{"id":4961,"date":"2025-01-16T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:57:40","slug":"border-crisis-and-skyrocketing-inflation-us-house-speaker-sums-up-bidens-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4961","title":{"rendered":"Border crisis and skyrocketing inflation: US House speaker sums up Biden\u2019s term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The legacy of outgoing US President Joe Biden will be defined by\u00a0<em>\u201cmany failures,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0US House speaker Mike Johnson said in a post on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-11.png 768w, https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-11-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them was&nbsp;<em>\u201cengineering the worst border crisis in US history, bringing terrorists and violent illegals into our communities,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Johnson wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), more than 300,000 people were illegally crossing into the US from Mexico at the peak of the influx in the winter of 2022, with the number subsiding to around 100,000 since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s other failure was&nbsp;<em>\u201cfueling skyrocketing inflation,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, the house speaker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also blamed the president for\u00a0<em>\u201cweaponizing the [Department of Justice] to target political opponents,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0apparently referring to the criminal cases launched against US President-elect Donald Trump.<br><br><em>\u201cPardoning his son despite saying he never would, and giving murderers and rapists clemency\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;was another of Biden\u2019s blunders, according to Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunter Biden had been convicted of lying about his long-standing drug addiction when buying a handgun and also pleaded guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanor tax offenses. However, the president pardoned his son in December, claiming that he was prosecuted&nbsp;<em>\u201cselectively and unfairly\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;because of his familial ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 81-year-old Biden was also&nbsp;<em>\u201chiding from the American people his mental decline,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;the speaker noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden withdrew from the presidential race in July and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement amid pressure from his own Democratic Party not to seek reelection after a poor performance during his first debate with Trump.<br><br>Johnson\u2019s critique also included two foreign policy flops by the outgoing president,&nbsp;<em>\u201corchestrating the disastrous withdrawal [of US forces] from Afghanistan\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;in 2021 and&nbsp;<em>\u201cemboldening enemies through a policy of appeasement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his speech at the Department of State on Monday, Biden, who will be succeeded by Trump on January 20, claimed that&nbsp;<em>\u201cthe US is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;under his leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reprinted from Russia Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy of outgoing US President Joe Biden will be d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1570,1273,617],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-border","tag-crisis","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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