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Who are Biden's "handlers?"
Feb 8, 2010

Posted on 02/08/2021 3:09:12 PM PST by upchuck

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To: upchuck

A photo I saw of the inauguration - I sure didn’t watch it - his wife appeared tense and not at ease or joyful that her husband is now being sworn in as president - like she was concerned he was going to have a dementia moment. Pray for feuding among these women in the power circle.


21 posted on 02/08/2021 3:19:32 PM PST by RushingWater
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To: upchuck

Mark Zuckerberg


22 posted on 02/08/2021 3:20:29 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: upchuck

Don’t ask Joe? He’s not good with faces, names, dates, places, or things.


23 posted on 02/08/2021 3:21:14 PM PST by blackdog (It's a good day to go Ceaucescu. )
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To: upchuck

Obama and his handler Valerie Jarrett.


24 posted on 02/08/2021 3:22:28 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kaehurowing

We know from Time Magazine that Zuckerberg gave at least $300 million for the effort.


25 posted on 02/08/2021 3:23:05 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: upchuck

CHINESE OFFICIALS, Soros, Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Zuckerberg, and every other DemonRat who should be in PRISON for treason.


26 posted on 02/08/2021 3:25:06 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: upchuck

Does it matter? It could be any number of people, a committee in the background, it probably depends on the particular subject.

We just know it isn’t him making the decisions, he doesn’t have the horsepower anymore.


27 posted on 02/08/2021 3:25:28 PM PST by Dad was my hero
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To: upchuck

And these are just the ones that are in the public realm

Biden’s Cabinet and White House Picks: Who They Are and What We Know
From West Wing to national security, president-elect has started making plans to fill his administration

President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., in early November.
PHOTO: CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
President-elect Joe Biden has begun making plans to fill his administration, naming the people he plans to tap for senior White House positions and cabinet slots.

Here is how Mr. Biden plans to fill some of the top jobs:

West Wing

Ron Klain in March of 2020.
PHOTO: ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Ron Klain, White House Chief of Staff
Mr. Klain served in the 1980s on the Senate Judiciary Committee while Mr. Biden served as chairman and on Mr. Biden’s first presidential campaign in 1987. He was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore and then held the same role when Mr. Biden was vice president. He also served as Ebola czar under President Obama. He has been taking a leave of absence from his role as executive vice president and general counsel at Revolution LLC, an investment firm. He taught a class at Harvard Law School during the campaign, and he launched and co-hosted a weekly podcast earlier this year.

Jen O’Malley Dillon in September 2020.
PHOTO: POLITICO/ZUMA PRESS
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Deputy Chief of Staff
Ms. O’Malley Dillon was Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign manager. She is a top former Obama campaign aide and was campaign manager for former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s Democratic primary campaign.

Mike Donilon in October 2006.
PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI/WIREIMAGE/NICHE MEDIA/GETTY IMAGES
Mike Donilon, Senior Adviser to the President
Mr. Donilon was a chief strategist on Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign. Mr. Donilon’s ties to Mr. Biden go back to 1981. He is a veteran of Mr. Biden’s presidential campaigns and served as counselor to then-Vice President Biden in the White House.

Steve Ricchetti in 2017.
PHOTO: ROHIT MUSTI/THE CAVALIER DAILY
Steve Ricchetti, Counselor to the President
Mr. Ricchetti was Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign chairman. He was in the lobbying business for a decade. His clients included pharmaceutical companies, the American Hospital Association and AT&T Inc. Before joining the vice president’s office as Mr. Biden’s chief of staff during President Obama’s second term, Mr. Ricchetti sold his stake in the lobbying firm he had co-founded with his brother in 2001.

Dana Remus, Counsel to the President
Ms. Remus served as a top lawyer in Mr. Biden’s campaign and was deputy White House counsel during the Obama administration.

National Security:

Antony Blinken in 2016.
PHOTO: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State
Mr. Blinken served as staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while Mr. Biden served as a U.S. senator representing Delaware, and he worked on Mr. Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. He had roles as deputy secretary of state during President Obama’s second term and as national security adviser to Mr. Biden while he served as vice president. Mr. Blinken opened a consulting firm in 2017 called WestExec Advisors. He served as Mr. Biden’s top foreign-policy adviser during his 2020 presidential campaign.

