Here is some timely news and commentary about President^* Joe Biden.

News and commentary about President^* Joe Biden

Introduction by The Editor:
The news media declared Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 presidential election on November 4th, long before any state had so certified.  Then the Biden handlers set up the fictitious "Office of the President Elect" for his television appearances, to promote the perception that he actually won fair and square.  Officially, there is no such office.  There is nothing magical about any president's "First 100 Days" in office, yet that's all the news media could talk about in January.  One might be tempted to ask, What's the rush?  Indeed, Joe Biden is now acting like a dictator, just like Barack H. Obama, issuing dozens of unilateral decrees, in the form of executive orders, the purpose of which is to legislate from the White House all the policies that the Congress wouldn't be able to pass, and immediately implement the Democrats' socialist platform.  But Joe Biden is just a puppet:  He is a senile old man who will sign anything his handlers tell him to sign.  He will read whatever words come up on the teleprompter, just like Barack H. Obama.  He is apparently trying to weaken America's economy, just like Barack H. Obama.  The national news media are doing everything possible to portray Joe Biden in a positive light, just as they did for Barack H. Obama.  The Biden presidency is starting to look like Obama's third term.

The biggest mystery in America today is this:  Who is running the Executive Branch of the federal government?

Yet another note from The Editor:
Perhaps I should apologize, or boast, that this page has turned into a four-megabyte heap of text related directly to Joe Biden.  Unlike the multiple pages of news and commentary about Barack H. Obama, no attempt has (yet) been made to sub-categorize articles about Biden's unwise decisions, mental state, cloud of corruption, or other topics — with the exception of his favorable treatment by the press, and his long list of objectionable appointments.  Use the "Find" function in your browser to get to a specific subject.

Appended 3/3/2023:
This collection has grown to 5½ megabytes, but only the first megabyte or so is on this page.  The rest has been moved to the overflow area, to save bandwidth — yours and mine.  Mostly mine.

Appended 9/10/2024:
This page is now 8.7 megabytes in size, and I have abandoned the idea of putting an overflow area on a secondary page, to make it possible for you to use the search feature on your browser to find specific names or keywords. 

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Background, overview and recap articles:

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An overview of Biden's career:
The Worst Presidents in American History.  Joe Biden earned his designation as the most venal and corrupt president in American history as he has a long history of venality and malfeasance which began almost immediately after he was first sworn in as a senator in 1973 and has extended throughout his 52-year political career.  In August of 2019, Politico International highlighted nearly 45 years of Biden's unscrupulous family machinations.  Joe's willingness to use his office for financial gain dates back to 1973, Joe's first year in the Senate when he demanded a seat on the Senate Banking Committee (which oversees bank regulatory agencies).  Soon afterward, his brother James, a 23-year-old business neophyte with a net worth of less than $10,000, was persuaded to open a nightclub.  James used Biden family "connections" to obtain $165,000 ($1.2 million in 2024 dollars) in mostly unsecured loans from a failing Delaware bank.  Within less than 18 months the venture started to unravel, and James was unable to make the loan payments.  Joe intervened with the bank's chairman to make certain the bank did not harass James for payment or foreclose on the nightclub.  Not long thereafter, Joe Biden met with the senior vice-president of a bank also on the watch list as a potential failing institution.  Fortuitously, around the same time that bank decided to give James a $500,000 ($3.2 million in 2024 dollar) loan.  The nightclub venture soon failed, leaving behind a trail of unpaid loans and debts.  The fact that Joe served on the Senate Banking Committee and his brother, with no business experience, received unheard-of loans from two banks under scrutiny was, no doubt, a mere coincidence.  Thus began a pattern that for continued for 47 years.

Overview #2:
Biden is the most amoral President in US history.  The President pretends to be Catholic but clearly does not live by Catholic tenets.  He supports abortion up until the moment of birth.  This past week, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to the priests who have been ministering to Catholic patients at Walter Reed Hospital.  He intends to contract outside persons to provide Catholic ministry.  While VP, he supported the persecution of the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing to provide abortion services to their employees.  In short, he is about as Catholic and Christian as Nancy Pelosi, another faux Catholic, a classic elitist who has nothing but contempt for actual Catholics, actual Christians.  There are years of evidence, including from Biden's own daughter's diary, that Biden is a pedophile or at least has pedophilic tendencies.  He cannot keep his hands off young female children; he fondles and sniffs them.  Tara Reade's account of his molestation of her years ago is credible. [...] The sadly mentally incapacitated Biden is a tool of the worst people on the planet:  the Communist Party of China and the Machiavellian scoundrels of the WEF. [...] Biden's weakness has reverberated throughout the world.  His thwarting of our energy independence, his absurd implementation of all the covid restrictions that submarined the US economy and his vaccine mandates that have killed thousands will be his legacy.  This President's obsession with LGBT issues, especially the transgenderism of children, proves his evil intent beyond all other issues.

Overview #3:
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.  The laptops are real.  The FBI has known this since 2019, when it first took possession of them.  When the New York Post attempted to report on them, dozens of the most senior national security officials in the United States lied to the public, claiming the laptops were likely part of a Russian "disinformation" plot.  Twitter, Facebook, and Google, operating as fully integrated branches of the state security infrastructure, carried out the government's censorship orders based on that lie.  The press swallowed the lie and cheered on the censorship.  The story of the laptops has been framed as many things, but the most fundamental truth about it is that it was the successful culmination of the years-long effort to create a shadow regulatory bureaucracy built specifically to prevent a repeat of Trump's 2016 victory.  It may be impossible to know exactly what effect the ban on reporting about Hunter Biden's laptops had on the 2020 vote, but the story was clearly seen as threatening enough to warrant an openly authoritarian attack on the independence of the press.  The damage to the country's underlying social fabric, in which paranoia and conspiracy have been normalized, is incalculable.  As recently as February, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to the scandal as the "half-fake laptop story" and as "an embarrassment," months after even the Bidens had been forced to acknowledge that the story is authentic.

Recap and overview of Biden's senility:
Dethroning Biden.  Joe Biden's cognitive decline has been obvious since he launched his presidential 'run' in 2019.  Even a fellow Democrat challenger taunted him over this during a 2020 primary debate.  But the DNC establishment thought Biden would appear to be an avuncular centrist figure that would appeal to the general public.  Hence despite Biden's abysmal beginning in the primaries, his rivals were encouraged to drop out.  Biden became the nominee with 2739 delegates.  This has been a tradition for Democrats.  During the 2015 Democrat Primaries, Bernie Sanders, who had more ground support and voter passion, was sidelined in favor of the DNC establishment's choice Hillary Clinton.  Once he was 'elected', the cognitively impaired Biden was used as a rubber stamp to push their agenda.  During his 'Presidency,' Biden's decline was mocked by comedians in Saudi Arabia.  However, 'comedians' in New York engaged in PR for Biden.  The DNC PR agencies that masquerade as the news media followed the diktats.  Biden's myriad dementia-driven gaffes were dismissed.

Laptop recap and overview:
Hunter Biden:  Looking at that laptop that wasn't mine violated my privacy.  After Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal broke down, he changed lawyers and changed strategies.  His former lawyer was a deal maker.  His new one, Abbe Lowell, is famed for his confrontational, slash-and-burn approach.  His latest move is another flamethrower blast.It's a lawsuit to contain the troubles caused by Hunter Biden's infamous laptop computer, the one he left at a Delaware repair shop but failed to pick up and pay for.  When he dropped it off, he signed the shop's standard agreement saying that, if he didn't return and pay for the work, the shop would then own the computer its contents.  The computer repair shop owner examined the data on the laptop as a result, and this has caused a world of hurt for the Bidens.  The repairman gave the computer to intermediaries who gave it to the New York Post, the only newspaper that was interested.  Since then, the Biden family has been dealing with the consequences, mostly by denying the computer was really Hunter's or the data from it was faked — claims which have been disproven by two different US media investigations.  The idea that the data isn't Hunter's has also been contradicted by IRS whistleblower testimony.  Nonetheless Team Biden has battled hard to suppress reporting of the data.  This suppression wasn't designed to help Hunter.  It was designed to help his father win the 2000 election.  That's why father, son, and the team surrounding them denied everything about the computer, claimed it was all a Kremlin fabrication, and tried to prevent newspapers from reporting about it and social media from discussing it or even circulating the newspaper articles.

Overview and recap:
Biden's Criminal Enterprise.  President Joe Biden's questionable activities go back to his first year as Vice President in 2009 and continued throughout his eight years serving in the two-term Obama administration, punctuated with son Hunter being paid $1 million a year as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014.  That role continued for more than four years, with a large $10 million dollar payoff from Burisma coming to Hunter and Joe Biden after the latter blackmailed Ukraine by threatening the withholding of $1 billion in U.S. aid unless prosecutor general Victor Shokin was fired from the corruption investigation of Burisma in March of 2016 — an investigation that would have exposed fraud, including questionable payments to Hunter Biden.  FBI documents refer to the two $5 million payments to Hunter and Joe Biden as a 'bribe' paid by Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.  The case for impeaching President Joe Biden goes beyond bribery and emolument high crimes related to Ukraine.  In 2014, Hunter Biden introduced his father, then Vice President, to Kazakhstan oligarch Kenes Rakishev at a dinner.  Records and testimony obtained by James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee show that at that time of introducing Rakishev to Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer were working on a deal involving Burisma, on whose board they both served, and a Chinese company that would have been based in Kazakhstan.  To facilitate the deal and his relationship with Archer and the Bidens, Rakishev wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca — a shell company created by Devon and Hunter — the exact amount needed to fund Hunter's sportscar purchase the next day.

Loving Dad Joe Engages Son in Life of Crime.  Organized crime bosses protect themselves from legal jeopardy by insulating themselves from the dirty work.  They use underlings to sell their product, collect the money, launder the money, and if necessary take the fall.  If a legal price is to be paid, it's paid by the expendables.  The boss keeps them quiet with hush money, legal assistance, and witness intimidation.  Does anyone believe that a cartel boss helps an arrested underling out of love?  Nope.  He does it in service to his own selfish interests — which brings me to Hunter Biden's loving father, Joe.  We've learned a great deal about the Biden family business in the last three years from abandoned laptops, congressional investigations, and federal whistleblowers.  We know that Hunter was working on a deal with a Chinese energy company in which 10 percent would go to the "big guy."  We learned from Hunter's business partner, Tony Bobulinski, that the "big guy" was Hunter's code name for his dad, Joe Biden.  Oddly, Bobulinski was never interviewed by Biden's consigliere or his crew, the Department of Justice.

'Someone's got to go to prison'.  [Scroll down]  Then there are the extraordinarily criminal activities of Biden's son Hunter.  The media and the CIA, FBI and DOJ all knew the Laptop from Hell was authentic in December of 2019 but suppressed it and/or claimed it was "Russian propaganda."  That includes William Barr, a wolf in sheep's clothing if there ever were one.  The powers-that-were covered up the existence of his laptop, chock full of proof of Hunter's many perversions — drugs, meth, cocaine, prostitutes including very young girls, and his many schemes to shakedown millions of dollars from foreign actors for who-knows-what in return.  But one thing is clear beyond doubt, given what the Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith laid out before us on Wednesday, information gleaned from IRS whistleblowers.  No taxes were paid on millions of ill-gotten dollars.  When he did pay taxes, he deducted his payments to prostitutes, sex clubs and porn sites.  How's that for chutzpah?  As someone commented the other day, this is a family of feral dogs!  They continue to disavow a biological granddaughter.  Hunter sells his pathetic paintings in some sort of obvious money laundering scheme.  And poor, old, demented Joe continues to deny any malfeasance.  He denies he ever had anything to do with Hunter's business dealings.  Once a grifter, always a grifter.  The Biden family is essentially a mob of the mafia-like variety.

