Biden Reportedly Spending Final Hours of Presidency in ‘Dark’ Mood: ‘Never Stopped Feeling Angry’ After Being Forced Out

An “embittered” President Joe Biden is spending the final hours of his presidency in a “dark” mood, according to CNN’s MJ Lee.

Lee described Biden’s frustrations after being asked what she’s learned about Biden’s “waning hours in office” by Jake Tapper on Monday morning.

“Well, Jake, very soon, we are going to see the ceremonial aspects of inauguration morning migrate here to the White House. The Bidens, of course, will host the Trumps for tea here at the White House before the two couples get in the motorcade together and take that short ride together over to Capitol Hill,” replied Lee.

“And in talking to White House officials familiar with the planning, I am told that all of these traditions –which we have to point out again, were traditions and courtesies that Donald Trump refused to offer to then-incoming President Joe Biden four years ago — that these were not traditions that at any point President Biden thought about basically blowing off because he believes that these traditions are important. He wanted to make sure that all of these things were basically done by the book.”

“But having said all of that, Jake, all of our reporting, talking to sources in recent days and weeks, really suggests that the president is in a bit of a dark space when it comes to just his headspace in these very final days.

We are told that he never really stopped feeling angry about the fact that he believes he was forced out,” she continued. “This pressure campaign to drop out of the 2024 race and then, especially since Election Day, when his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Donald Trump. He has grown increasingly embittered, we are told by sources, at the blame that he has gotten for Donald Trump’s eventual return to the White House.”

“And one thing, importantly, that President Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again.

Now, all of this adds up to, I would say, a mood of sadness and sort of this sense of tragedy here at the White House,” concluded Lee. “Those around him believing and actually hoping that when history judges President Biden years from now, that it will be a little bit more forgiving than how the president is being widely judged, at least today, Jake. ”