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Klain is backtracking now
Posted on: April 3, 2025 at 10:55:03 CT
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Joe Biden’s former chief of staff is disputing the portrayal of his remarks about the former president’s preparedness for last year’s disastrous campaign debate with Donald Trump, telling POLITICO that he blames the president’s senior aides — not Biden himself — for the debacle that eventually forced him from the race.
“I think the framing is wrong,” Ron Klain said over text after The Guardian described him as painting a “devastating picture” of Biden’s mental and physical state in an interview for a forthcoming book. “My point wasn’t that the president lacked mental acuity … He was out of it because he had been [sidelined], not because he lacked capacity.”
Klain, Biden’s chief of staff for two years who later helped run preparations for the June debate, criticized Biden’s team at the White House for failing to keep the president focused on addressing Americans’ eroding support for his domestic agenda and the economy overall. As a result, Biden struggled on the debate stage to offer a vision for tackling inflation and lay out a second-term agenda.
“He had been isolated from domestic politics by a WH team unplugged from hill Dems,” Klain said via text, allowing Biden – who at the time was managing U.S. involvement in two foreign wars – to become “solely focused on foreign affairs.”
Klain did not specify which of Biden's close aides he held responsible for those failings.
A spokesperson for Biden declined to comment.
Joe Biden’s former chief of staff is disputing the portrayal of his remarks about the former president’s preparedness for last year’s disastrous campaign debate with Donald Trump, telling POLITICO that he blames the president’s senior aides — not Biden himself — for the debacle that eventually forced him from the race.
“I think the framing is wrong,” Ron Klain said over text after The Guardian described him as painting a “devastating picture” of Biden’s mental and physical state in an interview for a forthcoming book. “My point wasn’t that the president lacked mental acuity … He was out of it because he had been [sidelined], not because he lacked capacity.”
Klain, Biden’s chief of staff for two years who later helped run preparations for the June debate, criticized Biden’s team at the White House for failing to keep the president focused on addressing Americans’ eroding support for his domestic agenda and the economy overall. As a result, Biden struggled on the debate stage to offer a vision for tackling inflation and lay out a second-term agenda.
“He had been isolated from domestic politics by a WH team unplugged from hill Dems,” Klain said via text, allowing Biden – who at the time was managing U.S. involvement in two foreign wars – to become “solely focused on foreign affairs.”
Klain did not specify which of Biden's close aides he held responsible for those failings.
A spokesperson for Biden declined to comment.
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Klain is backtracking now - Spanky KU - 4/3 10:55:03