Not his focus Biden stays mum on Trump as White House pressed for comment on arraignment again

WASHINGTON – As the previous occupant of the White House surrendered to New York authorities Tuesday in a case involving alleged hush money payments, President Joe Biden sat around a table with his science and technology advisers in the State Dining Room. Reporters briefly allowed in the room strained to hear Biden’s comments on the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence, the president’s voice raspy from what he said was a cold. There was one topic on which Biden didn’t even try to make his views known. As he has before, Biden refused an opportunity to comment on the first…