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Numerous people have been caught damaging Tesla cars and Cybertrucks as the media and leftist organizations fule constant attacks on Elon Musk.

Conservative activist Asra Nomani compiled a list of 24 Democrat organizations with a budget of $124 million that are behind the #TeslaTakedown campaign of terrorist violence.

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Ford Motor Company is standing up for American consumers in the face of globalist economic pressure and decades of disastrous trade policies that hollowed out American industry.

Effective immediately, every American who walks into a Ford dealership will be treated like one of Ford’s own employees — at least when it comes to pricing.

That’s right. Starting today, Ford is extending employee pricing to every U.S. customer, a move that could knock thousands of dollars off the sticker price of new 2024 and 2025 Ford and Lincoln vehicles.

The program is called “From America, For America.”

The employee pricing deal applies to a broad swath of Ford’s 2024 and 2025 lineup — including gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and diesel models — for both Ford and Lincoln brands. However, a few high-demand models are excluded, including:

Raptors

Specialty Mustang and Bronco vehicles

2025 Expedition and Navigator SUVs

Super Duty trucks

“In times like these, talk is cheap. At Ford, we believe in action,” said Rob Kaffl, Ford director, U.S. Sales, Market Rep. & Dealer Relations.

“For 121 years, we’ve put our money where our mouth is, assembling vehicles that Americans rely on and supporting American jobs. Today, I’m proud to announce a new U.S. initiative that’s more than just a promotion – it’s a handshake deal with every American.”

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Steve Croley, Ford’s Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel, explained this new program on Fox News just hours after President Donald Trump reasserted America’s economic sovereignty with sweeping, reciprocal trade tariffs — including a 25% auto tariff aimed squarely at foreign-made cars that have flooded our market and decimated our industrial base.

Brian Kilmeade:
Ford just announced they will offer employee pricing to all customers, which could mean a $4,000 savings. Here to discuss this move is Ford’s Chief Policy Officer, Steve Croley. Steve, can you expand on this? Now, we’re going to be treated like an employee when it comes to pricing in any dealership across the country?

Steve Croley:
Hey, thanks for having me. You bet, that’s exactly right. For the next couple of months, we’re going to offer our customers the same deal that our employees get. As you say, that’s worth thousands of dollars. You come into our store, you get employee pricing. This is to call a little bit of a time-out.

We’ve heard some uncertainty from our customers, and we want them to be assured that Ford—the most American auto company—is going to do right by them and by our dealers. We make the most cars here, we employ the most, we export the most. We here at Ford are in a good position to address customers’ concerns and give them a really great deal on a great vehicle.

Brian Kilmeade:
That’s great. People are worried. A lot of people are scrambling to get a car before the tariffs kicked in—even used. This is new, so that’s interesting. One thing I found out is that even though you’re the most American-made car, we don’t make everything that goes into that car.

I mean, for example, leather seats—we don’t really do much for leather seats in mass production here in this country. You’ve got to go elsewhere. Have you been able to explain that to the White House? You could have the best intentions, but you just don’t have the material or the manufacturing here yet. You don’t want to be penalized.

Steve Croley:
Absolutely. The White House gets that. That’s why yesterday, the new tariffs on companies generally don’t apply to automobile manufacturers in particular. We have our own set of tariffs, of course, that was announced about a week ago. You’re absolutely right—there’s a global system for supplying car parts, and as a major manufacturer, we’re part of that.

But again, for us, we like the position we’re in because we do make most of our vehicles here, by far. Most that we sell here, we make here. We also love to buy from suppliers here in the United States, and we do that whenever we can.

Most of the parts that go in our vehicles are made here in the United States. But sure, it’s a global market, of course, and there are some that come from elsewhere. And yes, the administration has understood that very well.

Brian Kilmeade:
Steve, what country is just boxing Ford, GM, and Chrysler out—that you want to get access to? Maybe you could give us what it’s like. Certain countries… I don’t really see many Ford F-150s in Germany, right?

Steve Croley:
Yeah. Well, we sell around the world, but in most of those other major markets, we have manufacturing in local markets or in local regions. Our Ranger truck is super popular globally. We make that in five different locations around the world. We’re going to keep making around the world and pleasing customers around the world. But for here and now, we’re focused on the United States—our major market, our home market, our hometown—and we’re going to offer our U.S. customers a really great opportunity.

Brian Kilmeade:
We walk into our local dealership, we stress that they’re all going to be on board, right? There’s no caveats?

