You too, John?
That’s what former President Joe Biden have to be asking about his former greatest buddy, John Kerry.
It isn’t precisely like Julius Caesar uttering “Et Tu, Brute?” as his former good good friend and ally, Marcus Junius Brutus, sword in hand, joined others to complete Caesar off on the Roman Senate in 44 B.C.
Even when it didn’t occur fairly that method, it’s the method William Shakespeare wrote that it occurred, so it should do.
Moreover, it matches.
Biden’s former pals and allies, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and others, have, metaphorically talking, turned on Biden the best way Brutus and his gang turned on Caesar.
Joe Biden was, after all, no Julius Caesar. He solely ended up lifeless — politically talking — when his former pals and colleagues within the Democrat Get together turned on him, pushed him apart and made him an immediate has-been.
This now consists of John Kerry. He was the good friend and colleague whom Biden appointed because the nation’s first local weather czar.
Now he has joined the others by observing that Donald Trump was “proper” about securing the border and that Biden, by implication, was flawed.
The local weather czar cabinet-level appointment allowed Kerry to workers up and journey the world at taxpayers’ expense in personal jet airplane luxurious to lecture everybody on saving the planet he was serving to pollute.
Earlier than that Kerry, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2004, served alongside Biden within the Senate for twenty-four years. He succeeded Biden as chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee when Biden grew to become vp.
Kerry additionally served as Secretary of State underneath the Obama/Biden presidency.
Kerry additionally performed a big function in Biden’s 2020 marketing campaign for president, through which he ousted then-President Donald Trump.
How shut have been the 2 males?
“The one group that has labored extra carefully than the 2 of us is Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.” Kerry quipped whereas campaigning for Biden in 2020.
In 2024, Biden awarded Kerry the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
So, it got here as a shock to many who Kerry, at this late stage within the sport, would come out of nowhere to criticize Biden for his dealing with — or mishandling — of the border and the immigration disaster that helped ship Trump again to the White Home for a second time period.
With Joe Biden out of energy and down for the depend, Kerry couldn’t have chosen a greater — or worse — time to affix the gang of former Biden pals and followers beating up on him.
It’s unhappy. Not solely was Biden compelled to tug out of his race for reelection due to his psychological acuity downside, however his administration is underneath investigation over who was making the selections throughout his faltering presidency.
And in contrast to previous presidents Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton, Biden has didn’t capitalize financially — or flip a good buck — on his presidency.
He isn’t being paid a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} for giving speeches that no one listens to or writing books that no one reads. Neither is he elevating hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for a presidential library just like the others have carried out.
So, it needed to damage when Kerry, in a BBC interview, mentioned: “He was proper,” referring to Trump on securing the border to halt the unlawful immigration invasion of the nation.
“The issue that all of us ought to have been proper,” Kerry mentioned. “The very first thing any president ought to say, any president, or anyone in public life, is, and not using a border protected, you don’t have a nation.
“I want President Biden had been heard extra typically saying, “’I’m going to implement the regulation,’” Kerry mentioned.
As a substitute, Biden flaunted the regulation by opening the border, protecting it unprotected and letting in hundreds of thousands of unvetted strangers.
Kerry ought to have given Biden that recommendation when it counted and never criticize him when Biden is down and out. It exhibits that there aren’t any true pals in politics, solely associates.
Perhaps Biden can take the presidential medal again.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
