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Biden aides set up a ‘wall’ to shield him from unscripted events, book claims
Fox News ^ | September 18, 2121 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 09/18/2021 3:48:58 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

Top White House aides set up a "wall" to shield President Biden from unscripted events and long interviews amid fears of the president’s testiness and habit of mangling statements, according to a new book.

"Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cited a number of incidents from the gaffe-prone president in the early days of his administration, including a back-and-forth with a CNN reporter for which he later apologized.

"That side of Biden -- his tendency to at times be testy or mangle statements -- was still with him and now part of his presidency," the book says.

In turn, a number of Biden aides told the reporters that Chief of Staff Ronald Klain and then-White House advisor Anita Dunn worked to prevent such incidents by keeping him away from "unscripted events or long interviews."

"They called the effect ‘the wall,’ a cocooning of the president," they wrote.

The book says that the White House had to go into damage control mode after Biden announced he had struck a major bipartisan infrastructure deal, but then said it was contingent on a more liberal spending package being passed.

It reportedly surprised Democrats, who saw them as separate, and angered Republicans who were unhappy about the caveat. It led to officials working the phones to repair the damage, and Biden issuing a lengthy statement to clarify his position.

The book contains a number of revelations, in particular its reporting about how General Mark Milley was in communication with the Chinese to reassure them about fears of an attack during the chaos surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cocoon
It's been quite clear that this man is not in charge of anything. How soon before he is gone?
1 posted on 09/18/2021 3:48:58 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

Oh yeah, the old slur, mumble, hiss and run strategy.


2 posted on 09/18/2021 3:51:14 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: American Number 181269513

They set up a wall to shield Biden....

Mr.Biden, tear down this wall.


3 posted on 09/18/2021 3:51:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Eddie01

Plus his mouth full of an ice cream waffle cone.


4 posted on 09/18/2021 3:52:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: American Number 181269513
The book says that the White House had to go into damage control mode after Biden announced he had struck a major bipartisan infrastructure deal, but then said it was contingent on a more liberal spending package being passed.

That was Biden blurting out the truth out of either incapacity or hubris.

5 posted on 09/18/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: American Number 181269513

They should try to shield this...

Biden 2001 CFR remarks on Afghanistan:

“We cannot and certainly will not walk away from 7 million displaced desperate Afghanis surviving on little more than grass and locusts...Reluctant to use word nation building...but if we leave Afghanistan in chaos it will be another time bomb waiting to explode”

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4975230/user-clip-biden-2001-cfr-remarks-afghanistan


6 posted on 09/18/2021 3:55:30 PM PDT by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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The Woodward book contains a number of revelations.....in particular...... its reporting about how General Mark Milley was in communication with the Chinese to reassure them about fears of an attack during the chaos surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

China asset, Biden, HAD TO KNOW about the call......and so did China’s financial partner.....Hunter Biden.


7 posted on 09/18/2021 3:59:07 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use)
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To: frank ballenger

Build the wall BIGGER!! I would LOVE NOT TO SEE OR HEAR HIM AGAIN!


8 posted on 09/18/2021 3:59:53 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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H/t Nathan Bedford

Milley’s treasonous call to China was neither the result of Trump’s allegedly irrational or insane behavior, nor a result of Jan 6.....

It was the result of an hysterical telephone rant by deranged “Dr” Nancy Pelosi insisting Trump was “insane”........ a rant with which Gen Milley said he agreed.


9 posted on 09/18/2021 4:02:08 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use)
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To: American Number 181269513

Why is it that only the Australian commentators are willing to declare: BIDEN HAS ALZHEIMER’S!


10 posted on 09/18/2021 4:19:40 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: American Number 181269513

President Retard is mentally unstable and it’s all they can do to cover for him with the help of the libtard cheerleaders in the media who are stuck on stupid.


11 posted on 09/18/2021 5:40:11 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: American Number 181269513
...his tendency to at times be testy or mangle statements...

What Nancy Pelosi said about the 25th Amendment

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-nancy-pelosi-said-about-the-25th-amendment/ar-BB19S9du?ocid=a2hs

12 posted on 09/18/2021 5:57:20 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Ann Archy
Build the wall BIGGER!! I would LOVE NOT TO SEE OR HEAR HIM AGAIN!

LOL

Best idea today.

13 posted on 09/18/2021 7:07:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: American Number 181269513

Anita Dunn, the MARXIST puppet master subkommandant of Obama, whose favorite historical figures were Mother Teresa and MAO TSE-TUNG. Mother Teresa tried to help save millions of lives thru her charitable works.

Mao killed scores of millions of people thru his fanatical Marxism.

The fact that Dunn even considered the greatest practitioner of genocide for anything except being history’s greatest killer shows where both Obama and Biden’s ideological allegiances lie and it is not in American democracy and freedom because they both relied on her for guidance and direction.


14 posted on 09/18/2021 11:59:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: American Number 181269513
"It's been quite clear that this man is not in charge of anything"

Which is exactly why the Beltway Bureaucratic State wanted him elected. He is dirty, selfish, compromised, senile, and has no qualities to lead. The Beltway Bureaucracy gives the "Big Guy" his 10% and his nappy time. Meanwhile they are busy plundering the treasury, emboldening our enemies, cutting the throats of our allies, turning healthcare into a Marxist pay to play scheme, and using the constitution as fish wrap.

15 posted on 09/19/2021 12:07:19 AM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: American Number 181269513

We don’t need any book to tell us this. It’s obvious.


16 posted on 09/19/2021 12:16:52 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: American Number 181269513

Demented puppet occupying the head shed... just a guess.


17 posted on 09/19/2021 3:33:17 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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