Steve Croley:
Yeah, our dealers are stepping up, and it’s really great. What it means is you get the employee price. Look, I’m an employee—that’s a great deal. I can tell you it’s thousands of dollars. It means that the dealers will sell below invoice. It’s a really great thing. We’re going to take advantage of a strong inventory that we have here, and at least for the next couple of months, it’s a fantastic opportunity. Just real quick—come on in, we’ll show you a car.

Brian Kilmeade:
You got it. Real quick, exit question—if you have to get a part from another country and there’s a tariff on that part, how can you not charge more for your car? Don’t you have to charge more for the car? Because your margins on an average car sale are not great.

Steve Croley:
Look, we are a small-margin industry. There’s no question about that. And sooner or later, yeah, these prices are going to work their way through the system. But it’s not a switch, so we don’t have to charge more on cars today. Like I say, we have a pretty good stock, and it’s that savings that we’re going to pass on. But the dust is going to settle on this thing, no doubt, over the next few months and beyond.

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Female fencer takes a knee in protest of transgender opponent

By Wayne Allyn Root

Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at the front of a bus- at a disgraceful time in America’s history when blacks had to sit at the back of the bus. Bravo.

Rosa Parks is an American hero.

Remember the #MeToo movement? Feminists said women have a right to say “NO” to sex with a man. Men need the female’s permission. It’s not up the man. A woman has a say in what she does or allows with her body. “No means NO.” Remember all that?

Stephanie Turner is a hero like Rosa Parks.

Stephanie is a American female fencer. She just struck a blow for female athletes’ rights. She kneeled and refused to compete at a fencing tournament against a male transgender fencer claiming to be a woman.

For that heroic action Stephanie was given a “black card.” That means she was disqualified and kicked out of the tournament. Other females fenced this transgender man (making believe he’s a woman). Only Stephanie was courageous enough to take a knee and refuse to compete against a man…

This was a Rosa Parks-like act of courage.

Stephanie is correct. Science proves there are only two genders in this world- male and female. You can’t change the way you were born. A man who thinks he’s a woman is still a man. And a man who surgically changes into a woman is also still a man. He/she/it has male muscles and testosterone coursing through its body. It’s a man.

First, no man, or transgender man, should ever again be allowed to play sports with female athletes. Period. That practice should be banned from women’s sports forever.

Secondly, even if it’s still allowed in some deep blue Democrat states with insane, radical, communist political cowards making the rules, no girl, or woman athlete should ever be FORCED to play sports with a man.

Isn’t this a matter of “choice?”

Doesn’t a women have a right to say “NO?” And doesn’t “No mean NO!” If a girl or woman refuses to play against a man, shouldn’t she have the same civil and human rights as a woman who refuses to have sex with a man?

Doesn’t a woman have a right to choose what to do with her body?

Why don’t the #MeToo movement rules apply to women playing sports? If a woman, or a team of women refuses to play with a hulking man with giant muscles who claims to be a woman, doesn’t that woman, or team of women, have a right to say no?

I have two daughters. If they have a right to turn a man down for sex, they certainly have every right to refuse to compete against a man in a sporting event because of his unfair genetic advantage…let alone to protect their bodies from the risk of injury, from playing with physically stronger men.

Women have a right to say “NO” to not be brutalized by a man on a sports field, just as they have a right to say no to sex with a man.

We cannot allow any girl, or woman athlete to be disqualified and kicked out of a tournament, or sporting event, for choosing to stand up for their dignity, or to simply protect themselves from injury.

That’s pure evil.

The mistake here is that Stephanie Turner acted alone. Every single girl in that tournament should have taken a knee to support a woman’s right to choose, and to say “No means NO.”

Isn’t that what’s called “girl power?”

So, what should happen next? President Trump should get involved. Our bold courageous President should invite Stephanie Turner to the White House…

Where Trump should award Stephanie with “The Presidential Medal of Freedom” (the nation’s highest civilian honor).

Trump should also announce to the nation Stephanie Turner is “the Rosa Parks of our times.”

Rosa boldly and courageously took a stand for the rights and dignity of black Americans. Stephanie boldly and courageously took a knee for the rights, dignity, and safety of every female athlete in America.

It’s important to note that Rosa Parks was awarded “The Presidential Medal of Freedom.”

Thank you, Stephanie. You’re my hero. Let’s hope Stephanie’s courageous act inspires millions of American female athletes to take a stand against men participating in any way, shape, or form in women’s sports.

