President Biden will respond Monday night to the Supreme Court ruling granting immunity to former President Donald J. Trump, White House officials said. It will be his first public address since retreating to Camp David after some Democrats called for him to withdraw from the 2024 election.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Mr. Trump has substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election. A spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office said earlier that “as President Biden has said, no one is above the law.”
Mr. Biden’s response to the ruling is likely to signal how his campaign will handle the issue of Mr. Trump’s criminal cases, which have been a central part of the president’s re-election argument. At a rally on Friday, he cited the numerous lawsuits against Mr. Trump as evidence that he is a “one-man crime wave.”
But the president’s appearance at Cross Hall, the stately venue where he has delivered many addresses to the nation in the past, will be closely watched because of the president’s vitality and mental acuity following his disastrous performance at the debate in Atlanta on Thursday.
Biden’s family and top advisers, along with prominent allies on Capitol Hill and in the governor’s office, closed ranks over the weekend, stressing that the debate was a one-off that should not deter the president from mounting a vigorous reelection campaign.
Top campaign officials were scheduled to field questions and concerns from some of the president’s biggest donors on a conference call Monday night. The call with the national finance committee was hastily put together Sunday in an attempt to quell panic among donors worried about the future of the campaign.
