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NBC News reveals President Biden’s An article Thursday revealed the legacy and melancholy that gripped the White House in the president’s final days.
article Biden’s promise to “unify the country, strengthen the party, and defend democracy” when he took office was contrasted with his actual performance during his presidency.
Biden “has left the country divided, his party in tatters, and the American people questioning a self-proclaimed institutionalist’s respect for the rule of law,” the report said.
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On January 15, 2025, US President Joe Biden delivered a farewell address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ((Mandel Ngan/AP Pool))
This disconnect between Biden’s promises when he took office and his actions as president has led many Democrats to “blame Biden for handing the White House to Donald Trump, criticize the aging politician for staying in office too long, and Shocked after pardoning his son,” NBC News said.
The president has “privately considered the idea of pardoning (President-elect Donald) Trump as a magnanimous move,” according to a person directly familiar with Biden’s remarks, while at the same time the president “has been working with some people There is no consensus”. His closest ally. “
The article quoted prominent Democratic political strategist James Carville, who weighed in on Biden’s legacy and the final days of his term.
“The story of Joe Biden is one of the great tragedies of American politics,” Carville said. “I mean it. He deserves to enjoy an honorable, well-deserved, acclaimed retirement. But he doesn’t,” Carville added, ” It’s hard to blame anyone but him.”
according to a person who recently met with officials. White HouseThe current mood feels “like a morgue,” and one White House official said staff are working to contain emotions until Biden officially leaves the Oval Office.
“It’s hard to reflect on and realize that we’re done — until we’re actually done and walking out the door with our stuff,” a White House official told NBC, adding, “It hasn’t sunk in yet.” For those who are still here, because we work until the very end. “
The current atmosphere in the White House is “like a morgue,” according to one person who recently met with White House officials. (Photo by Getty Images) (Getty Images)
The article details Biden’s “many broken friendships,” claiming that “he has alienated some of the people who were once his strongest allies.”
According to NBC News, “He (Biden) joins first lady Jill Biden in expressing concern for former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and politicians including Bob Ball and Anita Dun There is a simmering resentment among several former aides, including U.S. President Donald Trump, who he believes are among those who will either bring him down or drop him from the 2024 race, according to several people close to him.
an assistant former Speaker Nancy PelosiThe California Democrat revealed that she and Biden have not had a substantive meeting since she pressured him to drop out of the presidential race in July.
A person close to Biden confirmed the account, saying “the relationship is permanently damaged.”
Jill Biden also told The Washington Post said in an article published this week that she was “disappointed” by Pelosi’s actions.
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Although President Biden has yet to publicly express his displeasure with former President Obama, former Obama aide Ben Rhodes noted that Biden’s recent decision to name an aircraft carrier after former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton appeared to be a snub to Obama.
“Barack H. Obama didn’t get a troop carrier named after him,” Rhodes said on an episode of the “Pod Save The World” podcast.
NBC News also criticized Biden pardons son Hunter “Biden has reneged on his promise to protect the norms he said underpinned the nation’s stability by pardoning Hunter Biden on federal gun and tax charges,” Biden claimed.
On June 11, 2024 in Wilmington, Delaware, the United States, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden walked out of the federal government during their trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, the United States. court. (Reuters/Photo by Hannah Bell) ((Reuters/Hannah Bell))
The article also stated that former Biden adviser Anita Dunn and former Biden lawyer Bob Bauer accused Biden family members of being “unceremoniously” excluded from the president’s inner circle. outside.
“Dunn and Power were unhappy about being unceremoniously expelled from the president’s inner circle and singled out two Biden family members, Hunter Biden and Jill Biden,” NBC News said.
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There’s a sad quote from James Carville at the end of the article that seems to sum up the overall energy of the end of Biden’s presidency.
“Joe Biden had many successful moves in his life. It’s unfortunate that you will be remembered for your last move,” he said. “Now, he’s remembered as the guy who stayed too long.”
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