It’s not just the American people—including growing numbers of congressmen and senators—who are wondering who is actually in charge of the U.S. government, given the obvious condition of President Joe Biden. Bloomberg reported July 10 that “delegations from across Europe [at the NATO meeting] were quietly slotting in meetings with advisers and others with links to Donald Trump as they grapple with the possibility—some say likelihood—that he will reclaim the Oval Office…. Many NATO and European Union nations have asked for meetings with officials who served under Trump….”
Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is going one better. Bloomberg and other media report that he will travel later today to Mar-a-Lago to meet directly with Trump. In his capacity as EU Consilium President for the next six months, Orbán has traveled to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing in the last two weeks, to work on creating the conditions for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine war. There has been media speculation that he will discuss the same topic with Trump.
Confidence in Biden was not strengthened by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s admission on July 9 that “a team” would decide whether or not to wake President Biden in the hypothetical situation of a nuclear weapon being launched against the U.S. after he had gone to sleep—say at 11 p.m.
Peter Doocy, a Fox News White House correspondent, asked Jean-Pierre: “He [Biden] also said he’s sharpest before 8 p.m. So, say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke. It’s 11 p.m. Who do you call? The First Lady?” Jean-Pierre explained: “He has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the American people. He has someone … that is decided obviously with his National Security Council on who gets to tell him that news.”
