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Even after agreeing to being ousted for Kamala 
President Joe Biden has had a nuanced and distanced role in the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, gaffes notwithstanding. With a little over two months remaining in his term, Biden is reportedly trying to focus on his legacy and presidential library -- and both are in danger of going off the rails, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Biden needs to raise from $200 to $300 million to build a presidential library---an institution that is now de rigeur among retiring residents of the Oval Office. But the money isn't pouring in and although Biden has been accused of amassing a fortune during his 50 years in politics, he hasn't been much of a fundraiser for projects like the library, the Journal notes, saying he didn't stoop to gathering donations by having people spend a night in the White House.
There is confusion among the donor class with some saying they haven't even been asked for money and others saying they are waiting to see who wins the presidential election. Others have been stunned into fiscal hibernation because Biden was treated so badly by his party and kicked out of the presidential race by Democratic power brokers like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. When Biden left the race in July and allowed Kamala Harris to replace him on the top of the ticket, he said he planned to focus on his legacy. There were rumors at the time that big name Dems like Barack Obama had threatened the funding of his library should he refuse to step aside.
Even without the funding in place, Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti is in charge of developing the theme for the library, according to WSJ sources. Biden may have started thinking about a library in the fall of 2023 when First Lady Jill Biden visited the Truman Presidential Library and asked her husband what he wanted to do in that regard.
In an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in October 2023, Biden reportedly said, "I don't think I'm supposed to, while I'm president, think about the library," prompting Jill Biden to object and insist the president should be planning for it now. Biden said both Syracuse University and the University of Delaware were "competing" to be the site of the library. But Biden expressed doubt that he could raise money for the structure while still in office. "I wouldn't know how---how could you raise money anyway while I'm a U.S. senator to do that---I mean president," Biden said.
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If Trump wins his legacy will be secured as the only person who managed to defeat Trump.
If Kamala wins his legacy will be being her stepping stone to the Presidency.
Either way, hardly worthy of a library.
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He should open an Ice Cream Emporium instead. People would actually go to it besides just homeless people wanting to jerk off.
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That could be a pamphlet.
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but the threat of losing the library was why he stepped aside
@X stand with israel
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kinda sad tbh
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Its fine he will forget he wanted it in like 2 weeks
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If Trump wins, saying Biden could have beat him will be so fun to see appear everywhere. Mostly in response to the people who denied his declining mental health until the debate, then they were suddenly all in for Kamala.
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Has trump started a presidential library at all? If a private foundation doesn't try to class it up it'll end up being the "Art of the Deal" bookstore in the lobby of one of his properties
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Predidential libraries are a dumb idea anyway.
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Snapshots:
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Joe Biden:
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kicked out of the presidential race:
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Presidential libraries are usually funded by selling pardons to rich r-slurs who got their hand caught in the cookie jar.
That season doesn't start until the day after the election.
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