Obama strategist clashed with Biden team over re-election: ‘Future of the country’
Former President Joe Biden’s decision to run for re-election divided longtime Democratic advisors, a new book about Biden’s cognitive decline and his administration’s alleged cover-up revealed.
Biden’s former Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, shut down former President Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod for repeatedly calling Biden’s age an issue.
“The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue,” Axelrod told The New York Times.
Soon after the Times’ story was published in June 2022, Klain called Axelrod fuming, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson revealed in their book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
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“Who’s going to beat Trump? President Biden is the only one who has done it. You better have a lot of certainty about a different candidate before you say the president should step aside. The future of the country depends on it!” Klain told Axelrod on the phone, according to Thompson and Tapper.
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Klain believed it was “sloppy thinking” that anyone other than Biden could beat Trump, the journalists said in the book.
But Axelrod, like most Americans, worried about the first octogenarian president’s age and his ability to serve four more years.
The chief strategist for Obama’s back-to-back winning campaigns, Axelrod was one of the last advisers to meet with Biden before Obama chose him as his running mate in 2008. Axelrod told Tapper and Thompson that they didn’t expect Biden to run for president at 73 and eventually discouraged Biden from running for president in 2015.
They certainly didn’t expect Biden to run for president at 77.
After Axelrod made some friendly comments about Biden to a reporter in 2018, Biden invited him to his rental home in Virginia, according to the book.
“He was stunned by how much Biden had aged,” Tapper and Thompson wrote.
Axelrod told Biden that age would be an issue for his campaign but encouraged him to lean on his experience and wisdom, the journalists said.
Axelrod’s apprehension about Biden’s age only grew, and when it came time for Biden to make a decision about his re-election, he knew Biden shouldn’t run in 2024. The longtime political advisor told Tapper and Thompson he wished someone in the White House had “come to their senses and [convinced] Biden and his family that this just wasn’t tenable.”
Pointing to unfavorable battleground polls from 2023, Axelrod encouraged Biden to drop out of the race in a series of social media posts. He said the “stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore.”
“Only @JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s?” Axelrod questioned on social media.
Klain fired back, this time for the public to see: “Man who called Biden ‘Mr Magoo’ in Aug 2019 is still at it,” in reference to Axelrod’s comments following the 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate.
An excerpt from the book reads: “In response to Axelrod’s 2023 post, Biden called Axelrod a ‘prick’ – a private insult until someone leaked it to Jonathan Martin of . Axelrod received confidential messages of agreement from prominent Democrats who remained silent, they explained, because they were resigned to Biden’s candidacy and did not want to weaken him as a looming rematch with Trump approached.”
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Fox News Digital has written extensively, dating back to the 2020 presidential campaign, about Biden’s cognitive decline and his inner circle’s role in covering it up.
“There is nothing in this book that shows Joe Biden failed to do his job, as the authors have alleged, nor did they prove their allegation that there was a cover-up or conspiracy,” a Biden spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Nowhere do they show that our national security was threatened or where the president wasn’t otherwise engaged in the important matters of the presidency. In fact, Joe Biden was an effective president who led our country with empathy and skill.”
Police chief laments loss of life after release of bodycam footage of deadly traffic stop
Officials released bodycam footage showing the chaotic moments leading up to a deadly officer-involved shooting in Fairfax, Virginia, in April. In a press release accompanying the footage, the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) called the incident an “attempted murder.”
On April 23, an officer pulled over 36-year-old Jamal Wali for speeding. Wali also had an expired safety inspection sticker. When he was pulled over, Wali slammed on the brakes, something the officer who initially approached Wali’s vehicle noted.
Wali then informed the officer he was armed and asked why he was being pulled over. From there, the situation took a chaotic turn as a clearly distressed Wali began shouting, cursing, refusing to give his name and saying he had no driver’s license or registration for the vehicle.
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As the officer tried to deescalate the situation, Wali launched into profanity-laced complaints about how he had been treated in the country and said he came to the U.S. after serving as a translator for American forces in Afghanistan.
“I should have served with f—ing Taliban,” Wali yelled at the officer.
Wali eventually took out a GoPro-like camera and began recording the traffic stop. Police later obtained this footage and included it in the bodycam video released to the public Friday.
