What can we call a situation where an incumbent president who already won his party’s renomination disappears for several days … and then suddenly withdraws from the race? Especially when the said incumbent had spent the previous three weeks in public insisting he would remain the nominee while his party conspired to pressure him into retirement? And then only withdraws via a tweeted letter, and almost 48 hours later still has not been seen publicly?
We could call it a typical Joe Biden operation, frankly. It’s the Kabul of political retirements. At least no one died and no Americans got abandoned to terrorists in this withdrawal.
The New York Post reached a different conclusion yesterday. Biden didn’t so much withdraw or retire, they claim, as succumb to extortion in a palace coup:
Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened President Biden with…