Monday, June 19, 2023

A PARTNERSHIP - NAFTA JOE BIDEN FOR OPEN BORDERS AND THE NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS - Mass Kidnapping, Killing in Mexico Linked to Cartel Fraud Operation

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CALCULATE THE DEVASTATION THIS PIG PARASITE GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN HAS PERPETRATED ON AMERICA AS HE HAS FILLED HIS POCKETS WITH BRIBES. DITTO THE OTHER DEM CRIME FAMLIES OF CLINTON AND OBAMA. ALL FUCKING LAWYERS!

WE SHOULD ADD THAT HUNTER BIDEN IS SUCKING BRIBES FROM MEXICO HAS HE IS GLOBALLY. 



Report: Cartel Gunman Killed by Soldiers was Former Caravan Migrant

Los Zetas Attack 1
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles

One of the cartel gunmen allegedly killed by Mexican Army soldiers after surrendering in a city near the Texas-Mexico border was a migrant from Honduras. The migrant reportedly traveled in one of the caravans of 2019 and then joined the ranks of organized crime.

Clinton Alex Blucha, 25, was originally from Honduras but traveled to Mexico with one of the first caravans headed for the U.S. Instead of completing his journey, he settled in Nuevo Laredo where he allegedly joined the ranks of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, Univision reported.

Blucha was one of five cartel gunmen seen in a video being captured by Mexican Army soldiers and then reportedly killed soon after on May 18. As Breitbart Texas reported, the video shows the moment when the soldiers remove weapons and body armor from the gunmen. Soon after the soldiers appear to take fire from another location and begin to shoot back. It is during that exchange of gunfire that the soldiers allegedly killed the five captured gunmen. Since then, Mexican authorities arrested 16 soldiers in connection with the extrajudicial killing.

According to Univision, Blucha was a fisherman in Honduras, but after the COVID-19 pandemic, he tried to make his way to the U.S. in one of the caravans but stayed in Mexico instead.

A series of videos shared on TikTok by Blucha show various photos of him with weapons and jewelry. In their story, Univision spoke with individuals who knew him and confirmed to the station that he was a cartel member.

In the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas operates with almost complete impunity. The cartel continually deploys dozens of gunmen in convoys or armored vehicles to patrol the city streets — a group known as Hell’s Troops or Tropa del Infierno.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     

Mass Kidnapping, Killing in Mexico Linked to Cartel Fraud Operation

Forensic personnel work at the crime scene where four police officers were killed in Tonala, Jalisco State, Mexico, on September 3, 2018. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz / AFP) (Photo credit should read ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images)
File Photo: ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images

A mass kidnapping in Mexico that led to the murder of a U.S. citizen from Arizona is believed to be linked to a cartel fraud operation based out of a call center in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

Mexican authorities released information little by little about the case that began in late May when at least eight individuals who worked at a call center in the city of Zapopan, Jalisco, went missing. Top Mexican authorities initially claimed that the call center was tied to criminal activity

As Breitbart Texas reported, Carlos David Valladolid Hernandez, one of the victims in the case, was originally born in Arizona but had moved to Jalisco with relatives. The other victims, including Valladolid’s sister Itzel Valladolid, were all Mexican nationals.

Since the disappearance, authorities in Jalisco began a series of searches and discovered numerous clandestine gravesites, including one with more than 45 bags of human remains, Breitbart Texas reported. Since then, authorities in Jalisco revealed that the bags found in the Mirador neighborhood did contain human remains that matched those from the kidnapping victims.

The most recent information points to the victims being killed for trying to quit working at the call center. Mexico’s Milenio reported that the call center was being used for a time-share fraud operation run by individuals tied to Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). In their report, Milenio revealed that the criminal organization had diversified its criminal operations and begun mimicking racketeering tactics once used by more traditional mafias. The call center was reportedly being used in a fraud involving the buying and selling of timeshares. The victims had reportedly been trying to leave the call center, and CJNG is believed to have killed them for it, Milenio reported.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas, including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in English and their original Spanish. This article was written by “C.P. Mireles” from Tamaulipas. 


Exclusive: Official Says Biden’s CBP One Program Benefits Drug Cartels

People waiting to apply for asylum sleep in front or a sign for the CBP One app as they camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. authorities raised the number of …
AP Photo/Gregory Bull

Frontline employees being pulled from normal inspection duties are reducing the number of labor hours dedicated to finding hidden narcotics, according to a source within Customs and Border Protection. Hundreds of hours daily are spent processing more than one thousand migrants using the CBP One application to schedule appointments to secure their release into the United States.

