The Joe Biden administration wants the country to move on following Donald Trump’s acquittal in his second Senate impeachment trial.

I am all for moving forward. But before we do, in the words of Lieutenant Columbo, I have just one more thing. Anyone got a pencil? I need to take notes.

The simple fact that we have to say “second” impeachment trial indicates the quality of the former president. History will not be kind to the man who lost reelection and tried to hold on to his office by inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

That aside, the latest impeachment trial proved a few things beyond a shadow of a doubt: A.) Donald Trump’s time in office is over—and Vice President Mike Pence’s life was almost over. B.) There are some GOP senators who will look great in orange. C.) Trump owns a political party that has zero resemblance to anything remotely Republican.

Still worried that justice wasn’t dispensed to Donald Trump? Take solace in the fact that he will spend the rest of his life tangled in legal proceedings that will keep him from ever being president again—and that the Trump brand is destined for abject, abysmal, all-encompassing failure. His sons won’t follow in his footsteps, nor will his daughter—unless they follow each other to prison.

Though a majority of senators saw Trump for what he is in his second impeachment trial, the supermajority of 67 needed to convict didn’t materialize. Despite this, the Donald was not exonerated—he was acquitted. The fates have yet to decide his ignominious future.

It matters little. Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, lead House impeachment manager, effectively eviscerated Trump on the world stage, showing the arrogant charlatan for what he is. Trump knows he lost. The term “loser” will forever be attached to his name, his brand and his dubious accomplishments. He remains the worst we have ever elected. His is a dark soul with dark and foul deeds in his heart. A man who lives only to exploit, divide and conquer. Too stupid and too fearful to be successful, Trump has nevertheless set the table for somebody to pick up where he left off—someone who may be equally dark but smarter.

Trump is a walking subversion of rationality, science, math and common sense. It is in the nation’s best interest to hold him accountable for his seditious actions, reduce his compensation to nothing and hold him in the lowest regard.

But we cannot continue to be mired in the Trumpian dystopia that we voted out of office. The ex-president still takes up far too much oxygen in the room while there are other pressing issues that deserve serious consideration.

President Joe Biden gets points for keeping his eye on the ball in terms of the pandemic and working hard to overcome the messes Trump left. But Friday showed us Biden has his own problems—especially in his communications office. At press secretary Jen Psaki’s briefing last Friday, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, picked up where she had left off challenging the Trump administration, now challenging the Biden administration after T.J. Ducklo, Psaki’s deputy secretary, said he would “destroy” a female reporter researching a story on him for Politico’s Playbook. Ducklo also allegedly made several misogynistic comments, which the White House did not deny.

“A deputy of yours has been suspended for a week without pay for comments he made to a female reporter, bullying her after she reached out for requests for comment on a story. Whose idea was the one-week suspension, instead of a potential resignation or firing?” Collins asked Psaki. “And how can you keep this person in a public-facing press-relations role, dealing with female reporters, when he made such sexist comments?”

Psaki responded that she took the allegations seriously and felt a one-week suspension “was a serious punishment.”

But Collins pressed her point. After his suspension, Ducklo would still be working with female reporters. “What are you doing to deal with that part of it?” she asked Psaki.

“It’s completely unacceptable.… We’ve had conversations with [Ducklo] about that. That is why we have also contacted—not long before today, but immediately following their conversation, my colleague Kate Bedingfield reached out to an editor at Playbook to convey our apology,” Psaki responded. “We’ve reached out at every level there to convey our apology and been clear this will never happen again. And it is not going to be tolerated here at the White House.”

Yet she did tolerate it. A week’s suspension is not much of a punishment, and Psaki admitted she hadn’t discussed her decision with Biden before she took action as Ducklo’s supervisor. “It was a decision I made, and with the approval of the chief of staff,” Psaki said.

Make no mistake, the White House did not deny that one of its deputies conducted himself abhorrently when he made misogynistic remarks and threatened to “destroy” a reporter.

Had a deputy press secretary in the Trump White House made such comments, the world would’ve been in a justifiable uproar. The White House Correspondents’ Association, which made statements against the Trump administration several times for its shoddy treatment of reporters, would’ve been the first to defend the journalist. But last Friday the WHCA and its president, Zeke Miller, remained silent. The WHCA has yet to say anything about this fiasco. Miller, who is in the briefing room more than most reporters and often gets the first question during the dog-and-pony shows pretending to be briefings, asked nothing about the incident when he had a chance both last Friday and this Tuesday.

Instead, last Friday Bloomberg’s Josh Wingrove, picking up Collins’s line of questioning, pressed Psaki for answers, pointing out that on Inauguration Day Biden said he would fire “on the spot” any staffer who disrespected their colleagues. “Isn’t this well short of what he pledged?” Wingrove asked.

Psaki responded again that Ducklo’s behavior was not acceptable. The next day, Ducklo resigned his position.

The fact that Ducklo initially received a mild punishment and resigned only after the story became public reveals some interesting things about this White House.

It shows that Biden has delegated authority to those he trusts, and that those he trusts may not necessarily make decisions that are in his best interest. It also draws attention to something Psaki told me last week: She doesn’t necessarily talk with the president every day. Perhaps the Ducklo episode was one instance in which she should have reached out to the president for guidance, since her decision to mete out a short suspension was in direct conflict with the president’s wishes regarding standards for his staff’s behavior.

No question: Biden is an improvement over Trump. But that’s a low hurdle to clear—most pet owners show more empathy than Donald Trump ever did. That’s not the point. Each administration should be held to the same standard. The Biden administration has stumbled badly in the briefing room and how it deals with the press, although it isn’t as bad as the Trump administration and hopefully never will be. Biden’s team has issued draconian rules limiting press access. It has compromised the WHCA by putting its officers to work as pseudo-bureaucrats deciding which reporters can even enter the White House campus. It declined to condemn Saudi Arabia for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And now it had to accept the resignation of a deputy press secretary who made misogynistic comments and threatened to destroy a reporter.

Biden’s press secretary and chief of staff were willing to sacrifice the promise Biden made on the day he took office to fire any staffer who was disrespectful to colleagues. On Tuesday, NBC’s Peter Alexander pressed Psaki about that. “[Ducklo] is no longer employed here, and that speaks for itself,” she responded.

Yes, it does. But so do the circumstances that led to Ducklo’s departure.

The administration’s initial response calls into question whether Psaki actually speaks for the president. The WHCA’s inaction shows how weak it has become—and how the new administration has manipulated it. Ducklo’s resignation, coming so soon after public disclosure, shows there was no doubt about his bad behavior. It also shows the Biden administration is responsive to public input and willing to correct its mistakes.

And it highlights the need for openness, the need for honesty and the need for less arrogance from the White House moving forward—along with greater acknowledgement of the facts. Not only should the Trump era of lying with impunity be over, but so too should the era of spin-doctoring and obfuscation that preceded Trump and made his ascent possible.

For too many people, U.S. politics has devolved into an acceptable way to show those who disagree with us as much disrespect as possible.

Seeing Trump acquitted drove that point home—as did the actions last week of the current White House communications team.

The American public deserves, wants and needs better.