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Biden staff "miserable," alarmed as pressure builds
Axios ^ | July 5, 2024 | Alex Thompson

Posted on 07/05/2024 11:50:08 AM PDT by conservative98

Many White House, Biden campaign and Democratic officials are increasingly worried that President Biden isn't up to continuing his campaign or finishing a second term, despite his insistence that he won't be pushed out.

Outside pressure for Biden to drop his re-election bid grew wider and louder on the Fourth of July, especially from major donors. Doubts also are rising inside the house.

"Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole," a White House official told Axios. "Even if you're trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment" from bosses.

A high-ranking Democratic National Committee official told Axios: "The only thing that can really allay concerns is for the president to demonstrate that he's capable of running this campaign."

"Everything else feels like 'Weekend at Bernie's' by his inner circle to prop him up."

Some Biden aides believe those closest to the president have created a cocoon around him that initially seemed earnestly protective, but now appears potentially deceptive in the debate's aftermath.

They particularly focus on Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, the first lady's top adviser Anthony Bernal, and longtime aide Ashley Williams, who joined the deputy chief of staff's office when Tomasini ascended to the role earlier this year.

Those close aides have many duties. But officials recall instances of them helping Biden make up for mental lapses, including prompting him to remember people he has known for a long time.

Such moments could be dismissed as normal lapses. But many Biden aides now wonder whether they were signs of something deeper.

One former Biden aide told Axios: "Annie, Ashley and Anthony create a protective bubble around POTUS. He's staffed so closely that he's lost all independence.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: annietomasini; anthonybernal; ashleywilliams; biden; cackles; california; doctorjill; drjill; hunterbiden; kamalaharris; mikedonilon; stoner
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1 posted on 07/05/2024 11:50:08 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98
...POTUS relies on staff to nudge him with reminders of who he's meeting, including former staffers and advisers who Biden should easily remember without a reminder from Annie."
2 posted on 07/05/2024 11:50:54 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Drip, Drip, Drip....


3 posted on 07/05/2024 11:52:14 AM PDT by aklurker
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To: conservative98

Mid level aides just need to walk up to Biden, look him in the eye, shake his hand and say “Great job, Mr. President.”

Then they get to watch as he looks off into space and mumbles “Who are you?”

Lol.


4 posted on 07/05/2024 11:52:22 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: conservative98
Everything else feels like 'Weekend at Bernie's' by his inner circle to prop him up

Proof positive they read FreeRepublic.

5 posted on 07/05/2024 11:52:39 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: conservative98

They are as much as telling us to expect a POTUS Harris, in short order. By way of the 25th Amendment.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 11:53:56 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: conservative98

They are not in prison....YET.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 11:55:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: conservative98
Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole

You've hitched your wagon to a star!

8 posted on 07/05/2024 11:56:59 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: conservative98

They deserve worse.
Just lose already!


9 posted on 07/05/2024 11:57:25 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: conservative98

Feb. 6, 2009

Quotes:

“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”

Biden may have gotten a big promotion on Jan. 20, but he proved early on in his term that he was still the same old gaffe-prone politician.

The White House later dismissed the remark, with Obama quipping at a prime-time press conference, “I don’t remember exactly what Joe was referring to, not surprisingly.”

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895156_1894977_1846610,00.html


10 posted on 07/05/2024 11:57:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Perhaps the staff has heard that Stephanopoulos got permission from the PTB to use today's interview to rip Joe a new one and expose his decrepit mental state.

He is a Clintonista, after all...


11 posted on 07/05/2024 11:59:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: conservative98

“deaf & dumb”

Speech defects have historically led to false conclusions.


12 posted on 07/05/2024 12:02:23 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: conservative98

Well, well, well, they were all smiles and popping the corks off the bubbly when the corrupt crooked judge was about to sentence Trump to prison. Karma, I love the smell of karma!


13 posted on 07/05/2024 12:03:58 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: conservative98

Miserable, eh?

Good they can join the normal people in this country, who are miserable about Biden being in office.


14 posted on 07/05/2024 12:04:24 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: conservative98

“Everyone is miserable”

It’s karma coming around for all the efforts they have expended trying to make most Americans more miserable everyday.


15 posted on 07/05/2024 12:04:32 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: conservative98

Notice Joe called himself black recently, and the aides and donors wasted money on him and he let them down.

Legendary Ma Rainey song
Misery Blues (1927-1928)

I love my brownskin ′deed I do
Folks I know you will tell me a thing or two
I’m going to tell you what I went and done
I gave him all my money just to have some fun

He told me that he loved me, loved me so
I would marry him, I wouldn′t need to work no mo’
Now I’m grievin′ all the time
Just because I didn′t know that he was lyin’
I′m such a fool, down in my shoes
I’ve got those misery blues

I′ve got to go to work now, get another start
Work is the thing that’s breaking my heart
I′ve got those mean old misery blues
///////////////////////////////////////////////
Obscure Beatles style song I’ve Got Misery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX8ZUwlDiCM


16 posted on 07/05/2024 12:04:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: conservative98

Promise them nice cushy jobs and they will turn on Brandon in the blink of an eye.


17 posted on 07/05/2024 12:04:45 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Brian Griffin

Just remember…Joe Biden was the Kamala Harris of his day.


18 posted on 07/05/2024 12:07:07 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: conservative98

We have all been horrible for the past 3 1/2 yrs..living with a demented child molesting buffoon in the White House and his cackling dumb ass hen, that is why we are kicking BOTH out in November


19 posted on 07/05/2024 12:07:24 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: conservative98

Why is everybody acting like this was a revelation that occurred just last Thursday at the debate? 100% disingenuous. Everybody knew Joe was gone. Everybody.


20 posted on 07/05/2024 12:08:08 PM PDT by Obadiah
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