Washington Post anti-Trump columnist George Will offered a scathing assessment of President Biden's “failed” presidency in a column Wednesday.
“Joe Biden’s failed presidency is coming to an end with a storm of decisions that justify voters rejecting him as vice president, but even when asked, there are no flaws in his record. It was unthinkable,” Will said, adding Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. They came from the opposite direction and pretended they weren't. ”
The columnist said: Some of the president's inner circle “persuaded him that he should be another Franklin D. Roosevelt” and that it led to him running “as a synthetic centrist who couldn't outrun her genuine progressivism.” “It destroyed the vice president who served as president.”
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Washington Post anti-Trump columnist George Will takes a critical look back at the Biden administration's accomplishments as the president's term comes to a close. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
The column said the American Rescue Plan “raised demand for goods and services beyond the economy's productive capacity.”
The Biden administration's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion package, will help Americans suffering in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing stimulus and local funding to help rebuild the economy. It is intended to. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $402.2 billion of the $1.9 trillion package was earmarked for stimulus checks for Americans who lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis.
Will continued to slam the Biden administration's lax spending, highlighting the administration's rush to “throw the spending door wide open by January 20,” three weeks before the 2024 election.
The administration provided nearly $8 billion in subsidies to computer chip maker Intel, which lost $16.6 billion last quarter. The chipmaker's CEO resigned five days later, and Intel's board said this would open the door to “recovering investor confidence,” but Will said “the Biden administration's investors in other people's money will “I already had a very high level of trust.”
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President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, speaking from the Oval Office at the White House. (Mandel Gunn/Pool via AP)
The Post's columnist also said, “No one in the media has been able to get the press to talk to more Americans than Biden, who has issued hyperbolic warnings about the dangers of Americans imposing 'Jim Crow 2.0' and voting for 'semi-fascism.' No previous president has ever used it in an insulting manner.”
“Biden said Democrats will save American democracy in 2024. Relief will likely begin after Democrats finish their attempts to bar Biden's opponents from voting and jail them.” Will He criticized.
The column goes on to criticize the Biden administration's “extralegal overreach,” including “a moratorium on evictions, mandatory vaccinations, student loan forgiveness, and increased censorship ('content moderation') of social media companies. He pointed to a “judicial reprimand'' that “puts pressure on the government to do so.'' “) Speech that is a nuisance to the government (“disinformation''). ”
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Joe Biden was criticized by Washington Post columnist George Will for pardoning his son Hunter. (Getty Images/Reuters)
Biden's reversal of his son Hunter's involvement in his “economic escapades” drew condemnation from a Post columnist, who said the president “initially didn't know about them, then wasn't involved in them. , then you will not be able to benefit from them. ”
Will added: “To the suspect, this looks like a 'big man' (as Hunter referred to Biden in one of his businesses) pre-emptively protecting Hunter and possibly other family members.” he claimed.
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Will ended his column with a blistering take on Biden's legacy, writing: “A bipartisan chorus of critics argued that a pardon would damage Biden's legacy. Damage? Britain's historic sites In the past, signs were posted threatening to prosecute anyone who “damaged the site.'' “”
