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Where Has Joe Biden Been?

America appears to have two Presidents

John Polonis
The Political Prism

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Trump and Biden
Donald Trump walking with Joe Biden at the White House; Wikimedia Commons

Democrats ran their 2024 election campaign on a platform that democracy was in grave danger. Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris warned that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the Constitution and the Republic. I wrote many times how I agreed with this, but most voters were more concerned about inflation.

Despite voicing these serious concerns, Joe Biden has been largely absent from public life since his Vice President, Kamala Harris, lost the 2024 election to Trump. He’s made few public appearances, and the biggest news he’s made was the pardoning of his own son, Hunter Biden, after saying for years that he wouldn’t.

Biden finally made an appearance on Sunday to discuss the fall of al-Assad’s regime in Syria, but it was mostly from a teleprompter. He was right that his foreign policy and the strong coalition he built to defend both Ukraine and Israel against their aggressors in Russia and Iran led to the downfall of al-Assad, who was backed by both. But the legacy-defining impact of his statement was muted by the fact Trump had already made a splashy statement of his own.

Trump had posted a “Truth” on Syria, appearing to sympathize with Russia that the war in Ukraine had hurt their ability to defend al-Assad. He even took questions from reporters with…

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