I am beginning to think that Joe is such a genuinely good man that he can't imagine Trump is as bad

[redstatebluegirl]

as he really is. Joe indicated he didn't think they had to bring in the lawyers, no Joe I think you have to. I love him, what I love about him is his genuine goodness, but when you are fighting something as evil as this administration and party you have to play hardball. This man is the most evil person I have ever seen. We can't bring a knife to a gunfight.

Damn I wanted this to go better than it is. I wanted to think we could try and mend this country, but now I just want to save it.

[frazzled]

1. He has a ton of lawyers

And I’m still getting emails to donate to the Biden legal fund. If he doesn’t think they need to bring in a slew of them right now, it’s because the Trump legal challenges are entirely specious, and that his status a President-elect is secure

What on earth makes you think Biden doesn’t understand how corrupt and malignant Trump is?

[zaj]

2. Projecting stability is an act of power.

Freaking out is an act of weakness. There is a balance.

He has a pile of attorneys.

[StarfishSaver]

14. Thank you

I don't know why people assume that someone who got as far in politics and life as Biden has are gullible or blind or doesn't know as much as we do ...

[Thekaspervote]

19. +1000

[Thekaspervote]

20. +1000

[Hortensis]

28. +1000. Especially that last.

[BannonsLiver]

3. He knows he's rotten to the core.

Biden is a nice man but he is not naive.

[Demsrule86]

5. So far the GOP losers are well losing without muss and fuss...Biden has lawyers who will

step in if and when it is necessary.

[Siwsan]

6. Joe's steady hand and demeanor are deliberate. He's got his lawyers to do the rough stuff

I trust Joe. This isn't his first rodeo.

[awesomerwb1]

7. Even if that were the case

Kamala has seen stuff Joe hasn't. She knows the monster trump is.

[empedocles]

10. Joe has experienced far more than most. He felt the great turmoils and political tectonic

shifts of the 1960's. The treason and dangerous manipulations of the nixon crowd. What reaganites could get away with.

Like the Speaker, they are not new to these games.

[awesomerwb1]

21. True

But trumpers are all of the above on steroids+crack+adderall. Trumpers are a different kind of incompetent, corrupt traitors.

But both Joe and Kamala know.

[Mike 03]

8. Biden is very smart. And he's probably getting advice from mental health professionals

on how to handle trump. Mike Bloomberg used psychiatrists to help him deal with Trump and I'm sure Joe is doing something along the same lines.

Yesterday, Frank Figliuzzi said Biden was handling everything perfectly, the way an experienced FBI agent would handle an irrational barricaded subject.

IMO he is exuding the calm and power that is most appropriate for this situation. He has set his course and that course makes Trump irrelevant, which will make Trump angrier than direct confrontation, which is futile.

[marylandblue]

23. This. Only two people in Washington seem to know how to handle Trump.

Pelosi and Biden. Pretty sure they both have mental health professionals on speed dial.

In Biden's case, he is acting like Trump doesn't exist. Nothing is more debilitating to a narcissist than that.

[Spazito]

9. Biden is fine, he knows full well what he is dealing with...

he stays above the fray while others deal with the detritus of the trump admin and it's enablers. Staying above the fray allows him to begin the mending of the country which he knows will take time and commitment.

[a kennedy]

11. Of course he doesn't really think tRump is an orange piece of shit BECAUSE Joe IS

decent AND a human being. Joe, I’m sure has NEVER meet anyone so infantile in his whole public service life.

[octoberlib]

12. Joe knows exactly who Trump is and how bad he is but I imagine he's hearing things

from his Republican Senate buddies and maybe from people inside the administration to indicate he doesn't need to play hardball yet.

[XanaDUer2]

13. Jow knows what he's dealing with

he'll know how to handle it

[captain queeg]

15. Inversely trump is such a lying cheating POS he thinks everyone else is

Since that’s the way he’s functioned his entire life.

[StarfishSaver]

16. Why do you assume the president-elect is naive and doesn't understand people as well as you do?

[GoCubsGo]

18. Yes, thank you!

I wish people would fucking stop with this shit. Biden has been in government for nearly FIVE DECADES. He knows these people. He knows full well what they are like. He has an army of lawyers that were hired months ago. FFS.

[StarfishSaver]

22. Exactly!

[Earthshine2]

17. I think many people underestimated just how damaged Trump is.

He was led to be this way by his father. So much nasty, competitive behavior reinforced at a young age.

The best word I have heard to describe him is "solipsistic." It's a mental disorder and belief system where one's own self is the only reality.

[LAS14]

24. Not to fear. Several times I've heard him say that one of the things he's learned...

... is that evil can't be eliminated. It hides and then reappears.

[Happy Hoosier]

25. He will do what he can to appeal to our better angels..

But you can be sure he is prepared to go to the mattresses .

[Hekate]

26. Yesterday Frank Figluzzi said Joe is handling it perfectly for phase 1 of a "barricaded subject" ...

Said it looked like Joe was getting extremely good advice.

[wiggs]

27. I think it's clear that Obama thought he could build bridges and consensus with

the GOP but was surprised and disappointed they weren't interested.

Seeing it first hand, hopefully Joe learned the lesson that most of us have by now.

[Hortensis]

29. Red, I would dearly love to hear Biden and Obama talking

about the most viciously dirty and dishonorable tricks the Republicans have tried to pull on them over the years, but we never will. Their self discipline, professionalism, and commitment to serving the nation will not allow it.

You worry unnecessarily. When Biden smiles with calm certainty and says "they will" (Republican senators admit he won), it's the simple truth. They will need what only President Biden can give them. If he chooses.