A Disturbing Pattern Emerges With Joe Biden’s Handlers

We’ve written often about how frequently President Biden’s handlers step in to intervene on his behalf in order to keep him from answering questions from the press. It started on the campaign trail in 2020, when then-candidate for president Biden was shielded from broader media scrutiny thanks in no small part to the “basement strategy” employed by his aides, ostensibly on grounds that it was safer for all involved because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But hiding Biden in the basement quickly devolved into something worse. After he started reappearing in public for what boiled down to canned photo ops in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Biden’s handlers were seen loudly herding reporters away from him and his vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris like cattle as random questions were desperately shouted in hopes of receiving an answer.

Though Biden made promising to restore “respect” between the White House and the press a key pledge of his campaign, it quickly became clear post-inauguration that his supposed commitment to doing so was a lie, that the “respect” he was really talking about was what conservatives have come to know as the “love-love” relationship the White House press corps typically has with Democratic administrations.

Here we are now some two years after Biden said freedom of the press was a hallmark of democracy or whatever and his handlers are still doing their thing, except they’ve reportedly gotten even more aggressive the closer we get to the crucial November midterm elections, as the Washington Times reported:

White House press handlers pushed reporters out of the State Dining room on Monday as journalists shouted questions at an unresponsive President Biden at a meeting with advisers on economic competition.

Mr. Biden ignored a variety of questions, including the war in Ukraine and the economy, as his press team began shooing reporters from the room. Some reporters were pushed, according to a pool report by a Washington Post reporter in the room, as the White House handlers attempted to remove them.

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