by Frank Holmes, reporter
President Joe Biden has always been an angry, bitter man—but his abuse has become so over-the-top that aides are beginning to complain about the treatment to the media.
It’s not just one story: Disastrous poll numbers, a son facing decades in prison, and the possibility of losing a rematch to his greatest political foe, Joe Biden is starting to lose it.
Take his son, Hunter Biden, who’s facing 17 years in prison after his sweetheart plea bargain fell apart.
The 81-year-old president “has barked at aides who have mused about Hunter Biden as an electoral liability or those who wondered if he should be accompanying the president on the road. Many aides now choose to avoid the subject, for fear of triggering the president’s temper, according to two of the five confidants” who spoke anonymously to Politico.
In Washington, politicians speak out “anonymously” because they want revenge — but they fear further retribution.
It isn’t just this issue—and it isn’t anything new.
After the Biden clan spent the week of Thanksgiving unwinding in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on Nantucket that belongs to a megadonor, Biden balled out his reelection campaign staffers.
“Biden delivered some stern words for the small group assembled: His poll numbers were unacceptably low and he wanted to know what his team and his campaign were doing about it,” reports The Washington Post.
Biden is worries and, when it comes to polling, Biden has a lot to worry about.
As Donald Trump has pulled ahead in almost every swing state, Joe Biden’s approval rating his the lowest level of his presidency. Just one in three, or 34 percent, of Americans believe he’s doing a good job, according to the Monmouth poll for December.
The new survey shows the president’s popularity has so deteriorated that Joe Biden is actually less popular than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden says the economy is zooming along with such strength that voters should be lining up to donate, volunteer, and get-out-the-vote for his 2024 presidential bid.
“He complained that his economic message had done little to move the ball, even as the economy was growing and unemployment was falling,” the Post reported, relying on staffers.
The fact is real earnings have fallen four percent, with the price of gasoline, groceries, and housing all skyrocketing on his watch.
It’s gotten so bad that Biden’s protectors tried to make the president’s lid-blowing ways a sympathetic feature.
“He’s worried,” admitted former Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a close friend of Biden’s. “I know when he hurts.”
When Joe Biden hurts, he wants others to hurt.
Biden’s campaign staff came up with a presentation for how it plans to turn the poll numbers around that left its audience with a headache.
One Democratic strategist called the reelection “strategy” an “Oh God moment.”
“More than one told me they couldn’t shake the feeling that for a sophisticated crowd, what they were hearing — the high-level outline of the Biden plan — felt obvious.”
And Biden’s team, they said, is acting “absurdly defensive.”
Of course, Biden could get to the heart of public dissatisfaction with his presidency by changing the policies that have ruined the country…but he hasn’t.
“It’s not just that he’s old and rigid and can’t change his ways. He may well not be in control of his presidency, with political operatives calling his shots,” wrote Monica Showalter at The American Thinker. “That leaves his raging like King Lear against the sea, demanding answers, demanding results, getting nothing.”
And, she points out, staffers going public will soon bring the media “rage stories, naked stories, cocaine stories, hooker stories, pervert stories, dog-kicking stories, corruption stories, all are bound to roll out.”
Biden’s become so desperate that the Politico story even hints that the president might be working behind the scenes to change the outcome by any means necessary.
“The White House has long stressed that the president does not interfere in matters before the Justice Department. But privately,” Politico reports, “fears about the upcoming campaign and potential criminal trial have become an ever-present weight on the president.”
Coincidentally, prosecutor Jack Smith has asked that the trial of President Donald Trump be bumped up to this March…which would allow a conviction (but possibly not an appeal) before the election.
“What’s also good is that this kind of news backhandedly tells us that Biden doesn’t have the election sufficiently rigged that he can cheat his way to victory,” wrote Showalter.
Biden’s anger is nothing new. He called voters who challenged him “fat,” a liar, and “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
At one point on the campaign trail, Biden told a blue collar workers, “I don’t work for you!”
If Biden’s polls remain unchanged, soon his insult will turn into prophecy.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”