Biden vexes commoners with yet another election money grab

When the history of the 2024 presidential campaign is written, will citizens of Westchester County garner Churchill-type accolades: “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”? But perhaps it is unwise to compare the victims of Biden fundraising schemes to the Royal Air Force pilots defeating Hitler’s Luftwaffe.Much of Westchester County was locked down Thursday thanks to President Biden and his vast entourage descending on Irvington for a fundraiser reception in Michael Douglas’ mansion.General admission tickets (bring your own pretzels?) started at $3,300, and the event likely raised at least $10 million for Biden’s re-election campaign.Though the reception did not start until 6:15 p.m., schools in the area closed starting at 11 a.m.

All after-school activities were canceled for kids.Police were “urging people to avoid traveling beginning early this afternoon in anticipation” of Biden’s visit, per a local business journal.

Government officials created a vast security corridor hours before the president arrived and far beyond the specific area he would visit.Perhaps the de facto lockdown was to ensure Biden heard no heckling?Should people be honored when their personal schedules are disrupted by the commander in chief, the same way medieval peasants offered thanks if their crops were trampled by the king’s courtiers? Is Biden entitled to force Americans to pay any price for that blessing of perpetuating his power? Will Thursday’s disruption enter local lore as the Westchester equivalent of the Bridgegate scandal that tainted former New Jersey Gov.

Chris Christie?The campaign charged attendees $30,000 for a photo with Biden.But Trump supporters might pay a million dollars for a photo of Biden posing proudly by one of the “air illegal” planes that deliver deluges of dubious aliens to the Westchester County Airport from foreign airports.

Westchester was a hub for late-night flights that brought thousands of Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelan...