Biden Reveals Why He Won't Watch The Second Impeachment Trial Of Trump

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he won’t be watching former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and said he would likely continue to take a hands-off approach to the proceedings throughout the week.

Several reporters interviewed Biden at the White House, where he was asked whether he planned to watch the trial.

“I am not,” Biden answered. “I have a job. We've already lost over 450,000 people. We're going to lose a whole lot more if we don't act decisively and quickly."

“A lot of children are going to bed hungry. A lot of families are food insecure. They are in trouble. That's my job. The Senate has their job. They're about to begin it. I'm sure they're going to conduct themselves well. And that's all I'm going to have to say about impeachment,” the president added.

Biden was in the Oval Office when he made the comment. He was scheduled to meet with business leaders to discuss his $1.9 trillion economic relief proposal.

The president has yet to reveal whether he supports or opposes Trump’s impeachment trial. He also has repeatedly declined to say whether he believes the Senate should acquit or convict Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also refused to say whether the president believes Trump’s impeachment trial is constitutional.

“Biden is the president — he's not a pundit,” Psaki told reporters. “He's not going to opine on the back-and-forth arguments, nor is he watching them, that are taking place in the Senate.”

Trump’s impeachment trial at the Senate began on Tuesday, with impeachment officers opening the process by sharing footage taken of the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. and Trump whipping his supporters into a frenzy during a speech earlier that day.

“We will stop the steal. Today, I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election, and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election,” Trump said in the video. “And after this, we are going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol.”

The insurrection led to the death of five people, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick — who died after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher — and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt — who was fatally shot by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to slip through a broken window leading to the Speaker’s Lobby.