That’s the only way this madness will stop- if every female athlete takes a knee and refuses to compete against men. Either the rule will be changed and males banned from female sports everywhere…

Or there will be no more “women’s sports.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV at Noon ET on Saturdays and his video podcast “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” at Untamed Nation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET daily. His web site is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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O’Keefe Media Group/ NIH hidden camera

O’Keefe Media Group caught a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official coaching researchers how to evade DOGE and secure funding.

James Welch, a National Institutes of Health genetic counselor told an undercover OMG journalist how helps principal investigators at the NIH change “race” to “ancestry” in clinical trials to evade DOGE and secure funding.

“I had to go look at, like, what was leaked as far as the banned words, that DOGE is just like, control F searching for so I was trying to help [NIH investigator] suggest wording. I had suggested, like, ‘a history of ancestry’ instead of ‘race,’ James Welch told the OMG undercover reporter.

Welch also admitted to wanting to shoot people at the NIH.

“My mom told me today not to shoot anybody because I’ve been buying guns but they won’t let me close enough to these f*cking people,” Welch said.

He continued, “Well, why not be prepared? I don’t want to go down like a bitch.”

WATCH:

CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: @NIH Genetic Counselor Tells Researchers to “Change ‘Race’ to ‘Ancestry’” in Clinical Trials to Evade @DOGE and Secure Funding; Admits to Wanting to Shoot People at NIH

“My mom told me today not to shoot anybody… but they won’t let me close enough to… pic.twitter.com/76IpjeIAdN

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 3, 2025

OMG received a statement from the NIH addressing James Welch’s comments caught on hidden camera.

“NIH is taking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities. We remain dedicated to restoring our agency to its tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again.”

JUST IN: OMG has received a statement from the NIH addressing James Welch’s comments on advising researchers to manipulate grant applications to bypass DOGE oversight:

“NIH is taking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities. We remain… https://t.co/wPRprVeLxQ pic.twitter.com/x1Y2fHr6Zv

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 3, 2025

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The Uniparty is determined to severely undermine President Trump’s efforts to rebalance trade agreements worldwide and bring back millions of jobs from overseas.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. The worst offenders will be hit with even tougher measures on April 9.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump proclaimed April 2 as “Liberation Day,” marking a new era of economic independence. He emphasized that this measure is essential to protect American jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing.

The White House also released a detailed chart showing how badly many countries have been ripping off American workers, charging high tariffs on U.S. goods while benefiting from America’s generosity in return.

However, on Thursday morning, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a bill with far-left Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), which would almost certainly put Trump’s new tariffs entirely on ice. The legislation’s stated purpose is to ‘reassert’ the legislative branch’s power over tariff policy.

“The Trade Review Act of 2025” requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs. The president must also present a detailed rationale and analysis of the potential consequences for American businesses and consumers.

Moreover, the legislation will require ALL tariffs to be approved by Congress within 60 days, or they will automatically expire.

Should this bill ever become law, Trump would no longer have the power to impose tariffs on ANY nation indefinitely unless he gets a permission slip from a potentially hostile Congress.

Even duties imposed on China, America’s most significant geopolitical adversary, would need congressional approval. This leads one to wonder which side Grassley and Cantwell are on.

Seeing Grassley’s name attached to this bill is incredibly disappointing, considering he has been a stalwart ally of Trump’s, particularly on illegal immigration and fighting the Deep State.

However, he has also long been allied with Big Agriculture, which supports globalist trade policies. Did he get an earful from them following Trump’s trade announcement?

Should “The Trade Review Act of 2025” ever become law, it would mark one of the most significant transfers of power from one branch of government to another in recent memory. And if the stock market continues to slide, all bets are off regarding a showdown between the president and Congress on tariffs.

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In a fiery clash on Fox News, host Martha MacCallum went head-to-head with Democrat Senator Chris Coons in a must-watch segment that exposed the Left’s complete detachment from fiscal reality—and their blatant indifference toward the impending collapse of Social Security.

The segment, originally intended to address a damning new report uncovering widespread fraud and waste in the Social Security Administration, quickly unraveled as Senator Coons did what Democrats do best: deflect, distract, and defend dysfunction.

When confronted by MacCallum about shocking statistics from whistleblowers and oversight panels exposing mismanagement within Social Security, Coons smugly dismissed the findings.

Sen. Coons:
Martha, not only do I not believe some of what was just shared there, but the Trump administration’s acting administrator of Social Security has said that less than one-tenth of one percent of the payments put out by the Social Security Administration are fraudulent or in error. Let’s be clear about some of the things that were just played. There are people whose names are on the rolls as having been born 150 or 200 years ago. They’re not receiving Social Security payments. So the statement that there’s all these people…

As MacCallum repeatedly tried to ask simple, pointed questions—like what the Biden administration has actually done to combat Social Security fraud—Coons pivoted into a bizarre tirade about Elon Musk and even accused Musk of trying to “get into the systems” because he once compared Social Security to a Ponzi scheme.