In May 2023, CBP announced the agency would increase the daily number of appointments for migrants wishing to claim asylum to 1,000 per day and that appointments would be prioritized through an algorithm for those who have the longest wait times using the application. In the announcement, the DHS officials said the latter change would “Cut out smugglers who are preying on noncitizens by prioritizing appointments for those who have been waiting the longest. A percentage of daily available appointments will be allocated to the earliest registered CBP One™ profiles, so noncitizens who have been trying to obtain appointments for the longest time will be prioritized.”

CBP Migrant App (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

CBP Migrant App (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Despite the claims that the new “lawful pathway” program would cut out smuggling activities by the cartels, the source, who is not authorized to speak to the media, says the impacts are to the contrary. “Any way you look at it, the border is a dangerous place,” the source stated. “The cartels don’t just profit off of the migrants, they survive and thrive by smuggling narcotics.”

“One worry is by redirecting personnel from inspections to asylum processing we are missing the deadliest drug we have seen in modern times, fentanyl,” the source told Breitbart Texas.

After another increase in available appointments announced in May, some 1,250 migrants began to use the CBP One application daily to schedule appointments to have their asylum claims processed at several southwest border ports of entry. Those ports are located in California, Arizona, and Texas. Some of the designated ports of entry are the busiest in the nation. One is the busiest on a more global scale. At the San Ysidro border crossing near the heart of downtown San Diego, more than 70,000 vehicles enter the country each day. In addition, 20,000 pedestrians are inspected for admission each day at the busiest port of entry in the Western Hemisphere.

At the smaller ports of entry, fewer migrants are allowed appointments. However, due to reduced staffing, the effects on the inspection process just as significant. Several times per day, groups of migrants appear for processing in Eagle Pass, Texas, and are released into the United States. Less than one hundred are processed at this port of entry daily. That port of entry may be forced to receive additional migrants due to a recent cancellation of the program in Laredo, Texas. The pause in the processing of CBP One appointments in Laredo is due to reports of migrants being extorted by authorities in Mexico.

The source tells Breitbart, each day 1,250 migrants from a variety of countries, including Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Mexico, and others across Central America require hours of administrative processing that is converting some frontline CBP Officers into asylum petition clerks.

Screenshot from Venezuelan migrant's cell phone. (Used with Permission)

Screenshot from Venezuelan migrant’s cell phone. (Used with Permission)

The source says the officers tasked with processing the migrants are redirected from pedestrian screening and vehicle inspection stations. “The cartels use humans to serve as body carriers and have become quite creative when concealing narcotics in the thousands of vehicles that cross daily,” the source explained. “Finding the drugs is a time-consuming process that should not suffer as a result of the CBP One program.”

Recent fentanyl seizures made by authorities at the border crossing points and in communities farther away from the border highlight the volume of fentanyl that Mexican cartels move every day.

As the result of a recent two-month DHS coordinated surge of resources to combat the smuggling of fentanyl in California and Arizona — Operation Blue Lotus — authorities in San Diego County noted a 300 percent increase in fentanyl seizures versus the same period last year – from 732 pounds in 2022 to 2,931 pounds in 2023. The operation involved the augmentation of 35 Customs and Border Protection officers and 85 Homeland Security Investigations special agents along the southwest border from March 13 to May 10, 2023.

The two-month fentanyl-enforcement surge along the southwest border resulted in the seizure of about 4,721 pounds of fentanyl and 1,700 pounds of fentanyl precursors, according to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California.

On May 30, one of the largest seizures of fentanyl by the Border Patrol was reported at a Yuma highway checkpoint. As reported by Breitbart Texas, Border Patrol agents seized more than 190 pounds of fentanyl discovered meticulously concealed in a passenger vehicle. That seizure, according to the Border Patrol, contained enough lethal doses of the drug to kill 40 million people and had a street value estimated at over $2 million.

This single seizure was more than the entire amount of fentanyl seized by the Border Patrol in the month of April according to CBP. In most cases involving intricate concealed compartment smuggling detected in Border Patrol cases, the narcotics are loaded in Mexico and driven through a port of entry according to the source.

The source worries that future increases in the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum appointments at ports of entry through the CBP One application will further detract from the agency’s ability to adequately inspect pedestrians and vehicles entering the United States.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.

EXCLUSIVE: East Texas County 400 Miles from Border Declares Migrant-Crisis Disaster

San Jacinto County Commissioners hear from residents in support of a border-crisis disaster declaration. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)
Bob Price/Breitbart Texas

COLDSPRING, Texas — Nearly 200 residents of rural San Jacinto County, Texas, watched as the commissioners’ court declared a border-crisis state of disaster. Following a mass murder and cartel-connected marijuana grow house bust, county residents had seen firsthand, the impact of the border crisis on their community.

