In a new book titled The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, author Chris Whipple details how President Joe Biden and his administration have dealt with the surging numbers of immigrants crossing over the south border from Mexico throughout 2021.
He interviewed White House aides, who claim that Biden was furious with the issues and could be heard “dropping f-bombs” all over the West Wing.
Whipple wrote that the border crisis and vaccine information are the two issues that troubled Biden the most.
“Meanwhile, illegal immigrants kept arriving. And Biden was furious,” the book states. “Aides had rarely seen him so angry.”
The book continued, “From all over the West Wing, you could hear the president cursing, dropping f-bombs (he’d always apologize when women were present).”
Daily Mail reports:
There were more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in 2021, and more than 2.3 million this year.
Border agents have on multiple months recorded more than 200,000 encounters.
One senior adviser, according to a Fox News, which obtained an advance copy of the book, told Whipple that the frustration came from a ‘lack of solutions.’
‘It’s like, “How would you feel if you were me and these were the solutions you had?” It’s the weight of the presidency, right?’ the adviser said.
Whipple also describes Biden as ‘on a short fuse’ on a separate issue later in the year.
‘Early in his term he had reserved the f-bomb mostly for discussions of the southern border, but lately he was using it more often,’ the book says.
The book, which goes on sale on January 17, has already made headlines for reporting that Biden once described Vice President Kamala Harris as a ‘work in progress.’
Biden made Harris his border point-person – a role that Barack Obama had given him.
Harris has been criticized for seemingly failing to give the issue enough attention.
The situation has worsened in recent months as Title 42 – a pandemic-era policy forcing migrants to return across the border immediately while they wait the processing of their claim – is set to expire.
Earlier this month, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden “has done the work” to secure our southern border.
She was asked about the ending of Title 42, which allows U.S. authorities to turn immigrants away due to the pandemic emergency, and one of the few tools that the Biden Administration retained from former President Donald Trump’s policies.
Jean-Pierre replied, “What Americans should know is that the president has done the work to deal with what we’re seeing at the border since Day One.”
Jean-Pierre: "[Republicans] want to secure the border. We've been doing that work on our own."pic.twitter.com/W6lZakxjzH
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“We continue to see political stunts from many Republicans out there and that’s not how we’re going to fix this issue. They want to secure the border, we’ve been doing that work on our own, and we’re asking them to hey, you know what [sic], there’s an immigration reform plan that the president put out on the first day, they should work with us and do this in a bipartisan way,” she added.
I just don’t buy any of it. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
