{"id":37825,"date":"2025-04-03T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/biden-skipped-white-house-meeting-after-trump-debate-for-photoshoot-new-book-says\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:23:00","slug":"biden-skipped-white-house-meeting-after-trump-debate-for-photoshoot-new-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/biden-skipped-white-house-meeting-after-trump-debate-for-photoshoot-new-book-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden skipped White House meeting after Trump debate for photoshoot, new book says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple that Biden opted for Annie Leibovitz shoot at critical moment in campaign<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the disastrous debate against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> that ultimately ended his political career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> skipped a White House meeting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/progressives.house.gov\/\">congressional Progressive caucus<\/a> in favor of a Camp David photoshoot with the fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz, a new book says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to cancel that,\u201d Ron Klain, Biden\u2019s former chief of staff and debate prep leader, told the president, as he advocated securing the endorsement of the group of powerful progressive politicians perhaps key to his remaining the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/apr\/03\/biden-white-house-meeting-trump-debate-photoshoot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple that Biden opted for Annie Leibovitz shoot at critical moment in campaign In the aftermath of the disastrous debate against Donald Trump that ultimately ended his political career, Joe Biden skipped a White House meeting with the congressional Progressive caucus in favor of a Camp David photoshoot with the &#8230; <a title=\"Biden skipped White House meeting after Trump debate for photoshoot, new book says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/biden-skipped-white-house-meeting-after-trump-debate-for-photoshoot-new-book-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Biden skipped White House meeting after Trump debate for photoshoot, new book says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}