As we’ve previously documented, the Biden White House has employed a new strategy in recent weeks designed to make the way President Joe Biden shuffles when he walks across the South Lawn a little less noticeable to the public.
It’s what I call “Operation Hide Joe Biden,” and up until Thursday, the hiding consisted of his handlers swarming him as he either walked towards or away from Marine One, making it harder for him to be visible and in some instances effectively making it impossible to see him.
“Some Biden advisers have told Axios they’re concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone — especially across the grass — have highlighted his age” and mobility challenges, Axios reported on Friday, while also mentioning that it was Biden himself who “suggested that they walk with him.”
This strategy, as some of my RedState colleagues have also noted, has another benefit for Biden in that it also helps in shielding him from media scrutiny, which he gets so little of as it is.
It’s like how herd animals protect their young from predators. Not so much with the old and feeble ones — they get picked off as soon as they wander away or are too slow at the drinking hole.