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Timeline: Media, White House defended Biden’s fitness for office until debate debacle made it impossible
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} President Biden, the White House and their allies in the media have ping-ponged on information related to his mental fitness, going from lashing out at critics of his acuity to spearheading his removal from the 2024 ticket. People close to Biden insisted he was sharp as a Ginsu and claimed videos suggesting otherwise …
Timeline: Media, White House defended Biden’s fitness for office until debate debacle made it impossible
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} President Biden, the White House and their allies in the media have ping-ponged on information related to his mental fitness, going from lashing out at critics of his acuity to spearheading his removal from the 2024 ticket. People close to Biden insisted he was sharp as a Ginsu and claimed videos suggesting otherwise …
Nearly all NY House Democrats up for re-election have publicly sided with Biden — despite prez’s numerous gaffes, disastrous debate
President Biden has watched helplessly in recent weeks as a growing number of supporters have publicly voiced misgivings about whether the 81-year-old incumbent has what it takes to defeat Donald Trump a second time. Since the president’s dreadful showing at the June 27 debate in Atlanta, prominent doubters have emerged in a steadily increasing drip, …
Chaos swirling since Biden’s debate flub is causing cracks in a White House known for discipline
WASHINGTON (AP) — Internal drama. Leaks. Second-guessing. The pressure and chaos swirling since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance is causing cracks in a White House that until now had been marked by discipline and loyalty. For three-plus years, the Biden administration has been mostly a restrained and staid operation, defined more by an insistence on …
Debate brings scrutiny of whether aides shielded signs of Biden’s aging
When special counsel Robert K. Hur concluded in a February report that President Biden should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents in part because a jury would view the president as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden and his aides hit back hard. The 81-year-old president called an impromptu news …
New Plan to Target Russia’s Oil Revenue Brings Debate in White House
Officials in President Biden’s Treasury Department have proposed new actions aimed at crippling a fleet of aging oil tankers that are helping deliver Russian oil to buyers around the world in defiance of Western sanctions. Their effort is aimed at punishing Russia but it has stalled amid White House concerns over how it would affect …