Timely news and commentary:

The true scandal of Joe Biden's cognitive decline is about to be blown wide open.  It may be difficult to imagine a more informed witness than a doctor in casting light on the cognitive condition of Joe Biden during his four wandering years in office.  Unfortunately, Biden's White House physician, Dr Kevin O'Connor, opted to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during his deposition with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  The committee is probing the alleged cover-up of Biden's cognitive ability, and whether the autopen — a machine that replicates his signature — was misused to enact major presidential actions without the knowledge or consent of the elected leader of the executive branch.  Biden's "Politburo", however, seems far more likely to be forthcoming.  The "Politburo" refers to the tight cadre of White House aides that surrounded Biden during his presidency — including Michael Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, Annie Tomasini, and former first lady Jill Biden's aide Anthony Bernal.  Early on, it also included Ron Klain, Biden's first White House chief of staff.  According to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin, these figures shielded Biden as questions about his mental capacity began to swirl.

Pathetic media pretends the autopen was the scandal — not Biden's brain.  Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency?  Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented string of autopen signings?  In recent weeks, evidence has been mounting that the former president may not have been in the loop, which is, to be charitable, problematic.  Luckily for us, the folks at NBC News jumped into action with a story headlined, "Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature."  In it, reporters Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona make an inane equivalence between lead investigator Rep. James Comer signing PDFs using a digital signature — a completely legal thing to do — and Biden allegedly allowing his staff to issue blanket presidential pardons for thousands of people without knowing the names or crimes of the recipients.

Autopen scandal:  Who got rich selling them?  Much has been written about the enormous scandal involving the Biden administration's cover-up of Joe Biden's dementia.  His senility was obvious when he ran for president in 2020, but was covered up by the manufactured COVID pandemic.  He was even then an easily manipulated fool/tool of the far left from the moment he took control of the presidency.  Now we know that he was never an acting president. [...] Back to the autopen.  We now know that it was used and abused thousands of times, not by Biden himself but by staffers who, now, when called to testify before Congress, are all pleading the Fifth.  They are all obviously guilty, complicit in what may turn out to be a bigger scandal than the Hillary-conceived Russia hoax.  Neera Tanden confessed to using the autopen but would not say who authorized her to do so.  Jill Biden's "work husband, Anthony Bernal, pleaded the Fifth.  Biden's doctor, an osteopath, also pleaded the Fifth.  Obviously, the entire four years of the Biden administration were a sham.  We have yet to learn how many people were involved, but it is likely to be many, many arrogant radicals who believed themselves to be better qualified to rule over us, to tyrannize us all.

Sen. Paul: 'Test' the autopen by indicting Fauci.  Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is not giving up his fight to hold Anthony Fauci accountable for allegedly lying to Congress, covering up the origins of Covid, pushing lockdowns and mandates, and lying about the so-called "vaccines."  As Biden White House aides one-by-one go before Congress and plead the fifth when asked about the Joe Biden autopen scandal, Paul said the best way to "test" the many pardons by autopen is to indict Fauci so his pardon can be litigated in court.  "Senator Paul is right.  It's go time," Revolver News noted.  "Indict Fauci, let him pull out that goofy autopen pardon, and then let the courts decide if it holds water."  [Tweet]

'Very Serious Constitutional Crisis': James Comer Says 'No Evidence' Yet Suggesting Biden Controlled Use Of Autopen.  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Wednesday that his committee's investigation into former President Joe Biden's administration's autopen usage so far has not yielded a shred of evidence that Biden was in control of what was signed.  The New York Times published a report on Sunday documenting Biden's use of an autopen, finding that when the former president granted a wide array of clemency and pardons toward the end of his term, he approved the guidelines for them, but did not personally approve each person.  Comer said on "American Agenda" that the two former Biden aides his committee has interviewed did not provide evidence that Biden was aware of who operated the autopen or what documents they put his signature on.

The Biden Staff Coup Was The Biggest Conspiracy Against Americans In History.  The past week finally blew the lid off the worst political corruption scandal of the 21st century.  And if you're not sure what I'm talking about, that means the criminal conspiracy behind it is already winning.  The revelations of the last seven days indicate that the coverup and exploitation of former President Joe Biden's deteriorating health by his inner circle were more treacherous than first suspected.  Moreover, we now know for sure that their conspiracy is still active.  Exhibit A:  Last Wednesday, Joe Biden's White House Physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, finally appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after months of delays.  He was subpoenaed as part of the committee's investigation into the former president's mental incapacity.  As the president's official physician, O'Connor would have been consulted — and probably conducted neurological assessments on his patient — as soon as Biden started falling down in public in early 2021.  He may have also tested and treated him for prostate cancer.  O'Connor knows better than anyone when, how quickly, and how badly the president fell into cognitive and physical decline.

The Moving Autopen Writes, and Having Writ, Moves On.  Numerous authors are opining on the validity or invalidity of the pardons issued under the autopen signature of the invalid who was housed in the White House for the better part of four years (when he wasn't on the beach with his ice cream cone). [...] Biden's NYT interview points to a key flaw in the autopen.  He may have given his subordinates basic direction about what should be done.  That general instruction was passed on from sycophant to sycophant in what may best be described as a game of "Telephone."  The relationship between the original intention and the final execution was tenuous at best.  During the last two years of Joe's tenancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, his Chief of Staff, Jeffrey Zients, created the actual order for each signature.  This is different from proper practice.  First, the final approval did not come from the President.  It is clear from case law all the way back to the Founding that the President's signature is the "last act" that indicates the President's actual intent (Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137, 1803).  Without the President's personal involvement in this final act, conservative scholars Edwin Meese and Josh Blackman argue that strict personal involvement is required.  The Appointments Clause establishes that the President must make a clear statement that a given person is appointed to a judgeship (or granted a pardon, etc.).  It does not allow a secretary, aide, or Chief of Staff to exercise that authority.

Multiple Pardons [were] Granted By Autopen Without Biden Approving Recipients, Staff Admit.  A report released Sunday in The New York Times reveals multiple pardons handed out in the final weeks of President Joe Biden's presidency were signed by an autopen — some lacking Biden's final authorization.  The article, titled "Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen," seemingly tries to dispel claims by President Donald Trump "and his allies ... that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name."  In a brief phone interview with The Times, Biden insisted "I made every decision" and, according to The Times, asserted "that he had his staff use an autopen replicating his signature on the clemency warrants because 'we're talking about a whole lot of people.'"  The Times claims internal emails "show that the Biden White House had a process to establish that Mr. Biden had orally made decisions in meetings before the staff secretary, Stefanie Feldman, who managed use of the autopen, would have clemency records put through the signing device."

Former White House Staffer Anthony Bernal Pleads the Fifth; Refuses to Say If He Was Told to Lie About Joe Biden's Cognitive Decline.  Jill Biden's former chief of staff Anthony Bernal invoked the Fifth Amendment during a congressional deposition Wednesday morning, refusing to tell lawmakers whether he and other White House staffers carried out presidential duties while Joe Biden's cognitive abilities declined.  Republicans on the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Bernal to appear for the deposition as part of a their investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden's deteriorating health and his mental fitness as president.  Bernal even refused to say whether Biden instructed him to lie about his cognitive health, Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement following the deposition.  "During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health," Comer stated.

Biden Insiders Keep Proving They're Hiding Something.  Jill Biden's infamous "work husband," Anthony Bernal, just became the latest Biden insider to clam up under oath.  On Wednesday, Bernal invoked the Fifth Amendment when dragged before Congress to answer questions about Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline, making him the second close Biden aide to lawyer up and refuse to talk.  Bernal followed the lead of Kevin O'Connor, Biden's longtime personal physician, who also took the Fifth when pressed for answers.  And just like O'Connor, Bernal had nothing to say to reporters on his way out the door.  According to Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee's legal team only had time to ask a handful of questions before Bernal shut it down.  Their questions included the bombshells "Was President Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?"  and "Did any unelected official or family member of President Joe Biden execute the duties of the presidency?"  If there's nothing to hide, why are Biden's closest allies acting like they're guilty of something?

Jill Biden's 'Work Husband' Pleads The Fifth In Biden White House Cover-Up Probe.  The plot thickens in the Biden senility/autopen scandal.  A top aide subpoenaed to testify on Wednesday in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's investigations into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline took the Fifth, just as Biden's personal White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, did the week before.  Anthony Bernal, former assistant to Biden and senior adviser to first lady Jill Biden — aka Jill Biden's "work husband" — reportedly dodged question after question from committee staff during the closed-door session, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.  [Tweet]  In a statement following the fruitless sworn and transcribed interview, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., referenced this week's New York Times story in which the former president said he "made every decision" on a record number of pardons and commutations — most coming at the end of his term.  Emails obtained by The Times, however, show one of Biden's closest advisers approved the use of the autopen on midnight pardons.

Wow: Alleged Biden Regency 'Politburo' Member Also Takes the Fifth in House Probe.  The second member of the Biden White House called to testify before the House Oversight Committee has refused to answer questions.  Last week, physician Kevin O'Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protect against self-incrimination when asked about Joe Biden's cognitive status while in office.  Today, Jill Biden's chief of staff Anthony Bernal followed suit, pleading the Fifth rather than answering any questions.  And Bernal doesn't have a HIPAA excuse in his hip pocket: [...] As Politico notes, Bernal had earlier refused to appear when 'invited' by the House Oversight Committee last month to discuss Biden's cognitive status and decline.  Committee chair James Comer then issued a subpoena, forcing Bernal to appear.  The people around Biden seem particularly reluctant to answer questions about the president's alleged incapacity, which is somewhat odd given that it would be easy to assert that Biden was in full control at all times ... if it were true.

Comer Says Jill Biden Should Be Subpoenaed Next.  The fact that a stream of Biden White House officials refuse to answer questions about what role they may have played in covering up Joe Biden's cognitive decline isn't stopping Congressional Republicans from continuing to subpoena key players.  Instead, it looks like they want to up the ante, with some big names being thrown into the mix.  As RedState's Nick Arama reported, Anthony Bernal, senior advisor to former first lady Jill Biden, appeared under subpoena before the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), on Wednesday morning, but invoked the Fifth Amendment and left without answering any questions.  Known as Mrs. Biden's "work husband," and undoubtedly the keeper of many Biden family secrets, Bernal is the latest Biden administration official to clam up instead of 'fessing up to their role in keeping the extent of the former president's obvious decline from the American public.  Joe Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, also plead the Fifth during his rather short appearance on Capitol Hill last week, thus setting the trend of keeping mum to avoid be held accountable.

