Reporter Reveals 'Real Anger' From Biden White House Aides After Debate
There was fury and surprise among Biden White House aides following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump last week, Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson revealed on CNN.
Biden aides were “just as shocked as many other Democrats on the Hill at what they were seeing,” Thompson said on Monday.
The president’s fumbling has prompted many prominent newspapers and political figures to urge him to drop out of the race. Last week, Thompson penned a story on how Biden has been shielded by close aides since the start of his presidency.
“There was real anger and there was sadness because they felt like this may hurt them in the election, there was anger that they felt they had not been told the truth by their bosses and a lot of them still feel like they are not getting clear answers as to what happened in that debate,” Thompson said aides told him.
White House aides wanted to know if this was “the first time that Joe Biden acted like that, that blank-face stare, the mouth agape, not being able to put sentences together,” he said.
“There was this feeling that there is no way that this was not the first time this has happened and there’s a feeling it’s not going to be the last time it happens,” Thompson added. “So there is not just discord in the Democratic Party writ large but discord in the White House, within the Biden campaign as well.”
Thompson earlier noted how “really only about 20 people” interact with Biden “on a day-to-day basis, in a sort of intimate way,” with many other aides who are only “one or two clicks outside that inner circle” only seeing him every so often. “They noticed little gaffes, you can call them brain farts, but they were always in ways that you could sort of rationalize them,” he said.
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