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Anger fills White Home briefings
Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Jacqui Heinrich joins Howard Kurtz to debate heated exchanges between press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and members of the press.
Donald Trump clearly desires to run in opposition to Joe Biden, regardless that many Democrats and media liberals need the president to bow out.
However he’s beginning to tough up Kamala Harris, simply in case.
There could also be somewhat reverse psychology at play right here, in addition to a fundraising bonanza. The extra that Trump argues that Biden is toast, the extra he might stiffen the president’s resolve to not be pressured out of the race. Not even by the New York Occasions, which yesterday ran a second editorial: “He has come to treat himself as indispensable. He doesn’t appear to know that he’s now the issue — and that the perfect hope for Democrats to retain the White Home is for him to step apart.”
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Trump is so sure of a giant victory after Biden’s debate meltdown that it might nicely have an effect on his VP selection, which I’m sure might be unveiled at week’s finish. He had been speaking about an announcement the primary day of subsequent week’s Milwaukee conference, which might blow out protection of the primary couple of days, however has switched saying earlier than the conference. And it has in all probability given a giant increase to J.D. Vance.
In a telephone interview final night time with Sean Hannity, Trump was requested if he wished to run in opposition to Biden.
“Effectively, we ready for him, however I don’t suppose it’s going to matter,” Trump mentioned, including that the president is “solely semi-running issues” whereas the people who encompass the Oval Workplace are actually in cost.
A break up picture of President Joe Biden, Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Pictures)
What in regards to the discuss that if Biden steps apart, it could be Kamala Harris?
“Effectively, I believe that it will likely be her,” mentioned Trump. “I believe they’re very involved in regards to the vote if it’s not her. They’re very, very– I imply, they’re gun-shy, they don’t wish to do it some other method. I’ve really come to imagine that’s what they’re going to do.”
He concluded, “I believe she’s an ineffective individual, she was accountable for the border, she’s by no means been there, she didn’t do a great job, and he or she hasn’t completed a job on lots of different issues, however it could appear to me from a political standpoint that’s who they’re going with.”
Trump had known as her “pathetic” in these golf cart feedback taped by an aide.
The topic traces of two current fundraising emails: “Biden is dropping out!” and “President Kamala Harris?” .
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Biden insists he’s doing nothing of the kind, however he’s had an terrible couple of weeks. He has misplaced Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, two anti-Trumpers, particularly Colbert, who held a softball session with the president simply three months in the past.
Extra necessary, the White Home has been caught in one other coverup. The New York Submit first reported that the White Home doctor, Kevin O’Connor, introduced in a Parkinson’s specialist who visited the constructing 10 instances between 2022 and final March.
This neurologist, Kevin Cannard, examined the president thrice, however it was buried in a report as if it have been a routine a part of Biden’s annual bodily. What many are lacking is that Cannard met with a liaison within the medical unit and was undoubtedly offering Parkinson’s steerage to Biden’s longtime physician.
White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks through the every day press briefing within the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Karine Jean-Pierre was completely hammered at Monday’s briefing, with CBS’s Ed O’Keefe accusing her of deceptive the press. O’Connor launched a BS letter confirming Cannard’s position that was principally a non-denial denial.
Getting data out of this White Home is like pulling tooth.
What’s extra, Politico stories that O’Connor was principally in enterprise with Biden’s brother Jim, introducing him to hospital officers in an effort to drum up enterprise.
The leak of Biden’s feedback to Democratic governors that he received’t do occasions after 8 p.m., so he can get extra sleep, introduced loads of mockery.
The Wall Avenue Journal, which drew a lot condemnation from the MSM a month in the past for its piece “Biden Appears to be Slipping,” was again yesterday with devastating new reporting.
“The White Home has restricted Biden’s every day itinerary and shielded him from impromptu exchanges…and sought to verify conferences with donors caught to scripted pleasantries.
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“Senior aides dismissed journey options over worries the president didn’t have the stamina for them…together with an thought for Biden to make weekly cross-country journeys in 2022 to tout the advantages of his infrastructure legislation.”
Anita Dunn, who oversees communications technique, and such longtime loyalists as Steve Richetti and Mike Donilon, are getting a few of the blame.
All of this unfolded as Biden’s slips grew to become more and more apparent, and his high advisers have been assuring everybody the president was high-quality.
Relating to Biden and Dunn’s shared disdain for the media, a spokesman mentioned, “The president and Anita solely really feel that method about a few of the press.”
One other telling anecdote: German officers, realizing of the fatigue situation, deliberate a 2022 occasion for Biden within the early night. However Biden didn’t present, and Tony Blinken stuffed in, saying the president had gone to mattress. The secretary of State denies saying this.
On this handout photograph supplied by ABC, U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos on July 05, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. The president sat down with Stephanopoulos whereas on the marketing campaign path in Wisconsin, a number of days after a debate with former President Donald Trump. (Picture by ABC through Getty Pictures)
Having fumbled the Stephanopoulos sitdown, when he might have been doing 5 interviews, Biden faces another take a look at: A solo press convention tomorrow on the NATO summit in Washington. It’s his probability to indicate he’s fast sufficient to take care of aggressive questioning. And a supposed revolt by congressional Democrats hasn’t materialized.
After mendacity low, Trump will seize the highlight once more together with his veep announcement. And his expectation that he’ll win simply has given a lift to Vance, who’s backed by Don Jr.
The Ohio senator, regardless of being in workplace lower than two years, has turn out to be maybe essentially the most forceful advocate of a populist model of the MAGA agenda, one which favors tariffs and America First isolationism over conventional Republicanism. Though the “Hillbilly Elegy” writer opposed Trump in 2016, even likening him to Hitler, they’ve lengthy since mended fences. And Vance is a veteran who served in Iraq.
If Trump sees himself coasting to victory, it’s simpler to go together with Vance.
The opposite various seems to be Marco Rubio, who spoke at a Trump rally in Florida final night time. Rubio is a nationally identified determine and international coverage skilled who guided Trump on Latin American affairs. He would energize no less than a part of the Hispanic neighborhood and is a believable president who might take over if essential.
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The draw back is that Rubio would begin operating for the 2028 nomination on day one, which might draw protection from a boss who likes to be the focal point.
Vance is the ideological choose; Rubio is the governing choose.
Trump informed me in our interview that it doesn’t matter who he selects, that folks vote for the highest of the ticket. And he’s proper about that.
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However after insisting in a number of interviews that his solely retribution can be success, he was again to creating threats yesterday, seeming to focus on Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg:
“We’ll pursue Election Fraudsters at ranges by no means seen earlier than, and they are going to be despatched to jail for lengthy durations of time. We already know who you’re. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, watch out!”
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and often seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different applications.
