Biden’s biographer pens searing review of president: Trump’s win is Joe’s ‘legacy’

The Atlantic unit writer and biographer of President Biden, Franklin Foer, wrote a searing indictment of Biden pursuing Vice President Kamala Harris’ nonaccomplishment to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week, saying her nonaccomplishment is Biden’s “legacy.”

Foer, who wrote nan 2023 book “The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and nan Struggle for America’s Future,” based on that Harris’ nonaccomplishment is his own, and he mightiness consciousness it much than she will.

“Joe Biden cannot flight nan truth that his 4 years successful agency paved nan measurement for nan return of Donald Trump. This is his legacy. Everything other is an asterisk,” Foer wrote successful an Atlantic article published connected Thursday.

Foer opened his portion by noting really immoderate group connected Biden’s squad were alert that a Harris nonaccomplishment would beryllium sadistic connected nan president’s legacy, who was elected successful 2020 connected nan committedness that he would extremity Trump’s agenda.

“Earlier this fall, 1 of Joe Biden’s closest aides felt compelled to show nan president a difficult truth astir Kamala Harris’s tally for nan presidency: ‘You person much to suffer than she does.’ And now he’s mislaid it,” he wrote.

Foer’s Atlantic communicative past offered a model into really Biden’s squad was processing Election Day, and their ain criticisms of nan Harris campaign.

“They sounded arsenic deflated arsenic nan remainder of nan Democratic elite,” he wrote, adding, “They besides had a interest of their own: Members of Biden’s clan proceed to stoke nan wishful thinking that its paterfamilias would person won nan election, and immoderate of his advisers feared that he mightiness publically sound that profoundly misguided view.”

The biographer noted that Biden’s squad seemed to show an “unstated religion that they could person done better.”

He described immoderate of nan Biden critiques of nan Harris campaign, nan first being that she “abandoned her astir potent attack,” being that she initially portrayed herself arsenic a “relentless scourge of Big Business” who went aft Trump arsenic a “a stooge of firm interests.”

According to nan Biden aides he said to, Harris ditched this messaging at nan behest of her brother-in-law.

“Then, rather suddenly, this strain of populism disappeared. One Biden adjutant told maine that Harris steered distant from specified hard-edged messaging astatine nan urging of her brother-in-law, Tony West, Uber’s main ineligible officer,” Foer wrote.

“To triumph nan support of CEOs, Harris jettisoned a beardown statement that deflected attraction from 1 of her weakest issues. Instead, nan run elevated Mark Cuban arsenic 1 of its main surrogates, nan very benignant of rich | feline she had precocious attacked,” he added.

Another Bidenland critique he included was that Harris did not push backmost against personality authorities enough. According to his team, Biden “would person intelligibly rejected nan thought of trans women competing successful women’s sports.”

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“Of course, he ne'er staked retired that position successful his presidency,” Foer wrote successful Harris’ defense, adding that she didn’t tally a woke campaign. “To nan contrary, she bathed herself successful patriotism. She presented herself arsenic a prosecutor, a friend of rule enforcement, and a proud weapon owner.”

However, nan writer did admit that “she grounded to respond to nan ubiquitous ads nan Trump run ran claiming that Harris supports sex-change operations for prisoners. She allowed Trump to create nan belief that she favored nan astir extremist type of transgender rights.”

Foer concluded pinch nan conception that Biden’s bequest will moreover suffer his successes being destroyed and moreover immoderate of them claimed by Trump during nan president-elect’s 2nd term.

“Biden helped build nan foundations for economical growth, pinch nan Inflation Reduction Act, nan CHIPS Act, and nan infrastructure bill. Because nan investments enabled by each 3 of those bills will return years to carnivore fruit, Biden ne'er had nan chance to reap nan harvest.”

“Despite Trump’s guidance to those pieces of legislation, nan benefits of those bills could bolster his presidency. Biden will person passed on his astir substantive bequest arsenic a gift to his successor,” Foer declared.

Biden offered a conciliatory message to nan federation connected Thursday pursuing Trump’s victory, urging Americans to judge nan predetermination results and expressing his administration’s committedness to “ensure a serene and orderly transition” to a Trump administration.

“A state chooses 1 aliases nan other. We judge nan prime nan state made. I’ve said galore times, you can’t emotion your state only erstwhile you win. You can’t emotion your neighbour only erstwhile you agree. Something I dream we tin do, nary matter who you voted for, you spot each different not arsenic adversaries, but arsenic chap Americans,” he said.