If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
August is typically the slowest time of the year for Washington. Congress is on break and the President is traveling or on vacation. Traditionally, August was a good time to send the President on a world tour as it got him away from the American media. The host countries make sure to select only cooperative reporters to ask the President questions. These days with the American media operating as a public relations firm for the political establishment, Biden does not have that issue.
Even so, it is a rest period for the fall run into the midterms. It is the one time of year when Washington is a pleasant city. That is another reason to suspect that this raid on Mar-a-Lago caper was not run out of the administration and instead was done by others. The mad scramble to get important figureheads like Garland back into the city and provide them with a script suggests they were unprepared. The media was also caught off-guard so they did not have their narrative ready.
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