Martha MacCallum:
Sir, you sound like you’re pretty okay with all the agencies and how they function. You say all those millions of people depend on Social Security, so you don’t care about the ones that are going to never get it because it’s going to be insolvent in 10 years. What have Democrats done? What did Joe Biden’s administration do to find the waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security to try to shore up this important agency? What did they do? Can you tell me?

Sen. Coons:
Sure. First, Martha, you are presuming widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security. You haven’t offered any credible evidence to support that. I don’t believe what Doge says about virtually any federal agency, but I will believe what the GAO says or the Inspector General, or the Administrator of Social Security.

Martha MacCallum:
Why? Can I ask you why?

Sen. Coons:
Because I’ve had senior folks from DOGE lie to my face about other federal agencies where they claim they have found widespread waste, fraud, and abuse, where previous audits did not find that waste or abuse. This administration, Martha, fired the Inspector General of USAID when he filed complaints about the waste of huge amounts of food aid left rotting on docks. Rather than dealing with that fraud, they fired him.

Martha MacCallum:
I’m amazed by… You’re saying that I’m assuming that there’s waste, fraud, and abuse. I think it’s equally surprising that you are assuming that the government is functioning in an efficient way when we all know—

Sen. Coons:
That’s not what I said.

Sen. Coons:
Martha, there are Inspectors General in every single agency that are there to find waste, fraud, and abuse.

Martha MacCallum:
Oh, I know. They’ve done a fantastic bang-up job. When you look at the number—

Sen. Coons:
To start the administration by firing all of them does not suggest a deep interest in listening to these career, non-partisan Inspectors General about waste.

Martha MacCallum:
No, you can’t just put your fingers in your ear and go “blah, blah, blah—it’s not happening.” We all know that the government is not well run. The government is not well run.

Sen. Coons:
That’s not at all what I’m doing, Martha. Let me repeat the point.

Sen. Coons:
If Elon Musk says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and this president has fired the relevant Inspectors General—who are the people most capable—not a bunch of 20-year-old software engineers with no previous government experience…

Martha MacCallum:
They are most capable. These people—did you watch this interview, Senator? Did you watch the interview? Did you watch this? Did you watch the interview?

Sen. Coons:
Which interview?

Martha MacCallum:
The one I just played you from.

Sen. Coons:
I don’t know what you’re talking about. You are yelling too much.

Martha MacCallum:
No, I can’t because I can’t get a word in edgewise. I’m trying to ask you a question. That’s my job.

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And here’s where it gets even more unbelievable.

In the middle of the interview, Coons smugly declared:

“I don’t believe what DOGE says about virtually any federal agency, but I will believe what the GAO says or the Inspector General, or the Administrator of Social Security.”

Well, guess what, Senator—the GAO (Government Accountability Office) has reported that our federal government loses up to $521 billion every year to fraud.

That’s more than half a trillion dollars—gone. Wasted. Stolen. Year after year.

And yet, Democrats like Chris Coons are still putting their fingers in their ears, defending the bureaucracy, and attacking the messengers.

According to GAO’s report in 2024:

No area of the federal government is immune to fraud. We estimated that the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.

Given the scope of this problem, a government-wide approach is required to address it. The Office of Management and Budget, working with agencies and the oversight community, should develop guidance to improve fraud-related data—providing a more uniform approach to what data is collected and how.

Also, Treasury should identify methods to expand government-wide estimates of fraud—prioritizing higher-risk program areas.

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A “neocon” bloodbath occurred at the National Security Council on Thursday, and we may have conservative journalist Laura Loomer to thank for this.

As CNN reported, President Trump fired at least three National Security Council staffers as the agency. The terminations occurred one day after Loomer visited the Oval Office and met with the president.

During Loomer’s meeting with Trump, CNN reported she asked Trump to fire several National Security Council staff members, including his principal deputy national security adviser, Alex Wong. Axios notes she was livid that multiple “neocons” had made it through the vetting process and obtained jobs in the administration.

CNN reported that one firing came as a direct result of Trump’s meeting with Loomer. It’s unknown whether the others were related or already in the works.

Per CNN, here are the names of the three known terminated officials and their titles:

Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence and a former lead staffer for now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs who formerly served as NSA Director Mike Waltz’s legislative director in Congress.

David Feith, a senior director overseeing technology and national security. He previously served in the State Department during Trump’s first administration.

