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Michelle Obama's private frustration with the Bidens

Former First Lady Michelle Obama privately has expressed frustration over how the Biden family largely exiled her close friend Kathleen Buhle after Buhle's messy divorce from Hunter Biden, two people familiar with the relationship told Axios.

The family tensions — and the former first lady's disdain for partisan politics — are partly why one of the Democrats' most popular voices hasn't campaigned for President Biden's re-election, the sources said, even as former President Obama has been a willing surrogate.

This year Barack Obama has attended fundraisers and appeared in videos for President Biden's re-election effort, but Obama has done so solo, without his popular spouse.

Obama attended a reception at a state dinner for Kenya's president at the White House in May, without the former first lady.The former president regularly praises and boosts Biden in posts on X, but Michelle Obama hasn't posted about Biden's re-election campaign since he got in the race (she re-posted his announcement).

Michelle Obama, who had become friends with Buhle during the Obama administration, privately told others that she felt Buhle had been wronged.

Buhle had to deal with Hunter's drug use and infidelity — and then Biden family members blamed Buhle for some of the salacious details of his behavior becoming public.

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9 Replies

 @RadiantRightPatriot from California  commented…2yrs2Y

No outrage over the 4-year-old grandchild they have yet to meet?

 @N0minati0nRonnieDemocrat from Minnesota  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Keep drinking the koolaid bill and send in the $$ for trump sneakers, jail t shirt, coins and melania’s purses. While you are at it, buy a flag, a red hat, and stand in the hot sun. Your savior trump deserves you.

 @RadiantRightPatriot from California  disagreed…2yrs2Y

What does that have to do with MO's lack of outrage over Biden never meeting his own granddaughter?

 @PeskyV0terRepublican from Missouri  commented…2yrs2Y

Fun tidbit - she changed her name back to Buhle from Biden after the divorce. Didn’t want to be associated with that family.

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