Former President Joe Biden’s aides were still running interference for him after the election and reportedly changed his phone number so journalists could not get hold of him, Axios reported. This and other secrets have come spilling out of a new book 2024.
The book, released Tuesday, was written by political journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf. It includes details about the aftermath of the presidential election based on more than 350 interviews.
It includes a telling anecdote about the cover-up of Biden’s mental decline. It also touches on then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ call to incoming President Donald Trump after she lost.
What’s now finally coming to light was obvious to all of those watching Biden in real time. However, it’s clear that the people around Biden were shielding him from the press even as the media were complicit in keeping his cognitive struggles under wraps.
Protecting Biden
The book recounts a time after the election when Biden took a call from a Pager on his cell phone on March 25. While Trump often did this, it was unusual for Biden to pick up a cold call from a journalist.
“Biden said he would be willing to speak for this book the next day. The next morning, he answered and said he was running late to catch a train. He said he had a ‘very negative’ view of Trump’s second term … ‘I don’t see anything he’s done that’s been productive,’ he said,” the journalists wrote.
“Asked if he had any regrets about dropping out of the presidential race, he said, ‘No, not now. I don’t spend a lot of time on regrets.’ He quickly hung up to get on the train,” the book went on.
“After the first call,” aides for Biden “repeatedly called and texted [Pager]. After the brief second call, his aides blocked the reporter’s calls to the former president,” the book contends.
“Two days later, a message from Verizon Wireless replaced Biden’s voicemail: ‘The number you dialed has been changed, disconnected, or is no longer in service,'” the authors allege. Even after he was no longer the president, the people around Biden shut down a conversation to help him save face.
Other Revelations
Biden’s aides panicked and were forced to muzzle the former president so as not to let him embarrass himself, even after he was already long out of the White House. However, there were plenty of other things to be embarrassed about among the staffers.
For instance, aides for Harris couldn’t figure out how to merge the concession call between Harris and Trump and eventually “ended up holding two phones together on speaker so that the rivals could talk,” the authors asserted. “Phone service isn’t what it used to be,” Trump joked.
Meanwhile, staffers were impressed with the contrast between Harris and Trump, whom they admitted was a class act who “acknowledged she’d given him a run for his money” even if he wouldn’t “compliment her campaign,” the authors said. The newly elected president also “complimented” Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, in that concession call.
“Even her aides described him as gracious. Harris was professional but not warm. She had considered alluding to his failure to concede when things turned out the other way, but in the end, she just said the country was too divided, and she hoped he would be a president for all Americans,” the authors said.
Biden had his aides, the media, and everyone else in his orbit running cover for him even after the election. Now that the truth is coming out, it’s appalling to see what lengths they went to to cover for him and how inept the people in charge really were.
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Author: Christine Favocci
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