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers read the proposed Declaration of Local State of Disaster (attached below) to the San Jacinto County Commissioners’ Court and the citizens of the county gathered to support the measure. The declaration will allow the county to apply for state funding under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border security mission.

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers presents a proposed disaster declaration to commissioners' court. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers presents a proposed disaster declaration to commissioners’ court. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

Capers told the commissioners that funding is available, if approved by the governor’s office, to purchase additional equipment and hire more manpower to combat the impacts of border-related criminal activity taking place in the county.

“We will be able to place deputies on the roads in an overtime capacity at no cost to the citizens of this county to help slow the drug flow,” the East Texas sheriff told commissioners. “We will move from a reactive position to a proactive position.”

Texas State Representative Earnest Bailes also spoke to commissioners in support of the disaster declaration.

“The southern border has been a big part of what we dealt with this legislative session,” Bailes stated. “We made sure to put the money there to support this local community and this county.”

Bailes pledged his support in helping the county obtain the available funding.

San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner reviews the county's disaster declaration prior to a unanimous vote to approve. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner (far left) reviews the county’s disaster declaration prior to a unanimous vote to approve. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

San Jacinto County Judge Fritz Faulkner acknowledged the large community of concerned residents and accepted a motion from Commissioner David Brandon which was passed unanimously by the commissioners in attendance.

The nearly 200 residents in attendance stood and applauded the commissioners’ approval of the declaration.

“I know a good deal of the citizenry is concerned about this,” Judge Faulkner told Breitbart Texas after the vote. Faulkner acknowledged the impact of recent border-crisis-related crimes in his community and agreed with the statement of every town being a border town.

“We’re going to send this off to the governor today and put the ball in his court,” the county judge concluded. In Texas, a county judge serves as the county’s chief executive officer.

In an interview following the declaration’s passage, Sheriff Capers told Breitbart Texas his residents have seen firsthand, the impact of the massive surge of drug and human smuggling on this East Texas community located about 400 miles inland from the Texas-Mexico border. In late April, a four-time deported Mexican national opened fire on his Honduran migrant neighbors leaving five people, including a child, dead, Breitbart Texas reported. A few days later, Capers and his deputies raided a large marijuana grow operation that yielded nearly 160 plants. Deputies found the grow house during a manhunt for the alleged mass killer.

“This is the first of many steps,” Capers said. “I am elated that they signed the declaration and appreciate all the support of the people who showed up to help get that accomplished.”

“Now it is in the governor’s hands to sign,” the sheriff explained. “It’s up to him as to whether or not he wants to make us part of Operation Lone Star and help confront this illegal smuggling and drug trafficking.”

U.S. Highway (Interstate 69) passes through part of San Jacinto County. The highway is a major corridor for both drug and human smuggling. Additional funding could provide the county with the resources to increase patrols on this highway and arrest or deter those smugglers operating in the area.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

San Jacinto County Declaration of Local State of Disaster




THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN AND HIS CUBAN GAMER LAWYER MAYORKAS!

Wanted Killers Among 2 Million Illegal Aliens Freed into U.S. by Biden’s DHS

US President Joe Biden during a Pride Month celebration event at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Biden this week announced new federal efforts designed to help LGBTQ youth and counter book bans following Republican efforts at the state and local level to pass …
ICE/Nathan Howard/Bloomberg

Wanted killers are among the more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens that Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) estimates have been released into the United States since President Joe Biden took office in late January 2021.

Late last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a 50-year-old illegal alien from Brazil, and a member of the nation’s largest criminal gang known as Primeiro Comando Da Capital, who was convicted of murder.

The illegal alien gang member first crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near San Luiz, Arizona, in March of this year. At the time, he was apprehended by Border Patrol agents and put into deportation proceedings.

Subsequently, thanks to the Biden administration’s expansive catch and release network, the illegal alien gang member was given a Notice to Appear (NTA) before a federal immigration judge and released into the nation’s interior.

RJ Hauman, president of the newly-formed National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News that the illegal alien gang member’s case “is yet another dangerous example of flaws in the ‘vetting’ that the Biden Administration says occurs when illegal aliens are encountered at the border and then released into the country.”

“The Border Patrol has no access to foreign criminal databases. The only way they would know about an illegal alien’s criminal record is if they committed a crime while here. So what are we supposed to do, believe everything an illegal alien says?” Hauman continued. “[F]ortunately, the brave men and women of ICE saved the day. When will their open-borders political leaders finally be held accountable?”

