Above: Kamala Harris hosts a virtual town hall event at the White-House, Feb 18, 2021
RT – March 5, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without President Joe Biden being present, the latest in a series of calls to world leaders usually conducted by the president.
Harris spoke to Netanyahu on Thursday, with a White House readout of the call saying she “underscored the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to the US-Israel partnership,” and affirmed her opposition to the International Criminal Court prosecuting Israeli soldiers for alleged war crimes.
I spoke with Prime Minister @Netanyahu of Israel. @POTUS and I are unwavering in our commitment to Israel’s security. We discussed COVID-19, coordination on Iran, Israel’s warming relations with Arab countries, and advancing peace and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/z2III4ZpW4
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 5, 2021
Nothing about the call was surprising, as unwavering support for Israel is a given no matter which party is in charge in Washington. However, Biden’s absence was notable.
Biden spoke to Netanyahu in February, and to President Alejandro Giammattei Falla of Guatemala on Thursday. Yet Harris has taken responsibility for several head-to-head calls with world leaders, most notably Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrisson, as well as World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
That Harris, who had next to no foreign policy experience before coming to the White House, would handle these tasks instead of Biden, who has two stints in the executive branch under his belt already, as well as decades in the Senate, is puzzling. A Politico report attributes Harris’ role as the administration’s international face to her own interest in foreign affairs, and to Biden’s efforts to groom her as a likely successor, given the fact that he will be 82 years old at the end of his first term.
Yet Biden has taken a back seat in his own administration in other areas too. Donald Trump was more of a micromanager, and at one point last year intervened to fire two federal power company bosses for outsourcing jobs. Biden, by contrast, is seemingly content to let the federal bureaucracy run itself.
He has not yet given a press conference, letting Press Secretary Jen Psaki handle interactions with the media. His public appearances are rare and scripted, and when Biden offered to take reporters’ questions during a virtual conference on Wednesday, his video feed was cut and a version of the conference was later posted online with his offer edited out.
The White House abruptly cuts the live video feed of a virtual event after President Biden said he was "happy to take questions" from House Dems
"I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do"
Live feed cuts off pic.twitter.com/CHD9EMBv49
— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) March 4, 2021
Amid Harris’ growing role in the administration and Biden’s avoidance of the spotlight, conservatives have resurrected some of their core election-season arguments against the president, namely that he’s losing his mental acuity and allowing Harris, a more liberal Democrat, to run the show.
Biden’s team “has zero confidence that this president can handle questions outside of handpicked reporters,” Fox News contributor Joe Concha declared on Thursday. “Obviously he’s struggling cognitively,” host Sean Hannity said a day earlier, to which his guest, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) responded by suggesting that Biden is “an instrument and a puppet for the radical, out-of-control lunacy of the far left in his party.”
It is abundantly clear that neither Biden nor Harris are in control. I said that Trump was only in partial control. He had enough sway to stop more wars, start his wall & roll out sanctions. Trump was blocked from doing a no-brainer deal with North Korea. The fact of the matter is that the US needs perceived enemies and problematic states. There’s no way the US deep state will allow Harris to have any real power. Does Kamala own knee pads?
“Certainly, the recent cutting of his live feed after Biden invites questions suggests that he is no longer calling the shots” Seriously? Brain-dead Biden was never calling the shots. Biden needs help just to put his pen in his shirt pocket.
Biden is the epitome of a puppet politician. Obama, brain-dead Biden, and similar politicians who have practically zero understanding are what the Jewish Banking Cartel (JBC) wants in their puppets.
The JBC funds and promotes political puppets who will sign whatever JBC agents direct without trying to understand what they are signing, puppets who will say whatever they are told, who never try to be their own man.
Americans support Trump, but have decided to be a joke in the eyes of the world.
Politically ambitious people like Harris can be nasty individuals, as she’s said to have been, but maybe she should consider that maybe one reason why those who want to dictate to the President want a woman in there, is because generally women are easier to push around? There have been plenty of nasty women in power over the centuries, but none has ever reached the pinnacle unlike men like Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
She can become very powerful, but not so powerful she won’t be pushed around by men.
Geeeeeee……raise your hand here if you didn’t see this coming?
One Hope; Hillary is sooooooo pissed off thatKamal gets Arkancided.
I think Biden’s better in the role than Claude Rains. He doesn’t leave the tell-tale bandages lying around, either.
It could be interpreted as fulfilling prophesy.
BLM & ANTIFA laying siege to cities and causing billions in damages.
Kamala appears to be doing what was previously “Presdidential” duties like contacting heads of state and coaching Joe to sign Executive orders that he supposedly had no idea what they were.
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
lewis jones
be shure germany with merkel is a joke too
for the world !