Gen. Lloyd Austin in December.
PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense
Gen. Austin served in the U.S. Army for more than 40 years. His last job in uniform was four years ago as the head of U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East. He serves on several corporate boards—including aerospace and defense company Raytheon Technologies Corp. , for-profit hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp. and steel production company Nucor Corp —and would require a congressional waiver because he hasn’t been out of uniform for the required seven years.

Pete Buttigieg in March.
PHOTO: MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation
Mr. Buttigieg, Mr. Biden’s former Democratic primary rival, served as a two-term mayor of South Bend. Ind., from 2012 to 2020, making urban development and economic revitalization cornerstones of his administration.

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Linda Thomas-Greenfield in 2016.
PHOTO: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
Ms. Thomas-Greenfield served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 2013 to 2017. Before that she was U.S. ambassador to Liberia from 2008 to 2012 and held diplomatic posts in several other countries. She is currently on leave from the Albright Stonebridge Group, where she led the consulting firm’s Africa practice.

Jake Sullivan in 2017.
PHOTO: JOSE LUIS MAGANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jake Sullivan, national security adviser
Mr. Sullivan is a former national security adviser to Mr. Biden while he served as vice president. He was a senior policy adviser to Mr. Biden’s campaign and served in senior roles to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As director of policy planning at the State Department, he played a key role in negotiating with Iranian officials as the Obama administration sought to put together the Iran nuclear agreement.

Alejandro Mayorkas in 2016.
PHOTO: ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
Mr. Mayorkas, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant whose family fled the Fidel Castro regime in 1960, served as the U.S. attorney for the central district of California under former President Bill Clinton. During Mr. Obama’s first term, Mr. Mayorkas received high marks from immigration advocates for leading the agency that administered the deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young immigrants living in the country without legal permission. He later served as deputy secretary of Homeland Security.

Avril Haines in 2017.
PHOTO: MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/FOREIGN PHOTO SERVICE/ZUMA PRESS
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence
Ms. Haines worked with Mr. Biden when he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as the committee’s deputy legal counsel. A person familiar with her record said that as deputy national security adviser under Mr. Obama, she oversaw a process that led to an increase in U.S. refugee admissions to 110,000 in 2017 from 70,000 in 2015. President Trump has sharply scaled back those numbers. She also played a role in Obama administration policies intended to limit civilian casualties from drone strikes and other uses of U.S. force.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry in January.
PHOTO: ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate change
Mr. Kerry served as secretary of state under Mr. Obama and previously as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 2004. His position will be on the White House National Security Council, the transition team said.

Economy:

Janet Yellen in 2019.
PHOTO: ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury
Ms. Yellen was the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, she would become the first person to have headed the Treasury, the central bank and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. She has also been president of the San Francisco Fed, a Fed governor and is professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

Neera Tanden in 2019.
PHOTO: ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Ms. Tanden is the head of the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank. During the Obama administration, she was one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act. She was also an adviser to Hillary Clinton and has publicly tangled with allies of Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. If confirmed, Ms. Tanden would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian woman to oversee OMB.

Brian Deese in 2015.
PHOTO: JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brian Deese, Director of the National Economic Council
Mr. Deese worked on Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign, then joined his National Economic Council, eventually rising to deputy director. He also was a deputy OMB director and a senior adviser to the president, with a central role in negotiating the 2015 international climate change agreement. After leaving the White House, Mr. Deese joined BlackRock Inc. as global head of sustainable investing.

Cecilia Rouse.
PHOTO: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Cecilia Rouse, Chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Ms. Rouse is a Princeton University labor economist, and she served as a CEA member during the first two years of the Obama administration. She also served on the NEC during the Clinton administration. She would be the first woman of color to chair the CEA.

