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Amid a pivotal week for Joe Biden to demonstrate why he deserves to remain the Democratic nominee, the president is reportedly seething. And why wouldn’t he be? Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) seemed to publicly urge Biden to reconsider his defiance. George Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, joined mounting calls for him to step down with a brutal op-ed in the New York Times. And, perhaps most embarrassingly, former president Barack Obama reportedly knew of Clooney’s plan in advance and declined to object to it.

Seen from one angle, it seems as though some of the president’s most high-profile allies have turned on him. So much so that Biden apparently sees a plot. “The Biden campaign and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is quietly........

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