You too, John?
That’s what former President Joe Biden should be asking about his former finest buddy, John Kerry.
It isn’t precisely like Julius Caesar uttering “Et Tu, Brute?” as his former good pal and ally, Marcus Junius Brutus, sword in hand, joined others to complete Caesar off on the Roman Senate in 44 B.C.
Even when it didn’t occur fairly that means, it’s the means William Shakespeare wrote that it occurred, so it should do.
Apart from, it matches.
Biden’s former associates and allies, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and others, have, metaphorically talking, turned on Biden the best way Brutus and his gang turned on Caesar.
Joe Biden was, after all, no Julius Caesar. He solely ended up useless — politically talking — when his former associates and colleagues within the Democrat Get together turned on him, pushed him apart and made him an on the spot has-been.
This now contains John Kerry. He was the pal and colleague whom Biden appointed because the nation’s first local weather czar.
Now he has joined the others by observing that Donald Trump was “proper” about securing the border and that Biden, by implication, was mistaken.
The local weather czar cabinet-level appointment allowed Kerry to workers up and journey the world at taxpayers’ expense in personal jet airplane luxurious to lecture everybody on saving the planet he was serving to pollute.
Earlier than that Kerry, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2004, served alongside Biden within the Senate for twenty-four years. He succeeded Biden as chairman of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee when Biden turned vp.
Kerry additionally served as Secretary of State below the Obama/Biden presidency.
Kerry additionally performed a big function in Biden’s 2020 marketing campaign for president, through which he ousted then-President Donald Trump.
How shut had been the 2 males?
“The one workforce that has labored extra carefully than the 2 of us is Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.” Kerry quipped whereas campaigning for Biden in 2020.
In 2024, Biden awarded Kerry the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
So, it got here as a shock to many who Kerry, at this late stage within the recreation, would come out of nowhere to criticize Biden for his dealing with — or mishandling — of the border and the immigration disaster that helped ship Trump again to the White Home for a second time period.
With Joe Biden out of energy and down for the depend, Kerry couldn’t have chosen a greater — or worse — time to affix the gang of former Biden associates and followers beating up on him.
It’s unhappy. Not solely was Biden compelled to tug out of his race for reelection due to his psychological acuity downside, however his administration is below investigation over who was making the choices throughout his faltering presidency.
And in contrast to previous presidents Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton, Biden has didn’t capitalize financially — or flip a good buck — on his presidency.
He’s not being paid lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} for giving speeches that no person listens to or writing books that no person reads. Neither is he elevating thousands and thousands of {dollars} for a presidential library just like the others have executed.
So, it needed to harm when Kerry, in a BBC interview, mentioned: “He was proper,” referring to Trump on securing the border to halt the unlawful immigration invasion of the nation.
“The issue that all of us ought to have been proper,” Kerry mentioned. “The very first thing any president ought to say, any president, or anyone in public life, is, with out a border protected, you don’t have a nation.
“I want President Biden had been heard extra typically saying, “’I’m going to implement the legislation,’” Kerry mentioned.
As an alternative, Biden flaunted the legislation by opening the border, protecting it unprotected and letting in thousands and thousands of unvetted strangers.
Kerry ought to have given Biden that recommendation when it counted and never criticize him when Biden is down and out. It reveals that there aren’t any true associates in politics, solely associates.
Possibly Biden can take the presidential medal again.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