Jared Bernstein in 2019.
PHOTO: TAYLOR GLASCOCK/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Jared Bernstein, member of the Council of Economic Advisers
Mr. Bernstein was among a group of rotating advisers who participated in daily economic briefings for Mr. Biden this year. He served as chief economist to Mr. Biden when he was vice president and was an architect of the Obama administration’s roughly $800 billion package enacted in the first few months of 2009 to stimulate the economy. He has been a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities since 2011.

Heather Boushey on Dec. 1.
PHOTO: CHANDAN KHANNA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Heather Boushey, member of the Council of Economic Advisers
Ms. Boushey was also among the group of advisers who gave Mr. Biden daily economic briefings this year. She is the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a nonprofit research organization she co-founded in 2013. She served as the chief economist for Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 presidential transition team.

Adewale Adeyemo on Dec. 1.
PHOTO: ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adewale Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Mr. Adeyemo has served since 2019 as president of Mr. Obama’s foundation. He worked as a senior adviser for BlackRock from 2017 to 2019. During the Obama administration, he was the Treasury Department’s lead negotiator on the currency agreement that was part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and in 2010, he was one of the first officials charged with setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mr. Adeyemo, who as a child emigrated from Nigeria with his family, would be the department’s first Black deputy secretary.

Health Care:

Xavier Becerra in 2019.
PHOTO: RICH PEDRONCELLI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Mr. Becerra is the attorney general of California. He led a coalition of 20 states and Washington, D.C., in a legal defense of the Affordable Care Act after Republican-led states brought a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Obama-era health law. He served in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017.

Jeffrey Zients in December.
PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jeffrey Zients, Covid-19 Response Coordinator
Mr. Zients, a business executive, led the National Economic Council during much of Mr. Obama’s second term. Before that, he was a senior official and acting director at the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Zients has also been a top executive with the Cranemere Group, an investment holding company, and he was a top executive at the Advisory Board Company, a health-care research and consulting firm.

Vivek Murthy in December.
PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General
Dr. Murthy will reprise his Obama-era role as U.S. surgeon general. He previously led Doctors for America, a group that pushed for what became Democrats’ 2010 health law, and was a doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Anthony Fauci in June.
PHOTO: AL DRAGO/PRESS POOL
Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Fauci, who has served as the director of NIAID since 1984, is on the current White House Task Force but has had an uneven relationship with President Trump. Mr. Biden has asked Dr. Fauci to remain in his role.

Climate:

Michael Regan in 2017.
PHOTO: CHUCK LIDDY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael Regan, EPA Administrator
Mr. Regan runs North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality. He spent nearly a decade early in his career at the Environmental Protection Agency before taking on regional jobs at the Environmental Defense Fund and in his home state.

One of the issues in Mr. Regan’s tenure as North Carolina’s top regulator was a coal-ash cleanup that state regulators called the biggest in U.S. history.

Mr. Regan engineered a legal settlement with Duke Energy Corp. to move 80 million tons of ash to lined landfills and close all of its ash basins in the Carolinas, at a cost of $8 billion to $9 billion.

Deb Haaland in 2019.
PHOTO: MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/ZUMA PRESS
Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior
Ms. Haaland (D., N.M.), one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress, would be the first ever Native American cabinet secretary. She is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico.

Ms. Haaland, who represents a district that includes Albuquerque, had the support of a variety of backers for the Interior Department job, including Native American tribes, progressive leaders and some House Republicans.

Jennifer Granholm in 2019.
Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy
Ms. Granholm served as Michigan’s Democratic governor from 2003 to 2011 and as the state’s attorney general for the preceding four years.

As governor, she pushed a renewable portfolio standard requiring 10% of the state’s energy to come from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2015, a percentage that was later increased.

During her tenure, she also worked closely with the Obama administration to help the auto industry, which faced collapse following the economic downturn. She has credited Mr. Biden with playing a key role in bolstering General Motors Co. and Chrysler during that period.

Gina McCarthy in 2017.
Gina McCarthy, National Climate Advisor
Ms. McCarthy, former Obama administration EPA chief, helped create and implement the country’s first major regulations on the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change.

