Speaking to the Associated Press [AP], 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden expressed reservations about his upcoming debate with 74-year-old President Donald Trump, insisting that everyone’s knows Trump doesn’t tell the truth. Biden said recently he’d serve as a “fact-checker” in the debate, when he has trouble remembering simple things like his whereabouts or what he’s running for. Joe’s kidding himself that when confronted with questions by journalists, no matter how sympathetic to his cause, they won’t be able to give him the answers or provide him with a teleprompter. “I hope I don’t take the bait,” Biden told the AP, meaning he’s concerned Trump would bring something up that would get under his skin. Well, wonder what that would be? Trump’s going to talk about Joe landing his 50-year-old son Hunter a $83,000 a month job while running former President Barack Obama’s anti-corruption task force.
No one in the press asks Joe about his past dealings with Ukraine, relying on the pat answers that it’s all “Russian disinformation.” Well, since Joes’s going to “fact check,” did he help his son land a lucrative job at a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company? Because Joe takes no questions from the press, responding typically with, “C’mon man,” refusing to answer or getting surly, things will be very different when he can’t hide behind carefully controlled media questions. He knows the media wants him to defeat Trump but Joe also knows he’ll have to respond to questions. How he responds will say as much as what he says, especially when it comes to controversial subjects like his support for the Iraq War, toppling Libyan Col. Muammar Gaddafi and backing the Saudi proxy war in Syria. When asked about those questions, Joe won’t be able to say, “C’com man,” without raising eyebrows.
Instead of worrying about what Trump’s going to do in the debates, Biden knows he’s got a real problem preparing for the debates when his memory’s failing. “I hope I don’t get baited into a brawl with this guy, because that the only place he’s comfortable,” Biden said Thurdsay at a fund-raiser. Trump been tested in numerous presidential debates, never got into a “brawl” with anyone, some of the smartest, best prepared and most experience politicians in the country during the Republican primaries and presidential debates with Hillary. Biden’s not worried about Trump brawling, he’s worried about losing his temper, something that happens easily for Joe when he can’t answer questions or can’t defend himself, becoming combative when he backed up against the wall. Trump’s exactly the opposite, charming, disarming, flattering, anything but combative.
No one in the press would point that out to Joe because they’re afraid of his defensive reaction. Trump’s got far more recent history debating than Biden, something that worries his handlers that have deliberately kept Joe away from reporters unless his remarks are carefully scripted. Biden says people know “what a liar” Trump is, but that’s the anti-Trump press or his handlers constantly accusing Trump of lying. But apart from a campaign strategy, Biden’s going to have to back up incendiary statements with facts, something his handlers know is beyond his capability. “This is a guy who is absolutely tasteless. Completely tasteless. So pointing it out doesn’t do much,” Biden admitted, not sure how he’ll react to the back-and-forth. Biden told AP, he thinks Trump will say “awful things about me and my family,” Biden, said after telling the AP, “this is a guy that is absolutely tasteless.”
Joe thinks talking about anything that makes him uncomfortable is off limits. Just like his handlers or the Democrat-friendly press, they think Joe can be shielded from tough questions that deviate from his script. Well, in a spontaneous debate, even having questions in advance won’t help Joe. When former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton debated Trump in 2016, she was so insecure she got debate questions in advance from acting Democrat National Committee [DNC] Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Brazile was fired by the DNC, once it was exposed by a serious of hacks released by WikiLeaks. Whether Joe gets debate questions in advance is anyone’s guess. One thing’s for sure, Trump won’t get them. But Trump doesn’t really need them since he’s been baptized by fire by a hostile press for the last four years, subjected to the most combative press witnessed by any president in modern history.
Beating Trump daily with every question under the sun, Trump has been well-prepared for any debate situation, not worried at all at what’s going to be thrown at him. Biden, on the other hand, has reason to be nervous since he’s answered practically no questions about any controversial topic, like landing Hunter a lucrative job in Ukraine or his position on foreign wars. “The place he’s most uncomfortable is on the facts. The place he’s most uncomfortatble is the area of what he’s going to do. The place he’s most uncomfortable is know the policy. He’s one of the most ill-informed presidents substantively that I’ve ever worked with,” Biden, said knowing, he’s never worked with Trump. Biden’s reading talking points, not realizing Trump’s completely comfortable on policy, facts, implementation. Biden apparently hasn’t listened to the unprecedented number of press conference over the last four years.
