Anti-Trump Washington Post columnist George Will offered a scathing assessment President Biden of the “failed” presidency in the column on Wednesdays.
“Joe Biden’s failed presidency ends in a blizzard of decisions confirming the rejection of his vice president by voters who, when asked, could not recall a mistake in his record,” Will said, adding that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “pretended, from of opposite directions, that they are what they are not.”
The columnist stated that some of the president’s handlers “convinced him that he should be another Franklin D. Roosevelt,” which “condemned his vice president, who ran as a synthetic centrist unable to transcend her authentic progressivism.”
George Will, The Washington Post’s anti-Trump columnist, takes a critical look at the legacy of the Biden administration as the president’s term draws to a close. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
The column noted that the US bailout “increased demand for goods and services beyond the economy’s capacity to produce them.”
The Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion package, was intended to help Americans struggling after the COVID-19 pandemic by providing stimulus payments and local financing to help rebuild the economy. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that $402.2 billion of the $1.9 trillion package went to stimulus checks for Americans who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis.
Will went on to attack the Biden administration’s lax spending, highlighting when, three weeks before the 2024 election, the administration rushed to “open the spending spigots wide open before January 20.”
The administration gave nearly $8 billion in subsidies to Intel — the computer chip maker — which lost $16.6 billion in the previous quarter. The chipmaker’s CEO retired five days later, which Intel’s board of directors said would open the door to “restoring investor confidence,” but according to Will, “the Biden administration’s investors already had tremendous confidence.”
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President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he delivers his farewell address Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Post columnist also claims that “No previous president has used mass communications more offensively to more Americans than Biden did with his hyperbolic warnings about the danger of Americans imposing ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ and voting for ‘semi-fascism’.”
“Democrats, said Biden, will save American democracy in 2024. The rescue, presumably, would begin after the Democrats finish trying to ban Biden’s opponent from the vote and imprison him,” criticized Will.
The column continued, calling out the Biden administration for its “extralegal overreach” and highlighting “judicial reprimands” for “eviction moratoriums, vaccine mandates, student loan forgiveness and pressure on social media companies to step up censorship (“content moderation”) of speech ( “disinformation”) that bothers the administration.”
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Joe Biden was criticized by Washington Post columnist George Will for pardoning his son Hunter. (Getty Images / Reuters)
Biden is reeling about his involvement with his son Hunter’s “financial escapades” he came under fire from a Post columnist, who said the president at first “didn’t know about them; then wasn’t involved in them; then didn’t benefit from them.”
Will further claimed that “to skeptics, this looks like a ‘big guy’ (as Hunter called Biden in one of his ventures) providing preventative protection for Hunter and possibly other members of his family.”
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Will ended his column with a scathing look at Biden’s legacy, saying, “A bipartisan chorus of critics said a pardon would damage Biden’s legacy. Damage? A British historic site once displayed a sign threatening prosecution for anyone who would ‘damage the ruins.'”
