The truth comes out…
In his new book journalist Bob Woodward says that President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential race wasn’t actually fueled by pressure from top Democrats, but his own son.
The book War focuses on both Trump’s and Biden’s presidencies, including the aftermath of Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June which was watched by an estimated 51 million people and the pressure it unleashed within the Democrat Party for Biden to exit the race.
Among party leaders and donors, it solidified concerns fears that Biden, 81, was no longer fit to hold his own in a rematch against Donald Trump.
According to Woodward, Biden was leaning in the direction of staying in the race on July 4th, when he met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a private lunch. Blinken, who had shown up to the lunch prepared for a difficult conversation, told Woodward that Biden still believed he could win a second term as president.
Blinken, in his telling, spoke frankly to Biden about dropping out. “I don’t want to see your legacy jeopardized,” he said.
However, among the factors ultimately driving his decision to bow out was the scrutiny and legal troubles surrounding his son Hunter Biden.
Hunter’s troubles are described in the book as Biden’s “real war”: a constant source of preoccupation for the president, who was constantly fighting against his fatherly instincts to protect his son, his “beautiful boy,” as he called him — and to reconcile the deep sense of guilt he felt, in knowing his presidency had been a driving factor behind much of the scrutiny surrounding his son.
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