Former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is certainly not above pushing a dubious narrative if it fits his political agenda. But even he’s balking at this latest right-wing election theory about former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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In January, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) began pushing the idea that Michelle Obama was going to replace President Joe Biden on the ticket. Rep. Greene argued that Michelle Obama was somehow responsible for all of the things she didn’t like about the administration.
“She owns Joe Biden’s policies. She owns the Biden administration. She owns the failure. She owns the Green New Deal. She owns the inflation. She owns the wide-open border,” said Greene on the “The Benny Show.”
Greene went on to say that replacing Biden with Michelle Obama has “been the plan the entire time.”
There’s absolutely nothing surprising about someone like Greene making every policy she disagrees with the fault of a Black woman — who, mind you, has never held elected office.
But Rove, former senior advisor to President George W. Bush, entering the fray was not on our 2024 bingo cards.
Rove was asked on Fox Business about whether Michelle Obama would replace Biden on the ticket, to which he emphatically said, “no.”
“No — look, she hates politics,” Rove told Fox Business host Stuart Varney. “Read her autobiography. She didn’t want her husband to run for the state Senate. She didn’t want him to run for the presidency. She’s not a political animal.”
Rove said that he told former President Donald Trump’s campaign team that this was never going to happen. “I told the other Trump people,” said Rove, “including the president himself; this is sheer utter lunacy, starting with the fact she hates politics, period. She loves the life she’s got.”
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