Peter Schweizer: Obama’s Coup Is Complete

by Breitbart News

President Joe Biden’s mysterious announcement ending his campaign for re-election invites comparisons to the politics of 1968, but Peter Schweizer sees another comparison – to the politics of 2008.

Schweizer calls it the “Obama coup” on the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast.

There have been whispers in Washington that former President Barack Obama was unofficially pulling the strings of his former vice president’s administration. He has even spoken wishfully of doing it as a “third term.” Yet there was known to be a lot of bad blood between the two men, even predating Obama’s decision to endorse Hillary Clinton instead of Biden for president in 2016.

With the Democrats trying to rally their base around the swapped-in candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, it’s interesting to compare the history Obama has with both.

“The thing you have to understand is that Barack Obama has never really liked Joe Biden. Biden was imposed on him when Obama ran in 2008. He was told by the leadership in the Democratic Party: ‘you need somebody who’s seasoned, who’s experienced, because you’ve only been in the Senate for a few years,’” Schweizer says. “So, Joe Biden was kind of foisted on him.”