{"id":1780646,"date":"2022-12-19T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780646"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:19:51","slug":"biden-advisor-suggests-reason-he-wont-visit-border-is-fear-of-his-motorcade-causing-a-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-advisor-suggests-reason-he-wont-visit-border-is-fear-of-his-motorcade-causing-a-traffic-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Advisor Suggests Reason He Won&#8217;t Visit Border Is Fear of His Motorcade Causing a Traffic Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-advisor-suggests-reason-he-wont-visit-border-is-fear-of-his-motorcade-causing-a-traffic-jam%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/68d569dc-8e2c-4971-ade3-c814387135e0-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Throughout the course of his presidency, we\u2019ve heard <em>a lot<\/em> of pathetic, unacceptable excuses from both the Biden White House and Joe Biden himself for why he has yet to visit the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, we previously reported on an early December trip Biden made to Arizona, where incredibly he <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/carcand\/2022\/12\/06\/biden-slaps-arizonans-in-the-face-claims-more-important-things-than-visiting-border-n669568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a reporter<\/a> who asked him about visiting the border that \u201cthere are more important things going on\u201d than the need for him to directly address the <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/10\/03\/things-get-interesting-when-fox-news-bill-melugin-corners-mayorkas-d-c-dems-on-border-crisis-n636875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record surge<\/a> in illegal immigrants crossing the border, which has overwhelmed and <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2022\/12\/18\/mayor-of-el-paso-declares-state-of-emergency-says-city-is-not-safe-n675401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put in danger<\/a> local communities in border states like <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/terichristoph\/2022\/11\/15\/breaking-texas-governor-greg-abbott-takes-bold-action-to-combat-the-invasion-at-the-border-n659266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a> and Arizona to the point they\u2019ve been routinely <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/09\/15\/what-joe-biden-and-the-media-dont-want-you-to-know-about-the-bused-migrants-nontroversy-n627672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">busing<\/a> groups of them to Democrat-run sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n<p>In another recent example we also reported on at the time, a clearly agitated Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/12\/06\/reporter-embarrasses-debbie-dingell-over-hall-of-shame-excuse-for-biden-not-visiting-the-border-n669792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during an interview<\/a> that Biden didn\u2019t need to visit the border, that he had handlers (admin officials) who would visit and report back to him on what they saw. \u201cHe\u2019s seen the photos,\u201d she stated, while also whining about the \u201cfixation\u201d on the \u201clittle issue\u201d of wanting to know why the President of the United States has not made it a priority to show up and see the issues firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>But in the latest round of \u201clet\u2019s make lame excuses for why Joe isn\u2019t doing his job,\u201d Biden White House advisor and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took the cake Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/face-the-nation-full-transcript-12-18-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with her answer<\/a> to \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan\u2019s question, saying in a nutshell that a Biden visit would tie up too many resources and be \u201cdisruptive\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, why doesn\u2019t he go to the border? He was just in Arizona. Why wasn\u2019t it worth his time?<\/p>\n<p>KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS: Well, you have to remember, Margaret, when the president travels, it\u2019s not like you or I jumping on an airplane and getting off and going to our destination. Everything comes to a halt. So, all of these things are in consideration for the president. Is that the best use of resources? All of the resources that will be diverted on the ground when the president makes a visit.<\/p>\n<p>MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that why he didn\u2019t go?<\/p>\n<p>KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS: But is that visit \u2014 well, I can\u2019t speak to why he has or has not gone. I\u2019m just speaking to the fact that it\u2019s a bit more disruptive for the president of the United States to travel than you or I.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Top advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms suggests Biden won\u2019t visit the border because his motorcade would cause a traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has literally never been to the southern border.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iW3PqBKiJb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/iW3PqBKiJb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1604567690055520259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, if the reason for Biden abdicating his responsibility to see for himself what the problems are at the southern border is that it would be too burdensome for people on the ground to handle, then why visit anywhere? Why not just stay in the confines of the White House where he could be insulated and shielded from any inconvenient issue, just as he did in 2020 with his basement presidential campaign?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is because, outside of his deadly Afghanistan debacle and his handling of the economy, this is one of the main issues that Biden consistently gets poor marks <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/04\/06\/wellness-check-on-dems-after-new-poll-on-bidens-most-unpopular-decision-portends-their-fate-n546341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the public on<\/a>, and the photos that would come from such a visit \u2013 not to mention how many gaffes he would be likely to make while on tour \u2013 would bring even more embarrassment to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cresources\u201d excuse just doesn\u2019t cut it. He has no problems \u201cdiverting\u201d resources when he visits riot-ravaged and hurricane-ravaged parts of the country, so she should have no problems doing the same when visiting border-ravaged parts of the country that have been devastated by the open borders policies he called for well before he took office.<\/p>\n<p>The good news here is that the White House is no longer laughably claiming as they <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2021\/10\/22\/white-house-clean-up-on-joe-bidens-claim-of-past-border-visit-just-made-it-so-much-worse-n461343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did in 2021<\/a> that Biden\u2019s El Paso \u201cdrive-by\u201d on the way to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/22\/biden-said-hes-been-southern-border-before-it-was-drive-by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign stop<\/a> in 2008 constitutes a \u201cvisit to the border.\u201d The bad news is that even when Biden <em>is<\/em> in a border state he still refuses to visit the actual border, a problem <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/10\/07\/yet-another-troubling-kamala-harris-priorities-issue-arises-n639380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he shares<\/a> with Vice President Kamala \u201cborder czar\u201d Harris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flashback:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/11\/30\/kamala-harris-reappears-and-immediately-makes-a-mess-of-things-n666640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris Reappears and Immediately Makes a Mess of Things<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Redstate Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the course of his presidency, we\u2019ve heard a lot of pathetic, unacceptable excuses from both the Biden White House and Joe Biden himself for why he has yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7462,3620,5458,3811,5623,5466,10417,10416,5982,3819,4774,9386,7241,4324],"class_list":["post-1780646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-advisor","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-border","tag-causing","tag-fear","tag-jam","tag-motorcade","tag-reason","tag-report","tag-suggests","tag-traffic","tag-visit","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}