Biden's Doctor Found Him Fit to Be President — but Was He Fit to Be WH Doctor?  Kevin O'Connor was Joe Biden's longtime doctor, who became the White House doctor.  He reported Joe Biden fit to be president.  He also missed Joe Biden's long-term prostate cancer.  Now, he's declined to answer questions from a House Oversight Committee investigating the cover-up of Biden's deteriorating physical and mental condition.  It is, of course, Dr. O'Connor's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to incriminate himself.  But then we must ask ourselves what exactly did the doctor do — or perhaps more importantly, fail to do — that he is so willing to repeatedly hide his answers from the House of Representatives and the public?  Even if you're not Sherlock Holmes, not a doctor, and have never stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, chances are still very good you saw signs of serious trouble in the thankfully departed President Joseph Biden.  Having watched the previous president any time the last few years, anyone could detect serious problems with 82-year-old Joe Biden seeking to remain commander in chief until 2029.

"No kings!"  Unless the king's name is Biden.
Hunter Biden says Democrats lost election because they weren't loyal to his father.  Hunter Biden believes Democrats lost the November election to President Trump because they weren't loyal to his father, former President Biden.  "You know what, we are going to fight amongst ourselves for the next three years until there's a nominee.  And then with the nominee, we better as hell get behind that nominee," Hunter Biden said in an excerpt from an upcoming interview on former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison's new podcast "At Our Table."  [The remainder of the Hunter Biden quote is omitted here for brevity, among other things.]

Josh Hawley demands Biden secretary testify to Congress on autopen.  Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday demanded that former President Joe Biden's staff secretary Stefanie Feldman testify before Congress on her use of the autopen during his term.  The New York Times published a Sunday article on Biden's use of an autopen to issue clemency, reporting that Feldman was the person who "managed use of the autopen."  Hawley said on "Bannon's War Room" that he expected Feldman's testimony would show that Biden did not approve any of the clemency he issued, asserting that if he was correct, it "would be like the scandal of the century."  [Video clip]

Biden Was Never Fit For Office To Begin With.  At this point, you would be hard-pressed to find any reasonably informed American who honestly thinks President Joe Biden wasn't in a state of serious cognitive decline at the end of his term in office.  Yet the New York Times has at least two reporters who are willing to pretend they believe this.  On Sunday, the Times ran a piece by notorious Russia collusion hoaxer Charlie Savage and Tyler Pager about the thousands of clemency decisions recorded with autopen in the final days of the Biden administration.  The piece is meant, on the surface, to be a defense of Biden and his administration's use of the autopen.  But anyone who reads the entire article carefully will immediately see that its real purpose is damage control:  The Trump White House, Justice Department, and Congress are all investigating the high-profile clemency decisions that came down in the final days of the Biden presidency, and it sure looks like Biden's top aides were making decisions on their own, without the president's knowledge.

When read carefully, the New York Times may have admitted that Biden pardons are illegitimate.  [Scroll down]  And that gets us to the instantly infamous New York Times's essay about its review of the emails documenting how the White House used autopens for the thousands of clemency warrants Biden issued before leaving office, including full pardons for friends and family.  Parse the carefully bad writing, and what oozes out is a strong suggestion that Biden's staff may have abused the Autopen for pardons. [...] It's at this point that the narrative gets very poorly written.  One of the few straightforward facts is that Stefanie Feldman controlled the autopen itself, but not the decisions about its use.  Otherwise, here's what we learn:  Biden had meetings about pardons and commutations with a variety of "senior aides," people such as "Mr. Biden's chief of staff, Jeffrey D. Zients, and Mr. [Ed] Siskel [White House Counsel]," along with "other meeting participants."  At some point, "aides to the senior advisors who had participated in the meetings" would create "blurbs" summarizing Biden's alleged orders. [...] In other words, the blurbs' contents are pure hearsay.

Multiple Pardons [were] Granted By Autopen Without Biden Approving Recipients, Staff Admit.  A report released Sunday in The New York Times reveals multiple pardons handed out in the final weeks of President Joe Biden's presidency were signed by an autopen — some lacking Biden's final authorization.  The article, titled "Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen," seemingly tries to dispel claims by President Donald Trump "and his allies ... that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name."  In a brief phone interview with The Times, Biden insisted "I made every decision" and, according to The Times, asserted "that he had his staff use an autopen replicating his signature on the clemency warrants because 'we're talking about a whole lot of people.'"  The Times claims internal emails "show that the Biden White House had a process to establish that Mr. Biden had orally made decisions in meetings before the staff secretary, Stefanie Feldman, who managed use of the autopen, would have clemency records put through the signing device."

Biden Tells New York Times He Did Not Individually Approve Names of Many Pardoned Via Autopen.  Former President Joe Biden admitted to the New York Times that he did not individually sign off on each of the pardons issued via his autopen signature to batches of criminals at the end of his term, though he reportedly delineated criteria to staff.  In the final months of his term, Biden issued four large sets of pardons, three of which were categorical clemency actions covering large swaths of people, the Times noted Sunday.  Per the outlet, Biden approved standards to give out categorical pardons to criminals in his final months in office, but staff ultimately ran a final list of names that supposedly met the criteria through the autopen, though it had been revised after Biden delineated the requirements: [...] Citing emails reviewed among the Biden team, the Times noted that then-White House staff secretary Stefanie Feldman was in charge of the autopen.

Notice What's Wrong About This ABC News Tweet About the Biden Autopen Fiasco.  The tweet says one thing, but the article suggests something else.  The New York Times had an interview with former President Joe Biden about the autopen fiasco, which has become the subject of a high-profile investigation at the Department of Justice.  Was Joe cogent when he signed off on the pardons and commutations, which numbered in the thousands in the twilight of his failed presidency?  Biden said he approved signing off on the clemency petitions, yet top aides admit they approved pardons writ large.  [Advertisement]  Emails on this matter are being reviewed.  Some pardons are now legally questionable due to Biden's mental state.  It wouldn't be shocking if some were signed with the autopen when the former president was physically at the White House.  Now, ABC News says, "Former President Joe Biden, in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the last few weeks of his presidency — including those made with an autopen."  Yeah, but in their story, this is what follows:  [Tweet]

'Blurb' and 'Batch' Pardons.  Barack Obama famously uttered that one should never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to eff things up, and it appears he's done exactly that in a recent interview. [...] The topic was the autopen.  I'd recommend you read it if only to judge for yourself.  The man's brain is not functioning at par, and even with friendly editing, his thoughts are jumbled — at best.  In the introductory paragraph to the excerpts, The Times makes this banger of a declarative sentence:  ["]Mr. Biden did not personally sign the official warrants recording those [4,000] decisions; rather his White House staff used an autopen device to do so.["] And just in case there's any doubt whatsoever that ol' Joe had absolutely no idea who was among the 4,000 acts of clemency, there's this simple declarative sentence from Joe himself:  ["]The only things that really we read off names for were, for example, you know, was I, what was I going to do about, for example, Mark Milley?["]  So why is this a banger of an admission?  Because germane to the validity of a presidential pardon or act of clemency is presidential consent.  Joe Biden argues he conferred mercy upon individuals within a category he prescribed, but that's not the same as pardoning a class of people who meet a categorical criteria.  For example:  Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam War draft dodgers as a class, which is different from pardoning individual draft dodgers.

Biden's Autopen Scandal Grows As It's Revealed Who Approved Pardons for Fauci, Other High-Profile Names.  Pardons approved for high-profile names such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley by former President Joe Biden were signed in a last-minute flurry by an autopen, according to a new report.  [Advertisement]  Pardons analyzed by the New York Times through an extensive review of staff emails and a short interview with Biden himself, include January 6th committee figures, some of Biden's family members, and also encompass other controversial individuals such as Fauci and Milley. [...] "Everybody knows how vindictive he is.  So we knew that they'd do what they're doing now," Biden said, adding, "I consciously made all those decisions, among others."  Those "others" involved Fauci, who the report now suggests received a final hour pardon signed by autopen and approved not directly by Biden, but in a "reply all" email from his chief of staff, Jeffrey Zients.

What Biden's Doctor Thinks You're Not Allowed to Know.  The U.S. is not supposed to end up in a situation where it has a doddering old man as president.  Many people have a role in ensuring the good physical and mental health of the president, but high among them is the president's physician.  At the end of February 2024, White House physician Kevin O'Connor declared that Biden "continues to be fit for duty and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exceptions or accommodations."  This diagnosis came several months after Biden's inability to remember dates and the sequence of events during his testimony to special counsel Robert Hur.  Subsequently, in books like Original Sin, the American people learned that while in office, the former president was forgetting the names of national security adviser Jake Sullivan and communications director Kate Bedingfield; didn't recognize DNC chairman Jaime Harrison, Representative Eric Swalwell, or actor George Clooney when he met them despite knowing them for years; was "disoriented" and "out of it," mouth agape, during his rare cabinet meetings, and so on.  Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote, "Biden's physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair. [...]"

Biden Doctor's Refusal To Answer A Single Question Blows Up The 'Doctor-Patient Privilege' Excuse.  Joe Biden's White House doctor refused to answer a single question during a congressional interview on Wednesday, raising more concerns about efforts to conceal the former president's decline while in office.  According to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., Biden physician Kevin O'Connor pled the Fifth at his previously scheduled deposition with House lawmakers.  The revelation came a day after the Trump administration waived executive privilege for O'Connor to sit down with members of the committee for the transcribed interview.  [Advertisement]  According to a House Oversight Committee official, O'Connor did not simply plead the Fifth on questions related to doctor-patient privilege, but on any and all prospective queries posed by lawmakers.  "The American people demand transparency, but Dr. O'Connor would rather conceal the truth," Comer said in a statement.  "Dr. O'Connor took the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden's health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States.  Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a coverup from happening again."

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Never mind the prevention of the next cover-up.  What are you going to do about THIS cover-up?  Probably nothing, unless the resulting criminal trials take place outside of Washington, DC.

Comer, Biggs Blast Biden Doc for Pleading the Fifth During House Hearing.  House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer blasted former White House doctor Kevin O'Connor on Wednesday after the Biden doc refused to answer questions during a closed-door hearing on the Hill.  Comer & Co. are investigating the cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive and physical decline — but O'Connor pleaded the Fifth, frustrating committee members.  "President Joe Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, just pleaded the fifth at his deposition before Congress today," Comer said on X.  Comer continued:  "It's now clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden's cognitive decline after Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's physician and family business associate, refused to answer any questions and chose to hide behind the fifth amendment.  The American people demand transparency but Dr. O'Connor would rather conceal the truth.  Dr. O'Connor took the fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden's health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States.  Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a coverup from happening again. [...]"

Biden Doc Walks Out of Cognitive Decline Hearing Without Testifying.  Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former President Joe Biden's physician, briefly appeared before the House Oversight Committee regarding Biden's physical and cognitive health during his presidency.  The Biden White House doctor cited doctor-patient confidentiality and is believed to have pleaded the Fifth in telling the committee in person that he would not be giving testimony.  The National Pulse reported earlier on Wednesday that a last-minute attempt by O'Connor's attorneys to delay his testimony was rejected by Chairman Comer, who insisted Biden's doctor comply with his subpoena.  Notably, President Donald J. Trump waived executive privilege for O'Connor, citing the "unique and extraordinary nature" of the investigation — meaning the doctor's official role in the former Biden White House could not be used to shield him from Congressional scrutiny.  Hastily leaving the hearing room on Capitol Hill, Dr. O'Connor was silent when pushed for further details by reporters gathered outside the Oversight Committee.  "No comments to press," O'Connor's attorneys said as they rushed past.

