President Joe Biden’s family’s ‘damaging’ response to Donald Trump debate fiasco as they seek to ‘settle old scores’ and seize control | Daily Mail Online
They blame his staff for failing to adequately prepare him for the debate and more broadly for not putting him in a position to show his strengths.
‘I believe the family has witnessed blunder after blunder by key staff personnel and the debate is likely the straw that broke the camel’s back,’ one of 13 sources close to the president told NBC.
‘Post-debate, the supposed loyal staff, instead of taking responsibility, pointed the finger back at the president and said: ‘His fault.’ I can think of no other singular action that would agitate the Biden family more.’
Aides in turn believe the president’s family is blinded to the political realities by emotion and likened their ‘unhelpful’ meddling to a Shakespearean drama.
‘The debate fiasco has opened up a lane for the family to surpass staff and start helping out their father and brother who they love dearly,’ another insider said.
Biden’s closest family visited the White House over the past week to console him after the debate and plot the next steps.
They included his sister Valerie Owens, and son Hunter and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, along with various grandchildren who came for July 4th celebrations.