That’s the question facing Democrats when it comes to Joe Biden’s top aides, who are finally seeking a return to frontline politics after his disastrous Presidential campaign which handed Donald Trump a second term in the White House.
The former President gave a speech last week tearing into Trump for cutting Social Security.
All this amounts to an attempt to return to the fold for a group of people who are desperate to avoid what one US political website called “political Siberia”.
Most voters believe that it was unforgivable to hide the fact that Biden, 82, the oldest President in history, was in mental and physical decline that meant he could not serve a second term.
Joe Biden made his first major speech since stepping down as president earlier this month (Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)
You would think this would warrant an apology from the people responsible.
Some of Biden’s aides think it was a mistake to drop out of the race, the Washington Post has reported, even though the polls were crushing him.
Instead of proper reckoning, books about Biden have claimed that his former chief of staff Ron Klain thought Biden was “fatigued, befuddled and disengaged” prior to his disastrous presidential debate last June.
The lack of accountability hasn’t stopped people like Rob Flaherty, Biden and Harris’ deputy campaign manager, lecturing his own party in the New York Times that they need to appeal to centrist voters.
There have also been TV appearances from former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and former national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who told ABC that he didn’t want to speak up at the time for fear of being a “backseat driver”.
In his first post-presidency speech, Biden said that the damage caused by Trump’s first 100 days was “breathtaking.”
Biden’s aides are hardly the first to hide a president’s mental or physical decline.
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It was shocking to see a sitting President struggling so badly and the charade that he was in good health collapsed instantly.
And it isn’t just Biden’s aides who are having to do a hard pivot when it comes to his decline.
But in 2020 Tapper defended Biden in a combative interview with Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law.
Now Tapper is promising to reveal the truth that he arguably should have reported on at the time.
You have probably heard this kind of talk before from bankers, police and the real estate industry and it’s perverse, illogical and a transparent attempt to stay in power.
Forgiveness will eventually come from Democrats towards Biden’s team but one question will linger with them forever: “Why didn’t they say something?”
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