Biden doctor dodges questions in speedy House closed-door interview.  Former White House physician Kevin O'Connor's closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee ended after less than an hour on Wednesday morning, with the doctor giving investigators virtually no new insights.  O'Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment to multiple questions about his time with former President Joe Biden during his sit-down.  It resulted in a hasty end to what could have been an hours-long deposition.  "I'm going to read the first two questions that were asked.  'Were you ever told to lie about the president's health?'  He pleaded the Fifth Amendment.  He would not answer that question.  The second question, 'Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duty?'" House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters after the meeting.  [Advertisement]  "Again, President Biden's White House physician pled the fifth.  This is unprecedented, and I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up."

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Yes, we all know there was a cover-up, Mr. Chairman.  What are you going to do about it?

Joe Biden's phone [was] suddenly disconnected, hidden by aides!?  The shocking details of how many people were pulling the strings with former President Joe Biden during his time in the White House continue to unravel.  Now, a surprising report has broken with information that things with Biden were so bad, his own team cut off access to his personal phone!  In a bombshell new report, three journalists, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, claim that Biden's aides appeared to disconnect the phone number after attempts from the trio to contact the former president for interviews.  In an excerpt in their new book titled "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America" Pager alleges that he got ahold of Biden's number who agreed to talk to him when he called, but shortly after he was met with fury from the former president's team.

Time for Biden to Step Off the Stage, for Good.  Joe Biden has always been a fabulist.  Since he first stepped onto the national stage, he has woven myths about his life.  Joe needed the gravitas of good grades and a solid academic background to move up the ladder of national politics, so he invented a student who never existed.  Joe threatened to fight a man who asked about his academic chops and claimed he went to law school on "a full academic scholarship."  Except, he didn't.  He claimed he had three degrees from college.  Except, he doesn't.  He claimed he was in the "top half" of his law school class.  Nope.  He was in the "steerage" section of his law school class.  Biden also famously pilfered a large part of Neil Kinnock's life story, including stealing one of his speeches, almost word for word.  Joe got caught and slinked back to Delaware and the Senate to lie about more mundane things like his wife's and daughter's deaths.  It became almost a full-time job to keep Joe Biden's lies straight, particularly for Joe Biden.  Over the years, Joe has lied about every part of his life.  The most disgusting is using his dead son's service as a campaign prop and lying about how and why he died.  Biden, it seemed, attended Black churches growing up.  He was raised by Puerto Ricans, too.  Joe was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela, and he was arrested while protesting for civil rights.  None of that is true.  It is all made up by Joe.

Hunter Biden begged DNC to pay his legal fees for tax, gun cases: new book.  Then-first son Hunter Biden begged the Democratic National Committee to foot his mounting legal bills for the federal tax and gun charges he faced last year, according to an explosive new tell-all.  The DNC was paying the legal fees for dad Joe Biden, who was still president at the time, over a separate federal probe into whether the commander in chief hoarded classified documents — but scoffed at also covering Hunter's extra legal costs, says the book "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America."  By June 2024, Hunter's "sugar brother" Kevin Morris had already paid off more than $2 million in tax delinquency related to one of then-first son's criminal cases and had been shelling out even more for his related legal bills.

No one is above the law!  Unless your name is Biden.
DOJ Allowed Hunter Biden to Not Register as Foreign Agent Due to Family Name.  Newly released documents have confirmed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Joe Biden let Hunter Biden off the hook by not forcing him to register as a foreign agent.  The Oversight Project, a government watchdog, obtained the release of the files under a Freedom of Information Act request that the Trump administration was likely eager to comply with.  The Oversight Project president, Mike Howell, sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail.  Howell accused the DOJ of "refusing to look at the obvious, that Hunter was a foreign agent" due to his ties to a Ukrainian energy company.  Hunter Biden has been under scrutiny for years due to his position on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, despite his lack of qualifications.

Here's Where the Biden Autopen Controversy Stands Now.  It may be years before the entire extent of the unmitigated mess that the Biden administration was is fully known.  Even Democrats now are admitting that the former president was impaired through much, if not all, of his presidency. [...] Questions mount, to be sure, but answers are not yet forthcoming.  We managed to escape some really horrible consequences that could well have resulted from other nations, like, say, Iran, suddenly realizing that the befuddled Joe Biden would probably be incapable of responding in any meaningful way to any aggressive action.  But the autopen issue in particular raises a couple of very serious questions:  Who was making decisions in the White House, and what might the legal status of documents signed with that machine, like pardons, be if it can be established that then-President Biden wasn't in that loop? [...] So, these people were mindlessly running these things through the autopen with no real idea who was doing the approving.  Thus, the subpoenas.  Thus, the investigations.  We're entitled to some answers.

Tracking the investigations into the former president.  The House Oversight Committee heard testimony this week from a key Biden official as part of its investigation into the former president's health decline and issued a subpoena to former first lady Jill Biden's top aide after he refused to appear voluntarily.  Biden left office in January, but questions about his mental acuity and decline while in office continue to mount after the release of audio of his interview with former special counsel Robert Hur and his cancer diagnosis, drawing attention to a number of actions taken in his final days in office and beyond.

Researcher Suggests Biden's Autopen Signatures May Not Be His (Likely Jill's) — Meaning All Autopen Signed Documents Are Forgeries.  A Missouri pharmacist suspects the Biden autopen signature is bigger than already reported.  On February 20, 2021 a Missouri pharmacist reached out to The Gateway Pundit and shared his observations on Biden's signature to date.  (This was only a few weeks after Biden stepped into the White House and no doubt one of the first observations on Joe Biden's signature on official documents.)

This is Odd:  Joe Biden's Signature on Latest Official Documents Is Raising Eyebrows.  It's common knowledge for anyone paying attention this past year that Joe Biden is suffering from mid-to-late stage dementia.  This explains why Democrats hid Joe in the basement all year while they schemed on ways to manufacture votes.  It is also common knowledge that Jill Biden, his wife of over 40 years of marriage, is his constant companion and personal aide to help Joe out during times of confusion.  This is typical with those spouses who are married to dementia patients.  But is Jill Biden more than her husband's handler?

Biden aides testify; the perjury sweepstakes begin.  Neera Tanden was a top Biden aide, one known to exercise wide authority and to have substantial influence on Biden. [...] We now know that on multiple occasions when the autopen was used on significant documents, Biden was present and presumably capable of signing his name.  That Tanden was "authorized to direct autopen signatures" but had no idea who was giving the orders is, if true, disconcerting.  There are two obvious possibilities: she's lying about that, or the Biden White House was so chaotic that matters like authorizing the signing of documents with the force of law were a casual matter.  It could certainly be both, but her testimony suggests it was largely the former:  ["]Tanden testified that to get approval for the use of autopen signatures she would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle.  However, she added that she was not aware of what actions or approvals took place between the time she sent the decision memo and the time she received it back with the necessary approval.["]  And who were these inner circle members?  Which of them gave her that "necessary approval?"  Was it given face-to-face, by e-mail, or through third parties?  Someone had to give those approvals, so where are the memos and replies?  While we certainly don't have the entirety of Tanden's testimony, how is it possible she has no idea who approved the use of the autopen?  Were no records kept?

Former Biden aide: I used autopen, no idea who approved it.  The House Oversight Committee's investigation into former President Biden's use of an automatic signature tool, known as an autopen, took a significant step forward Tuesday as Neera Tanden, one of Biden's former senior aides, gave closed-door testimony to lawmakers.  According to a source familiar with the hours-long testimony, Tanden said she had the authority to direct the use of the autopen for signing memos, pardons, and other documents on behalf of the president.  However, she admitted she did not know who gave final approval for its use.  Tanden, who served as staff secretary and senior advisor to Biden from 2021 to 2023 and later as director of the Domestic Policy Council, said the approval process was inherited from previous administrations.  She explained that she would send decision memos up the chain to members of Biden's inner circle but was unaware of the actions taken after that point, including who ultimately signed off.

Biden autopen scandal just went nuclear after stunning aide testimony.  In a major shakeup to President Joe Biden's massive autopen scandal, a former top aide to the Biden family testified Tuesday that she directed an automatic signature tool to sign official documents on the president's behalf for nearly two years.  Republicans claim that Biden's cognitive decline was so severe that it invalidates many of the actions of his presidency, and that aides' use of the autopen to force his signature could represent a Constitutional crisis.  Neera Tanden, who served as Biden's domestic policy chief and staff secretary from 2021 to 2023, told the House Oversight Committee that she was authorized by the White House to use the autopen for pardons, memos, and other official White House documents on behalf of Biden.  "As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president," Tanden testified.  "I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."  During more than five hours of testimony, Tanden described an approval process where she would "send decision memos to members of the President's inner circle" but said she "had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval."  The shocking testimony prompted Rep. Byron Donalds, R-F.L., to claim the admission "invalidates so much of the Biden presidency."

Comer Subpoenas Top Jill Biden Aide After He Refused to Testify in Biden Mental-Decline Investigation.  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is taking action to compel a top aide to former first lady Jill Biden to testify about the lengths Biden administration officials went to cover up former President Joe Biden's mental decline.  [Two advertisements]  Comer subpoenaed Jill Biden's "work husband" Anthony Bernal Thursday after he abruptly refused to testify voluntarily despite agreeing to do so.  Bernal was scheduled to appear for a closed-door interview Thursday until he reversed course once the Trump administration decided to waive executive privilege for Comer's investigation.  "Given your close connection with both former President Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden's fitness to serve from the American people," Comer said in a letter accompanying the subpoena to Bernal.  Comer said the Oversight Committee accommodated Bernal by agreeing to his requested interview date and transmitting interview topics almost two weeks ahead of time, offering him a longer than normal preparation period.

Ouch:  Hunter Biden Just Got Sued by His Own Attorneys.  Things have not been going well for the Biden men since former President Joe Biden left the White House.  The former president had a debilitating cancer diagnosis trigger political tidal waves, to say nothing of some other ghosts from his past cropping up.  While his son, Hunter Biden, hasn't been subjected to any cancer diagnoses — as far as the public knows — that hasn't exempted the former first son from all manner of debilitating scrutiny.  [Advertisement]  One could even argue that Hunter's scrutiny began long before Joe's polarizing presidential term.  (It's also worth noting that it will likely only stay just scrutiny, given the full pardon granted to Hunter by his father before he left office.)  [Advertisement]  Things, however, are getting bad enough for Hunter these days that even matters he would've considered closed and shut are creeping back into his life.  For example, one of the reasons Joe pardoned Hunter was to effectively scrub his son's three 2024 convictions related to his illegal purchasing of firearms in 2018.  [Advertisement]  And while the pardon does effectively immunize Hunter from those convictions, it does not immunize him from having to pay his lawyers — which he has apparently failed to do.

Biden Staffer Directing Autopen Didn't Know Who Final Authorization Came From.  Neera Tanden, former head of Biden's Domestic Policy Council, admitted that she authorized autopen signatures without knowledge of who issued the final approval in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, according to Fox News.  In her role as staff secretary, before she was moved to the Domestic Policy Council, Tanden "was responsible for handling the the flow of documents to and from the President," sending decision memos to "Biden's inner circle" and affixing the president's autopen signature to the documents when she received approval.  Tanden was not privy to any of the decision-making process or who was giving the final approval.  She rarely interacted with Biden.  The system, according to her opening statement, was a relic of previous administrations.  [Advertisement]  Tanden denied that she had ever discussed the former president's fitness for office, per Fox News.  "I had no experience in the White House that would provide any reason to question his command as President.  He was in charge," she said in her statement.