Two other FCPD officers arrived to assist the officer who initiated the traffic stop, with one standing on the driver’s side and the other on the passenger’s side. Wali eventually reached for his weapon and fired at the two officers on the driver’s side. According to FCPD Chief Kevin Davis, one bullet went through arms of both officers before hitting a parked car across the street, shattering its rear window.
Wali was shot and taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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“It’s always regrettable when a life is lost. It is regrettable that Mr. Wali is no longer with us,” Davis said at a news conference announcing the release of the footage. He confirmed that Wali was married with four children as he had claimed during his tense interaction with the officer.
The chief said “the impact on those children is unimaginable, and they’ll carry that with them the rest of their lives, so we take that very seriously.”
Davis credited the officer on the passenger’s side with saving the lives of the other responding officers.
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“We also realize in this particular scenario that we’re very fortunate that we didn’t have two police funerals because it was just by — or thanks to, rather — some strategic thinking, actions by our police officer who you see on the passenger’s side of the car. His actions, his deployment of that deadly force, saved the lives of the two officers that were on the driver’s side of the car. There’s no doubt about that,” Davis told reporters.
FCPD said in a press release that Officer Ian Lachapelle, who fired his gun, was placed on restricted duty status as the investigation of the incident continues.
Tylenol murders revisited as suspect’s final interview before death emerges
James Lewis, the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings, gave a final interview attempting to clear his name. But some still wonder if he was the mastermind behind the murders that triggered a nationwide panic and got away with it.
In a span of three days beginning Sept. 29, 1982, seven people — including a 12-year-old girl — who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in the Chicago area died, sparking a national recall of the product. The poisonings led to the adoption of tamper-proof packaging for over-the-counter medications.
The case, which remains unsolved, is the subject of a new Netflix true crime docuseries, “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders.” It features new interviews with loved ones of the victims, investigators, as well as Lewis, who died in 2023 at 76.
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Director Yotam Guendelman told Fox News Digital that during filming, they witnessed a side to Lewis that haunts them.
“For those two days, the vibe in the room was good,” Guendelman recalled. “We asked him the hard questions, and we talked about it. But there was a moment when we started asking harder questions, one after the other. We caught him in a few lies, and [he] then snapped for a couple of minutes.
“It became really scary. And for the first time, you can see someone who, even though I do think he tried not to do the worst in his life, when you put him in a corner, when he feels he’s up against the wall, he becomes scary for a second. And then he changed back to his sweet, weird self a few minutes later.”
“That really stood out,” Guendelman reflected. “I think that made us all understand that … he has this part in him that is completely uncontrollable and comes out of nowhere. … You see a person of duality. … But at the same time, we know that even though there are these tender parts of him, he’s capable of doing the worst.”
Lewis, who had a history of trouble with the law, always denied any role in the Tylenol deaths. In 2010, he gave DNA samples to the FBI and even created a website on which he said he was framed. While he lived in Chicago briefly in the ‘80s when the murders took place, Lewis said he and his wife were in New York City at the time of the poisonings.
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Director Ari Pines told Fox News Digital he was surprised Lewis agreed to give the interview on camera. But after sitting down with him, it was easy to see why.
“First of all, he loved the attention,” Pines claimed. “He was cautious, but our producer, Molly Forster, built this relationship with him for almost a year. She gained his trust bit by bit. And it worked. I think he also enjoyed the fact that we didn’t just look at him as this sensational character, which he is, but also as a human being.”
Guendelman said it took several months to convince Lewis to speak out for what turned out to be the last time.
“Molly took another approach; she was much more gentle,” he explained. “He built this trust with him. Even though he knew we were going to ask him the hard questions, we were also going to give him a chance to tell his story for the first time, from start to finish.”
In 1974, Lewis suffered a personal tragedy when his only daughter, 5-year-old Toni Ann Lewis, died from heart issues. One theory the documentary presented was that Lewis acted out in revenge against Johnson & Johnson, Tylenol’s parent company.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the sutures used to fix Toni’s congenital heart defect tore. They were made by Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
According to reports, the unknown killer bought Extra-Strength Tylenol from six different stores in the Chicago area and packed the capsules with large doses of deadly potassium cyanide. The individual then placed the bottles back on the shelves.
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Lewis was in New York City when he was arrested in 1982 after a nationwide manhunt. He gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer behind the Tylenol murders might have operated. Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to manufacturer Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”
He admitted to sending the letter and demanding the money but said he never intended to collect it. Instead, he said he wanted to embarrass his wife’s former employer and had the money sent to the employer’s bank account.
