Biden’s incompetence is being further exposed. It’s a shock that more wasn’t destroyed in this country while he was president.
And a bombshell report reveals how Joe Biden put lives at risk during his presidency.
In the heart of a blazing inferno that turned Los Angeles into a nightmare, President Biden’s celebrity-style visit threw a wrench into rescue operations, leaving desperate residents stuck in deadly traffic.
A bombshell report exposes how the LAPD’s motorcycle cops—key to slicing through gridlock—were all tied up babysitting the commander-in-chief instead of saving lives.
The Palisades Fire erupted in early January 2025, scorching everything in its path and forcing thousands to flee.
But as flames licked the skies over the City of Angels, everyday heroes in uniform found their hands tied by Washington priorities.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell lays it all out in the fresh “Palisades After Action Report,” breaking down the department’s prep work and the chaos that unfolded when the blaze spun out of control.
As panic spread and folks hit the roads, a monstrous backup clogged Sunset Boulevard. This mess made it “nearly impossible for first responders to reach their destinations,” the report states flat out.
Biden rolled into town on January 7 with his entourage, right as the fire exploded. His trip demanded every single on-duty LAPD motorcycle officer, pulling them away from the real emergency.
Desperate for help, the LAPD incident commander reached out to the president’s command post at 11:30 a.m., begging for those agile bike cops to bust through the jams and speed up evacuations.
But no dice—the White House crew shut them down cold. “Unfortunately, the POTUS CP was unable to release the motorcycle officers. However, due to a change in the President’s schedule, the POTUS CP was able to send 65 officers in patrol cars to the Palisades incident,” the report uncovers.
Those patrol cars? A poor substitute in the snarl of vehicles, crawling along while bikers could have zipped ahead to clear paths for terrified families.
Even so, McDonnell credits the extra manpower for keeping things from total collapse.
“The availability of these officers provided the Palisades CP with a vital injection of resources in a relatively short amount of time. Were these resources not already on standby at a nearby location, the evacuation efforts would have been greatly diminished,” he points out.
On top of the traffic nightmare, first responders battled tech failures when the fire torched radio and cell towers, leaving cops to scramble with their own phones just to coordinate.
The original hub for rescues—Fire Station 23—went up in smoke itself, forcing people to relocate to Will Rogers Beach and adding more headaches.
This catastrophe claimed 12 innocent lives and charred over 23,000 acres.
Now, fingers point to Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old facing federal heat for arson on property tied to interstate commerce, wrecking stuff with fire, and igniting timber.
Prosecutors say Rinderknecht sparked the initial blaze, which smoldered before high winds fanned it back to life a week later, birthing the monster Palisades Fire.
How many times do we see this? Bigwigs from D.C. swoop in for photo ops, sucking up local resources while regular Americans pay the price—in this case, with their safety on the line.
