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Master Of Evasion Joe Biden Jets Off To Foreign Continent After Pardoning Hunter

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Promises made, (some) promises kept.

President Joe Biden broke a promise Sunday by pardoning his felon son, Hunter, in the eleventh hour of his presidency. However, the very next day, Biden fulfilled another: a visit to Africa.

The president jetted off to Angola on Monday in an attempt to encourage Western investment in the country and counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

If there was ever a time to avoid off-the-cuff interactions with the media, it’s now, and what better way to do it than to fly across the Atlantic to a third-world country? There, there will be no D.C. reporters literally screaming and begging for answers, just Angolan farmers and lobbyists looking to rub elbows with an American POTUS. (RELATED: Forget Basement Campaign — It’s Been A Whole Basement Presidency For Joe Biden)

Is it too much to say that Biden has become a master of dodging the press? For all his lack of brainpower, the president has masterfully wielded his age to stave off tough questions from a White House corps starved of answers.

Fielding questions from the reporters? Simply crack a wry smile, turn around and walk away, confused. Simple yet brilliant.

Or, crack jokes at your own expense about why you should not be taking questions.

Biden also deployed the icy, Alpha stare-down. No need for jokes this time, no need for excuses. Embrace your inability to form complete sentences. Stare straight ahead, mute, a slight smile on your face. A smile that says, ‘I don’t need to answer your silly questions, peons. I’m Joe F*cking Biden.’

My personal favorite was when he nearly started World War III before wandering off in the Amazon jungle. Like a stoic Victorian explorer making one final push to find the ancient golden city, he simply … disappeared.

His strategy did not succeed every time, of course. Occasionally, he got the better of himself, starting tiffs with his favorite reporter, Fox News’ Peter Doocy. Sometimes, though, he engaged with the press so swiftly, so adeptly, that everyone was left wondering: whatever happened to Sleepy Joe?

But Biden’s trip to Angola tops all of it — the blank stares, the cold shoulders, the occasional zingers. In the final weeks of his presidency, Biden has mastered the dark art of dodging. As Washington, D.C., implodes over his sweeping pardon for Hunter, Biden jets off — not to Rehoboth Beach, but to Africa! — leaving his incompetent press secretary to pick up the pieces.

Exit stage east. It’s a gesture as dramatic as it is effective.

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