Joe Biden’s new book Promise Me, America will be published November 17.
There is an excerpt published in the Atlantic:
Any thoughts if this memoir will have much readership or will quickly sail into oblivion considering that lots of Democrats place a substantial part of the blame for Trump’s reelection on Biden?
Depends on value of “much” … He has his fans and has a perspective. But Biden saying what we all know about Trump, and probably not taking ownership of how he and his own ego contributed to Trump’s second election, is not likely to be a must read.
I’m not sure to what extent anyone would be that interested in Biden’s memoirs in general, but I am pretty sure everyone reading his assertion that Trump should be held responsible for the January 6 insurrection is going to come to the same conclusion, which is “Why didn’t you fucking do something about it, then?”
I think it would be interesting, given the sheer number of years in government he could discuss, as well as the changes seen over that time.
I think that Biden wanted a return to the status quo after his election, and felt “surely, we can do that” and was rather willfully blind that NO, no we can’t.
Because, Democrats.
What could he do? Remember, Republican Congress.
Was his DoJ “Republican”?
No. Just Justice Ailleen Cannon, Thomas Alito, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney-Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and the supreme court of Georgia.
Trump has indictments and court dates set throughout 2024 and Republican Justices were happy to subvert all reasonable legal precedent on his behalf. Spending as much time as possible before dropping the “president’s are immune to prosecution for official acts” in the Summer before the election.
The existence of this administration and its excesses have only happened because partisan Republicans have intervened on his behalf over and over again. Starting with the Hillary “email” announcement on election eve, and following through McConnell’s refusal to convict after both impeachments, and going all the way through a few days ago where a judge permitted Trump’s bs lawsuit against the BBC to take place in Florida because someone watched on a VPN.
Joe Biden deserves blame for not knowing his own body and how fatigued he’d be running for president as president. But if Biden had appointed an AG whose mandate was indicting Republicans responsible for January 6th, it would not have prevented the same partisan court interventions on DJT’s behalf.
True. OTHER people involved did get indicted and even convicted (only to get pardoned later) but Trump himself was protected. Partly, yes, by the administration’s own decision to meticulously dot every i and cross every t so as to avoid looking vengeful or partisan but also by so many courts bending over backwards to not put hands on a former POTUS and grant him every dilatory motion, and the Republicans in Congress being cowards.
Excellent post, but I’d argue that it went back further than that. When Obama wanted to put out a bipartisan statement condemning Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Mitch “Just die already” McConnell rejected the idea, and threatened to assert that Obama was interfering in the election if he said anything.