President Joe Biden’s staffers reportedly prepare him with information on how to enter and exit fundraiser event spaces.
Biden’s aides allegedly created a document that read in bold letters, “Walk to podium.”
According to a copy of the instructions obtained by Axios, staffers have reported that his team directs his every move.
“I staffed a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his movements,” one source told Axios.
The White House has defended the need to direct Biden in recent days, saying “regardless of who is president” these protocols would be followed.
“High levels of detail and precision are critical to presidential advance work – regardless of who is president – and these are basic approaches that are used by any modern advance team, including the Vice President’s office and agencies,” White House senior deputy press secretary and deputy assistant to the president Andrew Bates said in a statement.
“And then-Vice President Biden’s team did the same, as did other principals, during the second term of the Obama-Biden Administration.”
