Anita Dunn, senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is the reported “fall guy” among the president’s closest advisers for his infamous debate performance.
Democrats are in disarray, and many appear ready to cast Biden aside as the party’s nominee. Biden, whom Special Counsel Robert Hur described as “an elderly man with a poor memory,” took ownership of his poor debate performance and vowed to do better next time.
Convicted felon Hunter Biden, however, accused Dunn of “setting Mr. Biden up for failure in the debate and for curbing his public appearances,” the New York Times reported:
Biden family members and allies have accused Ms. Dunn and others, publicly and privately, of setting Mr. Biden up for failure in the debate and for curbing his public appearances — a charge her defenders in the White House say is unfair. Mr. Biden has told members of his debate preparation team, which was led by Mr. Klain and a cast of other aides including Mr. Reed and Mr. Donilon, that he is not upset with them, two people familiar with those discussions said.
Hunter Biden, who was recently convicted on felony gun charges, has also been frustrated by the approach taken by Ms. Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, Mr. Biden’s personal attorney, to put some distance between the president and his son’s legal troubles. The president’s son disputed accounts that there were tensions.
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Still, the tension between Ms. Dunn and some in Mr. Biden’s inner circle has risen since the debate, according to people familiar with the dynamic, and Ms. Dunn has expressed her frustrations to allies.
Hunter and the White House denied the report. “I have nothing but gratitude for Bob and Anita who have tirelessly supported my entire family personally and professionally for years, and continue to do so today and going forward,” said Hunter, who reports say is his father’s “acting chief of staff.”
As Democrats face party infighting, Biden said Tuesday he would reevaluate his candidacy for president if his doctors told him he had a medical issue.
“If I had some medical condition that emerged,” Biden told BET News’s Ed Gordon on Tuesday upon being asked if he would reconsider his decision to stay in the race. “If doctors came to me and said, ‘You got this problem, that problem.’”
Several top Democrats privately told Axios Thursday that Biden would step aside as the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee as “soon as this weekend,”Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
