Republican floats bizarre theory of behind-the-scenes White House shenanigans
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) on Tuesday claimed that former President Barack Obama and “his team” are “running the government, really.”
Speaking with Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” the New York Republican argued former U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice, among others, are “behind the scenes” of President Joe Biden’s administration.
"It's just like a Soviet-style Politburo," Tenney said, comparing Biden to former Communist Party Central Committee General Decretary Yuri Andropov — whom she described as “a decrepit, old Communist that they put” in charge of the USSR.
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"He looked good to the public, and they maneuvered behind the scenes," she said of Andropov. "And I suspect that's exactly what's going on.”
Tenney also claimed that the president’s debate performance was “a calculated pre-convention move to get Joe Biden out before” the election. But the far-right Republican's theorizing didn't end there.
"What was really interesting was the fallout,” Tenney said. "The media, which knew better, who knew better, went on about how disastrous this was. But guess who came to the rescue and said, 'Oh, no, no,' other than Joe Biden's family? It was President Obama, his team.
“The only president in American history to stay in Washington, to go from being a community organizer to worth an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars, is in Washington, is behind the scenes, along with Susan Rice and all of his staff."
"So they're running this government really, it seems to me," she claimed. "I don't think there's any other conclusion you can draw based on the evidence."
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The New York Republican went on to describe the entire situation as “this sort of globalist, we're-going-to-run-the-entire-world situation.”
To be clear, Tenney provided no actual “evidence” to back up her claims. The congresswoman currently represents NY-24. Last week, she won the Republican nomination for November’s election against Democratic challenger David Wagenhauser.
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