{"id":2288461,"date":"2024-07-03T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-staffers-scared-of-biden-admit-he-isnt-pleasant-while-being-briefed-perfect-storm\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:54:18","slug":"white-house-staffers-scared-of-biden-admit-he-isnt-pleasant-while-being-briefed-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-staffers-scared-of-biden-admit-he-isnt-pleasant-while-being-briefed-perfect-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Staffers &#8216;Scared&#8217; of Biden, Admit He Isn&#8217;t &#8216;Pleasant&#8217; While Being Briefed &#8211; &#8216;Perfect Storm&#8217;"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwhite-house-staffers-scared-of-biden-admit-he-isnt-pleasant-while-being-briefed-perfect-storm%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=2288461&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--><p>The article discusses the aftermath of President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-biden-the-debate-stakes-couldnt-be-higher-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"For Biden, the debate stakes couldn\u2019t be higher - Washington Examiner\">poor debate performance<\/a> and the \u200dblame being placed on his inner circle of advisers. The\u2063 piece highlights how his\u200c advisers shield him from information\u2064 that might upset him, leading to a lack of\u2062 preparation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-paul-faucis-emails-prove-he-knew-about-gain-of-function-research\/\" title=\"Sen. Paul: Fauci&#039;s Emails Prove He Knew About Gain of Function Research\">poor decision-making<\/a>. Democratic donors and operatives \u2063criticize Biden&#8217;s\u200d team for\u200d their handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-bidens-top-advisers-leaves-white-house-to-shill-for-corporate-america\/\" title=\"One Of Biden\u2019s Top Advisers Leaves White House To Shill For Corporate America\">debate prep<\/a>, emphasizing a lack of necessary changes and a misplaced trust in certain individuals.\u200b The article concludes by suggesting \u200bthat Biden&#8217;s focus on\u2062 Trump rather than himself as a candidate has led\u200b to\u200c a lack of self-awareness and strategic planning. The inner circle&#8217;s failure to anticipate and \u2063address the issues surrounding\u200b Biden&#8217;s candidacy is\u200c seen\u2064 as a major obstacle to his success in the upcoming election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 3, 2024 at 5:20am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>We now have a new scapegoat for who or what\u2019s to blame for President Joe Biden\u2019s apocalyptically bad Thursday night debate performance.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you haven\u2019t been keeping up, here\u2019s a short list of what everyone\u2019s blamed it on thus far: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-voice-sparks-concern-first-sentence-something-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a cold<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-anderson-cooper-fact-checks-kamala-harris-live-cnn-drops-bomb-bidens-debate-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slow start<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/07\/02\/biden-blames-overseas-travel-for-poor-debate-i-nearly-fell-asleep\/74286978007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jet lag<\/a>, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingdrift.com\/2024\/06\/29\/what-is-gish-gallop-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-thursdays-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gish gallop<\/a>\u201d and a just-plain-bad-night.<\/p>\n<p>The new one, however, actually bears some semblance of truth (besides the fact that the leader of the free world is self-evidently senile):<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> report Tuesday, several insiders blamed Biden\u2019s inner coterie for insulating him from news that he might find problematic, given that the 81-year-old president can get cantankerous when given information from the outside that pierces the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ron-klain-retweets-ridiculous-analysis-bidens-inflation-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small group of advisers<\/a> he\u2019s kept around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of his presidency, Joe Biden\u2019s small clutch of advisers have built an increasingly protective circle around him, limiting his exposure to the media and outside advice \u2014 an effort to manage public perceptions of the oldest person to ever hold the office and tightly control his political operation,\u201d Politico noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut inside the White House, Biden\u2019s growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week\u2019s debate, with the senior team\u2019s management of the president growing more strictly controlled as his term has gone on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How controlled? Sources described being told what to tell the president and what not to tell him, because nobody wanted the guy angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018You can\u2019t include that, that will set him off,\u2019 or \u2018Put that in, he likes that,\u2019\u201d one senior Biden official told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he\u2019s being briefed. It\u2019s very difficult, and people are scared s***less of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s senior team, which includes adviser Anita Dunn, former chief of staff Ron Klain and aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed were mentioned as those who not only helped oversee debate prep but also kept reality from Biden and Biden from reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it,\u201d the anonymous senior official told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, blame from outside the White House has already fallen at the feet of the inner circle of Biden\u2019s team, although mainly for their debate prep with the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole planning, preparation was political malpractice,\u201d said Democratic mega-donor John Morgan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dems-raging-desantis-confirms-florida-woke-goes-die-no-plan-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida-based trial attorney<\/a>, said in an interview, pointing fingers at those within Biden\u2019s inner circle. \u201cI think he has a misplaced trust in these three people, and I believe he has from the inception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed Democratic operative agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same people \u2014 he has not changed those people for 40 years,\u201d the operative told Politico.\u00a0\u201cAll these guys running the campaign from the White House is not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Biden continues to say he\u2019s not blaming the prep team for mishandling the run-up to the debate \u2014 which, indeed, might be part of the problem, both in terms of realizing what went wrong and any sort of realistic path forward that involves Biden as Democratic nominee and president for four more years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of people who have access to the president has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller. They\u2019ve been digging deeper into the bunker for months now,\u201d said one Democratic strategist in a battleground state.<\/p>\n<p>And, he added \u201cthe more you get into the bunker, the less you listen to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, White House staffers said they had no idea the proposal for the debates with Donald Trump were forthcoming, with the negotiations and planning dictated by \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Biden\u2019s inner circle of confidants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was told this was for the best,\u201d a Biden White House staffer said told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, it\u2019s the worst possible outcome. And we\u2019re all trying to figure out why the people who know him best and make all the decisions didn\u2019t seem to anticipate that this might happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the inner circle apparently believed this had nothing to do with the increasingly frail 81-year-old guy who had to have information curated for him, lest he become \u201cunpleasant,\u201d but his political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, there wasn\u2019t an open dialogue about whether he should run except for the people who would benefit from him running,\u201d a Democratic operative close to the Biden campaign told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>His people, the operative said, were convinced \u201cthat this was going to be about Trump, not about Biden, and at the end of the day, people just wouldn\u2019t vote for Trump. But here we are, we\u2019re sitting in July, and the race is about Biden, and it\u2019s about a trait you can\u2019t fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whoops. That kind of myopia sounds like a far more credible explanation for Thursday\u2019s implosion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/question-left-everyones-mind-debate-might-important-one-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">than a cold<\/a> or that gosh-darned \u201cGish Gallop.\u201d And, much like Biden, it\u2019s not something that can be transformed easily between now and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrat-strategist-preachy-females-blame-bidens-bad-polling-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Day<\/a>. Nice work, everyone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get desperately needed truth to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Politico report, insiders blamed President Joe Biden&#8217;s inner circle for insulating him from potentially problematic news, as the 81-year-old president can become cantankerous when given information from outside sources. Biden&#8217;s small group of advisers have tightly controlled his exposure to the media and outside advice, limiting his interactions with the outside world. Sources described being instructed on what to tell the president to avoid angering him. 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