During the investigation, the police discovered Lewis’s dark past. In 1978, he was charged in Kansas City, Missouri, with the dismemberment murder of Raymond West, 72, who had hired Lewis as an accountant. The charges were dismissed because West’s cause of death was not determined, and some evidence had been illegally obtained.
Lewis was convicted of six counts of mail fraud in a 1981 credit card scheme in Kansas City. He was accused of using the name and background of a former tax client to obtain 13 credit cards.
Police described Lewis as a “chameleon” who lived in several states, used at least 20 aliases and held many jobs, including computer specialist, tax accountant, importer of Indian tapestries and seller of jewelry, pharmaceutical machinery and real estate.
In 1983, Lewis was convicted of extortion and spent 12 years in federal prison, the New York Times reported. After Lewis was convicted, he offered to help prosecutors solve the Tylenol murders, the outlet reported. It noted that when he was a fugitive, he wrote several rambling letters to the Chicago Tribune disclaiming any connection and demanding capital punishment for “whoever poisoned those capsules.”
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Following his release, he and his wife moved to Massachusetts in 1995. But his run-ins with the law didn’t end there.
Lewis was charged in 2004 with rape, kidnapping and other offenses for an alleged attack on a woman in Cambridge. He was jailed for three years while awaiting trial, but prosecutors dismissed the charges on the day his trial was scheduled to begin after the victim refused to testify, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said at the time.
“I think for the FBI, James Lewis is always the main suspect, and I can understand why,” said Pines. “… We’ve also managed to uncover a lot of evidence and documents, which were sealed from the original investigation, and we’re showing a lot of that in the series.
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“But I will say there are also a lot of other documents that are still sealed, and the public is still not aware of. And we firmly believe that now is a good time… to unseal all the documents, and to show the public everything that this investigation found. Maybe that will bring us closer to finding out the truth.”
According to the docuseries, some investigators are adamant that Lewis will always remain a person of interest. Others aren’t convinced. The docuseries presents several other theories, including those supported by some of the loved ones.
Lewis previously told the Associated Press in 1992 that the account he gave the authorities was simply his way of explaining the killer’s actions. He called the murderer “a heinous, cold-blooded killer, a cruel monster.”
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Guendelman believes there may have been more victims unaccounted for.
“After we talked with the coroner, the FBI agents, the prosecutors … that’s the theory,” he explained. “Cyanide, as we show in the series, served as a perfect crime because it dissolves so quickly. And if it wasn’t for one specific doctor who [realized] that these people were poisoned, and it was not a natural death, nobody would’ve known about it. … I do believe in this theory.
“That’s why we made this film. We’re not only doing this for the victims that we know about but also for the possible unnamed victims as well.”
Pines is hopeful that in his lifetime, especially with renewed interest in the case, we’ll find out who was definitively responsible for the mass murders.
“There are so many families here who never got the answer they wanted,” said Pines. “The truth is out there, and there’s someone out there who knows more. I hope that person will see this film, see the families and come forward. … I think every cold case needs closure.”
Aaron Rodgers makes clear 1 team he has no interest in playing with in 2025
Aaron Rodgers has yet to make a decision on whether to sign with a new team for the 2025 season after two years with the New York Jets or walk away from the game altogether.
He made clear over the weekend that there’s at least one team he will not be signing with – the New Orleans Saints.
The Saints could be in need of a quarterback as the organization weighs whether to go with Tyler Shough, Spencer Rattler or someone else to start the year as Derek Carr retired following a serious shoulder injury.
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Rodgers was in Texas for a live episode of the “YNK Podcast” and was asked by a fan whether he would consider playing for the Saints.
“No,” Rodgers replied without any hesitation. “That’s the answer. I’ve played there a couple times, but no, the answer is no. I’m too old. I don’t want to live in Louisiana. Sorry.”
All signs have pointed to Rodgers playing with the Pittsburgh Steelers but the pen has not been put to paper.
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He was also asked during the show whether he would consider playing with the Chicago Bears. In his answer, he dropped one of the biggest hints yet that he had his sights on Pittsburgh.
“No, but I believe there’s a team that might play in Chicago this year on a road trip,” he said. “I don’t know, not sure. Got to check it out. I love Chicago, though. Way more than they love me. It’s been a great relationship. All one-way.”
