Why Biden Runs Scared

That’s why there is something especially ugly about Democratic political strategist James Carville, who insinuated in an MSNBC interview that if President Biden loses in November, it will be Israel’s fault in general, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s fault in particular.

As Strategist Carville phrased it, at some point, the Biden team will have to tell Bibi: “Hey, dude, we are not going to lose our election because you stand to go to jail. Think of something else.”

Aside from the absurdity that a Biden victory in the 2024 general election is contingent upon his clamping down on Israel, Carville is irresponsibly parroting the mantra that Netanyahu’s every decision, including declaring war on Hamas, is calculated to distract people from his trial.

That’s also absurd, considering the proceedings against Bibi began in 2020, three and a half years before Hamas’s invasion, and at the present pace, the trial may still be going on in 2028, when neither Biden nor Trump will run again. As a sophisticated political advisor, Carville, who first gained fame directing Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 presidential campaign, should be aware that the trial judges months ago recommended that prosecutors drop the most serious charges of bribery (the only ones likely to end in a prison term), because they have failed to prove their case.