Ezra Klein has an interview with Jake Tapper out today, though the interview itself took place a few days ago. Klein opens with what is meant to be a thought provoking question: Was the White House really lying about Biden or did they believe what they were saying? It’s a long conversation but I think Tapper convinces him that, while some in the White House may have been high on their own supply, there were definitely people who knew better. Those people at the top, the Politburo as they were called, were lying to everyone including themselves. [Klein’s comments are bolded below.]
…I’ll tell you that this disaster that happened with Joe Biden running for re-election and then the cover-up of what he was like behind the scenes — what Robert Hur saw — was orchestrated by Joe and Jill and Hunter and Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti. There are other…