CNN reports that it’s unclear whether Wong was also let go. Axios says up to 10 members of the NSC staff may have been fired.

News of these firings come as Waltz has been blasted for adding Trump-hating ‘reporter’ Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio where attack plans against Houthi terrorists were discussed.

Since the incident, The Gateway Pundit has revealed Waltz and an aide allegedly used Gmail for communication and more questions haveemergedregarding his relationship with Goldberg. Moreover, we have learned that Waltz’s staffers set up at least 20 other Signal chat groups to discuss Ukraine, China, Russia and more.

Loomer responded to today’s news with a statement on X, which she later gave to CNN.

“Out of respect for President Trump and the privacy of the Oval Office, I’m going to decline on divulging any details about my Oval Office meeting with President Trump,” she wrote. “It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings.”

“I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING, for the sake of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our national security,” she added.

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Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Official Investiture ceremony for new U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia Rudolph Contreras. June 20, 2012. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.

A federal appeals court halted a federal judge’s order to reinstate fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers.

In February, Elon Musk’s DOGE team entered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters – and staffers were “mad as hell.”

Earlier this year President Trump began cleaning house after he fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Rohit Chopra was a toxic Biden holdover who previously threatened banks that refused to give credit lines and loans to illegal aliens.

Last week US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson barred the Trump Administration from firing CFPB workers without cause.

“Defendants shall not terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related to the individual employee’s performance or conduct; and defendants shall not issue any notice of reduction-in-force to any CFPB employee,” Judge Jackson wrote.

Judge Jackson’s order came on the same day that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled President Trump can fire members of the executive branch in a separate case related to Labor and Merit board members.

The Trump DOJ appealed Judge Jackson’s order and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals gave Trump a (small) win on Thursday.

The three-judge panel: Pillard (Obama), Katsas (Trump) and Rao (Trump) granted the Trump DOJ an administrative stay on Judge Jackson’s injunction to give the court more time to consider the motion for stay pending appeal.

Thursday’s decision from the DC Circuit Court judges was not a ruling on the merits of the motion.

Stay tuned!

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Take a look at this map…

On the surface, it seems ordinary.

But what if I told you, it’s worth $150 trillion? (Yes, trillion, with a “T.”)

What makes this map so special?

As you’ll see, it points the way to a 15-figure fortune held by the Federal Government.

We were shown this map by former Presidential Advisor, Jim Rickards, one of the most politically connected men in America.

Rickards has spent his fifty-year career in the innermost circles of the U.S. government and banking.

And he believes Trump could soon release this frozen asset to the public.

He says, “When it happens… it could alter the course of America, forever.”

Jim calls this stash of frozen assets our “national endowment.”

For good reason. If you divide this figure by the number of households in America, each family would receive $1.1 million.

But something even more spectacular is bound to happen. And those who know what to expect could make a potential fortune.

For the full story, click here.

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Joe Biden’s former chief of staff has opened up about his mental decline.

Ron Klain, who served as Biden’s White House Chief of Staff from 2021 to 2023 and then returned to help him with debate preparation in 2024, is quoted in an upcoming book saying that the president had no idea what was really going on.

According to The Guardian, Klain claimed that Biden “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was.”

During debate preparation, Biden reportedly left and fell asleep by the pool.

At one point, Biden had a brainwave.

“If he looked perplexed when Trump talked, voters would understand that Trump was an idiot,” the book states.

”Klain replied: ‘Sir, when you look perplexed, people just think you’re perplexed. And this is our problem in this race.’”

The claims were made in reporter Chris Whipple’s upcoming book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

In another part of the book, Whittle says that Klain even wondered whether Biden thought he was the president of NATO rather than the United States:

At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin, Klain was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.

That evening Biden met again with Klain and his team, [Biden aides] Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, and Bruce Reed. ‘We sat around the table,’ said Klain. ‘[Biden] had answers on cards, and he was just extremely exhausted.

And I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was. He was just very, very focused on his interactions with Nato leaders.’

Klain wondered half-seriously if Biden thought he was president of Nato instead of the US. ‘He just became very enraptured with being the head of Nato,’ he said. That wouldn’t help him on Capitol Hill because, as Klain noted, ‘domestic political leaders don’t really care what [Emmanuel] Macron and [Olaf] Scholz think.’

Whittle, meanwhile, believes that calling the behavior of Biden’s staff a “cover-up” is too simplistic.

“I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic,” he said in a recent interview with Politico. “I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that.”

“Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial,” he added. “They believed what they wanted to believe.”

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