NICE, like the majority of Americans, backs full enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws — supporting ICE agents’ authority to quickly and easily arrest and deport illegal aliens.

In a similar case, twice-deported illegal alien Edickson Paulino Castano, 52 years old, was recently deported for the third time from the U.S. after he had been released into the U.S. interior on an order of supervision in September 2021.

Castano is wanted for murder in his native Dominican Republic.

John Fabbricatore, an advisory board member for NICE and a retired ICE Field Office Director, told Breitbart News that Biden’s “laissez-faire attitude” toward enforcement is resulting in “illegal aliens, including violent criminals continually being released” into the U.S. interior.

“The Border Patrol is being instructed to quickly process and release as fast as they can into the interior of the country. They take whatever they’re told as the truth, and the illegal alien is long gone before international warrants can be discovered,” Fabbricatore continued:

Criminal cases are dangerously being pushed into our communities in blatant disregard of federal law. While [Enforcement and Removal Operations] Boston did a great job of making this arrest, we can’t ignore the fact that an illegal alien murderer was released into the country. INTERPOL notices can take days or a few weeks to send out an alert for an update for an investigation. [Emphasis added]

The blatant disregard of federal law by the Biden administration is putting this country in danger. How many convicted criminals have been allowed to enter or have entered undetected since the start of this administration? How many known or suspected terrorists? Congress must get to the bottom of this, and fast. [Emphasis added]

Both illegal aliens are among the more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released into American communities since early 2021.

During a recent hearing by the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, Chairman McClintock noted that such a foreign population, “deliberately released into this country,” is equivalent to the population of Nebraska.

Those released into the U.S. interior by DHS are not the only illegal aliens to be added to the nation’s population since Biden took office.

“Meanwhile, more than a million and a half known got-aways have also entered illegally, an additional illegal population the size of Hawaii,” McClintock said:

For Americans, it means classrooms flooded with non-English speaking students, hospitals overwhelmed with illegal immigrants demanding care, fentanyl poisoning our young people, catastrophic strains on the social safety net meant to help Americans in need … working wages suppressed by a flood of cheap, illegal labor. [Emphasis added]

And now we observe the irony of officials in so-called sanctuary cities like New York and Chicago and sanctuary states like California warning that they cannot handle this influx. [Emphasis added]

Former Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Joseph Edlow told the subcommittee that Biden’s DHS was focused on giving mass parole to border crossers and illegal aliens to get them into the nation’s interior but now is using NTAs to mass release those arriving at the southern border.

“For the most part, there are more interests in — it was paroling people in — now it’s giving Notices to Appear and letting people go along their way,” Edlow said. “There is not an interest in detaining as far as I can see.”

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

residency: ‘Man of decency and character’







It Doesn’t Matter that Joe Biden is a Corrupt, Doddering, Old Pervert

No one cares -- at least no one with power.

Do you think it matters that our alleged president has fallen myriad times and can’t get up? You do? You sap.

Watching President Gumby trip all over mystery sandbags at the Air Force Academy just reinforces what we all already know. He’s a senile, desiccated, crusty weirdo with delusions of mental competence. And no one cares, at least no one with the power to put this broken nag out to pasture. The mass of normal people might care if they really understood just how far the decay has gotten. Fortunately, we have a fearless truth-telling class of journalists who are unwilling to allow off-narrative facts to prevent them from bravely speaking truth to power. And if you believe that, you need to watch out for those cunning sandbags because you’re mentally defective too.

Now, we could spend some time talking about the massive hypocrisy at play. We could scream “Imagine if this bumbling fool was a Republican!” But we don’t have to imagine. We know. Donald Trump walked down a wet ramp and steadied himself and this was a five-alarm 25th Amendment emergency. But Grandpa Badfinger spills all over the place, whether on a bike or an airplane ladder or a flat surface, and it’s no big deal. It’s racist for you to even notice. Or maybe sexist, or transphobic. It’s something bad.

But let’s not get stuck on the whole hypocrisy thing. Sure, it’s hypocritical. No one cares, at least no one with power. We hardcores don’t care. We are based. We know the regime media’s entire purpose is to reinforce the narrative du jour of the ruling class. Today, it’s going to be that a president’s ability to perform basic functions is irrelevant. Tomorrow, with another Republican, it’ll be super-relevant once again only because it will be useful again. We shouldn’t bother pointing it out to each other. We shouldn’t bother highlighting the difference between how they treated Trump’s personal life and how they’ve treated Hunter’s stripper-baby’s granddaddy. Crying about hypocrisy has gotten boring, and to display shock over the double standards betrays a tiresome naïveté, as if we somehow believe that there’s some sort of rule out there that compels consistency, objectivity, and fairness. We know there’s none of that. Facts and truth are irrelevant to the situation. There is only power, which means we’ve got to get power and use it to crush the left. They’ll cry. They’ll complain. They’ll tell us it’s against our conservative principles to fight our enemies, and our proper response is to laugh at them. And to keep crushing them.