Ms. McCarthy ran the EPA’s office that dealt with air pollution starting in 2009 and took over as EPA administrator during President Obama’s second term.

She has a long history in environmental policy. Before joining the EPA, Ms. McCarthy served as the top environmental watchdog under two former Republican governors— Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in 2003 and, later, Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell.

This year, she took over leadership of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the country’s pre-eminent environmental groups and the legal engineers behind several lawsuits fighting Trump administration efforts to ease environmental and climate regulations.

Other Policy:

Marcia Fudge in 2018.
Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Ms. Fudge, an Ohio congresswoman, is a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. She has represented a Cleveland-area congressional district since 2008. Before serving in Congress, Ms. Fudge worked in the prosecutor’s office for Cuyahoga County and was later elected as the first Black and first female mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio.

Tom Vilsack in January.
Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture
Mr. Vilsack will return to a department that he led in the Obama administration. He previously served as Iowa governor for eight years, stepping down in 2007. He campaigned for the presidency in late 2006 and early 2007, but dropped out of the race after 86 days.

Denis McDonough in 2015.
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Mr. McDonough was White House chief of staff in Mr. Obama’s second term and previously was deputy national security adviser and worked for the National Security Council. He was also a congressional aide. Since leaving the White House, he has been teaching at the University of Notre Dame and overseeing a research program that tracks and evaluates the presidential transition.

Susan Rice in 2019.
Susan Rice, Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Ms. Rice served as U.N. ambassador at the beginning of the Obama administration and later became Mr. Obama’s national security adviser. Ms. Rice was under consideration to be Mr. Biden’s running mate and was also discussed as a potential secretary of state. The Domestic Policy Council position doesn’t require Senate confirmation.

Miguel Cardona in January.
Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education
Dr. Cardona has served as Connecticut’s education commissioner in August 2019. Before that, he was a fourth-grade teacher in Meriden, Conn., and later became an elementary-school principal. Dr. Cardona, whose grandparents are from Puerto Rico, would be the second Latino to run the Education Department after Lauro Cavazos in the late ‘80s.


28 posted on 02/08/2021 3:26:16 PM PST by zaxtres (`)
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To: upchuck

I thought he was the handler? I’ve seen clips of him doing a lot of handling.


29 posted on 02/08/2021 3:26:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: kaehurowing

I speculate that Fuckerberg used his treasure trove of personal Facebook data (profiles, etc.) to establish exactly who would be the poll workers more than willing to engage in the electoral fraud that gave Biden the win.


30 posted on 02/08/2021 3:27:24 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: GraceG

Followed by Susan Rice


31 posted on 02/08/2021 3:28:59 PM PST by hsmomx3
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32 posted on 02/08/2021 3:29:18 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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So far we have Jarrett, Jill Biden, Harris, Susan Rice, and Pam Anderson. Any other names?


33 posted on 02/08/2021 3:29:35 PM PST by upchuck (When it absolutely, positively has to get there, choose something other than USPS.)
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To: upchuck

Hunter


34 posted on 02/08/2021 3:32:35 PM PST by CJ Wolf (#wwg1wga #Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
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To: upchuck

I’d add Schumer and Pelosi to the list.


35 posted on 02/08/2021 3:36:11 PM PST by FreedomForce
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ID them by name if you can.
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We can speculate but faceless juntas who steal elections operate in the shadows... we know that people like Susan Rice and Maobama will been seen more often but the real junta are folks you never see. I would say that they are the ones who directly report to Soros...


36 posted on 02/08/2021 3:36:12 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I attempted to become a poll worker. I was summarily refused.


37 posted on 02/08/2021 3:37:43 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: upchuck

Don’t know who his handlers are, but he sure ‘handled’, er, ‘fondled’ a lot of young girls!


38 posted on 02/08/2021 3:44:44 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Dad was my hero

You nailed it.

Bidet talked about it several times—it is a “committee”.

Central Committee—Commie style.


39 posted on 02/08/2021 3:44:51 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: upchuck

Read later.


40 posted on 02/08/2021 3:45:35 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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