Top Jill Biden Aide Steps Down As Staff Departures Now Plague First Lady: Report

The White House has skilled an unusually excessive variety of departures throughout President Joe Biden’s time period, and up to date reviews spotlight a notable turnover inside First Lady Jill Biden’s workplace.

According to the Daily Mail, a high aide resigned from her place after escorting people to the safe flooring of the lodge the place President Biden was staying, which constituted a breach of safety protocol.

In June 2022, Michael LaRosa, who’s brazenly homosexual, joined the Bidens on their journey to the NATO Summit in Spain, as reported by the outlet. During the journey, a senior White House workers member noticed that 40-year-old LaRosa breached safety protocols on two events by inviting unauthorized people to his lodge room on a safe flooring, a supply mentioned.

“Secret Service agents caught him twice bringing dates to a secure floor, obviously putting the First Lady’s safety at risk because you’re not supposed to bring people in who are not fully vetted,” the senior staffer reportedly mentioned.

Elizabeth Alexander, Jill Biden’s communications director, has additionally taken a go away of absence to guide the “messaging arm” of President Biden’s 2024 re-election marketing campaign.

“The move speaks to how Biden’s campaign is still taking shape, one week after he announced he would seek another term. The campaign announced only two staff hires on its first day: campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks,” Brookings reported.

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Rory Brosius, who has been operating the Joining Forces mission, left her put up earlier this month. Sheila Casey, the spouse of former Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, will probably be taking on for Brosius.

“As a young military spouse walking into the East Wing to intern for Joining Forces in August of 2012 to joining the Biden-Harris Administration on day one to stand up Joining Forces, this has been the journey of a lifetime,” Brosius mentioned in her message.

On Thursday, in the meantime, Jill Biden said that her husband Joe Biden’s age isn’t an issue and that it shouldn’t forestall Americans from re-electing him later this yr — regardless of his quite a few gaffes, fixed struggles to ship a coherent sentence, or polling displaying worries amongst voters that he’s too previous to carry workplace.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski requested Jill on Thursday: “To those who say, ‘I can’t vote for Joe Biden, he’s too old,’ what do you say?”

“I say his age is an asset. He’s wise, he has wisdom, he’s experienced. He knows every leader on the world stage. He’s lived history, he knows history, he’s thoughtful in his decisions. He is the right man, the right person, for the job at this moment in history,” she claimed.

“He can do it. I see Joe every day. I see him out, traveling around this country, I see his vigor, I see his energy, I see his passion every single day,” she added.

Nevertheless, majorities of Americans polled over the previous yr, no less than, have mentioned they assume the president is simply too previous to run for a second time period.

The nation has watched as he struggles with phrases throughout speeches and falls a number of instances, resulting in questions on his cognitive talents.

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“I think what they are doing to Hunter is cruel.”@FLOTUS Jill Biden opens as much as @morningmika on @morning_joe about her son. https://t.co/3B8L0WAhYW pic.twitter.com/eeeU7sii4k

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 11, 2024

Earlier this week, a number one strategist for JPMorgan Chase mentioned that Joe Biden will drop out of the 2024 race sooner or later earlier than election day, suggesting that there are already plans in place for that to occur.

Michael Cembalest, who leads the monetary large’s market and funding technique unit in JPMorgan Chase’s asset administration division, believes Biden, 81, will go away the race “sometime between Super Tuesday and the November election, citing health concerns.”

Cembalest justified his prediction by citing Biden’s approval ranking, particularly for a president who can declare “around 10% job creation since his inauguration,” although a lot if not most of that was brought on by Americans returning to the workforce after prolonged COVID shutdowns, which Cembalest noted in a forecast letter to traders and shoppers.

He didn’t predict who would take Biden’s spot however predicted it will be “a replacement candidate named by the Democratic National Committee.”