Over the four years President Joe Biden has spent in the Oval Office, Americans have gotten used to the original reason for his remarks and actions morphing over the hours and days after he says and does them–often with a revised White House transcript of a speech or a word salad of incoherence attempting to explain everything away from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
In December, we learned that Biden would make one last foreign trip before leaving office to visit the Holy See in Rome and, as my colleague Nick Arama wrote, the announcement being unfurled wasn’t the last word on why the president was visiting Pope Francis in Italy.
Originally, the reason Biden’s staffers gave for the trip (which was scrapped later; I’m getting to that) was that Pres. Biden and the Pontiff would discuss world peace; then reports claimed Biden was going for more personal…
