Biden’s Strategy for a Predecessor Who Won’t Go Away: Ignore Him

  • President-elect’s aides prepare to contend with citizen Trump
  • Outgoing president promises to be unprecedented distraction
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Joe Biden faces historic challenges when he enters the White House on Jan. 20: a raging pandemic, persistently high unemployment, simmering tensions with China and Russia -- and a predecessor who won’t go away.

Aware of the chaos and distraction Donald Trump has proved he can muster, the president-elect and his advisers have developed a strategy they believe is the only way to neutralize the threat: ignore him.