Alleged White House outbursts were dismissed as questions about “beating your spouse” amid reports of an untold rivalry with a politically active predecessor.
Since the Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel, Hamas sympathizers remained unrelenting in their calls for a ceasefire, even after a temporary brokered arrangement had been shattered by the jihadists. With President Joe Biden’s administration shifting policy to appease the Islamists, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy wondered how the executive was handling public reaction to foreign policy.
Raising an NBC News report on the president supposedly losing his cool over his performance in battleground states, Doocy asked National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, “And there’s a report that when President Biden was told his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas was starting to affect his poll numbers, the quote is, ‘He began to shout and swear.’ So, when he does that, is he shouting and swearing about [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu or about Hamas or about his poll numbers?”
“This is the ‘When did you stop beating your spouse’ question,” began Sullivan in response, “because I don’t think he ever did that. And so-”
Doocy interjected with, “Excuse me?” leading the NSA to elaborate, “Well, you — you used that as the premise of your question, which is, ‘When he does that.’ He — I’ve never seen him do that — shout or swear in response to that. So, from my perspective, that particular report is not correct.”
Q: When Biden was told his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas was starting to affect his poll numbers, he “began to shout and swear.” What’s he shouting and swearing about…?
JAKE SULLIVAN: “This is the ‘when did you stop beating your spouse’ question…”
Q: “Excuse… pic.twitter.com/ylxg6bABCT
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 18, 2024
The correspondent had been citing an NBC News report that said Biden had begun “to shout and swear,” according to an unnamed lawmaker, during a private White House meeting in January where the president was told about dropping poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia.
Opposition to Israel support had manifested in a protest vote surpassing 100,000 “uncommitted” in the Michigan Democratic primary and, as Biden talked up supposed two-state solutions, ceasefires and ramped up humanitarian aid for Gaza that likely went to Hamas, leftist leaders like New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and California Rep. Adam Schiff found their lockstep with corporate media on promoting regime change.
Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama was making high-profile stops across Europe, including an eyebrow-raising visit to 10 Downing Street where he met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
With details of the meeting limited to, as told by a Sunak spokesman, a discussion of “the work of the Obama Foundation” and “a range of issues, including international affairs and AI,” many couldn’t help but wonder if the former president were in violation of the Logan Act that prohibits unauthorized individuals from interacting with foreign governments in a way that impacts United States policies.
The London visit coincided with a report from Axios that claimed Biden was not regularly in touch with Obama, but that he talked about his former boss “a lot.”
“Biden often measures himself against the man he served as vice president, current and former aides say. It’s a complex relationship in which there is a rivalry — particularly on Biden’s side,” the outlet reported and cited aides who claimed that Biden would talk up things he did and state, “Obama would be jealous.”
Still, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates appeared to contradict suggestions on the frequency of the president’s communications as he told Axios, Biden “talks to both former President Obama and President Clinton often.”
“The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president,” one former had said to Axios. “They didn’t think he’d be organized enough to execute.”
That claim followed Biden’s own statement in his interview with special counsel Robert Hur in which he said, “a lot of people…were encouraging me to run in this period (the 2016 election), except the president…He just thought that [former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton] had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did.”
Much like the cover that was provided amid allegations of sexual harassment from first lady Jill Biden’s senior adviser Anthony Bernal, as Sullivan deflected over the claims that Biden shouted at staff, NBC News cited “a person familiar with internal discussions” who told them, “[Biden’s] probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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