{"id":290985,"date":"2024-07-10T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290985"},"modified":"2024-07-12T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:08:09","slug":"bidens-handlers-guiding-him-with-flash-cards-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290985","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s handlers guiding him with flash cards \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 July 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_289773\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289773\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt size-full wp-image-289773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Obama-leads-Biden-off-stage2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"232\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Obama-leads-Biden-off-stage2.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Obama-leads-Biden-off-stage2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-289773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Obama guides Biden off-stage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>US President Joe Biden\u2019s every movement is planned by his assistants, with photos showing the elderly leader exactly how to get to the podium at events, Axios reported on Monday. Biden has come under pressure to quit his reelection campaign after a debate with Donald Trump exposed his apparently declining cognitive ability.<\/p>\n<p>Before each of his public appearances, Biden\u2019s staffers prepare a document for the president, detailing how he will enter the venue, how he will walk to the podium, and how he will face the audience, the US news site reported. Images of these documents show full-page photographs of the route Biden will walk, with simple, one-line text instructions such as <em>\u201cWalk to the podium.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI staffed a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his movements,\u201d<\/em> one person who arranged staffing for a Biden event this year told Axios.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt surprised me that a seasoned political pro like the president would need detailed verbal and visual instructions on how to enter and exit a room,\u201d<\/em> the staffer added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is briefed on how to walk to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>I really did wish this was a joke, however it is not\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3x1mUujhHv\">pic.twitter.com\/3x1mUujhHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Newborn (@_Aaron_Newborn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Aaron_Newborn\/status\/1810127231206785218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The White House told Axios that such instructions are common, and are prepared ahead of events for both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. <em>\u201cHigh levels of detail and precision are critical to presidential advance work \u2013 regardless of who is president,\u201d<\/em> White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s mental and physical health have come under intense scrutiny since his lackluster debate performance against former President Donald Trump last month. During the CNN-hosted showdown, Biden appeared confused and struggled to finish sentences, his voice weak and his mouth hanging agape.<\/p>\n<p>While the White House blamed Biden\u2019s poor performance on a cold and his busy travel schedule earlier in the month, major Democratic Party donors have since called on the president to suspend his campaign, while senior party lawmakers are reportedly preparing to sign letters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/600608-democrats-biden-drop-friday-us\/\">demanding<\/a> that he be replaced with a less infirm candidate.<\/p>\n<p>With Biden floundering during subsequent media appearances \u2013 including a radio interview in which he claimed to be <em>\u201ca black woman\u201d<\/em> \u2013 multiple reporters have come forward to claim that the White House fed them pre-approved questions to ask the president. Liberal pundits once considered friendly to Biden \u2013 including The Atlantic\u2019s Adam Serwer, the New York Times\u2019 Maureen Dowd, and MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough \u2013 have all called on him to leave the race, while Axios\u2019 Alex Thompson claimed on Saturday that his fellow reporters feel <em>\u201cduped\u201d<\/em> by a White House that covered up evidence of Biden\u2019s decline before the debate.<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden exhibited similar gaffes and verbal slip-ups during his 2020 campaign, and countless videos have surfaced in the years since showing the president mixing up countries and their leaders, shaking hands with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/553924-biden-handshake-offer-video\/\">imaginary people<\/a>, and appearing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/526465-biden-lost-cognitive-decline\/\">get lost<\/a> in public. Throughout this year\u2019s campaign, Trump has repeatedly insisted that Biden <em>\u201ccan\u2019t string two sentences together,\u201d<\/em> and mockingly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1718452371854884876\">imitated<\/a> his opponent attempting to find his way off stage after speeches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/600639-biden-staffers-podium-instructions\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 81-year-old reportedly needs detailed illustrated instructions on how to enter and exit a room <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291106,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290985\/revisions\/291106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}