Speaking during lunch with CNN Jamie Gangel and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), 82-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked that they not discuss 76-year-old former President Donald Trump while they’re eating, speculating about his run for president in 2024. Anytime CNN or House and Senate Democrats get a chance, the slam Trump for just about everything. Schumer and Pelosi announced their wholehearted support of 80-year-old Joe Biden, claiming he’s done a wonderful job as president. Democrats hope that by the time Joe runs again, the runaway inflation and foreign wars will be over, though 2023 looks for the worst of it. Pelosi and Schumer praise Biden for his pandemic relieve and infrastructure bills, costing the U.S. Treasury trillions and fueling the worst inflation in 40 years. Yet to Pelosi and Schumer, it’s all Trump’s fault.
Biden won’t face Trump in 2024 though Trump will give it his best shot running against a bevy of GOP candidates, all seeking the big prize. Whether admitted to or not by Trump or his backers, a recent USA TODAY/Suffolk Univ. poll showed that at least 50% pf GOP voters have moved on from Trump. So if Biden does choose to run in 2024, he’s going to run against a much younger candidate, possibly 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Matching up an 82-year-old against a 46-year-old would give many voters reason to crossover and attract independents to DeSantis. Asked about a second Trump term, Pelosi said Trump is in need of intervention by his family of someone else. Yucking it up with CNN is a favorite pastime for Democrats, most recently watching Trump’s Non-Fungible-Token [NFT] playing cards making him millions with so much public interest.
CNN and Democrats don’t get that the GOP has largely moved on from Trump, knowing that he won’t represent the party in 2014. CNN and Democrats would like nothing more that to run against Trump in 2024 because he’s an easily beatable in 2024. Republicans, independents and crossover Democrats look in 2024 for a fresh face, not necessarily 82-year-old Joe Biden. No one knows how the economy will resolve itself or the war in Ukraine but voters aren’t happy with the way things have gone. “I don’t think he’s on the level, not,” Pelosi told CNN’s Gangel regarding Trump’s mental health. Democrats tried but failed to get Trump removed from office under the 25th Amendment, saying he wasn’t fit for office. Democrats and press had nothing good to say about Trump’s presidency, only accusing him of colluding with Russia and other dictators around the planet
Schumer told Gangel that Pelosi knew how to deal with Trump, having raised a big family, knowing how to deal with an obstreperous child. “I tell people, Nancy instinctively knew how to handle Trump, because for her first your, 25 or 40 years of life, she raised five children, and she knew hoe to deal with children. An that’s what helped her deal with Trump, because he ultimately was child,” Schumer said. Despised by Democrats and the press, Trump got zero credit for keeping the nation out of foreign wars and the economy strong. No one talked about runaway inflation under Trump’s four years. Trump preserved decades of diplomacy with U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, something Biden trashed when taking office. Things are so bad with U.S.-Russian relations, the Kremlin is close to breaking off diplomatic relations, the same thing can be said for Communist China.
Democrats and press sling disinformation around like a football, saying Biden has done such a fantastic job as president. U.S. national security is worse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Biden engaged in a proxy war using Ukrainian troops to fight the Kremlin. When it comes to China, Biden infuriated Beijing saying Sept. 23 that the U.S. would defend Taiwan with U.S. troops. Biden’s foreign policy has been a disaster for U.S. national security, pushing the U.S. and Communist China into a military confrontation. When it comes to the U.S. or global economy, nothing has been more damaging than Biden’s Russian oil embargo, causing global shortages and spiraling prices. Did Pelosi and Schumer really like watching Biden fist-bump Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? Biden said he would never recognize Bin Salman because of the Oct. 2, 2018 death of Jamal Khashoggi.
Pelosi, Schumer and CNN don’t get that Republicans have moved on from Trump, no longer a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination. Contrasting 82-year-old Biden with DeSantis, a relative unknown, the recent USA TODAY/Suffolk Univ. poll showed DeSantis beating Biden 47% to 40%. So, Nancy and Chuck can yuck it up with CNN making fun of Trump, knowing that he won’t represent the GOP. If Biden can’t figure out how to end the Ukraine War, it’s not likely the U.S. and global economy will get much better over the next two years. When it comes to foreign policy, Biden has been a slow moving train wreck. U.S. officials can’t afford to be at war with the Kremlin much longer before Biden sets the European Continent ablaze. EU leaders are waking up to Biden’s disastrous proxy war against the Kremlin. Zelensky wants Patriot Missiles, but the EU and NATO don’t want war with Russia.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
