Forget the Impeachment Trial – President Biden spent time playing video games with his granddaughter over a weekend at Camp David, Maryland’s mountain presidential retreat.
Naomi Biden, Hunter Biden’s daughter, posted in an Instagram story on Saturday that her grandfather “barely beat” her in a game of “Mario Kart”.
“The Secret Service made an exception and allowed him to drive himself,” she posted, with a link to a short video in which they played the video games. “A little rusty, but it still (barely) won.”
The White House said Biden and his family are spending the weekend at Camp David for the first time since he entered the White House in January.
Other than meeting with his national security team, the president has nothing else on his schedule.
He arrived there on Friday afternoon with a motorcade after Air Force One landed in Hagerstown, Md.
Despite the impeachment trial of his predecessor, President Donald Trump, which continues on Saturday, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden would review a “slice” of the trial, but would leave it to the Senate to decide an outcome. to decide.
Trump was acquitted in a vote of 57-43.
Biden’s government was also embroiled in a scandal on Saturday when another spokesman, TJ Ducklo, stepped down for allegedly threatening a reporter who planned to write about his relationship with another journalist.
The high-security mountain resort allowed presidents dating back to Dwight Eisenhower to escape the spotlight.
Guests make their way through the rustic lodges using golf carts and can take advantage of the tennis courts, horseshoes, pool, driving range, sledding, ice skating and snowmobiling, the government says on its Camp David website.