe Biden and his team are eager to move past the impeachment, the bitterly partisan tone of the proceedings underscores the deep challenges ahead as the president and his party try to push forward their agenda and address historic crises.
Biden, who was at the Camp David presidential retreat when the Senate voted Saturday to acquit Trump, had acknowledged that Democrats needed to hold the former president responsible for the siege of the U.S. Capitol but did not welcome the way it distracted from his agenda.
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Biden was expected to address the verdict in a written statement to help calm a nation still roiled by four years of Trump’s tumult. But then his aides aimed to quickly move on something Democrats said they’ve been waiting to do for weeks.