For Biden Aides Is Was "Too Late To Come Clear"

The overarching question about any such plan is whether we can trust the people charged with making it.

It seems to me that the aides surrounding Biden began with a small, containable problem.

They had good and noble reasons to try to contain the problem by managing the president’s schedule and public profile. As the scale of the predicament grew, they decided it was too late to come clean and redoubled their denial. And now they are so deeply enmeshed in the lie they can’t find a way out. They are desperate and playing for time.

Many Democrats have spent the last year angry at a series of targets. Why were newspapers pestering Biden about press conferences? Why was Robert Hur taking partisan shots? Why were some liberal commentators asking about challenging Biden in the primary or replacing him with a different candidate?

It can be easier to rationalize the person who was manipulating you than to admit that you were being manipulated.

At this point, however, it is hard to look back at the months of spin from the White House any other way.