One of the Biden White House’s greatest achievements, from the perspective of its staffers, if not necessarily the country, has been to deny the press the kind of juicy leaks that were constant under Donald Trump and frequent under his predecessors. Save for a very narrow period of time, that is, when there was a push to force an aging president toward the exits: Then and only then we got a drip-drip-drip of fascinating inside information.
For instance, we learned that Biden hadn’t held a full cabinet meeting since last October and that his handlers expected scripted questions from his cabinet officials. We learned that his capacities peak between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and diminish outside that six-hour window. We learned that congressional Democrats, liberal donors and some journalists all had exposure to Biden’s decline that they didn’t discuss publicly until the debacle of the June debate. We learned that none other than Hunter Biden was acting as a close adviser to his father in the crucial days after that debate.
We even learned that from early in his presidency, the first lady’s closest aides worked to shield her husband from the staff that serves the first family in its living quarters, even as the aides themselves were given unusual access to the residence — as though it were essential to create a cocoon of loyalty and silence around the nation’s chief executive even when he isn’t on the job.
These are all interesting and pertinent facts about the man who officially leads the United States in a time of global danger — and they have not ceased to be pertinent because that president is no longer running for re-election.
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Imagine paying for NYT, and that’s the tripe you’re served?
I cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago, because I got sick of paying for have them put not only their thumb, but their entire weight, on the scale to push Trump. I’m old enough to remember when they were a reputable newspaper.
you do know that his “abilities” ended up on record and he dropped from the presidential race because of it, right?
it was quite big thing, if you missed that, maybe you should subscribe to nyt 😂
You’re literally complaining he’s stepping down while complaining he’s not stepping down…
no, i am (not really literally, you can guess my position from the context) complaining that people around him intentionally worked to hide the truth about his health and mental capabilities from the public.
the fact that he dropped out of the race is inevitable, but that should not be the end of it.
it is similar to when you steal money, you can’t just say “ok, you caught me, here is your money back and all is good”.
I’m sorry but ok whatever. Cabinet / staff hid so much shit from Trump and Trump from the public during his presidency because he was literally fucking retarded. Biden isn’t the best but atleast he’s stepping back and allowing new blood to take over.
yes, he does. that doesn’t mean the problems described in the article don’t exist.
This article is grabbing at anything to demean Biden. If it were Trump they wouldn’t give a shit. Is it literally a crime what he’s doing? Is it against presidential policy? Is he doing less of a job because of it? It sounds like they are literally trying to start shit for the sake of it being D vs R like normal
i am not a lawyer, but if office of the president is ran by group of non-elected advisors, i would expect that to be literal crime 🤷♂️
Is it though? Like he can’t have interactions without full cabinet meetings? Still sounds like a reach to me. What’s going on doesn’t immediately sound like the country is run by others solely
You are literally describing the Trump Presidency. What in the fuck.
The problems described in the article aren’t problematic, you are just of the same mindset as the author, and so you think it’s a problem.
We have two popular parties in the US.
These two parties have a system they use elect their own nominees.
Biden was the PRESUMPTIVE nominee.
Nobody was on any sort of legal hook to nominate him.
He dropped out and nominated Harris.
At this point, the ENTIRE PARTY was welcome to do whatever they wanted.
They chose to overwhelmingly endorse Harris.
Your issue is simply that one person in a party had that kind of pull to make her popular without a zero point discussion. It would happen in any two party system.
problems aren’t problematic. got it. thank you for this deep wisdom 😂
maybe read the article before you react, because the word salad you produced here has nothing to do with its content.
the text isn’t about two party system or how party nomination works.
no, that is not my issue, and you could have easily found out if you could read and bothered to read what you are reacting to.
my issue is that group of people puppeteer a person who is in no health and mental condition to serve as a president.
remember, that demented grandpa we saw in the tv debate was HIS BEST EFFORT, he knew the debate was going to happen, he had almost unlimited time to prepare for that, and what we saw was the result.
the article and links in it describe how it looks on his average day.
Is it vinyl or cd?
What are you, like, 12? 😂😂🤪😝😅
why would watching news and being aware of them made me 12? can you elaborate?
also, you should add few more emojis to show how mature your “answer” is 😂