Hunter Biden Reportedly Strongest Voice Urging Joe Not To Drop Out
“One of the strongest voices imploring Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned on for advice”
I wish I were better versed in literature. I’m sure there are some relevant examples of dysfunctional families.
But alas, I just live in this generation, and the Biden family is among the most dysfunctional ever.
So it is not surprising that “Dr.” Jill reportedly is heavily involved in controlling what cognitively compromised Joe does. An article about her in Vogue just dropped, complete with the cover photo:
Jill Biden is on the July cover of Vogue. Just dropped this AM.https://t.co/sIDNKmZ8EZ pic.twitter.com/FS8M4UrJl1
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) July 1, 2024
But there is also reporting from multiple mainstream Democrat media that Hunter is the key. From NY Times:
President Biden’s family is urging him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite last week’s disastrous debate performance, even as some members of his clan privately expressed exasperation at how he was prepared for the event by his staff, people close to the situation said on Sunday.
Mr. Biden huddled with his wife, children and grandchildren at Camp David while he tried to figure out how to tamp down Democratic anxiety. While his relatives were acutely aware of how poorly he did against former President Donald J. Trump, they argued that he could still show the country that he remains capable of serving for another four years….
One of the strongest voices imploring Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned on for advice, said one of the people informed about the discussions, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations. Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the version of his father that he knows — scrappy and in command of the facts — rather than the stumbling, aging president Americans saw on Thursday night.
Politico reported something similar:
Members of Joe Biden’s family privately trashed his top campaign advisers at Camp David this weekend, blaming them for the president’s flop in Thursday’s debate and urging Biden to fire or demote people in his political high command….
The blame was cast widely on staffers, including: Anita Dunn, the senior adviser who frequently has the president’s ear; her husband, Bob Bauer, the president’s attorney who played Trump in rehearsals at Camp David; and Ron Klain, the former chief of staff who ran point on the debate prep and previous cycles’ sessions….
These people said the Biden family wanted the president to continue in the campaign rather than end his career with a calamitous debate performance against Trump, whom they all loathe. First lady Jill Biden and his son Hunter Biden were the loudest voices urging the president to stay in the 2024 contest.
I’m not a fan of Cenk Uyger, but like the proverbial broken clock, he’s right about the absurdity of this situation:
The New York Times is reporting that Hunter Biden is Joe Biden's main advisor counseling him on whether to drop out or stay in the 2024 race:
"They're now reporting Hunter Biden is in charge. New York Times saying the primary person Joe Biden is listening to about this monumental… pic.twitter.com/imNGXgAetf— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) July 1, 2024
The Biden family is furiously trying to salvage his campaign, per CNN:
President Joe Biden waged an intense weekend battle to save his reelection bid following his disastrous debate performance but has been unable to dismiss existential questions about his candidacy that are more glaring than ever….
Biden’s allies spent the weekend lashing out at critics in the media calling for him to step aside and insisting that early data showed that Biden’s calamitous showing had not altered the fundamental shape of the race. Democratic Party grandees, meanwhile, crowded onto Sunday talk shows to try to put the spotlight back on Trump….
Since the debate, Biden’s family has publicly and privately rallied behind him. Granddaughters Finnegan and Natalie Biden traveled with the president and first lady for a slate of fundraising events on Saturday in New York and New Jersey. Although the family had long planned to spend this weekend together at Camp David to take a family portrait with photographer Annie Leibovitz, the gathering offered an opportunity for them to sit down together in the days following what is shaping up to be a low point in the president’s decades-long political career.
Bookmark this. Save it. This will all be denied starting already. https://t.co/Eg48pBtr1l
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) June 30, 2024
Per Axios, this will be the Biden playbook to pretent that what happened didn’t happen, what we saw we didn’t see, and the hope that Joe can exploit the impossible position he has put Democrats in where keeping him is the best bad option:
Based on our weekend conversations with top officials and advisers, here’s the Biden survival strategy:
- Dismiss “bedwetting.” The official White House and campaign line is this is much ado about nothing — that Biden works so hard it drains his young staff. This attitude is driving elected officials and donors — basically any top Democrat not on the Biden payroll — nuts. They feel it’s delusional. Nonetheless, Biden allies are cranking out data and pushing out surrogates to insist he had one bad night, mostly because of a scratchy voice and over-preparation.
