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dalton99a

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Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:42 AM Jan 2025

How Biden's Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President (NYT) [View all]

Last edited Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:50 AM - Edit history (2)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/biden-age.html

https://archive.ph/qXgbp

How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him.
By Katie Rogers, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman and Carl Hulse
Jan. 17, 2025 Updated 7:58 p.m. ET

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Mr. Biden acknowledged the concerns, but the warnings only ignited his defiant, competitive streak. In April 2023, without convening his family or having long deliberations with aides, he announced he was running again.

Now, as President-elect Donald J. Trump heads back to the White House, demoralized Democrats debate what might have been had the president bowed out in time to let a younger generation run. Mr. Biden, 82, has at the same time made the extraordinary admission that he might not have made it through a second term. “Who knows what I’m going to be when I’m 86 years old?” he said in an interview with USA Today on Jan. 5.

The president’s acknowledgment has put a new spotlight on his family and inner circle, all of whom dismissed concerns from voters and Mr. Biden’s own party that he was too old for the job. And yet they recognized his physical frailty to a greater degree than they have publicly acknowledged. Then they cooperated, according to interviews with more than two dozen aides, allies, lawmakers and donors, to manage his decline.

They rearranged meetings to make sure Mr. Biden was in a better mood — a strategy one person close to him described as how aides should handle any president. At times, they delayed sharing information with him, including negative polling data, as they debated the best way to frame it. They surrounded him with aides when he walked from the White House to the waiting presidential helicopter on the South Lawn so that news cameras could not capture his awkward bearing.

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Zero mention of how the media enables and protects the demented felon and normalizes his fascism

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Yet somehow he managed to be one of the best presidents of our time. 58Sunliner Jan 2025 #1
This isn't about Biden. This is about everyone who helped push him out, trying to legitmize what they did. Baitball Blogger Jan 2025 #26
It isn't about Biden? 58Sunliner Jan 2025 #38
No respect newdeal2 Jan 2025 #2
And I'm really worried how they are going to suck to him. arthritisR_US Jan 2025 #15
Our media loves the chaos. This is some hefty bullshit. spanone Jan 2025 #3
I consider the NYT and the Washington Post to be part of the right wing lapfog_1 Jan 2025 #4
Three days before a fascist becomes president choie Jan 2025 #5
the Biden admin was aware of a 'perception of age' issue stopdiggin Jan 2025 #6
Think it might have made a difference with a legitimate primary. But it just doesn't matter now. Silent Type Jan 2025 #7
Not if there Fiddlelady11 Jan 2025 #11
There will be elections in 2026 and 2028, and Musk didn't change votes. We lost. Silent Type Jan 2025 #37
Stupid fucking headline ColinC Jan 2025 #8
Intentionally disrespectful. Loathesome. Judi Lynn Jan 2025 #18
login required nt msongs Jan 2025 #9
If you'd like to have a look... littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 #13
+1. Archive link added dalton99a Jan 2025 #23
This is such Fiddlelady11 Jan 2025 #10
Fucking Hate THIS!! FormerOstrich Jan 2025 #12
Agree. And why is this nonsense posted on DU? wnylib Jan 2025 #14
Because in his disastrous debate performance comradebillyboy Jan 2025 #33
It's like how they managed FDR's image nuxvomica Jan 2025 #16
K&R BeyondGeography Jan 2025 #17
Joe Biden is a very accomplished president. He may have saved America by running in 2020 Martin Eden Jan 2025 #19
has nyt EVER printed that tsf wears a diaper and shits himself on public? mopinko Jan 2025 #20
Thank you for that William769 Jan 2025 #21
Really disappointed in you. William769 Jan 2025 #22
Where is the unrec button? Kingofalldems Jan 2025 #24
Only the NYT thinks having a good cabinet Johonny Jan 2025 #25
OK, we get it. Joe Biden is old. He walks slower, it happens when you get older. Now lets address trump's craziness tulipsandroses Jan 2025 #27
This is a fascist newspaper reporting. ananda Jan 2025 #28
Shit article from shit paper. FSogol Jan 2025 #29
If malaise Jan 2025 #30
But the Gipper didn't have dementia, amiright? /nt bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #31
Maggie Hagerman rears her ugly head again. travelingthrulife Jan 2025 #32
utter bullshit bigtree Jan 2025 #34
And Democrat leadership wonders why they keep losing elections they should be winning Seasider Jan 2025 #35
Admit it. They lied to us. Grins Jan 2025 #36
ok what's the mean spirited attack, this should get a hide. DemocracyWorks Jan 2025 #40
Yes he is over 80, he walks slower, he talks softer, and may forget things DemocracyWorks Jan 2025 #39
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