Axios: "How Biden Botched The Border"

All at once, the media turned off the Protective Force Shield they were maintaining around Grandpa Fingerbang.

Bill Melugin read the piece and digested it (so that I don't have to:)

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NEW: Brutal new reporting from @axios in article titled "How Biden Botched the Border".

- Biden exploded w/ rage at his team aboard AF1 on the way to border last year.

- Susan Rice called HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra a "bitch ass"& "idiot".

- VP Harris' team made it clear her responsibilities "began and ended" w/ root causes in just the 3 Northern Triangle counties & Mexico, w/ a former Biden admin official saying Harris has been "at best, ineffective".

- Mayorkas disagreed with Biden's 100 day halt on deportations.

- Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall displayed inexperience, asked for a memo explaining the difference between refugees & asylum seekers.

- Biden admin has listened to "vocal immigration advocates outside the administration".

- "The White House generally didn't want to talk publicly about immigration or the border for much of Biden's first three years, feeling it would draw attention to a political vulnerability."

- "Publicly, the White House also initially downplayed jumps in illegal border crossings as normal "ebbs and flows" -- even as some internally pushed to acknowledge that the problem was significant."

The article highlights a combination of infighting, incompetence, and indifference regarding the administration's handling of the border over the last 3 years.

The article is here.

Related: Jonathan Turley explain that removal of the president under 25th Amendment is a long, cumbersome process which Biden and the Democrats can easily defeat.

It is Section 4 that allows the removal of a president. One option is what I have called the "mutiny option." It requires a vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare that the president is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and notify Congress that the vice president intends to take over. If Vice President Kamala Harris could get eight Cabinet officers to go along with a letter to Congress, her status as the "Acting President" would likely be short-lived. Joe Biden (who yesterday declared, "I'm elderly and know what the hell I'm doing") would only have to declare to Congress that "no inability exists." Biden would then resume his powers.

Harris would have to send another declaration with the Cabinet members within four days to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, rejecting Biden's claims.

With that second declaration, Congress would have 48 hours to assemble to debate the issue. It would then have 21 days to vote on the removal. However, that would require two-thirds majorities in both houses. If Congress did not vote within 21 days, the president would resume and keep power.

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