Although President Joe Biden and his supporters remain steadfast in their conviction that he is going through the social strip before President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Obama’s supervision is coming to an end.
Democrat strategist Stefan Hankin told the Washington Examiner,” He deserves a lot of or a ton of payment for the things he did.” ” After the 2022 election, if Biden had been like,’ Hey, I said I was going to get a gate. I’m stepping up, have a major, it’s not going to get me,’ I think his figures now feel safe to say they’d get better than where they are now. Although it’s difficult to get much lower, talking about a completely unique tale would be possible.
You might be forgiven for ignoring some of the other controversy from the president’s first and only expression as Democrats ask him to accept more student loan debt and protect illegal immigrants from Trump’s proposed large arrests while he is still in office.
Five of Biden’s most significant scandals occurred during his four years in office:
describing prices as merely “temporary”
Democratic strategist Duf Sundheim conceded there has been “widespread frustration with governments around the world”, with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy to Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and South Korea all experiencing major political change or trauma during Biden’s management.
At the same time, “it’s hard to imagine an leadership that has missed the mark on more big issues than the Biden management”, according to Sundheim.
” Prices, the border, Afghanistan“, he told the Washington Examiner.
In specific, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen‘s conviction that inflation may be” fleeting” encapsulated condemnation that Biden was out of reach and capable of properly managing the business with Bidenomics.
During a White House lecture in May 2021, Yellen said to writers,” I truly doubt that we’re going to experience an expansionary period.” We anticipate slightly higher inflation over the next few months for a variety of, effectively professional reasons, because “base effects” indicate that the months when prices are falling the most are moving away from the norm in year-over-year comparisons, leaving us with a number — the months when they were rebounding toward more normal levels. But that’s a , transitory , thing, not someone that’s associated with a buildup in salary pressure”.
The , consumer price index rose to 2.7 % last month compared to November 2023, an increase from 2.6 % in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The year-over-year inflation rate in January 2021 was on 1.4 %.
Refusing to refer to the southern border as a” crisis.”
A second Democratic strategist, Brad Todd, agreed Biden does have sorrow dating back to early in his administration, including his first evening again at the White House, especially regarding immigration policy.
He signed Ethereum to empty the frontier and raise electricity costs the first day, which put him on a path to failure, Todd told the Washington Examiner.
Yet after illegal bridges reached their highest peak of 250, 000 during his presidency last December, Biden received criticism for refusing to publicly acknowledge the issue at the southern border as a problems.
Roberta Jacobson, Biden’s former border king, told reporters during a White House lecture in March 2021,” I’m not trying to get pretty here, but I think the fact of the matter is: We have to do what we do regardless of what anyone calls the condition.” ” It is true that we are all focused on changing to a more compassionate and effective method, and improving the situation. And whatever you call it doesn’t change what we’re doing because we have a need from the president to correct our system and make sure we are better at handling these immigrants ‘ hopes and dreams in their home country.
Before he started taking tougher measures, such as deporting asylum-seekers without processing their claims, Biden’s first immigration policies included halting Trump’s border wall construction, removing his predecessor’s travel restrictions from some strongly Arab nations, protecting so-called Dreamers who arrived in the United States when they were younger, and directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to promote aggressive offenders of immigration laws.
Watch-gate after deadly Afghanistan withdrawal
In 2021, Biden’s reputation for being compassionate and compassionate was jeopardized by being photographed repeatedly checking his watch during the ceremonial transfer of remains, which commemorates the return of the 13 soldiers killed in a terrorist attack while Afghanistan’s withdrawal was taking place.
Biden has acknowledged and taken responsibility for the “messy” withdrawal that August after the U. S. supported Afghan government imploded “more quickly than we had anticipated”, with 11 Marines, one Army paratrooper, one Navy corpsman, and 170 Afghan citizens dying in the ISIS-K attack near Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate.
However, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby dismissed criticism of the withdrawal as chaotic, despite conceding the” first few days were very, very tough” and “hectic”, citing a lack of force presence at the airport.
” We got them there within 48 hours, and about 72 hours after that, that airport was basically, for all intents and purposes, American property, surrounded by the , Taliban , and ISIS-K”, Kirby told reporters during a White House briefing in April 2023 after the release of the after-action review. ” They not only had to run an airport, get the radars up and going, do air traffic control, get planes coming in and getting them loaded, have medical screening, have security vetting, have diplomatic presence on the ground to make sure that we’re putting the right people on planes, but also defend that airport from external threats. That’s pretty remarkable”.
” So, for all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it, not from my perch”, he said, regardless of images of Afghans plunging to their deaths from the wings of U. S. airplanes.
Supposed ‘ summer of freedom’ from COVID-19
Many of Biden’s controversies involved foreign policy, starting with his rankling France with his 2021 nuclear submarine agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom, to his later controversies, including his fist pump with Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Crown, Prince Mohammad bin Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2023, before halting heavy bombings to Israel as a result of Hamas‘s conflict with Israel.
However, domestically, aside from his pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, this month, his most politically damaging controversy was not expeditiously delivering on his promise to lead the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic. After his” summer of freedom” speech in June 2021, Joe Biden’s approval rating started to decline.
” America is headed into the , summer  , dramatically different from last year ‘s , summer: a , summer  , of , freedom, a , summer  , of , joy, a , summer  , of , get-togethers and celebrations”, Joe Biden said during his remarks. ” An all-American , summer  , that this country deserves after a long, long, dark winter that we’ve all endured”.
Robert Hur’s investigation into the “old man with a poor memory”
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed now-extended special counsel Robert Hur in January 2023 to investigate Joe Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents in the wake of special counsel Jack Smith‘s federal investigation into the alleged leaks of intelligence documents from before his presidency to the National Archives and Records Administration.
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After a year-long investigation, Hur’s report, which urged no charges, was released in February 2024, despite finding proof that Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
” We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”, wrote Hur.
