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Washington Post
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
‘Original Sin' indicts the ‘cover-up' of a steeply declining Joe Biden
In December 2022, Jon Favreau, a co-host of the massively popular liberal podcast 'Pod Save America,' took his family to visit the White House. Favreau, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, had extensive connections within the Biden administration and brought his family along to visit his old stomping grounds. After a brief detour to say hello to a friend, Favreau went to his old office and was surprised to find President Joe Biden sitting there, charming his family. Not only that, the president had recognized Favreau's mother-in-law from a fundraiser she had attended years earlier; he soon invited the whole group to the Oval Office, where he regaled them with a blow-by-blow account of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's failed confirmation hearings in 1987. The president's staff seemed either blithely unaware that he was devoting a huge chunk of a weekday afternoon to story time or unwilling to intervene, but then again, Biden had always been a yapper.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Pod Save America' host: Dems have to ‘rip the f—–g Band-Aid off' on Biden
(The Hill) — 'Pod Save America' host Jon Favreau advised Democrats who aspire to run for president in 2028 to 'rip the f—ing Band-Aid off' and say that President Biden shouldn't have run last year. 'The answer is, he shouldn't have run for a second term. And when he did run for a second term, he should have stepped down much earlier after the debate, and his close advisers shouldn't have told him to run again, and they shouldn't have told him he was going to win,' Favreau, a former top Obama aide, said during a Friday episode of 'Pod Save America' podcast. 'I think that every Democratic politician, particularly those who want to lead the party and want to run in 2028, have to just rip the f—ing Band-Aid off,' Favreau added. Favreau's remarks came as the podcast's co-hosts were discussing Biden's Thursday appearance on ABC's 'The View.' While on 'The View,' Biden denied reporting that he suggested to former Vice President Harris, the 2024 Democratic Party nominee, to have 'no daylight' between his and her positions on issues. 'First of all, I never advised her against that,' Biden said during his first major U.S. television interview since President Trump took office on Jan. 20. It was Biden's second postpresidency interview after talking to the BBC earlier this week. He also acknowledged that he felt a degree of responsibility for Trump's victory, while defending his decision not to drop out sooner. Some Democrats have criticized Biden, contending his reemergence in the public scene is hindering the party in its effort to recuperate after suffering losses in the 2024 election. Others argued the former president must 'take responsibility for his actions' and 'own up to the fact that he caused Democrats to lose.' 'I don't think there's a willingness to cop to the fact that he should never have run again in the first place,' one Democratic Party strategist told The Hill. 'Why can't he come out and acknowledge that part of this is on him?' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Pod Save America' host: Democrats have to ‘rip the f‑‑‑ing Band-Aid off' on Biden
'Pod Save America' host Jon Favreau advised Democrats who aspire to run for president in 2028 to 'rip the f‑‑‑ing Band-Aid off' and say that former President Biden shouldn't have run last year. 'The answer is, he shouldn't have run for a second term. And when he did run for a second term, he should have stepped down much earlier after the debate, and his close advisers shouldn't have told him to run again, and they shouldn't have told him he was going to win,' Favreau, a former top aide to then-President Obama, said during a Friday episode of his 'Pod Save America' podcast. 'I think that every Democratic politician, particularly those who want to lead the party and want to run in 2028, have to just rip the f‑‑‑ing Band-Aid off,' Favreau added. Favreau's remarks came as the podcast's co-hosts were discussing Biden's Thursday appearance on ABC's 'The View.' While on 'The View,' Biden denied reporting that he suggested to former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic Party nominee, to have 'no daylight' between his and her positions on issues. 'First of all, I never advised her against that,' Biden said during his first major U.S. television interview since President Trump took office on Jan. 20. It was Biden's second postpresidency interview after talking to the BBC earlier this week. He also acknowledged that he felt a degree of responsibility for Trump's victory, while defending his decision not to drop out sooner. Some Democrats have criticized Biden, contending his reemergence in the public scene is hindering the party in its effort to recuperate after suffering losses in the 2024 election. Others argued the former president must 'take responsibility for his actions' and 'own up to the fact that he caused Democrats to lose.' 'I don't think there's a willingness to cop to the fact that he should never have run again in the first place,' one Democratic Party strategist told The Hill. 'Why can't he come out and acknowledge that part of this is on him?' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
09-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
‘Pod Save America' host: Democrats have to ‘rip the f—ing Band-Aid off' on Biden
'Pod Save America' host Jon Favreau advised Democrats who aspire to run for president in 2028 to 'rip the f—ing Band-Aid off' and say that President Biden shouldn't have run last year. 'The answer is, he shouldn't have run for a second term. And when he did run for a second term, he should have stepped down much earlier after the debate, and his close advisers shouldn't have told him to run again, and they shouldn't have told him he was going to win,' Favreau, a former top Obama aide, said during a Friday episode of 'Pod Save America' podcast. 'I think that every Democratic politician, particularly those who want to lead the party and want to run in 2028, have to just rip the f—ing Band-Aid off,' Favreau added. Favreau's remarks came as the podcast's co-hosts were discussing Biden's Thursday appearance on ABC's 'The View.' While on 'The View,' Biden denied reporting that he suggested to former Vice President Harris, the 2024 Democratic Party nominee, to have 'no daylight' between his and her positions on issues. 'First of all, I never advised her against that,' Biden said during his first major U.S. television interview since President Trump took office on Jan. 20. It was Biden's second postpresidency interview after talking to the BBC earlier this week. He also acknowledged that he felt a degree of responsibility for Trump's victory, while defending his decision not to drop out sooner. Some Democrats have criticized Biden, contending his reemergence in the public scene is hindering the party in its effort to recuperate after suffering losses in the 2024 election. Others argued the former president must 'take responsibility for his actions' and 'own up to the fact that he caused Democrats to lose.' 'I don't think there's a willingness to cop to the fact that he should never have run again in the first place,' one Democratic Party strategist told The Hill. 'Why can't he come out and acknowledge that part of this is on him?'
