Considered words from the leader of the free world this morning as Biden was asked if he supported a “hostages-for-ceasefire” deal:
“We should get… we should have a ceasefire… not a ceasefire, we should have those hostages released, and then we can talk“. The official US line is that a ceasefire is only a boon to Hamas…
Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Florence Eshalomi called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Commons yesterday before getting the Hansard transcript amended to say “humanitarian corridor”. If only it were as easy as that for Biden…
Yet more wise words from the leader of the the free world today in Tel Aviv:
“I asked the Secretary of State when he and I were working in the Senate to write something for me and he said he wrote a line… he said, ‘It’s not we lead, it’s not just…’ Well, I won’t go into it, I’ll wait ’til later, taking too much time…”
That’ll give them the morale boost they needed…
The US House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with Speaker McCarthy claiming it will focus on “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption“. Hunter Biden is currently under investigation for potential tax fraud over his foreign business interests. Joe insists he has little knowledge of those interests. The Republicans are putting that to the test…
Sleepy Joe Biden lived up to his name at a press conference in Vietnam yesterday, as he told reporters “I’m going to bed”. Clearly not coping well with jet lag, The President’s rambling rant went on:
“As a matter of fact, I think it’s l-less likely to cause that kind of- conflict. I don’t uh… anyway, I just think there are other things on leaders’ minds. and they r-respond t-to what’s needed at the time. l-l-look. nobody. likes. having… celebrated… international meetings. if you don’t know what you want at the meeting. If you don’t have a game plan. He may have a game plan, he just hasn’t shared it with me. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to bed”.
The Leader of the Free World, everyone…
Of all the names to mix up…
Liz Truss launched a scathing attack on Joe Biden last night while speaking at the Growth Forum hosted by the IEA. Appearing alongside former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Truss again waved the flag for her tax-cutting agenda, before slamming the US President for failing to tame inflation or make America more competitive. “How’s that going, Joe…”
“This agenda is not exactly fashionable at the moment. In fact we might say that the Overton window has shifted to the left across the western world… if we look at what’s happening in corporate board rooms, where there’s more chat about identity politics than there is about making a profit. If we look at what Joe Biden is doing in America, with state subsidies and the so-called inflation reduction act… how’s that going, Joe? If we look at that rather than making America more competitive, or the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] which is trying to impose minimum tax rates on the free world…”
Back in April, while delivering this year’s Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture, Truss also attacked Biden for joining the “coordinated resistance” against her agenda. None of this is much of a surprise, given Biden waded in to brand Truss’s tax cuts “a mistake” last October. Looks like they’re off each other’s Christmas card lists…