Former top Biden aide admits to controlling autopen.  A former top aide to former President Joe Biden testified to Congress on Tuesday as part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the "cover-up of President Biden's mental decline and use of autopen."  According to The Washington Examiner, Neera Tanden, who previously served as the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as a staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden, met with members of Congress behind closed doors on Tuesday for over four hours.  The former top Biden aide testified on Tuesday that she was authorized to use the autopen while working under the Biden-Harris administration.  [Advertisement]  "As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president," Tanden told the House Oversight Committee.  "I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents.  We had a system for authorizing the use of the autopen that I inherited from prior administrations.  We employed that system throughout my tenure as staff secretary."

Top Biden aide admits to Congress she directed autopen signatures without knowing who gave final approval.  A former top aide to President Joe Biden said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president's inner circle was giving her final clearance, according to a source familiar with the aide's closed-door testimony in front of Congress Tuesday.  Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden's Domestic Policy Council, testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president's mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden's behalf.  During Tanden's interview before Congress, which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that, in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to the former president between 2021 and 2023, she was authorized to direct autopen signatures on behalf of Biden, an Oversight Committee official told Fox News.

Project Veritas: David Hogg Reveals Anthony Bernal Ran the White House.  Project Veritas teased an upcoming controversy on May 28, 2025, involving David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and Deterrian Jones, a former White House Office of Digital Strategy member.  They revealed that Jill Biden's Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal, ran the White House.  Consequently, this upcoming revelation, captured in an undercover video, promises to fuel the White House power controversy over the true decision-makers during the Biden administration.  [Tweet with video clip]

FBI emails revealed to The Post expose Biden DOJ's obsession with piling on Trump charges.  Internal FBI emails reveal that rogue agents and prosecutors in the Biden DOJ were looking for ways to pile on new criminal charges against Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — this time over his involvement with the J6 prisoner choir, based on a single partisan news article.  The 2023 emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and revealed exclusively to The [New York] Post are an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, during Joe Biden's presidency.  "Can we do some work to nail down Trump's role in this," writes prosecutor JP Cooney to DOJ colleagues on March 8, 2023, in an email with the subject line "J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT" and an attached Forbes.com article titled "Trump Collaborates On Song With Jan. 6 Defendants."

We Finally Know What Happened to the Baggie of Cocaine Found at White House:  How Is This Not a Cover-Up?  In the midst of a busy few weeks on the news front, the resolution of an old story managed to slip out — and it raises new questions about former President Joe Biden, ex-Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle, and how they handled one of the highest profile White House scandals.  Last Friday, a report from RealClearPolitics' Susan Crabtree — who has been on the trail (or line, if you want to be punny) of the baggie of cocaine found in a White House locker in July 2023 — reported that the Secret Service acted to destroy the evidence the day after it closed the case and appears to have punished the official who Cheatle overruled when it came to destroying the narcotic substance.  In the Friday report, Crabtree said that she had discovered new documents regarding the rapidity with which the evidence was destroyed, which she said "are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation."

Why Joe Biden's Doctor Can't Legally Refuse To Testify About Biden's Dementia While President.  If an infantry company commander had concerns about the mental or physical fitness of one of his platoon leaders, he could ask a military doctor to evaluate him and report his findings to the commander.  The doctor couldn't assert a doctor/patient privilege or medical confidentiality rules because the fitness of military officers to perform their duties is vital to the effectiveness of the unit.  That's why there's no doctor/patient privilege in either federal law or military law.  But what if the one with questionable mental or physical abilities is not a platoon leader but the commander-in-chief?  Can the doctor refuse to disclose the president's medical condition?  Are the national security implications of the president's fitness for duty less important than a platoon leader's?  That's the question that is headed to a showdown between Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former President Joe Biden's White House doctor, and Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Biden's Doctor Gets Subpoena After Resisting Investigation Into His Personal Connection To Biden Family.  The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has been trying to have a conversation for almost a year with Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former President Joe Biden's physician.  So far, he has refused to cooperate.  In a letter sent on Thursday, the committee demanded, with the power of a subpoena, that he sit for a deposition on June 27. Despite numerous concerning public moments when Biden seemed too old and infirm to handle the grueling work of the presidency, O'Connor gave Biden a clean bill of health.  In February 2024, O'Connor assessed Biden as "a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency," noted the letter from committee Chair James Comer.  This assessment is nearly impossible to believe because that same month, Special Counsel Robert Hur unsealed his report to the Department of Justice that found problems with Biden's handling of classified documents.  Hur doubted he could secure a conviction and declined to charge Biden because, according to Hur, "Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  Hur went on to say, "It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."

Hunter Biden [Abandons] Another Lawsuit.  According to a CNN report, the scandal-plagued Hunter has once again dropped a lawsuit against Fox News.  Seriously?  This is the second time he's filed and then just... walked away from legal action against the network.  It makes you wonder what exactly he was trying to accomplish.  The whole kerfuffle started over a 2022 Fox miniseries that dared to shine a light on Hunter's "overseas financial" dealings" — you know, the kind that mysteriously dried up when his dad wasn't in government anymore.  Hunter's lawyers, bless their hearts, claimed Fox violated "revenge porn" laws and defamed him by showing some "intimate images" from that infamous laptop that they kinda, sorta, but not really deny is even his.  Yeah, that laptop.  Of course, they didn't bother explaining why they suddenly decided to bail on the case after recently losing a bid to move it to state court.  Fox News, naturally, was "pleased to move on," calling the whole thing a "meritless case which proved to be nothing more than a politically motivated stunt."  And frankly, given Hunter's track record, it's hard to disagree, no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

Bidengate Is Far Worse than Watergate.  Over the past five decades, the country has witnessed the development of a group-thinking herd of left-leaning lemmings, never confronting Democrat policies, but instead mindlessly promoting them in hopes of gaining a perch inside the left's velvet rope.  For the same reason, the media have developed a reflexive oppositional stance to all things deemed conservative.  The harm to our society from this is often palpable and grave.  For just one example, our country endured three years of government-paralyzing "Russian collusion" narratives, which intelligent, unbiased journalists could have easily debunked.  This brings us to the present Bidengate imbroglio.  Unlike the effective, competent president whom the media skewered in the 1970s, for the last four years, the country had a bobble-head, Weekend at Bernie's president.  An unelected politburo of corrupt apparatchiks instead ran our country, while, ironically, portraying Donald Trump as a "danger to democracy."

Biden, the 'marionette president' and the case of the runaway autopen.  There is mounting evidence that Joe Biden was president in name only during much of his time in office.  In his stead, a cabal of top White House staffers appears to have secretly operated a de facto presidency, making crucial decisions without a shred of constitutional authority.  If proven true, it would call into question the validity of pardons and executive orders issued under his name but without his knowledge or consent.  For this reason, it is imperative that Biden's closest advisers answer questions under oath and others in his orbit be forced to disclose what they knew or observed.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into the pardons, commutations and clemencies granted in the waning days of Biden's presidency, including preemptive pardons gifted to a half dozen members of his own family along with his shifty son, Hunter Biden.  The probe focuses on whether the elder Biden was competent and whether others were taking advantage of his seemingly diminished mental state.  At the same time, the House Oversight Committee is intensifying its own inquiry into the alleged "cover-up" of Biden's cognitive decline.  Of particular interest in both investigations is "the potential unauthorized use of autopen" for many executive actions, said Oversight Chairman James Comer.

The 'Biden incapacity' book is not an exposé.  It's a clean-up operation.  Recently, Axios released audio recordings of Biden's October 2023 interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur, which the Biden administration had previously suppressed.  Here, Biden admits he may have kept classified documents "just for posterity's sake."  The admission of intent should have made Biden liable to criminal charges, but the laws never apply to Democrats.  [Video clip]   [A new book], by Axios's Alex Thompson and CNN's Jake Tapper, was released recently.  The media's coverage of Biden's obvious incapacity from his campaign to his presidency was rare, reluctant, and restrained.  What explains the release of the book and audio?  Upon analyzing their utterances of Tapper and Thompson while promoting the book, the motive becomes apparent.  Tapper and Thompson claim that while reporting about Biden's campaign and presidency, they didn't comprehend his incapacity.  They imply that Biden's condition wasn't easily detectable.  They claim that the "decline" occurred years after Biden was sworn in, implying that he was normal when he was sworn in.

Did Biden Kick the FBI on His Way Out — or Did Someone Else Have the Pen?  On January 19, 2025, Leonard Peltier — convicted for his role in the execution-style murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams — was granted clemency by President Joe Biden.  The commutation, issued in the final hours of Biden's presidency, blindsided the law enforcement community and reignited long-standing wounds within the FBI family.  But as raw as that moment felt, time has brought a new perspective, and more troubling questions.  [Advertisement]  Peltier was convicted in 1977 for his involvement in the brutal ambush and murder of two young FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation.  He did not act alone, but he was held accountable for firing the fatal shots at point-blank range, as the agents lay wounded, stripped of defense.  Over the years, Peltier's case became a symbol — not of guilt or innocence, but of narrative.  Activists painted him as a political prisoner.  Celebrities and public figures called for his release, and Robert Redford even directed a documentary about him.  But courts, judges, and four presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump — consistently upheld his conviction.  So why now?  Why, after decades of clarity, did Joe Biden say yes?

Third Biden Autopen Signature Discovered Amid Federal Investigation.  A third Biden autopen was discovered on Thursday amid a federal investigation into "who ran the United States while Biden was in office."  House Oversight Chairman James Comer is also spearheading a congressional investigation into Biden's health coverup.  On Wednesday President Trump directed his White House Counsel, David Warrington, in consultation with Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate "whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden's mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President."

Trump Orders Probe Into Biden's Presidential Actions.  President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday evening directing a probe into "who ran" the U.S. during former President Joe Biden's time in office.  Questions regarding Biden's mental state have rapidly developed among Democrats since the release of Jake Tapper's and Alex Thompson's "Original Sin," detailing the former president's mental decline while in office.  In the White House's press release, Trump said the memorandum will direct the investigation into "whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden's mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President."

Biden Pushes Back on Autopen Investigation: 'I Made the Decisions'.  Facing a federal investigation into his use of an autopen to sign executive actions, former President Joe Biden insists he was in control of the White House for the past four years.  [Two advertisements]  "I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations.  Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false," Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.  President Donald Trump declared his predecessor's last-minute pardons void early this year after the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project discovered the pardons were signed by a mechanical autopen rather than by the president's own hand.  The think tank argued the use of an autopen suggests the octogenarian was not in control of executive actions during his presidency.  "This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations," Biden said in his statement.

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How do we know Biden's "statement" is not also a forgery?

Trump Doubles Down on Biden Autopen Allegations: 'Whoever Used the Autopen Was the President'.  President Donald Trump dismissed former President Joe Biden's insistence that he "made the decisions" while president, calling his predecessor's regular use of the autopen to sign executive orders a "scandal" in response to a question from National Review in the Oval Office.  Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the White House counsel, Justice Department, and other relevant authorities to investigate the matter, claiming that it has "become increasingly apparent" that White House aides used the president's mechanical signature pen to "conceal Biden's cognitive decline and assert Article II authority."  Trump suggested on Thursday that his predecessor was so cognitively impaired that he wasn't aware of many policy decisions that were made by his White House relating to presidential memoranda, clemency grants, and executive orders, suggesting that White House aides were making those decisions instead.

