By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com
- Biden saw the crisis on the border as one of the most pressing problems of his presidency in 2021, along with vaccine misinformation, according to a new book
- The president raged at his aides and said the situation made his ‘blood boil’, Chris Whipple writes
- There were more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in 2021, and more than 2.3 million this year: the imminent end of Title 42 is worsening the problem
- Biden’s aides told Whipple that the president’s frustration was down to ‘a lack of solutions’, and he was ‘on a short fuse’ about the issue
A furious Joe Biden was ‘dropping f-bombs’ throughout the White House as his team scrambled to find answers to the migration crisis, according to a new book on his presidency.
Biden’s aides told author Chris Whipple that the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border ‘made his blood boil’.
Along with vaccine misinformation, it was the problem that most aggravated Biden.
Whipple’s book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, details how the Biden administration struggled to deal with surging migrant arrivals from Mexico throughout 2021 – and faced mounting criticism.