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The Steelers will play in Chicago on Nov. 23.
‘Fuller House’ star explains her ‘gratitude mindset’ for her body at 49
Candace Cameron Bure, who recently turned 49, plans to be in the “best shape of my life” when she enters her 50s next year.
“That’s what I’m working towards,” the Great American Family star told Fox News Digital. “I’ve been filming a lot of movies, so I don’t feel like I’m at my top right now because my fitness has to take a back seat while I’m filming movies, but I turned 49 this year and I have really big goals for myself just keeping active and healthy, but going into 50, I wanna be in best shape that I can possibly be in.”
Bure said she’s been busy filming her Christmas movies for the network. She just wrapped a time-travel Christmas movie called “Timeless Tidings of Joy,” and is heading into production for another one next week. She also stars in the new “Ainsley McGregor Mysteries” series.
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“So, my fitness game, once I finish this movie, at least in the gym, is gonna kick it up a notch,” she explained. “But honestly, I feel really great.”
Bure said she’s been working on her fitness since she was in her early 30s, “and I’m in a groove, and I just want to approach life and aging as someone with grace, but also enthusiasm.”
“And leaning into all the things that I can do as I get older and preparing my body so that I can continue to do those things as I older,” the actress told Fox News Digital. “Not so much from a vanity point of view, but like, you know, I wanna be able to open the peanut butter jar when I’m 80, and I need grip strength for that. But all that comes from using your muscles and lifting weights and just basic skills.”
She joked that she’s not trying to age fast, “but it’s the preparation of just being in the best shape that I can be as I get older.”
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As she’s gotten older, Bure said her reasons for staying in shape have become less about “vanity,” and more about wanting to be healthy for her family.
“So, my fitness game, once I finish this movie, at least in the gym, is gonna kick it up a notch. But honestly, I feel really great.”
She asks herself: “Why is fitness so important to me? Is it because I’m trying to fit into a certain size or look a certain way? Or is it because I wanna be able to go on walks with my husband or my kids or my grandchildren and take hikes and be healthy and not have trouble getting out of a seat as I get older? And so that’s what I’ve learned about it, that I’m so appreciative that my body can move, and I can do all the things that I can.”
She continued, “I have so much more of a gratitude mindset for my body instead of nitpicking it like I have for many, many years.”
The “Full House” alum noted that fitness doesn’t always have to be in the gym.
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“I do enjoy weightlifting, but it’s like, ‘Go out and do the things that are fun that get your body moving.’ That’s what fitness should be about: is body movement. So, go ride a bicycle, do handstands, do cartwheels, go skateboarding, go roller skating.”
She advised doing what you loved “when you were young, as a kid, and what made you happy. Did you love riding your bike? Then go ride a bike. Like, you don’t have to get on the stationary one. Go actually ride a bike.”
Her family loves a “good game of pickleball. It’s real competitive in the Bure house.”
Aside from her many Christmas movies, Bure is also excited about her new mystery series on Great American Family.
“I love the genre so much. The cozy mysteries are so much fun,” Bure said.
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“So, of course, I had a very successful franchise, the “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries,” and I wanted to create another franchise of movies and one that felt fresh and new and new characters, new relationships,” she said of her new “Ainsley McGregor Mysteries,” which are about a criminologist-turned-crafter.
The first, “Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker,” came out last year.
“I’m so happy that the first one was really well-received, and we’ve got the newest Ainsley McGregor case, ‘A Case for the Yarn Maker,’ which is, you know, it’s just another mystery,” she said.
The mysteries are “fun” and “safe” to watch with the family, Bure added. “Nothing gory, nothing bloody, but it’s like this great whodunit. And the ‘Ainsley McGregors,’ as we continue to make these movies, they’re just getting elevated more and more with each one, and the dialogue is sharper, the dialogue is, you know, quick-witted, they’re funny, but they’re smart.”
“A Case for the Winemaker” brings back the main characters from the first film, which centers on McGregor’s craft shop Bless Your Arts, where she interacts with other artists and customers in the town.
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“You’ll be familiar with them now, but you’re going to learn a little more about each of them in each installment, each movie,” she explained. “And in this one, you’re going to learn a little bit more about Mrs. Whedon. And we kind of focus the story on her and her granddaughter because this mystery has a lot of ties to who she is.”