To the extent pointing out hypocrisy is useful, it only is when it comes to normal people. You know, the kind of people who don’t sit on Twitter all day, or watch the news, or do pretty much anything except drink their Bud Light and enjoy corporate sportsball. Talking about hypocrisy sometimes works on them, and it’s adorable when it does. It’s cute, because they still believe. They have faith in our institutions. They have this childlike understanding of the world that assumes that there’s some sort of referee out there who’s going to apply neutral rules, and make it all better for us. They’re actually stunned when they see the regime media lie. They’re actually shocked when they see two standards applied, one to the damn communists and one to us patriots. It’s kind of refreshing to see people so innocent. And it’s kind of sad to see people so dumb.

It’s hard to accept that our country has changed fundamentally, as Obama promised it would, from a society where we had a pretty fair shot at the fair application of the rules to a place where the rules don’t exist at all. Chairman Mao, who the left would love to be if they weren’t invertebrate sissies who can’t do push-ups, and for whom a long march consists of walking down to and back from the end of the Chardonnay aisle of the Trader Joe’s, pointed out that power comes from the barrel of a gun. Of course, the only guns they have are ones wielded by our sons and daughters who, in another burst of delightful naïveté, joined our woke military in the belief that it’s still about protecting our country instead of manufacturing politically indoctrinated young people and fighting (and losing) endless DC wars. Also, they want it as a backstop to uppity citizens, but good luck. A woke army is a bad army, so they can’t really force anything upon us. They have to talk us into doing it to ourselves.

And what they plan to talk us into doing to ourselves, again, is nominating a brain dead mollusk as the pseudo-president, a gibbering golem who will be a conduit for every commie dream these monsters can think up. Look at Feinstein. Look at Fetterman. Look deep into their empty eyes. They are husks, imaginary people. They don’t exist as human beings but solely as avatars of Marxist fantasies. And like them, no real human being named “Joe Biden” exists, and it’s doubtful he really ever did. He’s a political marketing concept coming to pseudo-life. His bodily functions continue to proceed, presumably into his ever-present set of Depends, as he staggers through his golden years, but he’s not running the country. He’s probably not even changing the channel to Matlock on the old Magnavox. He’s a puppet, and the left’s left hand is all the way up to him.

So, when Joe Biden trips, it really means nothing to us. We’re not learning anything new. We already know what he is, and what he isn’t. But for normal people? It might work to change their minds from not having any opinions to thinking “Oh, maybe this guy is too old to be president and maybe we ought to look at somebody who isn’t old and senile and I wonder if NCIS: Rancho Cucamonga is on gosh I love that show.”

But the regime media is not gonna risk letting that happen. They turned Gerald Ford from into a national joke for the very same thing, and they’ll gleefully ignore this staggering clinical imbecile. Some normals might look up from their chicken tenders long enough to notice, but it’s unclear if they’ll actually care. The pain hasn’t gotten bad enough yet. But don’t worry. The Democrats’’ combination of corruption, gross incompetence, and burning hatred of normal Americans will make it get worse, and eventually the people will react. It’s just going to take a while. The normies are lulled into quiescence with Wonder Bread and circuses. Things are going to have to get darker before they get lighter. So, if you think the mere fact that this Oval Office occupant demonstrating his utter inability to perform as a president is going to make any difference in the short term, you’re the one who is tripping.

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Brooks: I Hear from White House Biden’s Not a ‘Doddering’ Grandpa, He Can Be ‘Mean’ ‘and a Very Harsh Boss’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks President Joe Biden’s staff overprotects him and that the President should be out in public more. Brooks also said that from what he hears from inside the Biden White House, the President’s “not a doddering old grandpa either.” And Biden “can be a very tough, mean guy and a very harsh boss sometimes.”

Brooks said, “[L]onger-term…I do think Biden is still underexposed. I think his staff is still overprotective of him. And he’s much smarter in public than a lot of people think — in private. And so, I do think they need to let him get out more, because it’s just not good for the presidency for him to be that much in the shadow of Donald Trump.”

He added, “I will say, from what I hear inside the White House, he’s not a doddering old grandpa either. He’s like — can be a very tough, mean guy and a very harsh boss sometimes. So, he could say [he’s overprotected]. But he might be trusting or maybe he wants to be as quiet and frankly, as closed in, as he’s been.”

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