Vice President Kamala Harris has earned a reputation for creepily snickering at utterly inappropriate moments, but recent events indicate her off-putting tic is rubbing off on her boss. In response to serious questions about sobering circumstances, President Joe Biden has been doing a lot of gleeful giggling lately. The out-of-touch habit casts doubt not only on his cognizance of what’s going on in the country but also on his willingness to provide the transparency and accountability he boasted his administration would exhibit.
Laughing at Political Prosecution
In a video circulated online on Tuesday, Biden can be seen making no attempts to hide his glee after a reporter asked him if the indictment of former President Donald Trump, Biden’s foremost political opponent, is “politically divisive.”
After the president gave no answer, a White House staffer ushered reporters away.
Chuckling at Nashville School Shooting
After a shooter who appears to have identified as transgender shot six people, including three 9-year-old children, at a Christian school in what police confirmed was a “targeted attack,” Biden laughed off a reporter’s queries about whether the attack was a hate crime against Christians.
“Do you believe that Christians were targeted in the Nashville school shooting?” a reporter asked.
“I have no idea,” Biden responded.
“Josh Hawley believes they were,” the reporter noted, referring to the Missouri senator’s demands that the FBI investigate the shooting as a hate crime. “What do you say to that?”
“Well, I probably don’t, then,” Biden retorted before breaking into a
