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Inside the White House workings to keep a ‘diminished’ Biden informed while dealing with age-related problems
Lawmakers, donors, and aides told The Wall Street Journal that the gatekeeping grew more intense and the walls around the president became higher over time
President Joe Biden’s closest aides and advisers told visitors to keep meetings short and focused as his meetings with Democratic members of Congress and top cabinet officials grew rarer during his presidency.
Legislative leaders had a difficult time getting in touch with the president, including as the U.S. was pulling its troops out of Afghanistan, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Top staffers took on roles that administration officials and some lawmakers believed the president himself should have. Press aides were told to exclude negative stories about Biden as they put together news clips for him. Biden also wasn’t speaking to his own pollsters even as polls revealed that he was behind in his re-election bid. Some believed he was being shielded from bad numbers as Trump was consistently ahead before the president departed from the race, the paper reported.
Lawmakers, donors, and aides told The Journal that the gatekeeping grew more intense and the walls around him became higher over time. Restrictions were placed on who he spoke to, what they told him, and the sources from which he got his information.
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Inside the White House workings to keep a ‘diminished’ Biden informed
Lawmakers, donors, and aides told The Wall Street Journal that the gatekeeping grew more intense and the walls around the president became higher over timewww.the-independent.com
I think most of us figured out pretty quickly that the Biden admin was being run by the Obama cronies surrounding Biden.
The media played along with the fantasy that Joe was fine.