What the paucity of leaks tells us about the Biden White House
It was roughly four years ago when the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts realized the #ToddlerinChief thread might have legs. It eventually led to 2,617 entries and a book.
All of this was possible because Donald Trump’s staffers, subordinates and political allies constantly blabbed to the press about the immature president they had to manage on a daily basis. Indeed, the flow of information about Trump’s bad behavior has not abated. Just this past weekend Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu reported out a lulu of a story involving Trump’s back-channel efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from overseas while bypassing his national security adviser and White House counsel. The portrait that emerges is of a president who alternates between policy by tantrum and policy by sneaking around, scared of grown-ups.
The surfeit of Trump dirt raises an interesting question: Where are the stories dripping with insider details about how President Biden runs his White House?
There are two answers to this question. The first is that the paucity of content is in and of itself a story. The second is that the few articles that have trickled out are revealing, but not necessarily in the way that was intended.