(Daily Mail) After Joe Biden‘s horrendous debate performance, current and former aides are saying the quiet part out loud and revealing what the President is like behind the scenes.
The White House and campaign blame a ‘cold’ for Biden’s low and, at times, hard-to-understand speaking voice. Others say this is what the President is like on a day-to-day basis now.
Former White House deputy director of photography Chandler West wrote in an Instagram story: ‘It’s time for Joe to go.’
‘I know many of these people and how the White House operates,’ West added. ‘They will say he has a ‘cold’ or just experienced a ‘bad night,’ but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last night — Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of years ago.’
Biden’s campaign tried to brush-off the issue and claimed the car crash performance was merely a ‘slow start.’
Current and former staffers say closest aides shielded President Joe Biden from those in and outside the White House since he took office – especially when it came to anything related to his health
Former White House deputy director of photography Chandler West (pictured with Biden) wrote in an Instagram story ‘it’s time for Joe to go’
Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed in a tense post-debate interview on what Biden is like every day.
‘The person we saw tonight, the president we saw tonight on that stage: Is that how he is every day?’ CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Harris.
‘The Joe Biden that I work with every day is someone who, as I have said, has performed in a way that has been about bringing people into the Oval Office, Republicans and Democrats, to compromise in a way that is extraordinary these days, because it just doesn’t happen, but Joe Biden can make it happen,’ she replied, completely avoiding the essence of the question.
West, who was in his position at the White House from January 2021 to May 2022, told Axios: ‘The debate was not the first bad day, and it’s not gonna be the last.’
Reporters have complained for years about access to the president and claim wranglers are working to keep him with as little off-script time with the press as possible.
Speculation is swirling that those closest to the President, mainly First Lady Jill Biden, were shielding him since he took office – especially after his limitations were on full display at the debate on Thursday night.