- Squeeze polls for juice. Biden allies are circulating polls and focus group results showing the debate did little to change the dynamics of the race. They’re ignoring contrarian results — like a CBS/YouGov poll out Sunday that shows a surge in voters who think Biden is not up for the job. If you’re to believe the polls: Voters thought Biden lost the debate and seemed too old. But there’s little evidence they’re moving fast to Trump. Both seem true.
- Warn of chaos. Biden allies are making plain in private conversations the perils of an open convention — and the risk of picking a Democrat even more unpopular than Biden, namely Vice President Kamala Harris. They know Biden just needs to make it to the Democratic convention in Chicago, which opens eight weeks from today. After that, unity is the only choice.
- Limit dissent. Biden allies helped orchestrate the supportive tweets by former Presidents Clinton and Obama. Those happened after furious back-channeling by allies. Truth is, that was the easy part.
- Keep elected leaders close. The White House knows Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are deeply concerned that an unpopular Biden could cost them seats on Election Day. Their members in tough races are scared, and several plan to run away from Biden. Former Sen. Tom Harkin, who served with Biden in the Senate for 20+ years, said in an email to supporters that the debate was “a disaster from which Biden cannot recover.”
- Get the donor class to chill. Jeffery Katzenberg and other top Biden backers are working the phones to reassure the deep pockets, while the campaign and DNC keep turning out fundraising appeals and highlighting successes. Some donors are blaming the staff — not the man on stage. John Morgan, a Florida personal-injury-law magnate who’s a top Democratic donor, tweeted Sunday that Biden’s debate-prep team is guilty of political malpractice: “Format was a disaster for him and a plus for Trump. He over practiced and was drained.”
- Prove vitality. Words can’t capture how elated top officials were that Biden was as vigorous as he was at a rally in North Carolina the day after the debate. They’re looking for as many opportunities as possible to show that he’s still on his game and not too old for the gig. They know words are useless — they need vitality in action.
- Ignore/engage the media. On the one hand, Biden allies want everyone to ignore the prominent columnists who loved Biden and are now calling for his resignation. On the other, the campaign and White House are deeply engaged with reporters (like us) writing about presidential fitness.
I’m also feeling this is a time warp, with Democrats/Hollywood/Media melting down:
A debate watch party in Los Angeles on Thursday night happened to feature Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, Pritzker, Whitmer and Beshear. There were other high-profile attendees – by a few answers in, Rob Reiner was screaming about losing and Jane Fonda had tears in her eyes, according to people in the room.
You know what Democrats/Hollywood/Media are not talking about or concerned about? The fact that we have a Commander in Chief whose cognitive infirmity puts the nation as severe national security risk, a point I made in my call days ago to invoke the 25th Amendment,Biden’s Cognitive Decline Is A National Security Threat – Invoke The 25th Amendment NOW.
The president has seven minutes to decide what to do in case of a potential nuclear launch. Less time if the missiles are hypersonic. POTUS needs to be mentally present at all times. Screw your party.
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) June 29, 2024
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“Who is going to pardon ME?”
“Com’n, Dad, stay in this thing. We’ll get through it.. We’ll do some lines everyday, together, ya know, fadda-to-son stuff, You won’t believe how glib you’ll become. And we’ll hold rallies. We’ll beat the Orange Guy at his own game.”
Hunter’s cash cow is about to end, soon after prosecution will make our day.
Of course Hunter is. After all, if Dad doesn’t run then he’s screwed and is looking at prison time for all his shenanigans. And Dad won’t be there to cover for him.
He only needs his dad to either decide to stop running or live until November 5 at 7:00pm Pacific Time. If Joe is not going to run or that time has passed win or lose Joe can pardon Hunter for all Federal Crimes prior to that date.
Annie Liebovitch?
She hasn’t had relevance since Stewart, Andy and Gordon dee doo doo dooed in a regatta.
