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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Books and Authors => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 22, 2022, 11:33:37 pm
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March 22, 2022 10:51am EDT
Biden threatened to fire Harris' staffers if he found they were spreading negative stories about VP: book
A reported excerpt of a new book reveals drama behind the scenes in the White House
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News
A new book exploring White House drama reveals that reports of dissatisfaction with Vice President Kamala Harris resulted in President Biden threatening to fire anyone who leaked stories to the media that made Harris look bad.
According to "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future," an upcoming book by The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, Biden was not pleased after reports of dissatisfaction among Harris' staff came out in June.
In response to such reports, Biden brought senior staff into the Oval Office and told them that if "he found that any of them was stirring up negative stories about the vice president, Biden said, they would quickly be former staff," according to an excerpt of the book reported by Politico.
The first year of the Biden/Harris administration was rife with reports that Harris' staff was unhappy, as well as a seemingly endless string of departures from the vice president's office as aide after aide resigned.
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‘A Sign Of Disrespect’: New Book Claims VP Wanted Biden’s Staff To Stand Whenever She Walked In
By Virginia Kruta
Mar 22, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new book from New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, took offense when West Wing staffers — who stood to greet President Joe Biden — failed to do so as she entered the room.
Politico reported on several excerpts of the book due out May 3 titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” and detailed several other instances that had apparently set Harris off.
First was the Vogue cover photo, which was leaked two weeks prior to the inauguration — and, according to the book, was not the photo Harris had expected. Despite weeks of campaigning in her signature Converse sneakers, Harris apparently felt that the cover photo featuring her wearing them, along with a pair of skinny pants, was “an approachable but less than grand depiction of the incoming vice president.” ...
Flournoy reportedly told Biden top aide Anita Dunn that Harris was not pleased that West Wing staffers did not stand when she entered the room the way they did for the president. ... More at Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-sign-of-disrespect-new-book-claims-vp-wanted-bidens-staff-to-stand-whenever-she-walked-in?utm_source=thepostmillennial.com&utm_medium=hotwire&utm_content=dailywire-rightrail-main)