Comer Laying Down the Auto-Pen Pardon Testimony Law.  The auto-pen thing is gaining some traction all of a sudden instead of simply being folks [complaining] on X and talking heads ranting on TV at night.  Representative James Comer, head of the House Oversight Committee, has sent letters to five more of Joe Biden's top aides requesting their presence before his committee.  Comer's already in talks about appearances with a prominent handful of former staffers.  [Lengthy excerpt]  I heard Comer on Fox today while I was running some errands, and he said he was most interested in the period of Biden's presidency post-debate, especially the last 100 days.  It seemed during that time that pardons and executive orders were flying out of the White House willy-nilly, even as POTATUS himself — and his manipulative, social climbing Jillzilla — spent most of his time in Delaware.  Comer wants to know when exactly Biden was dictating and signing all of these official documents, and, if he wasn't, who was?  At the very least, who supposedly was briefing an obviously mentally incapacitated chief executive and allowing such things to be signed in his name as if he'd understood and agreed when clearly he hadn't the faculties to do so.

Trump admin opens [an] investigation into aging Biden's final days in office and prolific use of autopen.  Donald Trump has opened an investigation into whether Joe Biden 'was competent' when he used an autopen to issue lame-duck pardons to family members and death row inmates.  Ed Martin — Trump's ultra-MAGA pardon attorney — said the Justice Department has been directed to investigate clemency granted by Biden in the waning days of his presidency, including the December pardon of his troubled son Hunter.  Martin's unprecedented probe was revealed in a Monday email to staffers that was obtained by Reuters.  The attorney said the investigation involves whether Biden 'was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means.'  An autopen is a device used to automatically affix a signature to a document.  Hunter Biden, who was convicted last year of three felonies over an illegal gun, and the former First Lady Jill Biden have been accused of wielding significant power over the president in his final days.  The prodigal son was treated 'like a chief of staff' despite being 'provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions,' CNN's Jake Tapper said in a recent interview about the behind-the-scenes health cover-up.

Trump DOJ Reviewing Biden Giving Family Preemptive Pardons.  President Donald Trump's Department of Justice started investigating former President Joe Biden's pardons, specifically the preemptive pardons he gave his family and clemency for 37 prisoners on federal death row.  Biden pardoned:
  •   Hunter Biden
  •   Brother James and his wife Sara
  •   Brother Francis
  •   Sister Valerie and her husband John Owens
The preemptive pardon for Hunter infuriated numerous people, especially since it covers charges he faced or might have faced from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.  Unfortunately, Reuters reported the DOJ investigation first.  I say unfortunately because, of course, the author tried to water down the pardons and the possibility that Biden didn't even sign them by attacking Trump.  Anyway, the wire organization reviewed an email sent by Ed Martin, the DOJ's pardon attorney, saying the "investigation involves whether Biden 'was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means.'"

The autopen and the invisible president(s).  [Scroll down]  It has been revealed that President Joe Biden signed 97% of those documents requiring his signature using the autopen.  His subsequent lack of knowledge about what he allegedly signed has been evident on several occasions.  While Biden's administration heavily relied on the autopen, the issue goes broader.  Not only is it not known if he were present when the autopen was used but, even if he were, based on the mental decline he suffered during his presidency, did he even know what was being signed since constitutional intent is required?  Additionally, it has been reported that "rubber-stamped" autopen usage was witnessed by some Biden staff members.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said he knew Biden was not in charge when the president had no knowledge about an executive order he signed just three weeks earlier with his autopen.  Johnson asked Biden about it — specifically why he had paused LNG exports to Europe, to which the then president denied doing so.  Thus, Biden's possible absence from such signings and/or his declining mental state has raised the issue of whether such documents — like his last minute pardons — are effective.

Jill Biden's 'work husband' Anthony Bernal may have played a key role in covering up Joe's cognitive decline.  There are few doubts in the White House about Jill "Lady Macbeth" Biden's role in covering up her husband's cognitive deficits as she urged him to run for re-election.  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made that point crystal clear from the press room podium Thursday, saying the former first lady "needs to answer" for "lying to the American people" and "shielding her husband away from the cameras."

The Media's Catch-22: Exposing Joe Biden Would Have Assured Trump's Re-election.  The legacy media finds itself in a dilemma of its own making.  The depth and seriousness of Joe Biden's mental and physical problems during his presidency are being exposed daily — ironically, much of it by the denizens of the legacy media as they feverishly attempt to absolve their culpability in keeping the American people in the dark about Biden's unfolding mental and physical infirmities as well as what was really happening in the Oval Office.  The net result of this disingenuous mea culpa will accelerate the already record downward spiral in the citizenry's trust in the media.  During the 2020 campaign, it became increasingly obvious to anyone without an anti-Trump agenda that Biden was not mentally or physically capable of being President.  But the legacy media, wallowing in its Trump Derangement Syndrome, made a fatal decision in choosing to obfuscate not only his mental and physical incapacities but his fifty-year history of corruption and mendacity.

Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?  Trump was certainly not nominated by Republican Party insider fiat in 2024. Instead, he ran as a maverick disruptor and won the nomination in open primaries.  Kamala Harris was selected by Democrat insiders — despite never having won a single delegate or primary vote in her two nomination bids.  Joe Biden, whose prior 2020 nomination was fixed by party insiders, won the 2024 nomination by winning 14 million primary votes.  But he was kicked off the ticket by the same party insiders and donors who had orchestrated his prior nomination.  Is that the new Democrat-style of democracy of nullifying the wishes of 14 million voters?

'Who Was Signing Those?': Ex-WH Doctor Asks Who Was 'In Charge' During Biden Admin.  Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former physician to the president, said Sunday on Fox News that Americans "need to know" if former President Joe Biden was really "in charge" during his sole White House term.  Jackson, who had served as the White House doctor for both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, compared the situation regarding Biden's health in office to when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his presidency.  "This is similar to what happened in 1919 with Edith Wilson as the First Lady, with Woodrow Wilson when he had a massive stroke, and he continued to be president for a year and a half after that, and it's well documented that it was the physician to the president and the First Lady that kept him sequestered and that kept hidden from the press and were making the decisions about what was going on in this country," Jackson told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.

President Autopen and the Crime of Forgery.  Forgery is a crime we don't hear much about anymore since few people write checks and instead rely on electronic payment methods.  It can take many forms, such as signing a check or document in someone else's name without their permission or knowledge. [...] Most forgery cases — such as forging checks, personal documents, or signatures — are prosecuted under state laws.  Each state defines and penalizes forgery differently, but it's typically a felony if the document has legal or financial significance.  [Advertisement]  Forgery becomes a federal offense when it involves:
  •   Federal documents (e.g., passports, immigration papers, military IDs)
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  •   U.S. currency or Treasury checks
  •   Interstate commerce or communication (e.g., forging checks used across state lines)
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  •   Federal institutions (e.g., IRS, Social Security)
This leads us to the title of this essay and President Autopen.  This system is ripe for forgery depending on how the autopen is utilized. [...] The Heritage Foundation claims that, "Biden's name was signed using an autopen on nearly every executive order and official document during his four-year tenure."  Did he delegate the decision to approve and sign, or did he direct someone to use the autopen on his behalf?  If so, why couldn't he sign these documents himself?

Bumbling Biden Was Still a Tyrant.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard continues to declassify documents that show how the Biden administration defined political opponents as "Domestic Violent Extremists" (DVEs).  In a December 13, 2021, intelligence product entitled, "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates," the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center created a framework for investigating critics of Biden's COVID policies and labeling them potential domestic terrorists.  The report claims that "anti government or anti authority" Americans see "COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach" and that "QAnon" has used these "prominent narratives" to encourage violence.  Dangerous thoughtcrimes "include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order."  This Intel designation encapsulates so much of what is wrong with the federal government today.

Biden, Chinese Intelligence And The Greatest Counterintelligence Failure In American History.  In December 2019, a computer repairman in Delaware turned over to the FBI a laptop that had been left with him by Hunter Biden for repair.  In short order, the FBI confirmed that the laptop was indeed Hunter's and that the contents were legitimate.  There was never any significant question about either of those issues.  On the laptop was incredibly damaging information showing Hunter's extensive contacts with individuals directly linked to Chinese intelligence.  The contents of the laptop also strongly suggested that Joe Biden was the real target of the Chinese activity and that he may have been compromised by Chinese intelligence.  At the heart of this effort was an entity known as CEFC China Energy.  CEFC was well known to the FBI.  They had been investigating this Chinese intelligence front company for a long time.  In November 2017, they arrested Patrick Ho, one of the key figures in CEFC, and charged him with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering.  Ho and associates had been bribing officials in Chad and Uganda.  Ho pled guilty and went to prison.  At the same time, Ho was targeting African leaders he was in frequent contact with Hunter Biden via phone, email, and text.  During this time period, the FBI was monitoring Ho's communications.  That means that while they were reading Ho's "mail," they saw communications that should have suggested Ho was doing with the Bidens exactly the same thing he was doing with the Africans.

Bombshell: Secret Service Whistleblower Revealed Troubling Account Of Biden In The White House.  A Secret Service whistleblower has come forward with a shocking allegation: former President Joe Biden was so mentally impaired during his time in the White House that he would "get lost in his closet," according to Sen. Josh Hawley.  On Friday, Hawley revealed the disturbing claim as part of a broader accusation that Democrats engaged in a deliberate cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline — what he now calls one of the most egregious political scandals in modern presidential history.

Secret Service whistleblower said Biden would 'get lost in his closet' at the White House:  Sen. Josh Hawley.  A Secret Service whistleblower claims that former President Joe Biden was so out of it at the White House that he would "get lost in his closet," Sen. Josh Hawley revealed Friday.  The stunning level of disorientation is an example of why the Democratic cover-up of Biden's mental decline is one of the biggest scandals in presidential history, Hawley argued.  "This Secret Service whistleblower actually was assigned to Biden," the Missouri Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity.  "He told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings at the White House," Hawley claimed, noting that he spoke to numerous Secret Service agents while investigating the assassination attempts against President Trump.

Hunter Biden seen driving Toyota rental in South Africa after his Secret Service detail was terminated.  Hunter Biden was seen out and about with his family in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday amid Republicans' investigation into an alleged "conspiracy" related to his father's cognitive decline as president.  The embattled son of the former president toured Cape Town with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and son, Beau Biden Jr., driving a rented Toyota sedan, a big change from the black Chevy Suburbans he was used to traveling in before President Donald Trump yanked his Secret Service detail.  In March, Trump terminated Hunter Biden's Secret Service detail after former President Joe Biden extended his son's detail indefinitely.  Typically, children of former presidents only enjoy Secret Service protection if they are 16 or younger.

Another Disaster of a Speech by Joe Biden.  On Friday, Joe Biden gave a speech at the annual Memorial Day event at Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Del. — his first public remarks since the revelation of his cancer diagnosis.  And it went as well as you would expect.  And if you expected him to make the speech about himself and his family, you were right.  What should have been a solemn tribute to the men and women who laid down their lives for this country turned into yet another chapter in the Biden family memoir.  Rather than focusing on the fallen heroes we're meant to honor, Biden managed to steer the spotlight toward — surprise — Beau and Hunter.