Nothing says “friend of the working man” like a photo sitting with Annie Leibovitz.
Jonathan Martin’s piece out today in Politico titled, ‘Whitmer Disavows ‘Draft Gretch’ Movement — and Delivers A Warning to Biden’ is a fascinating read. In details of a conference call leaked by a ‘potential 2028 rival to Whitmer,’ she cedes that Michigan is no longer winnable for Biden due to the debate. If someone as cagey as Whitmer will make comments like this on a call she has to know will be leaked by someone, I can’t imagine what she and others are saying in conversations they know won’t be leaked.
The gist of the article is that while Whitmer certainly has an eye on 2028, she’s keeping her knives sharp for this moment. Martin finishes with: ‘politics is also littered with those who didn’t act boldly when they should have and missed what turned out to be their only opening.
It is time for the House of Representatives appropriate committee chairman to subpoena The White Presidential Medical Doctor to hold a closed-door hearing. The subject is medical records of Joe Biden:s physical exams and what has changed since the latest one. What is the medical doctor hiding from the American people?
Why is there been cognitive test given to President Biden. His symptoms appeared to be Parkinson’s like.
If the Big Guy drops out, Hunter won’t have any more influence to peddle.
Exactly. “The Big Guy” is Hunter’s only product to sell in what the MSM euphemistically calls his “business deals”. Once Biden is out of office, Hunter is out of business.
You don’t have to be The Smartest Guy Joe Knows to panic when you see your Get Out of Jail Free card melting like a cake someone left out in the rain.
Hunter and the rest of the family would rather not see the Big Guy replaced until 2028, by which time they’re hoping that even if someone with an “R” after their name wins, he won’t have “MAGA” in his resume. That is, they’re hoping MAGA will have run its course and whoever is elected then will be a member of the Uniparty. Then the Biden family should be fine until the statutes of limitation run out.
Professor, I highly recommend Mr. Scarborough’s Family by Anthony Trollope.
I dunno about literature, but histories of royal families are replete with this sort of incapacity and intrigue. In particular, the family of William II (son of the Conqueror) excelled at mutual treachery and lethal infighting.
Hunter is the weak link and thus the weak voice in the family. The decisive voice is Jill Biden who is the actual decision maker. Jill Biden, a power-hungry, power-grabbing, power-mad psychotic she-devil, runs Joe and runs the white house and runs her mouth every chance she gets.
How pathetic that the President of the United States is incapable of making a decision and must meet with his family to tell him what to do. And his family, in turn, attempting to decide the fate of the country.
Jill’s picture on the cover of Vogue Magazine says it all.
It proves you can polish one…. I seem to have missed the Vogue front cover of Mrs. Trump….
Mythbusters already proved that. We don’t need to keep doing it over and over.
I’m not sure Mrs. Trump would have appreciated being on the cover of a magazine that runs “intro-how-to” articles on anal sex.
Oh wait — that was Teen Vogue. So much less appalling.
I almost didn’t recognize her without her usual floral tablecloth attire.
Come on, it’s Vogue. “The Tack Stops Here.”
“The decisive voice is Jill Biden who is the actual decision maker. Jill Biden, a power-hungry, power-grabbing, power-mad psychotic she-devil, runs Joe and runs the white house and runs her mouth every chance she gets.”
So then, a perfect microcosm of the Democratic Party.
Could NOT be more apt.
This morning Fox News reported that Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told President Biden’s campaign her state is no longer winnable after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, and as reported by Politico on Monday.
The news arose from a call between Whitmer and Biden campaign Chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon. Sources familiar with the call told the outlet that Whitmer expressed frustration that her name was being raised as a replacement for Biden in the wake of the debate.
She disavowed any effort to force Biden to drop out of the race, something a growing number of Democrats are pushing for. Another source told Politico that she gave Dillon a general warning that Michigan was no longer winnable for Biden following his debate performance.
Whitmer’s comments mirror that of other prominent Democrats, who have rallied to Biden in public while reportedly panicking and raising doubts about his candidacy in private.