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Obama Aide Lays Into ‘Weirdo' Stephen Miller in Fiery Clash
Ex-Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau continued his beef with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday after the pair got into a very public name-calling spat a day earlier. Favreau celebrated the Trump administration's first 100 Days by posting a video highlighting some of Miller's apparent accomplishments. Among those was the administration's deportation of a 4-year-old child with cancer. 'The words 'normal' and 'human' aren't typically used to describe Stephen Miller, my White House predecessor and current Twitter bestie,' Favreau said in the clip, titled, 'What @StephenM has accomplished in 100 Days.' The two had argued on X on Monday night over the span of six hours; Miller calling Favreau a 'remorseless sociopath' and Favreau retaliating by calling him and the Trump administration 'insecure little b---hes.' Favreau reiterated Miller's 'remorseless sociopath' accusations on Tuesday, pleading with viewers: 'let's not give Stephen Miller what he wants. Make sure he knows we're not afraid of his bulls--- and we're not afraid of a guy who got stuffed in one too many lockers at Santa Monica High School.' He finished by labelling Miller a 'f---ing weirdo.' It all started when Favreau slid his way into a back-and-forth argument on X between Miller and Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, with the Trump aide berating McBride for being transgender. 'The lead healthcare spokesman for the House Democrats is a man pretending to be a woman,' he wrote on X. Their argument came to a close when Miller claimed he 'won't stop protecting American children' from abuse in the form of 'mutilating trans surgeries, disfiguring medical amputations and irreversible chemical castrations.' That's when Favreau stepped in, reminding Miller: 'You just deported a 4-year-old citizen with cancer so it doesn't seem like you give a shit about protecting American children.' Less than an hour later, Miller responded: 'Jon: you supported a president, Joe Biden, who imported child rapists and trafficked half a million children. The Trump Administration ended child trafficking across the border.' He added how 'your shrill, lying propaganda will not erase or reduce your complicity in these monstrous crimes.' Favreau didn't back down, instead advising Miller to 'spend less time on your deportation porn lawn signs and more time on your legal arguments now that a Trump judge has asked you to dispel his 'strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.'' The comment was a reference to the bizarre stunt the administration pulled Monday, which left the north lawn of the White House littered with mugshots of undocumented migrants staffers claimed were arrested during Trump's second term. The posters were strategically placed along 'Pebble Beach,' which is the background for many tV correspondents' live shots. A White House official told Axios that their goal was to have them show up on air. Miller took insult to this jab, telling Favreau that he thought his predecessor was just a 'hapless moron,' but now sees he's a 'remorseless sociopath.' 'The photos you find so amusing, Jon, are the mug shots of illegal aliens who raped and tortured women and children — the illegals that Democrats are fighting to protect' Miller wrote. Favreau fired back: 'Yeah, we didn't litter the White House lawn with photos of criminals deported under Obama because we weren't insecure little b---hes.' 'Not sure why you think any of us need protecting from a 4-year-old cancer patient or a pregnant mother but I guess that's why you're so beloved,' he quipped. But the argument wasn't over. Miller added a 'PS' claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 'honors' migrant's requests to bring their children home with them. Favreau couldn't help himself from responding with his own 'PPS,' citing evidence of a mother being forced to be deported with her U.S.-born children. 'You're lying like you lie about everything, which is why you keep causing your boss to lose in court over and over again, even in front of judges he appointed,' he said. Miller was already fighting hard Monday against polls from various news outlets that showed Trump's disapproval ratings sitting at around 55 percent. 'I don't want to make things awkward for you, John, but it is our opinion that Fox News needs to fire its pollster,' Miller told Fox News anchor John Roberts Monday, who described the president's approval ratings as 'well underwater.'