Biden health cover-up holds lessons for both Democrats and Republicans.  This whole episode highlights the need to spell out what needs to be done to prevent this scandal from happening again and hold accountable those who took part in it this time.  During the June 27th, 2024, debate, President Biden's mental decline became undeniable even among his most ardent supporters in the media.  However, this was not the first evidence of Biden's decline.  It was simply the most glaring of a long line of instances revealing that Biden lacked the mental capacity to be President.  Beyond that, the media's cover-up of Biden's decline deprived the American people of valuable information they needed to cast their votes until it was almost too late. [...] Section 4 of the 25th Amendment says it is the responsibility of the Vice President and the Cabinet to remove the President from office if he are unable to discharge the duties of his office.  Kamala Harris and the rest of the cabinet failed in their duty to do so.

Report: Biden's WH Physician Makes Next Move As Oversight Committee's James Comer Turns Up the Heat.  In light of the fresh revelations stemming from the release of the new exposé on Joe Biden, "Original Sin," as well as the recent announcement that the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, questions are being raised about what those closest to him may have known and if so, when they knew it.  Among those in the hot seat is Dr. Kevin O'Connor, who was Biden's White House physician and who was also referenced in the book as having a discussion with aides about the possibility that Biden would need to use a wheelchair in his last year and a half in office if he suffered another fall.  "Given Biden's age, [his physician Kevin O'Connor] also privately said that if he had another bad fall, a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery," the authors of the book wrote.  The aides allegedly frowned upon the idea because it would, in essence, have confirmed in a critical election year much of what Donald Trump had claimed about Biden's health.

Biden's Autopen Scandal Grows As Watchdog Finds 'No Evidence' Former POTUS Knew About Signed Orders.  A watchdog representing energy workers is raising red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by autopen under the previous administration and finding "no evidence" that President Biden was aware of them.  The startling revelations come as an official at the Department of Justice has reviewed potential "gatekeepers" controlling the White House during Biden's tenure, insiders have revealed a covert "Politburo" was running the country, and the cover-up of his cognitive decline is being unfurled in public at an accelerated pace.  The nonprofit organization Power the Future penned a letter to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) outlining their findings and demanding a more thorough investigation.  They want to know who was wantonly signing orders while Biden was safely tucked away for nap time.  "Power The Future remains concerned that key policies of major economic and national security significance directed by the White House during the Biden administration may have been undertaken without presidential awareness and approval, but perhaps instead by a small coterie of staff," the letter reads, according to Fox News Digital.

Liz Warren Named As the Person Who Really Controlled the Biden Autopen.  What is going on with this Joe Biden autopen fiasco?  The Justice Department is investigating whether some of the pardons issued by Biden were legal, as we're learning more about the depths of the cover-up regarding his mental health.  It could be his overall health with the latest revelation that he has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer, which does not materialize after 100-200 days.  It takes years.  That's why the autopen is now the subject of an investigation.  DOJ official Ed Martin said it's legal to use, but both parties must be cogent.  Biden was obviously not.  Martin is wasting no time in his new job helming a weaponization task force and working as a pardon attorney.  He said a senior Democratic whistleblower had come forward, adding that Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, and Ron Klain were the top three people.  Yet, on Jesse Watters' show, investor David Sacks, who is also the Trump administration's crypto czar, alleged that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was now involved in this circus.

Watchdog finds 'no evidence' Biden knew of crucial climate EOs, demands answers on who signed autopen.  A pro-energy group is renewing its call for an investigation into over half a dozen Biden administration executive actions related to climate that it believes should be deemed null and void due to them being signed by an autopen without any public comment from former President Joe Biden confirming his knowledge of them. [...] The executive orders reviewed by Power the Future include an Arctic drilling ban in 2023, a 2021 executive order committing the federal government to net-zero emissions by 2050, an executive order mandating "clean energy" AI centers and an offshore drilling ban executive order shortly before leaving office in 2025.  Finding no evidence of Biden publicly speaking about the executive orders on climate, Power the Future sent letters this week to the DOJ, EPA, DOI, DOE, along with the House and Senate Oversight Committees, calling for an investigation to determine who made the decisions, drafted the executive orders and ultimately signed them.

DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Unwittingly Reveals Who Really Ran the Biden White House.  Project Veritas released undercover video Wednesday [5/28/2025] showing DNC Vice Chair David Hogg making some pretty astounding comments about the Biden White House, saying that former First Lady Jill Biden's staff basically ran the place.

Democrats have a BO problem.  The story keeps changing.  Biden has a stutter.  No, make that Biden has dementia.  No, make that Biden has cancer. [...] The prostate cancer story offers a new explanation of how Hillary became the candidate in 2016.  The stories say FJB last had a prostate-specific antigen test since 2014.  Why is that? [...] He tested positive for prostate cancer in 2014 and never had another test.  Democrats told no one about this incapacity.  The cancer however meant Obama had to strike his vice president from his list of successors.  Hillary was next in line.  The cancer story also explains why Biden was hidin' in his basement throughout the 2020 campaign.  Dementia also explains it as well — as does Democrats knowing they could stuff the ballot boxes in key states with mail-in votes.  The cancer story also provides a reason Obama told FJB, "You Don't Have to Do This, Joe" in 2019.

This Might Be the WORST Revelation About the Biden Health Cover Up.  Democrats love to preach about transparency and democracy, but the latest revelations from inside Joe Biden's campaign expose a deception that borders on a constitutional crisis.  We now know that Biden wasn't just a weak candidate; he was a figurehead propped up by unelected aides who planned to run the country in his place.  [Advertisement]  In a stunning exchange on Fox News Sunday, a chilling revelation from Alex Thompson, co-author with Jake Tapper of "Original Sin," laid bare what many of us on the right had long suspected about Joe Biden's bid for a second term:  It was never about serving — it was about installing a shadow presidency run by unelected insiders. [...] In plain terms, the Biden White House's strategy was to deceive the American people and win the election under false pretenses, then quietly hand over control of the executive branch to a group of faceless operatives with zero accountability.  It was a sham presidency by design, not accident.

'Politburo' Secretly Ran Biden White House As Aides Were Willing To Do 'Undemocratic Things' To Stop Trump.  Alex Thompson, co-author of the provocative new book Original Sin [...], has ignited a firestorm across Democrat Party circles, asserting that a secretive cadre of aides ran the White House like a shadowy "politburo" to conceal President Joe Biden's failing mental health. [...] This inner circle, Thompson noted, included longtime Biden aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, and Ron Klain, alongside key figures close to the Biden family, such as First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Jill's chief of staff Anthony Bernal, and deputy Annie Tomasini, who often serves as Biden's traveling chief of staff.  The term "politburo" refers to the elite inner circle of a communist regime, wielding unchecked power at the top.  We note that Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are conspicuously absent from this list.

Biden's Brain:  It Wasn't a Cover Up; It Was a Hoax.  A cover-up happens when damaging information is hidden so people can escape responsibility; a hoax is when people try to create an alternate reality based on a web of lies.  The first Biden hoax was that he was "sharp as a tack," and the current one is that nobody but the inner circle knew and that the media — which had been fooled by the cover-up — is now being honest and is now on the case and will root out the truth without fear or favor.  Everybody has been focusing on Jake Tapper in recent weeks because his new book with Alex Thompson has been promoted everywhere and will undoubtedly sell well.  There is something particularly slimy about how Jake is making bank exposing a "cover-up" in which he played such a central role — everybody in Washington knew Joe Biden was a dead man walking, and all the Right people gaslit the American people that he was not only fine but really the President of the United States.

FBI agents who covered up Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020 must not get away with it.  On the eve of the 2020 election, FBI agents discussed an active money-laundering case against Hunter Biden just hours after casting doubt on the authenticity of his incriminating laptop during meetings with social media companies, according to newly redacted chat logs obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley.  The FBI's refusal to confirm the laptop's existence and instead allow a false narrative to take hold that it was Russian disinformation came on the same day that The Post published bombshell emails from the device revealing Joe Biden's involvement in his son's lucrative influence-peddling schemes when he was vice president.  "Actually what kind of case is the laptop thing?" FBI agent Elvis Chan asks FBI analyst Peter Courtney at 5:28 p.m. on Oct. 14, 2020.  "Corruption? campaign financing?"  Courtney replies:  "CLOSE HOLD — its a money laundering case on hunter biden."  "oh [...]," says Chan.  "ok. it ends here."

Neuroscientist Accidentally Reveals Democrats' Dark Strategy Behind Biden's Mental Health Cover-Up.  Here we have a neuroscientist — someone with the education and expertise to spot cognitive decline a mile away — claiming he was duped by the Biden White House.  But then, in the same breath, he admits it wouldn't have mattered anyway.  Why?  Because he'd rather see a cabal of unelected leftist operatives quietly steer the country into a constitutional crisis than let Trump win.  Spare me the victim act.  He wasn't fooled — he willingly ignored what was right in front of him because his hatred for Trump clouded his judgment.  Just like every other partisan on the left, he helped prop up a mentally unfit president and now wants to pretend he was misled.  He wasn't.  He was complicit.

Biden Aide Admits Staff Did 'Undemocratic Things' Because Trump Was 'Existential Threat To Democracy'.  A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing "undemocratic things" during his term in office because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.  The revelation came during an appearance by Axios reporter Alex Thompson on "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, where he discussed insider accounts from his reporting on the Biden administration.  Thompson described a mindset inside the White House — one in which unelected aides saw themselves as the real decision makers while shielding Biden from scrutiny and managing the presidency behind the scenes.

This Is How Staffers Planned to Run the Country If an Incoherent Biden Had Been Reelected.  Although RedState reported literally for years that Joe was a shell of his former self — and his former self wasn't all that great to begin with — the Biden administration along with their corrupt cohorts in the mainstream media lied, spewed disinformation, and did everything in their power to conceal the truth from the American public.  Now it's all coming out in the form of tell-all books, confessions from former aides, and even from leading cover-up enablers like CNN's Jake Tapper.  On Sunday, his co-author of the exposé "Original Sin," Axios' Alex Thompson, answered the burning question many of us wondered about all along: who would run the country if an obviously compromised Biden had somehow managed to win a second term?  Turns out the morality-free staffers had a frankly treasonous plot ready to enact:  they'd just need to show "proof of life" once in a while.

Joe Biden [is] Struggling to Bring In Cash After 2024 Election Catastrophe.  After Biden's catastrophic 2024 debate performance against Trump revealed the extent of his declining health and marked the end of his campaign, why would anyone pay the former president to speak?  And who would want to fund a Biden presidential library, as a monument to his legacy in office, when his legacy now includes Trump's lawless and destructive second term?

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Joe Biden doesn't have a job.  That's why he's "struggling to bring in cash."  Of course he still has a pension; he just doesn't have the volume of cash that he once enjoyed.

This Is Big:  Biden White House Run by Covert 'Politburo'.  Originally formed in 1919, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the highest level of the Soviet government.  Various dictators held power, most notably Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, but the Politburo was the executive council, from its formation to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to the Politburo's disbanding in November 1991.  And now, in one of history's funny little ironies, we learned on Friday that the shadowy group of Biden administration officials who were running the country while old Joe was drooling into a pudding cup was called "the Politburo."  And now we know who they are. [...] This is, without a doubt, the greatest political scandal of the 21st century, so far, anyway. [...] Now we know that not only was he incapable, not only that the administration also tried, unsuccessfully, to hide that incapacity from the American people, and we know who they are.