She said the writer, Robin Dunne, also plays her brother, Sheriff Ryan McGregor, in the series.
The series is directed by Martin Wood, “who I’ve worked with for ages and directed many of the ‘Aurora Teagardens’ back in the day,” said Bure. “And so we’re excited. This is kind of a little dream team with the three of us producing these movies, writing them and working on them.”
“Stay glued,” she added when asked what viewers should expect from the second installment.
“Listen to the clues, listen to the dialogue because every little word, it’s a little hint as to who could have done it. But my hope is that you don’t figure it out in the first 10 minutes of the movie because you’ve got 90 more to go, and I hope you don’t figure it until the very end,” she said, adding that there are always a few red herrings.
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Bure also co-stars with her daughter, Natasha Bure, in the holiday film “Timeless Tidings of Joy,” and shared some industry advice.
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“What’s most important for me as her mom and also someone that’s been in this entertainment industry for 40 years is that, you know, I have wisdom that I’m happy and want to share with from all aspects of it,” she said. “So, I do that often, and she’s 26 years old. So she’s at a place in her life where she very much respects it and asks me those questions. It’s not like having a teenager when your kids think, like, you’re dumb and you don’t know anything. Like, we’re past all of that. And so I have such a great relationship with all of my kids and I feel really blessed and honored that she comes to me and asks questions and wants advice, but she’s so talented and doing such a great job, but as long as she knows I’m here, and her dad, we’re here and we’re for her, that’s the most important thing for me.”
Man fired for wearing Bible verse t-shirts during Pride Month reaches settlement
An Iowa man reached a settlement with his former employer this week after he claimed he was fired for wearing t-shirts with Bible verse messages during the company’s celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month.
Cosby “Corey” Cunningham, a “devout, born-again Christian,” filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court last August against Eaton Corp, a global management company, after his firing in August 2023.
Cunningham was hired by Eaton in 2019 as a quality assurance manager, where he managed new product development of military and commercial aerospace activities before his termination, according to the lawsuit.
His lawsuit says during his employment, Eaton began “increasingly promoting” DEI and LGBTQ support in the workplace. He was allegedly required to attend multiple DEI training sessions, and says he was “singled out” during one training for disagreeing on the use of “woke” pronouns.
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On June 2, 2023, Eaton initiated a “Pride Month ceremony,” where a Pride flag was raised in front of its main building in support of Pride Month. Eaton’s management encouraged employees to attend and wear specific colors that day to show their support for the effort. Pride t-shirts were also sold to employees, according to the lawsuit.
Cunningham said he began wearing Bible verse t-shirts that day to express his “sincerely held religious beliefs” and to “counter the views that were being coerced by the company on its employees” regarding support for LGBTQ pride.
One shirt cited Proverbs 16:18 with the text, “Pride goes before destruction, an arrogant spirit before a fall.”
Another shirt read, “Taking back the rainbow —Genesis 9:13,” with the verse, “I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth,” on the back.
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A third read, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. James 4:6.”
On July 20, 2023, Cunningham was called into a meeting with Human Resources (“HR”) and told that his shirt was making people “uncomfortable” and one person felt it was “inflammatory toward the LGBTQ community.” He met with HR again, one week later, and requested written documentation showing which company policy he was violating by wearing the religious t-shirts.
His lawsuit claims Eaton threatened to fire him at this meeting.
The following day, he requested, in writing, a religious accommodation to wear the t-shirts, which was denied. He made a second request via a letter to HR, saying he felt he was being “attacked” by his employer over his beliefs.
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In the following weeks, Cunningham says he was sent home twice after he refused to stop wearing the t-shirts. Eaton fired him on August 23, 2023, saying he had violated their “Harassment-Free Policy.”
Cunningham filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Iowa Civil Rights Commission before filing his complaint in federal court in August 2024, alleging unlawful religious discrimination by Eaton.
According to Cedar Rapids-based KCRG, lawyers for Eaton argued Cunningham was not entitled to any damages because any actions taken by the company against him “were legitimate and non-discriminatory and non-retaliatory,” and were based on legitimate business reasons.
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The case came to a conclusion this week with Eaton and Cunningham reaching an unspecified settlement agreement out of court, according to KCRG. The case was dismissed on May 20, according to court documents.
Eaton declined Fox News Digital’s request for comment.