Joe may be whispering into the microphone, but he’s screaming at his staff.
According to a new report from Axios entitled Old Yeller: Biden’s Private Fury, the Ol’ Uncle Joe act is dropped behind closed doors when the President is communicating with White House staff.
From Axios:
- Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.
- The president’s admonitions include: “God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!,” “Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!” and “Get the f**k out of here!” — according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.
Zoom in: Senior and lower-level aides alike can be in Biden’s line of fire. “No one is safe,” said one administration official.
- Biden aides still talk about how angry he got at Jeff Zients, then the administration’s “COVID czar,” in late 2021 when there was a shortage of testing kits as the Omicron variant spread. (The rage was temporary. Zients is now Biden’s chief of staff.)
- A spokesperson for Zients told Axios: “I’m not going to speak to what internal convos may or may not have happened between Jeff and the president.”
Some of Biden’s former aides are stepping up to defend him in the wake of the report.
“If there is something that’s not in the brief, he’s going to find it,” said Ted Kaufman, Biden’s chief of staff when he was in the Senate. “It’s not to embarrass people, it’s because he wants to get to the right decision. Most people who have worked for him like the fact that he challenges them and gets them to a better decision.”
More over at Fox News:
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