NBC News sheds light President Biden’s legacy and the somber mood that engulfed the White House in the president’s final days in an article on Thursday.
The article Biden’s promise “to unite the country, strengthen his party, and defend democracy” when he took office stood in contrast to what actually manifested during his tenure as president.
Biden “leaves behind a divided nation, a party in tatters and the American people questioning the self-proclaimed institutionalist’s 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/Pool via AP))
This discrepancy between Biden’s promise when he took office, and his actions as president, has led many Democrats to blame Biden for handing the White House to Donald Trump, criticizing the aging politician for staying in office too long and faltered after pardoning his son. ” according to NBC News.
According to a person directly familiar with Biden’s comments, the president “privately mused about the idea of pardoning (President-elect Donald) Trump as a magnanimous move,” while at the same time the president was “not in discussions with a number of of them’. his closest allies.”
Prominent Democratic political strategist James Carvile is quoted in the article giving his view on Biden’s legacy and his final days as president.
“The story of Joe Biden is one of the great tragedies of American politics. I really mean that. He should get a glorious, well-deserved and much-praised retirement. And he’s not,” Carville said, adding, “It’s hard to blame anyone. but him.”
According to a person who recently met with officials at the White Houseis feeling the current mood “like a morgue,” with a White House official saying staff are trying to hold back emotions until Biden officially leaves the Oval Office.
“It’s hard to think about it, it’s hard to realize that we’re done here — until we’re actually done and out of the gate with our stuff,” a White House official told NBC, adding: ‘it has not sunk. in for people who are still there because we work until the last minute.”
The current mood in the White House feels “like a morgue,” according to one person who recently met with White House officials. (Photo by Getty Images) (Getty Images)
The article details Biden’s “many fractured friendships” and claims, “He has become alienated from some of the people who were once among his most powerful allies.”
According to NBC News, he (Biden), along with first lady Jill Biden, harbors a simmering grudge against former President Barack Obama, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and several former aides, including Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn, of whom he thinks they all According to several people close to him, either failed him or pushed him out of the 2024 race.”
An assistant of ex-Speaker Nancy PelosiD-Calif, D-Calif, revealed that she and Biden have not had a substantive meeting since she pressured him to drop out of the presidential race in July.
A person close to Biden confirmed this claim, saying, “That relationship has been permanently damaged.”
Jill Biden said it too the Washington Post wrote in an article published this week that it was “disappointed” in Pelosi’s actions.
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Although President Biden has not publicly expressed his frustrations 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, seemingly dissing Obama .
“Barack H. Obama doesn’t have a damn employee carrier named after him,” Rhodes said on an episode of the “Pod Save The World” podcast.
NBC News was also critical of it Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, who claimed: “Biden went back on his promise to protect the norms he said underpinned the country’s stability by pardoning his Hunter Biden on federal gun and tax charges.”
Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden walk outside federal court during his trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 11, 2024. (Photo by REUTERS/Hannah Beier) ((REUTERS/Hannah Beier))
The article also claims that former Biden adviser Anita Dunn and former Biden lawyer Bob Bauer blamed members of Biden’s family for being “unceremoniously removed” from the president’s inner circle.
“Dunn and Bauer resented being unceremoniously kicked out of the president’s inner circle and blamed two Biden family members in particular — Hunter Biden and Jill Biden,” according to NBC News.
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A sad quote from James Carville at the end of the article seems to describe the overall energy surrounding the end of the Biden presidency.
“Joe Biden had many successful acts in his life. Sadly, you are remembered for your last act,” he said. “Right now he is remembered as the man who stayed too long.”
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