White House Counselor Alina Habba claims she’s discovered the ‘fake Oval Office’ Joe Biden used during the first months of his presidency.
Biden was given grief for a special imitation White House set which was constructed for presidential zoom sessions and other public events which began the long held speculation that the president was in decline and it was being covered up.
Habba, a key legal ally to the president, claimed to have found the room where it all happened in a video she posted to social media.
‘You guys, I just finished a show. Look at the room that they put me in,’ Habba says of a room with the logo of The White House and an American flag.
‘We’re in Biden’s fake Oval Office, everybody.’
Habba then pans around the room to show, among other things, a teleprompter, a golden chair, a table and several television screens along with lighting fixtures.
‘I now know why, I now get it,’ Habba added. ‘There is a screen, teleprompter to the face.’
She added: ‘All I can say is the last administration was a disgratz,’ using what appeared to be an attempt at Italian slang.
White House Counselor Alina Habba claims she’s discovered the ‘fake Oval Office’ Joe Biden used during the first months of his presidency
Habba, a key legal ally to the president, claimed to have found the room where it all happened in a video she posted to social media
It’s unclear if the set was the exact one used by Biden inside the South Court Auditorium inside the Old Executive Office Building.
Biden used it on multiple occasions, including at a ‘Build Back Better’ event where a fake window showed flowers in bloom in the Rose Garden, which in fact is located nearby and south of the White House itself.
The set is equipped with new lighting and large-screen computer screens. Biden used them to conduct a zoom meeting with world leaders during the meeting of the UN General Assembly – an event he had attended in person in New York before returning to Washington.
He also used the room when he got his COVID-19 booster shot.
The arrangement, which usually includes flags, small desks, and windows that show digital images of the White House, has drawn mocking online from many of Biden’s critics – who wonder why he doesn’t just use the real White House.
Many at the time used it to wonder if it was to cover up Biden’s frail nature which eventually was all revealed at a June 2024 debate that forced a then 81-year-old Biden to quit his re-election campaign.
More and more has leaked out from those close to Biden about what they hid from the American public.
In late February, a former Biden administration official accused his former colleagues of ‘gaslighting’ journalists and voters by denying the truth about the president’s advancing age and frailty.
Biden was given grief for a special ersatz White House aides have had constructed for presidential zoom sessions and other public events which began the long held speculation that the president was in decline and it was being covered up
Many at the time used it to wonder if it was to cover up Biden’s frail nature which eventually was all revealed at a June 2024 debate that forced a then 81-year-old Biden to quit his re-election campaign
Blame and recrimination have swirled among Democrats ever since, as they wonder what would have happened if he had dropped out sooner and Kamala Harris or another candidate had longer to make their case against the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
Jill Biden’s former press secretary Michael LaRosa said much of the blame should be leveled at officials who attacked anyone asking questions about Biden’s age.
And he described how officials were terrified of exposing an increasingly gaffe-prone president to the press.
‘We were always, from day one, cognizant that age was an issue,’ he said at an event at the Science Institute at American University on Wednesday.
The issue has come to the fore again in a new book, ‘Original Sin,’ by Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper which condemns the way the White House covered up Biden’s advancing age.
‘There are some things that are true, I mean, like the gaslighting. There was a lot of denial of the polling,’ said LaRosa.
‘And I will use the term gaslighting because that’s what they were doing, the campaign, former colleagues. The message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people it’s too early. It’s too early.
‘These polls don’t mean anything. Well, it became too early. And these polls don’t mean anything for about a year and a half. The polls, the numbers never moved.’
Habba then pans around the room to show, among other things, a teleprompter, a golden chair, a table and several television screens along with lighting fixtures before calling Biden a disgrace
More and more has leaked out from those close to Biden about what they hid from the American public
White House officials would punch back hard at any reporters who asked questions about Biden’s age.
And they succeeded in discouraging many news outlets from covering the issue.
But there was no ignoring the subject after Biden’s disastrous debate with Trump last June. The president appeared to lose his train of thought multiple times and was left standing in awkward silence, surprising even his opponent.
‘By denying the data that was out there publicly, by denying the really insightful journalism, you know, they were actually demeaning to a lot of the people,’ said LaRosa.
‘But it was the data denial that really bothered me because we loved polling when we were running because we were always ahead.
‘All of a sudden, because they’re always behind, the polls are meaningless. And they were attacking The New York Times. They did do a lot of gaslighting of people. And I think if you were watching MSNBC, you probably believed them and were probably pretty shocked.’
LaRosa was forced out of the White House after bringing dates to secure floors of the president’s hotel during overseas trips.
Since then he has been a vocal critic of the way Biden was protected by his team.
‘The president’s team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, un-rehearsed, unpracticed, un-choreographed, anything, they couldn’t compete for the attention economy,’ he told journalist Tara Palmeri, during their onstage discussion.
‘They just couldn’t do it. They didn’t have any idea.
‘And they didn’t have the vessel either in Biden, by the way, who would have done anything. He loves TV. He loves doing stuff. It was the orbit that did not trust their own candidate.’
Biden left the White House on January 20 when Trump was sworn in for his second term in office.
