Jill Biden’s former aide dished out some brutal honesty to his former boss and her husband as he encouraged them to stick to retirement and leave politics behind.
Michael LaRosa, who worked as Jill’s press secretary from 2021 to 2022, believes the Biden camp’s team is pulling all the wrong moves since Biden left office on January 20.
‘I love both Bidens dearly, but staff loyalty means there is a responsibility to provide them with an honest situational awareness, especially when it comes to their public image, no matter how hurtful it is to hear,’ LaRosa told The Hill.
‘Biden’s reemergence, while it changed very little in the news cycle, provided a detour for the president to distract his cadre of supporters with Biden taunts and blame, giving Fox News nearly 48 hours of fresh new programming, taking editorial aim at the former president instead of the current one.’
The former aide accused the Bidens’ advisors of not having their ‘hand on the pulse of the Democratic Party or national politics’ with their timing of the former president’s reemergence.
‘They would have understood the intense level of anger or indifference to them that remains inside our party and isn’t going away anytime soon,’ he told The Hill of what a competent advisor would have noticed.
‘It’s a heartbreaking and tragic ending to their time in public life, but it’s also the truth, and they should index the political realities into their decision-making.’
Joe stepped back into the public spotlight on Tuesday for his first post-presidential address to criticize President Donald Trump’s dismantling of Social Security.
Michael LaRosa, who worked as Jill’s press secretary from 2021 to 2022, believes the Biden camp’s team is pulling all the wrong moves since Biden left office on January 20. ‘I love both Bidens dearly, but staff loyalty means there is a responsibility to provide them with an honest situational awareness,’ he said
The former aide accused the Bidens’ advisors of not having their ‘hand on the pulse of the Democratic Party or national politics’ with their timing of the former president’s reemergence
‘Who in the hell do they think they are?’ Biden loudly asked.
While it was clear he was aiming his ire at Trump and Musk, he refused to say their names during his nearly 30-minute speech.
‘Why are these guys taking aim at Social Security now?’ the former president asked. ‘They’re following that old line from tech startups – the quote is “move fast, break things.” They’re certainly breaking things. They’re shooting first and aiming later.’
Trump took the hit personally and went back at his predecessor, whom he called the ‘worst president in the history of the United States.’
Despite that Biden did not bring up immigration, Trump hit back: ‘Sorry, but it’s my job to get these killers and thugs out of here,’ the president added. ‘THAT’S WHAT I GOT ELECTED TO DO. MAGA!’
LaRosa also hit out on Jill posting a photo of her in a pasta aisle of a grocery store ahead of Easter.
‘Getting ready for Easter…I can’t wait to see our kids and grandkids,’ Jill wrote on her Instagram Story.
‘Ugh. Even in their post-presidency, they’re surrounded by staff with primitive instincts for PR or communicating publicly in ways that broaden and enhance their images,’ LaRosa wrote on X.
LaRosa also hit out on Jill posting a photo of her in a pasta aisle of a grocery store ahead of Easter. ‘Whose idea was it to pose for a picture in a grocery store, as if it’s somehow novel or unique to the rest of us?’ he questioned
‘Whose idea was it to pose for a picture in a grocery store, as if it’s somehow novel or unique to the rest of us?’ he continued.
‘The biggest problem for the Bidens, still, is the staff who keep them disconnected from modern and authentic means of speaking to their supporters and followers.’
Other strategists agreed with LaRosa that Biden peeking his head out now was not the right time as the Democratic party is desperate trying to rebrand to battle Republicans.
A CBS poll showed that Americans have reared their heads back on Trump over his economic policies, shifting the blame from Biden.
‘The CBS News poll shows that Americans have directed their anger about the economy away from Biden and redirected it towards Trump,’ Brad Bannon told The Hill.
‘So it’s a bad time for Biden to reemerge and remind them of the bad old days.’
Joe and Jill have largely kept a low profile since leaving the White House, popping up a Broadway show and a few other places, but it seems the former president is wishing to seek a more visible platform in the last week.
Last month, it was revealed that Democrats had been secretly preparing for Joe to die in office as far back as 2023.
Joe stepped back into the public spotlight on Tuesday for his first post-presidential address to criticize President Donald Trump’s dismantling of Social Security. Trump took the hit personally, calling him the ‘worst president in the history of the United States’
Top party officials, led by former Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director Jamal Simmons, drew up contingency plans for a slew of possibilities leading up to the 2024 election.
One scenario included that ‘Biden might die in office,’ according to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ upcoming book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.
‘They wanted to make sure the party was ready for every possible circumstance if Biden launched his campaign and then stepped aside before the primaries; if he had won a bunch of primaries and then could not continue,’ the book reads, according to The Guardian.
The ‘hush-hush’ meetings focused on what the party rules said would happen in any of these circumstances ‘and how [those rules] might need to be changed, if the president no longer had the desire, or the ability to run.’
Among the plans they drew up was a ‘death-pool roster’ of judges who could swear Harris into office if the then 81-year-old president passed away, the book claims, citing two unidentified sources.