lifers would give recommendations, and the president would take it under advisement and usually agree, but not always. And the advice was never carried out without the president signing off on it. Now, under Biden, if he says something contrary to what they want, they simply overrule him and tell the press “what he really meant”. In this case, Biden said what he meant 4 times……4 times…..and they are still overruling him.
It is also possible that Obama is still running things as a shadow decision-maker given Biden’s incompetence and dementia. Either way, it is clearly NOT Biden.
There is NO WAY that Trump would allow himself to be overruled by unelected twits. THIS situation we have now is actually a real example of a “threat to democracy”.