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Who Is Really Running the White House? Because This Article Spills Some Disturbing Details.
Townhall ^ | 07/08/2024 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 07/08/2024 12:34:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate has sparked an ongoing meltdown within the Democratic Party that has yet to subside. His ABC News interview didn’t quell any concerns about his mental health. He might have accentuated them with the gross poll denialism exhibited by the president. There have been so many stories about discord, anger, anxiety, and Joe losing his mental faculties that the primary one of concern is getting lost in the noise: who is running the country?

The tales of pervasive senility are not new or lost on conservatives; we’ve seen Joe and know he’s half-dead. But an article in Semafor from an unnamed source from a “scared” Biden aide paints a picture that is unsettling about the inner workings of the White House, which in some ways is a Nixonian throwback regarding secrecy (via Semafor): 

Midday on the Fourth of July, I received a call from a government official with regular access to the West Wing, who said they had reached a breaking point and wanted to sound the alarm.

The person insisted on careful ground rules: No details on the specific policy area they’d work on, no gender, age, or sexual orientation. Their credibility basically depends on my vouching that they’re a serious person, which I can do — though I should also say this person has nothing to say about the president’s physical condition, and was limited to their own experience outside Biden’s tight inner circle. 

Here is the assertion this person would like to get across: It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded. (The big exception to this pattern, they said, is foreign policy.) 

This pattern had already been a topic of discussion, and curiosity, among the high-powered aides who work in and around the White House. The rituals of paperflow are technical, but they say they’re surprised by the lack of briefings to the president, and of readouts from consultations with the president and worry about the possibility of decisions “being made without him.” 

My source has no reputation for being involved in factional fights on hot button issues, and no obvious ulterior motive for picking up the phone. 

“I’m super proud of the policies,” the person said. “I’m talking to you because I’m incredibly upset and scared for the country and I would like to do what I can.” 

Of course, the White House denied what this source told Semafor, but even Ben Smith, who penned the piece, said that Biden’s command and decision-making processes have been questioned since the president’s disastrous debate. There’s deep skepticism that age hasn’t changed anything about Biden’s decision-making process, but there's no solid evidence that Jill is in charge, though who knows? 

“My source’s call — as they say, from inside the building — is a mark of why the panic inside the Democratic Party is running so deep right now,” wrote Smith. “Even inside the West Wing, not everyone is sure.” 

Yet, last week, Axios wrote about three high-ranking staffers who appear to be de facto governing the country, much like how this article implied that White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients was running the country. The cocoon, or coup-coon, being placed around Biden has reportedly robbed the president of all independence. 

The committee of the merciful rest includes 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. 

Who is running the country? We have two pieces with different characters, but both paint the same picture: Joe Biden might not be in charge. People who weren’t elected are running the nation. We need hearings about this.



TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: annieanthonyashley; annietomasini; anthonybernal; ashleywilliams; biden; bidenadm; dementiajoe; senility; whitehouse

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1 posted on 07/08/2024 12:34:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama - this has been his 3rd term. EXACTLY like Obama’s first two terms and he’s almost accomplished his life dream: destroy America.


2 posted on 07/08/2024 12:36:17 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Might explain why America is so F’d up right now.

“They” like it too because Joe Biden takes all of the blame if things go south. But they were able to push their ridiculous agendas and who cares if Biden takes the heat.

3 posted on 07/08/2024 12:36:30 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SeekAndFind

X


4 posted on 07/08/2024 12:37:40 PM PDT by exnavy
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden’s mental condition was evident during the 2019 campaign. And it’s been obvious from the beginning that he wasn’t in charge of anything. So the only surprise is that they are (finally) admitting it.

The powers-that-be know how to win an election with a mentally challenged cipher as a candidate, they’ve proven that. And they are quite happy with a place-holder president who doesn’t interfere with the running of the country. Obama was another place-holder, though much more believable to the rubes.

What they don’t want is someone like Trump, who would actually try to govern the country and would not reliably take their phone-calls.

