Biden aides set up a ‘wall’ to shield him from unscripted events, book claims
The book describes the internal White House staffers' process as a 'cocooning' of the president
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
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.
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