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In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he's prone to yelling.Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.The president's admonitions include: "God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!," "Don't f**king bullsh*t me!" and "Get the f**k out of here!" — according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.The private eruptions paint a more complicated picture of Biden as a manager and president than his carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle who loves Aviator sunglasses and ice cream.Some Biden aides think the president would be better off occasionally displaying his temper in public as a way to assuage voter concerns that the 80-year-old president is disengaged and too old for the office.Senior and lower-level aides alike can be in Biden's line of fire. "No one is safe," said one administration official.Biden aides still talk about how angry he got at Jeff Zients, then the administration's "COVID czar," in late 2021 when there was a shortage of testing kits as the Omicron variant spread. (The rage was temporary. Zients is now Biden's chief of staff.)A spokesperson for Zients told Axios: "I'm not going to speak to what internal convos may or may not have happened between Jeff and the president."
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The Supreme Court recently delivered a landmark decision in Trump v. United States, addressing the former president's claim to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions related to the Capitol attack on January 6. This ruling has ignited a firestorm of debate, particularly around the hypothetical…
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her Rassemblement National party would seek to form a new French government even if it falls short of an outright majority, in a shift in position ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote.Le Pen said that if the RN narrowly failed to secure a majority on its own, it would look for allies for parliamentary backing.In last weekend’s first round, the RN inflicted a resounding defeat on President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist forces and is projected to come in first again on Sunday.“We want to govern, to be extremely clear. And if we are a few deputies short of the majority,” Le Pen said on France Inter Radio on Tuesday. “We will go see others and say: ‘Are you ready to participate with us in a new majority with a new policy?’”But, in an indication of the RN’s resolve to pursue its agenda, she said the party “could not accept going into government if we cannot act”.Jordan Bardella, the party’s chief and candidate for prime minister, had previously said he would not govern without an absolute majority of the parliament’s 577 seats.
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Two-thirds of French voters did not vote for the RN.
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