White House aide dishes on dealing with moody, aging Biden: 'People are scared Shittless of him'

"It's like, 'You can't include that, that will set him off,' or 'Put that in, he likes that,'" a senior administration official told the outlet. "It's a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he's being briefed. It's very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him."

"He doesn't take advice from anyone other than those few top aides," the official added."It becomes a perfect stormbecause he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it."

White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates denied that information was being curated to avoid upsetting Biden in a statement to POLITICO.

But the perception of a relatively restricted White House is apparently shared by other Democratic officials outside the building.

"I think the Biden team is pretty insular and doesn't really care what anybody says," a senior House Democrat told the outlet.

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