NBC News highlighted President Biden The legacy and the sombre mood gripping the White House in the president's final days in an article Thursday.
The article He compared Biden's pledge to “unite the country, strengthen his party, and defend democracy” when he took office, to what was actually demonstrated during his presidency.
Biden “leaves a divided nation, a party in tatters, and the American people questioning the president's self-described institutionalist respect for the rule of law,” the report said.
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US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) ((Mandel Ngan/Paul via AP))
This disconnect between Biden's pledge when he took office, and his actions as president, has led many Democrats to “blame Biden for handing the White House to Donald Trump, and criticize the aging politician for remaining in office too long and faltering after he pardoned his son.” “, she told NBC News.
According to a person with direct knowledge of Biden's comments, the president “secretly considered the idea of pardoning (President-elect Donald) Trump as a noble move,” while at the same time, the president “wasn't on board with some of his 'closest allies.'
The article quoted prominent Democratic political strategist James Carville, who presented his view on Biden's legacy and his final days in office.
“The story of Joe Biden is one of the great tragedies of American politics. I really mean that. He should be having a glorious, well-deserved, highly acclaimed retirement. And he's not,” Carville said, adding: “It's hard to blame anyone.” But he.”
According to a person who recently met with officials in… The white houseHowever, the current mood seems “more like a morgue,” with one White House official saying staff are trying to bottle up their emotions until Biden officially leaves the Oval Office.
“It's hard to think, it's hard to realize that we're done here — until we're actually done and out the gates with our stuff,” one White House official told NBC, adding: “It hasn't sunk in yet.” “For the people who are still here now because we are working until the last minute.”
The current mood in the White House seems “morgue-like,” according to a person who recently met with White House officials. (Photo by Getty Images) (Getty Images)
The article details Biden's “many fractured friendships,” claiming that he is “estranged from some people who were once among his strongest allies.”
According to NBC News, “He (Biden) holds, along with First Lady Jill Biden, strong resentment toward former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several former aides, including Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn, whom he believes They have all either let him down or taken him out of the 2024 race, according to a number of people close to him.”
assistant to Former President Nancy PelosiThe California Democrat revealed that she and Biden have not had a substantive meeting together since she pressured him to withdraw from the presidential race in July.
A person close to Biden confirmed the claim, saying: “That relationship is permanently damaged.”
As Jill Biden said The Washington Post said in an article published this week that it was “disappointed” by Pelosi's actions.
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Although President Biden has not publicly expressed frustration with former President Obama, Ben Rhodes, a former Obama aide, pointed to Biden's recent decision to name aircraft carriers after former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, which appears to be a snub to Obama.
“Barack Obama never got a troop carrier named after him,” Rhodes said on an episode of the podcast “Pod Save The World.”
NBC News also criticized Biden pardons his son Hunter “Biden reneged on his promise to protect the norms he said underpin the country's stability by pardoning Hunter Biden on federal gun and tax charges,” Biden claimed.
Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen walk outside a federal courthouse during his trial on felony firearms charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, US, June 11, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Hannah Pierre) ((Reuters/Hannah Beier))
The article also claims that former Biden adviser Anita Dunn and former Biden lawyer Bob Bauer blamed Biden family members for “unofficially” cutting them off from the president's inner circle.
“Dunn and Power resented being unceremoniously excluded from the president's inner circle and blamed two Biden family members in particular — Hunter Biden and Jill Biden,” NBC News claimed.
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The somber quote from James Carville at the end of the article seems to sum up the overall energy surrounding the end of the Biden presidency.
“Joe Biden had many successful businesses in his life,” he said. “Unfortunately, you are remembered for your most recent actions.” “Right now, he's remembered as the guy who stuck around for a very long time.”
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