The outgoing shadow president, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, served up a ghastly example on Wednesday of why it’s bad form to suck up to the boss, even when the boss isn’t really the boss at all, as in the case of Old Joe Biden. With the putative president standing to his right, looking down modestly, Klain tearfully declared: “I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden.” As he continued to blubber away, here Klain gave us a loud sniffle.
Then he continued: “He’s the best father and role model I know. And along the way, he’s taught me a thing or two about politics and policy as well.” On the video, a sign-language performer energetically translated this grotesque display for the hearing-impaired, albeit, disappointingly enough, without any sign for Klain’s massive sniffle.
Ron Klain breaks down in tears at the White House: “I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden. He's the best father and role model I know.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 1, 2023
The “best father and role model I know”? Old Joe Biden? Does Klain only know five people and four of them are in maximum security prisons? Joe Biden, after all, is the father of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has just finally admitted that his infamous laptop really is his, and so it’s undeniable: he’s been addicted to crack cocaine, spent thousands of dollars on prostitutes, and worst of all, apparently sold access to his father. The pictures of a skeevy Hunter passed out with a crack pipe in his mouth or feebly smiling with his teeth worn away by years of drug abuse hardly indicate a well-adjusted individual.
This is not the kind of track record that usually leads people to call someone the “best father”; if Old Joe is responsible for the trajectory of Hunter’s life, that could be an even greater wrongdoing than what his handlers have been doing to the country for the last two years. Or does Ron Klain think that Biden is a “good father” because so far he has been able to keep Hunter from any prosecution or even close scrutiny of his highly questionable dealings?
Old Joe likely had a hand in engineering the infamous letter from 51 former intelligence officials that suggested that Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” even when at least some of them were well aware that this was not true. If protecting one’s son from legitimate and necessary investigation and likely prosecution by having government officials lie on his behalf is being a good father, then Joe Biden is an excellent father. If the head of a crime family strong-arming people to keep his son away from the long arm of the law makes a good father, Old Joe is a great one.
Joe Biden has other children as well. There was Beau, Hunter’s older brother, who died of cancer at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland in May 2015. On Oct. 12, 2022, Biden claimed that Beau “lost his life in Iraq.” Nov. 1, 2022, Old Joe said it again: “Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq… Excuse me the war in Ukraine. I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died.” Beau Biden left Iraq in September 2009, alive and well, and was not diagnosed with the cancer that killed him until Aug. 2013. Does lying about the circumstances of one’s son’s death in order to score cheap political sympathy points make one the “best father”? If so, Old Joe Biden is one of the very best fathers ever.
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Joe Biden also has a daughter, Ashley Biden. Echoing the saga of her brother Hunter’s laptop, Ashley left her diary behind in a halfway house where she was staying to combat a drug addiction. The corrupt and compromised FBI went to extraordinary lengths to recover Ashley’s diary, and it’s easy to see why: in a Jan. 2019 entry, she recalls “showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).” Probably?
The establishment media, since it is the Democrats’ propaganda arm, has said nothing about this, but even the New York Times has admitted that the diary is authentic. A father showering with his daughter? That’s what Ron Klain thinks makes a good father? Here again, it may be that Old Joe has taken steps to keep Ashley’s diary from the public scrutiny it deserves, and that may be why Klain thinks he has been such a success as a parent.
In any case, the blubbering Klain, who has three children who have (mercifully) already grown into adulthood, is either a fool or a liar. And he has likely been the de facto president for the last two years. No wonder we’re in the fix we’re in.
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