If the media and public had 2 cents worth of decency and integrity, they would be up in arms that this charade has been allowed to continue as long as it has and might actually think it matters who runs the country-or ask who does since this guy can’t.
Since they aren’t, it reveals they/we (as a whole) don’t.
Yes, I may be a broken record, but the nation could do no better than an old fashioned (ala I or II Kings) solemn assembly and a day of repentance and prayer.
I think actually Lincoln and FDR (believe it or not) actually called on such things in their times.
I can’t help but think Trump could make far better appeals to fact and reason himself.
Cenk is cute, pretending he didn’t know the truth about Biden. If he really didn’t, then his news sources and personal sources lied to him. Do you think that will cause him to find better sources? (Will Cenk be reading LI in the future?)
In the entire history of the English language that might be the only time the words “Cenk is cute” have been put together.
“I wish I were better versed in literature. I’m sure there are some relevant examples of dysfunctional families.”
There is no better book than the Old Testament.
Jill Biden… when Edith Wilson met Lady McBeth. All that Hillary had to do was functionally incapacitate Bill to run the show…. well….. maybe she did with just emasculation.
“Four more years!” (towards my statutes of limitations).
There are rumors that Jill is holding out for a big cash payoff and an immunity deal.
This is likely a fake story that is also essentially true.
Fake but accurate 🙂
Shades of Dan Rather
Might any particular family member break, and make a deal with prosecutors for the truth about the Bidens’ dealings? Remember, the POTUS can only give pardons for federal crimes. Remind me, what party has set a precedent making it cool to prosecute former presidents for State crimes?
Joe could pardon Hunter now for all past crimes. He may have already written and signed the pardon, but not release it yet, just in case he dies suddenly.
But it’s interesting that Cenk avoided mentioning Hunter’s legal trouble or the possibility of a pardon, and instead focused on the drug use and financial corruption, so he’s still a lying hack. And that’s the problem with lying constantly. At some point, a person begins to believe their own lies, and is unable to recognize the truth when it’s right in front of them. And that explains the modern uniparty in DC.
“Daddy! Who will buy my $500,000 crack doodles if you’re not president??”
The left is already getting 99% of what it wants. JoeBama ain’t going anywhere. All this tongue gnawing and hand wringing over JoeBama’s pathetic debate show is all political theatre. Everyone knew JoeBama is a vegetable. Everyone knows Joe is in charge of nothing, except chocolate or vanilla.
Everyone knows JoeBama is a prop, a puppet. They don’t care. It’s govt. by cabal, and has been for a long time. The deep sewer will put Trump in prison, or assassinate him, or both because Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself.
The left is already getting 99% of what it wants. JoeBama ain’t going anywhere.
That is the key. Obama and his crew can’t get a better puppet. Everyone else has thoughts of their own.
I don’t see Humper has any choice, no one else can pardon him
the family has made millions without lifting a finger. they have no skills so there is no way to make money for them.
when asked why he wanted dad to stay in the race
hunter replied
pardon me???
Does anyone know if Vogue is safe for septic systems?
It was in vogue until a shill from capitol hill named jill graced the cover. Now it’s only good for the incinerator.
Biden staying in till the end could be better for Congressional Democrats than replacing him now. Currently, Congressional Dems are polling much ahead of Biden. They have a Biden problem, not a Democrat problem. And voters for 3rd party Prez candidates will almost certainly vote Dem for Congress. If Biden is replaced, the replacement is likely to poll in line with the Congressional party, which means they could all go down together.
Easy for them to say. They are not demented, but surely cynical and corrupt.
Biden crime family going to be removed from white house by law enforcement?
I am not surprised, often said Hunter is golden as long as Sundowner is point man, or Puppet, once he is gone one way or another Hunter has no protection
Hunter trafficked women
It’s so hard to manage 50 some years of lies.
Hunter is sweating bullets that if the big guy croaks he will be required to nail dr. Jill like he did his brother’s wife.
NO ONE in the Democrat Party is going to cover for Hunter when the old man is out of power. And those who did cover for him previously will say their jobs were threatened by the Bidens
Obviously Hunter and Jill have taken this position because this is the business that they have chosen