Staff Reports
Speculation is rampant about President Joe Biden’s departure from the 2024 presidential race, and everyone seems eager to uncover the inside scoop on whom he was chatting with leading up to his unexpected exit. The White House has thrown a wet blanket on this intrigue, refusing to release visitor logs from the critical time surrounding Biden’s decision to pull out of the race. This level of opacity raises eyebrows and gives rise to the age-old question—if they’re so transparent, why does everything feel like a game of peekaboo?
Back in July, when Biden naively decided he wasn’t up for the back-and-forth of another presidential campaign, Americans desperately wanted to know who might have whispered sweet nothing’s into his ear—or more likely, how to best dodge another disaster. Surprisingly, the White House has missed its own deadline for releasing visitor logs, leaving the public in the dark about who was coming and going during this crucial period. The last logs dropped were on October 4 and only covered visitors up to June 26, leaving a tantalizing gap during the month Biden threw in the towel on his campaign, which officially ended on July 21.
White House yet to release visitor logs for month Biden dropped out of race https://t.co/OQOCbWr9UC #FoxNews
— LeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) November 19, 2024
Biden’s administration once took pride in their self-proclaimed reputation for transparency, boasting that they would be the most open administration in history. Yet here they are, stalling on logs that usually find their way to the public without much fuss. The irony could power a small city, considering how often the White House blabbed about openness. Now, they seem more committed to hiding than sharing.
Adding a twist to this already confusing tale, it was reported earlier in the year that medical professionals had made visits to the White House coinciding with instances where Biden appeared, well, less than presidential. It’s hard to shake the notion that this sudden secrecy about visitor logs might be connected. As Americans scrounge for the truth, Caitlin Sutherland, who leads the conservatives’ watchdog group, Americans for Public Trust, is demanding access to this crucial information. The American people, she argues, deserve to know who Biden was conversing with amid all this chaos.
Social media has exploded with theories regarding the whereabouts of these elusive visitor logs. Some commentators wonder if they’ll ever see the light of day, suggesting that opaque governance is the name of the game until leaders actually start listening to the people. Others are skeptical even if the logs do surface, speculating that any released documents might suffer from some serious editing—because who needs the truth when you have a narrative to maintain? The shrouded nature of Biden’s visitor logs not only fuels conspiracy theories but underscores a troubling disconnect between promises of transparency and the reality of governance in the Biden administration.
