[NYPOST] President Biden "bowed to progressives" on Tuesday when he broke precedent to become the first sitting commander in chief to visit a picket line, former President Barack ObamaHow much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then...
’s car czar said Wednesday, blasting the trip as "outrageous."
"For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous," Steven Rattner, a former top adviser to Obama on the auto industry, said Wednesday in an interview with NBC News.
"There’s no precedent for it," Rattner explained. "The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things."
Rattner led Obama’s auto industry task force in 2009 when billions in taxpayer money was used to rescue General Motors and Chrysler.
The former auto czar said that while he understands the politics behind Biden’s show of solidarity with striking auto workers, the trip was still "wrong."
"I get the politics. The progressives all said, ’We don’t want a mediator; we want an advocate,’" Rattner said. "And he bowed to the progressives, and now he’s going out there to put his thumb on the scale. And it’s wrong."