HAVING A PULSE CERTAINLY DIDN’T HURT: How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?

Will Trump actually win a Nobel? There are too many open questions when it comes to the future of Israel and Gaza. It is hard, at the very minimum, to justify such an award when so many Palestinians are dead, thousands of them shot and bombed and starved after Trump took office. Trump, at least, was not president when the war began and first spiraled out of control. Biden had a chance to wrench history in a different direction and failed. If he is cognizant at all of the events over the past week, he should feel regret and shame.

“Cognizant at all?” It was only last year that Joe Scarborough assured me that “This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever. And I’ve known him for years.” What on earth happened in the months that followed?