President Joe Biden had an eventful year in office last year, losing sight of his secretary of defense and breaking his last promise to pardon his son. Meanwhile, he withdrew from the presidential campaign and spent his final days in the Oval Office. said goodbye.
Biden’s Support rate Just two weeks before the end of the year, it fell to 34%, an all-time low. Mr. Biden struggled with low approval ratings until he withdrew from the presidential race, but he still managed to defeat the special counsel’s report and advance to the first debate, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ closing argument before he was defeated. covered up.
Biden’s 2024 began with the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon going MIA after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin forgot to notify the White House about his hospitalization for several days. Austin was admitted to Walter Reed Hospital on January 1, but his hospitalization and time spent in intensive care were not reported to the White House. Despite the communication breakdown, Biden was not considering firing Austin, a White House official previously confirmed to the Daily Caller. (Related: Kirby says White House didn’t know why the undersecretary of defense went to the hospital even after being informed of his symptoms)
WATCH: NBC News reported that President Joe Biden was not informed for three days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in the ICU.
Ineffective and reckless leadership from above. pic.twitter.com/ai80l5H1fa
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 7, 2024
Once the Austin scandal subsided, he ran into Special Counsel Robert Hur. Mr. Xu declined to file criminal charges against the president, even though Mr. Biden was found to have intentionally kept classified documents. That’s because jurors could see Mr. Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
Hoare noted in the report that during the five-hour interview, he forgot when his term as vice president began and ended and when his son Beau died. The president held an angry press conference in response to the report, criticizing his staff for their handling of classified documents.
“How bad is your memory?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked the president.
“I let you speak because my memory is very bad,” Biden said. “My memory is fine. Look at what I’ve been doing since I became president.”
🚨 Joe Biden claims executive privilege over Block House committee accessing audio recording of interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
White House Counsel Ed Siskel said the House effort “undermines the very independence and impartiality of the department…” pic.twitter.com/VJeVtlfeid
— American Renew Center (@amrenewctr) May 16, 2024
Joe Biden is the one who brought up Beau Biden’s death during an interview with Robert Hur, contrary to what Biden said in a prime-time press conference.
The interview transcript shows Joe asking, “What month did Beau die?” At some point. pic.twitter.com/7t1QSdxXAU
— James Lynch (@jameslynch32) March 12, 2024
Any concerns the White House might have had about Biden’s physical fitness dissipated once Biden took the debate stage. Confronted with current President-elect Donald Trump, Biden mumbled and stumbled in his answers, sparking a firestorm within the party. Suddenly, Biden and his campaign staff faced calls from within the Democratic Party to withdraw from the presidential race. (Related: Biden’s debate night was a disaster — his Tuesday might have been even worse)
Concerns within the party became too great for the campaign to survive, and about a month after the debate, Mr. Biden announced on Twitter that he was canceling the debate.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
Harry Sisson tries to persuade the committee @piersun uncensored That Biden won the debate.
What do you think?
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 28, 2024
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as President. Although it is my intention to seek re-election, it is with my party that I step down and spend the remainder of my term focused solely on fulfilling my duties as President. “I believe it is in the best interest of the country,” Biden wrote. in a statement on Twitter. A few days later, he made his first appearance since dropping out and vaguely addressed the nation about his resignation. (Related: Biden reportedly struggles to raise enough funds for presidential library)
Biden has not yet disappeared from the spotlight. While Harris addressed supporters just meters from the White House for her closing argument, Biden made sure to steal the spotlight by calling Trump supporters “trash.”
new: @joe biden Calling all Trump supporters “trash.” Biden seems to have forgotten that he is the president of that “trash.” @kevinolearytv @DLoesch pic.twitter.com/rdFXs6uP4o
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) October 30, 2024
During a call urging people to vote, Biden began talking about a joke told by cartoonist Tony Hinchcliffe during a Trump rally, saying, “The only garbage floating around out there is his supporters.” In response to outrage over the president’s comments, the White House posted a written record of the comments, correcting “supporters” to “supporters” and incorrectly saying Mr. Biden was addressing Mr. Hinchcliffe rather than a Trump supporter. he claimed.
It was later revealed that a White House stenographer had said on the record that Biden was a “supporter,” but an email obtained by The Associated Press said the press office had “consulted with the president.” It has been decided to make the revised records public. press.
.@POTUS He called the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally “trash.”
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— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) October 30, 2024
Biden’s statement pardoning Hunter is similar to an Instagram post his daughter Ashley made this weekend.
She writes: “They tried to destroy us…but they would never be able to do that.”
Biden wrote today, “In trying to break Hunter, they tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe…” https://t.co/gAYInKwsCt
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) December 2, 2024
Biden ended 2024 by pardoning his son, after months of insisting he would not do so. A Delaware jury in June convicted Hunter Biden of knowingly possessing a gun while under the influence of drugs and making false statements on purchase documents. The president exonerated his son, claiming he had been targeted by the Justice Department because of his status. (Related: Murderers, rapists, robbers: Biden causes Christmas commute chaos)
“Throughout my career, I have followed the simple principle of simply telling the American people the truth, so they will be fair-minded,” the president wrote.
“Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I’ve worked on this issue, I also believe that raw politics has infected this process and that has led to miscarriages of justice. After we made this decision this weekend, we had no problems.” There’s no point in delaying it further. I hope the American people understand why our father and president is making this decision. ”
