White House aides work hard to avoid off-script moments for Biden. But at fundraisers, he muses freely, and the results are revealing.
While Trump’s Twitter feed provided near-hourly windows into the presidential id, Biden’s comments are projected to the public less often, but just as revealingly, through the donor gatherings, among the few events where he does not use a teleprompter.
The nuclear threat, in fact, is increasingly on Biden’s mind, and is therefore cropping up regularly at his fundraisers. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis,” Biden said, adding, “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”
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