{"id":200063,"date":"2021-03-08T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=200063"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:14:57","slug":"unstable-non-genius-biden-aides-feared-cranky-candidates-epic-tongue-lashings-book-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unstable-non-genius-biden-aides-feared-cranky-candidates-epic-tongue-lashings-book-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSTABLE NON-GENIUS: Biden Aides Feared \u2018Cranky\u2019 Candidate\u2019s \u2018Epic Tongue-Lashings,\u2019 Book Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Funstable-non-genius-biden-aides-feared-cranky-candidates-epic-tongue-lashings-book-finds%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=200063&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\/2021\/03\/biden-rage.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new book on the 2020 election raises serious questions about President Joe Biden&#8217;s temperament, citing the &#8220;cranky&#8221; septuagenarian&#8217;s &#8220;willingness to unleash&#8221; his fiery temper, especially at the expense of young staffers who dared to speak their minds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden&#8217;s temper, and his willingness to unleash it in small group settings, was one reason the people closest to him often avoided pushing him too hard to change his ways or take a particular course of action,&#8221; write journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in&nbsp;<em>Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Politics<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s so-called Irish temper, a term the president himself often uses despite its racially charged nature, tended to erupt at younger aides.&nbsp;Greg Schultz and Kate Bedingfield, both in their thirties, were &#8220;most likely to get their ears boxed for pushing back on Biden&#8217;s ideas,&#8221; the authors write. When he wasn&#8217;t screaming at them, Biden &#8220;had a tendency to talk down&#8221; to the &#8220;delicate&#8221; youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>The authors recount a meeting in early 2019 when a &#8220;visibly irritated&#8221; Biden &#8220;hollered at&#8221; and &#8220;unloaded on Schultz,&#8221; who had (rather ironically) advised the candidate to &#8220;adjust his tone with younger voters.&#8221; These new details about Biden&#8217;s inability to take constructive criticism without lashing out raise serious questions about his fitness to serve as commander in chief and could prompt a discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, Biden made his own decisions, and got cranky when they were made for him,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;Nobody wants to suffer one of his epic tongue-lashings.&#8221; The candidate &#8220;didn&#8217;t like to be questioned,&#8221; which meant that even his most senior aides &#8220;conspicuously avoided confrontation&#8221; because no one wanted to be on the receiving end of Biden&#8217;s rage.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s volatile temper almost got the best of him, the authors report, during a July 2019 primary debate, when his future running mate, Kamala Harris, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/kamala-harris-biden-debate-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> him for befriending racist senators and promoting racist legislation. Biden was &#8220;pissed&#8221; and &#8220;steaming inside&#8221; following Harris&#8217;s broadside, which would prove to be the high-water mark of her presidential campaign. During a commercial break, a seething Biden turned to his podium neighbor Pete Buttigieg and stammered, &#8220;This is just a bunch of bullshit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lucky<\/em> also contains new details about Biden&#8217;s tumultuous <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/obama-beto-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationship<\/a> with former president Barack Obama, who was &#8220;enamored with&#8221; failed candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke in the early stages of the 2020 primary but skeptical of Biden&#8217;s ability to win. The <em>New York Times<\/em> previously reported that Obama had warned fellow Democrats not to &#8220;underestimate Joe&#8217;s ability to fuck things up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book on the 2020 election raises serious questions about President Joe Biden&#8217;s temperament, citing the &#8220;cranky&#8221; septuagenarian&#8217;s &#8220;willingness to unleash&#8221; his fiery temper, especially at the expense of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310280,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-rage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UNSTABLE NON-GENIUS: Biden Aides Feared \u2018Cranky\u2019 Candidate\u2019s \u2018Epic Tongue-Lashings,\u2019 Book Finds","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-rage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UNSTABLE NON-GENIUS: Biden Aides Feared \u2018Cranky\u2019 Candidate\u2019s \u2018Epic Tongue-Lashings,\u2019 Book Finds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200063","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=200063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}