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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 12, 2024, 05:55:14 pm
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Biden reportedly exploded at staff over handling of border crisis: ‘Scary issue with no solutions’
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Feb. 12, 2024, 12:31 p.m. ET
President Biden recently exploded in rage at aides over the border crisis, demanding obscure immigration data and erupting when they couldn’t immediately produce it — underscoring how tense the issue has become in the administration, a new report says.
Those in attendance at the volatile meeting aboard Air Force One in late January later vented that Biden’s frustrations over the issue have made it increasingly difficult to reach decisions about the border, Axios said Monday.
“There are definite incentives … to not be the person who owns the scary issue with no solutions,” a source said.
“If you’re the person briefing the president, you get to piss him off every day,” the source said.
Adding to the debacle is the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris has missed “an opportunity” to demonstrate her leadership during the crisis, sources said.
“She’s been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility,” a former senior Biden administration official told the outlet. “It’s an opportunity for her, a
nd she didn’t fill the breach.”“She’s been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility,” a former senior Biden administration official told the outlet. “It’s an opportunity for her, and she didn’t fill the breach.”
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/12/news/biden-exploded-at-staff-over-handling-of-border-crisis-report/
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Rank incompetence from Biden on down. And he could stop it today if he wanted to, but he won't.
Here's the original Axios article:
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border
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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Brutal new reporting from @axios in article titled “How Biden Botched the Border”.
- Biden exploded w/ rage at his team aboard AF1 on the way to border last year.
- Susan Rice called HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra a “bitch ass”& “idiot”.
- VP Harris’ team made it clear her responsibilities “began and ended” w/ root causes in just the 3 Northern Triangle counties & Mexico, w/ a former Biden admin official saying Harris has been “at best, ineffective”.
- Mayorkas disagreed with Biden’s 100 day halt on deportations.
- Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall displayed inexperience, asked for a memo explaining the difference between refugees & asylum seekers.
- Biden admin has listened to “vocal immigration advocates outside the administration”.
- “The White House generally didn't want to talk publicly about immigration or the border for much of Biden's first three years, feeling it would draw attention to a political vulnerability.”
- “Publicly, the White House also initially downplayed jumps in illegal border crossings as normal "ebbs and flows" — even as some internally pushed to acknowledge that the problem was significant.”
The article highlights a combination of infighting, incompetence, and indifference regarding the administration’s handling of the border over the last 3 years.
https://axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border
12:14 PM · Feb 12, 2024
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Downfall parody..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1756805087597404438