Anti-Trump columnist at The Washington Post, George Will, provided a scathing assessment of President Biden’s “failed” presidency in a Wednesday column.
“Joe Biden’s failed presidency ends with a blizzard of decisions that validate voters’ rejection of his vice president, who, when asked, could not find a flaw in his record,” Will said, adding that Biden and vice president Kamala Harris “from opposite directions pretending to be what they are not.”
The columnist stated that some of the president’s handlers “convinced him that he had to be another Franklin D. Roosevelt,” which “damned his vice president, who acted as a synthetic centrist unable to escape her authentic progressivism.”
George Will, an anti-Trump columnist for The Washington Post, takes a critical look at the Biden administration’s legacy as the president’s term comes to an end. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
The column noted that the American Rescue Plan “increased demand for goods and services beyond the economy’s ability to produce them.”
The Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion package, aimed to help Americans struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing stimulus payments and local financing to help rebuild the economy . The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $402.2 billion of the $1.9 trillion package went to stimulus checks for Americans who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis.
Will continued to hammer away at the Biden administration’s loose spending, highlighting that three weeks before the 2024 election, the administration rushed to “open the spending floodgates wide before January 20.”
The government provided nearly $8 billion in subsidies to Intel – a computer chip company – which had lost $16.6 billion in the previous quarter. The chipmaker’s CEO retired five days later, which Intel’s board of directors said would open the door to “restoring investor confidence,” but Will said “the Biden administration’s investors had invested in other people’s money already sky-high confidence.’
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President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he delivers his farewell address on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
The Post Columnist also states that “no previous president used mass communications more insultingly against Americans than Biden with his hyperbolic warnings about the danger of Americans imposing ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ and voting for ‘semi-fascism’.”
“Democrats, Biden said, would save American democracy in 2024. The cutting would likely begin after Democrats finished their efforts to keep Biden’s opponent off the ballot and lock him up,” Will criticized.
The column went further, calling out the Biden administration for its “extralegal overreach,” noting the “judicial rebukes” of “an eviction moratorium, a vaccine mandate, student loan forgiveness and pressuring social media companies to intensify censorship ( ‘content moderation’). “) speech (“disinformation”) annoying for the administration.”
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Joe Biden was criticized by Washington Post columnist George Will for pardoning his son Hunter. (Getty Images/Reuters)
Biden U-turns on His Involvement with His Son Hunter’s “financial escapades” came under fire from the Post columnist, who stated that the president initially “didn’t know about it; then he wasn’t involved; then he didn’t benefit from it.”
Will further argued that “to the suspect, this looks like ‘the big guy’ (as Hunter had referred to Biden in one of his ventures) providing preemptive protection to Hunter and perhaps other members of his family.”
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Will concluded his column with a blistering take on Biden’s legacy, saying, “A bipartisan chorus of critics said the pardon would damage Biden’s legacy. Damage? A British historic site once displayed a sign threatening prosecution against anyone who ‘damaged the ruins’. ”
