Biden and the return of the swamp creatures
The Biden–Harris campaign has announced a string of potential administration appointees that reads like the B-team of leftovers from the Obama and Clinton administrations.
Tony Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state under John Kerry, moves up a slot to become secretary. He has openly pledged to reopen the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, restore aide to the Palestinians, rejoin the World Health Organization, and—most importantly—to resume the failed Iran nuclear deal without precondition.
As director of national intelligence comes Avril Haines, a John Brennan protégé who served under Brennan and Susan Rice at the National Security Council and then joined Brennan at the CIA as a deputy. She will immediately shut down all investigations of voter fraud and election interference, and halt the declassification of documents relating to the illegal surveillance of the Trump 2016 campaign and the Trump White House by rogue U.S. intelligence agencies.
As a top White House adviser, Biden has named Steve Ricchetti, an uber-lobbyist whose family lobbying firm took $40,000 from a U.S. company in the third quarter of 2020 to lobby Congress on U.S.–China trade issues, and who personally represented Big Pharma during the first Obama term. While working under commerce secretary Bill Daley in 1999–2000, Ricchetti labored hard to convince Congress to grant communist China Most Favored Nation status, the cherry on the top of the Clinton giveaways to Beijing in its marathon to overtake America as the world’s largest economy.
Also at the White House, Biden tapped Jake Sullivan as national security adviser, a long-time Hillary Clinton crony. Sullivan is best known for his role in crafting deceitful talking points for then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, claiming that a YouTube video sparked the attack on the U.S. consular facility in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
There are a dozen others, all of them well-known swamp creatures who understand how Washington “works.” They will ensure that Trump holdovers are quickly removed from office, even those who won appointments through the bureaucratic progress and not as political appointees. Trump should have done the same during his first month in office, but Republicans are too polite to purge the bureaucracy of political enemies. That failure led to three years of a failed Russia probe against the president, and the phony Ukraine impeachment.
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Middle East leaders from North Africa to the Persian Gulf worry that Biden will reinstate the terrible Iran deal and support the Muslim Brotherhood. Biden and his fellow swamp creatures are just that unintelligent.
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