The White House is defending its media strategy of scheduling President Joe Biden for a prime-time address to dispute mental acuity allegations in special counsel Robert Hur's report.
But instead of putting the public’s mind at ease with his four-minute remarks and the eight minutes he spent answering questions from reporters, Biden provided more examples of misremembering or misspeaking when he mistook the, such as strategist Jim Manley, were already contending with the conundrum of how Biden and the party should present a positive case to voters beforeBut Manley disregarded the idea Biden should not have engaged with reporters until he was rested after a busy day at the...
“They are going to have to figure out a way to deal with it, or we are in deep trouble as we head into November,” Manley said.adviser Paul Begala, have recommended that the party become more aggressive in criticizing Hur as a partisan and underscoring the contrast with Trump, playing offensive as opposed to simply defense.
“Reagan always said the best humor was that aimed at one’s self. Biden should have done the same,” he added as the White House cites Reagan’s own handling of classified documents in his diaries. “He did exactly the opposite by being shrill and brittle and combative and defensive. He made a campfire into a bonfire. Now it is thoroughly injected into the culture. Everybody is talking about it and no one feels sorry for him. The issue is out of control.
An hour later, during his first on-camera appearance in the White House briefing room, General Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams similarly sharpened his rhetoric, arguing, “We’re in a very pressurized political environment” and “there is pressure to criticize and to make statements that maybe otherwise you wouldn’t make.”