Yet some Democrats, including current and former Biden administration officials, privately saw it as an unnecessary poke-the-bear gesture.
Had he been advising Mr. Biden, Mr. Eisen said, he would have warned him about “the flak they were going to take” but added that it would be a matter of optics, rather than rules.
“That’s probably more of a question for an etiquette czar than an ethics czar,” he said.
“Certainly, there’s no violation of any ethics rule as long as they didn’t talk about the case.”The White House said Mr. Biden was simply being a father.
“In all administrations, regardless of party, it’s common for presidential family members to attend state dinners and to accompany presidents to Camp David,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said on Tuesday.
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