So why are they panicked and wanting to replace Biden? I don’t think the “powers” are panicked, it’s just the lower level folks who aren’t entirely in the loop and think it’s a real election. The only risk to them is if Trump wins blue states, where they hadn’t fully prepared to steal it. That’s the only way Trump overcomes the steal. That’s my view, anyway…


5 posted on 07/08/2024 12:54:59 PM PDT by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

Good luck. I’ve been asking this question almost since day 1. And I’ve written both my senators and my congressman, who I know personally, and asked them to demand to know who is running the presidency. Crickets.


6 posted on 07/08/2024 12:55:30 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden today “We’re not going.” then
“I’m not going.”

Slipped up.


7 posted on 07/08/2024 12:58:52 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: SeekAndFind

Upon reflection, there is an advantage in replacing Biden, if they can find another suitable cipher, and that’s that it lets them disavow anything embarrassing that happened under Biden, while continuing to promote those very same policies.


8 posted on 07/08/2024 12:59:38 PM PDT by marron
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“I don’t think the “powers” are panicked, it’s just the lower level folks who aren’t entirely in the loop”

Agreed—DC veterans have long known Biden was a figurehead and a clown.

It is the younger starry eyed crowd who have delusions about how the White House is “supposed to” work.

As for Democrats in Congress—all they care about is their own re-election and power.

If they get re-elected with a chimp in the White House everything is good.


9 posted on 07/08/2024 1:00:07 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: SeekAndFind

susan rice(obama acolyte) is in charge of domestic policy

never ever a word about her


10 posted on 07/08/2024 1:04:16 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Jim W N

On the lighter side and for the laugh of today watch this short movie clip !

. https://youtu.be/Gqxs57-P8YI?t=48


11 posted on 07/08/2024 1:07:56 PM PDT by Saintgermain ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden is having “a Big Boy press conference “ this week. Kirby and KJP both said that. Do you think they give him treats and put gold stars on a chart afterwards?

It’s like he is a pet. Sit here. Stay in the race. Stand here. You did so good, you answered every question.


12 posted on 07/08/2024 1:10:48 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Jim W N

I wonder how many secret email address Obama and his former staffers are using, and more importantly, I wonder how many of them our intelligence and national security agencies know about but tacitly looking the other way on?

I wont even bring up the law enforcement agencies, because we all know they are fully in the tank.


13 posted on 07/08/2024 1:16:53 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: SeekAndFind
If they could only figure out who could replace him and continue their puppet government, then Biden would go in his sleep tonight. Even they realize Kamala is a joke; Newsom is so bad he was almost recalled. Hillary, are you kidding? Maybe the WH janitor???
14 posted on 07/08/2024 1:33:06 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: dhs12345

The country wouldn’t be any better off if Biden was running things. The whole administration sucks elephant nuts. I’m paying thousands more dollars per year on gas because of their stupid anti American policies.


15 posted on 07/08/2024 1:54:50 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: SeekAndFind

This is like the court of Imperial China after an emperor had died. The eunuchs hid his death and ran things until someone figured out what was going on.


16 posted on 07/08/2024 1:57:35 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Jim W N

You are exactly right.

From his foreign policy, to energy policy, to taxes and treatment of the economy and federal spending which is nothing less than what is promoted in the Cloward Piven strategy, Brandon is the same as Obama. Marxist at its roots and destructive to America in order to consolidate power.

It is Weekend At Bernies at the White House, and it is Obama who has his hand up Brandon’s @$$.


17 posted on 07/08/2024 2:00:30 PM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: SeekAndFind

and who is shocked by this??


18 posted on 07/08/2024 2:01:57 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect whomever is “running” our country is working to bring in the Islamic faction in order to do what they’ve done to France and other European countries. They are working to overload us with violent foreign Islamic nationals and install them in all branches of government. We can’t vote our way out of this if those foreign nationals are being allowed to vote (or have their vote cast for them).

We are being conquered and our own government is complicit in that conquering. The Biden family et al are traitors to our country.


19 posted on 07/08/2024 2:09:32 PM PDT by CFW
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To: SeekAndFind

The “source” is an idiot.


20 posted on 07/08/2024 2:12:59 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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