Once Joe Biden knuckled under to tremendous pressure to drop out of the race, Biden’s advisers went out to proclaim he was like…George Washington? That was former Newsweek editor, “historian” and Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham on Monday’s Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough read from his New York Times op-ed and put the gushy words on screen for his hardcore-Democrat audience.
“Mr. Biden has spent a lifetime trying to do right by the nation, and he did so in the most epic of ways when he chose to end his campaign for re-election. His decision is one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history. An act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington, who also stepped away from the presidency.”
Willie Geist told Meacham he was interested in his take as a Biden friend and adviser, but “also has a historian.” Out…