Giuliani on Biden Family Coverups: 'It Is Treason'.  On Wednesday May 21, former US Attorney, New York City mayor, and author of The Biden Crime Family:  The Blueprint for Their Prosecution, Rudy Giuliani, joined Steve Bannon's War Room to discuss his current strategies for prosecuting the Biden family.  Giuliani balanced his prosecutorial blueprint with unabashed commentary on Joe Biden's lack of mental soundness.  Then, Giuliani unleashed his evidentiary framework regarding the Biden family's quid pro quos with foreign nations.  "The people who covered this up — it is treason," Giuliani said.

Who Ran the Executive Branch.  As we and everyone else have pointed out, journalists who have belatedly tumbled to the obvious fact that Joe Biden was disabled throughout his presidency (or, at a minimum, most of it) are asking all the questions except the most important one: who ran the executive branch on the Democrats' behalf, and how did that work?  European journalists are perhaps a little less reticent. [...] Joe Biden liked to say that Hunter was the smartest man he knew.  The frightening reality is that, given Joe's immersion in Democratic Party politics, his claim might have been true.  We will never know what disasters may have been averted by Biden's visible collapse in his debate with Donald Trump.  The Democratic Party has much to answer for, but don't hold your breath waiting for any meaningful accountability.

Joe Biden's cognitive decline is the biggest scandal in modern US history.  News of former president Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis prompted Americans of all persuasions to offer prayers and sympathy. [...] What's unusual is the scepticism — indeed, cynicism — surrounding the announcement, which came just before the release of a major book about Biden's cognitive decline and its cover-up.  There have been questions about whether officials knew about the cancer while he was in office and hid that from the public.  Those doubts have been voiced by numerous specialists, including physicians who held high positions in Democratic administrations.  This cynicism is the bitter fruit of four years of the Biden administration's deceit on countless basic issues, including the former president's health.  Americans were repeatedly told that "the president is mentally sharp and incredibly energetic".  That simply wasn't true, and everyone knew it.  Still, some Democrats are attempting to downplay everything that happened over the past four years, as if it is old news that can be safely buried now that Donald Trump is in the White House.

Democrats Don't Get The Benefit Of The Doubt On Biden's Health, '86,' Or Anything Else.  Joe Biden's inner circle can't stress this enough:  Before last Friday, the former president had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer.  Pinky swear.  A Biden spokesman "clarified" the "timeline" in a statement to multiple news outlets after widespread speculation that Biden's Sunday cancer announcement wasn't so much a new diagnosis as a new disclosure.  Even Democrat doctors came out of the woodwork this week to note that prostate cancer and metastasis to the bone don't just happen overnight, meaning this cancer isn't "new."  Either Biden and his team of elite health care practitioners are incompetent, or they covered up his diagnosis.  So now his PR people are doing a full-court press to convince the suspicious public that Biden's handlers aren't lying liars who lie — they're just really bad at their jobs.

Ed Martin Identifies 'Gatekeepers' Involved in Biden Autopen Scandal, Says Whistleblower Has Come Forward with Shocking Allegations.  DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin discussed Biden's growing autopen scandal this week with journalist Mark Halperin on the "2WAY Tonight" podcast.  Last Tuesday Ed Martin said that the Justice Department is reviewing Joe Biden's last-minute pardons since it has become increasingly clear he was incapacitated during his presidency.  Ed Martin this Tuesday revealed he wrote to the Biden family and others and a senior Democrat whistleblower came forward with shocking allegations.  A couple of people "lawyered up" Ed Martin said.  [Advertisement]  "The Biden pardons are unprecedented," he added.  "I had a whistleblower in my office 10 day ago, senior, senior Democrat saying, 'Look, it was these three people that controlled access, and they were making money off of it,'" Ed Martin told Mark Halperin.  "I don't know if I believe it yet, but the point is I think we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process.  And that's what we're doing."

The Walls Are Closing in on Biden's Inner Circle.  Earlier this week, I made the case that Dr. Kevin O'Connor — Joe Biden's longtime physician and former White House doctor — should be called to testify before Congress about his role in the cover-up of Biden's obvious cognitive decline and now his cancer diagnosis.  A growing number of medical experts agree that Biden's condition didn't just appear out of nowhere; it was likely known about for years.  And now, we may finally be seeing the walls start to close in.  On Thursday, House Oversight Chairman James Comer ramped up his investigation into the deliberate and coordinated cover-up, not just of Biden's mental and physical deterioration, but also the possible unauthorized use of an autopen to greenlight sweeping executive actions, including controversial pardons.  In a major development, Comer sent formal letters demanding transcribed interviews with five of Biden's closest insiders.

Biden's doctor lied about cancer or is incompetent, says Obama medic.  A former presidential doctor has accused Joe Biden's White House physician of lying or being incompetent after the 82 year-old was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer last week.  Ronny Jackson, who treated Barack Obama and also Donald Trump during his first term, is now a hardline Republican congressman.  He echoed questions among allies of Mr Trump about whether those in Mr Biden's circle knew more than they were letting on about his health.  "I think there's a probability here that they knew he [Biden] had prostate cancer some time ago and just didn't tell the American people," he told the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site.  He singled out Mr Biden's doctor of more than 15 years for either missing the diagnosis or hiding it.  "Dr Kevin O'Connor either lied to the American people or he's incompetent," Dr Jackson said, adding that he had tested both Mr Obama and Mr Trump.  He also said he feared Mr Biden had between 12 and 18 months to live following the diagnosis, but added that it was not his area of medical expertise.

Congress Must Use Every Tool At Its Disposal To Uncover Biden DementiaGate Cover-Up.  Now that Jake Tapper and crew have had their epiphany about the meat puppet that periodically occupied the White House for the previous four years, it's long past time congress find out who knew what and when about President Joe Biden's addled mind.  The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is preparing to hold hearings into what is shaping up to be the worst cover-up in U.S. presidential history.  Word this week that Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer only underscores the necessity of multiple congressional investigations into who was actually running the White House as the president faded away before our eyes.  While questions remain more than four and a half years later about who exactly elected Joe Biden president, one thing is certain:  his stand-ins had no constitutional right to run the show.

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Vaccine Side-Effects:  Democrats Lied, Thousands Died.  So now we learn not only that Joe Biden has Stage Five prostate cancer, but that starting in February 2021, the POC/LGBTQ committee that was operating Biden like a Muppet concealed, then downplayed the risk of heart disease from the COVID vaccines.  It's funny how we find out all this dirt, within 48 hours after the committee's announcement about Joe's cancer.  Because he's got a few months to live, he's now officially the "Fall Guy."  Everything bad can be blamed on him, if it can't be blamed on Trump.  All the Muppeteer committee members can pretend they're innocent and resume their White House and Cabinet posts on January 20, 2029 if the Democrat party Deep State (DPDS) steals another presidential election.

Biden's Prostate Cancer — Things Don't Add Up.  Was this cancer missed by the team of medical professionals responsible for maintaining the president's health?  Once again, what did they know, and when did they know it?  Or was it known and kept hidden?  Like Biden's cognitive state, which only now, after he is out of office, are White House staffers and the media finally acknowledging?  Remember how many weekends Biden spent at his Rehoboth beach house?  Was the reason, as claimed by NPR, that he chose to be almost anywhere but the White House, where he said it's "hard to get comfortable"?  Or was Biden undergoing treatment for his cancer at home, away from the prying eyes of Washington, D.C.?  Everyone in Biden's orbit, including his staff, family, and media who observed him daily, said nothing about his mental decline, which was clear to even casual observers.  Did his handlers also conceal his cancer diagnosis?  Biden's brother Frank made an interesting comment last year:  "Selfishly I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left."  What did they know, and when did they know it?  This raises questions about Biden's fitness and ability to serve in office under the 25th Amendment.  Was he undergoing chemotherapy during his presidency?  If so, for how long?

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Now that it's okay to say Joe Biden is senile, and has been for years, let us examine what else has been swept under the carpet by the Democrat-controlled news media.  Did Joe Biden have a stroke on July 17, 2024, which made it necessary to rush back from Las Vegas to Delaware at the maximum possible speed?  [1] [2] Is Joe Biden an incurable pedophile?  [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]

Leftists blatantly lied about Biden's decline.  Leftists never apologize or account for their old lies; they just create new narratives and move on without any shame or remorse. [...] This brings us to their latest cover-up: the convenient revelation of Joe Biden's obvious decline and diagnosis that was likely known for years.  Apart from the fact that they're trying to exploit this as a convenient way to avoid scrutiny of the Biden presidency, we're also expected to pretend this cover-up was no big deal, that the lies created to get Biden re-elected with his obvious debilitated condition were nothing of concern.  But, as always, if they are willing to lie about something of this magnitude, what else are they willing to lie about?  The nation's socialist media spent only a few minutes on a scandal that is right in their bailiwick, because if they hadn't carried the water for the left in covering up the obvious Biden decline, the entire edifice would have fallen apart of its own weight.

Ed Martin Named the Top Three Suspects in the Biden Autopen Fiasco.  Ed Martin's nomination to serve as DC Attorney was nuked by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).  He was in office on an interim basis.  Trump selected Jeanine Pirro to replace Martin, who is now a pardon attorney and helming the Department of Justice's weaponization task force.  Martin is looking at Biden's pardons, specifically the ones issued toward the end of his presidency.  They might not be legal.  It comes off allegations that Biden aides might have illegally used the autopen.  President Trump has asked who was behind the autopen since it's become clear that Joe Biden was not mentally cogent enough to know what was going on. [...] Martin named three top suspects in his probe into the pardons and the autopen:  Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, and Ron Klain.  Bauer and Dunn are married, with the former being present for Biden's deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was investigating Biden for mishandling classified documents while serving as Obama's vice president.  Bauer claimed that Hur's account of events wasn't how he saw things, which made the case for releasing the tapes.

The war on American energy is over.  No decision better captures the recklessness of the Biden presidency than the now-infamous LNG export freeze.  This move did more to finance Vladimir Putin's war machine than a year of Siberian oil exports — by halting new LNG terminal approvals, Biden handed Moscow an open lane to energy ascendancy.  In December 2023, over 87% of U.S. LNG exports were directed to the European Union, United Kingdom, and Asian markets, pivotal in reducing European natural gas prices by more than 83% from their 2022 peaks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  During the Russo-Ukrainian war, the former administration's indefinite pause disrupted global energy markets and bewildered America's European allies striving to eliminate their dependence on Russian natural gas.  European nations — desperate for stable gas supplies, particularly in the depths of winter — were forced to fall back on Russian fuel.

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That decision by Biden is inexplicable, but only if you've never heard of "Ten percent for the Big Guy."

Jill Biden's role propping up Joe throughout his presidency can't be ignored.  As the anatomy of the great Joe Biden cover-up emerges, one dark figure stands menacingly taller than the rest.  That would be Vogue cover girl Dr. Jill Biden, who is starting to look more like Dr. Evil — a cartoonishly terrible, power-hungry and reckless movie villain — every day.  This week, as Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's devastating book "Original Sin" detailing the Dems' elaborate cover-up of the 46th president's infirmity as he ran — or, ahem, as he was run — for a second shot at the White House, Biden dropped a bombshell prostate cancer diagnosis.  The timing was undoubtedly meant to shift sympathy to the family and soften the atomic boom of the scandal.

Sally Quinn:  This Was Elder Abuse, and Jill Biden's the Abuser.  The Washington DC establishment sure seems determined to distance itself from the obvious media and political cover-up of the past four years.  No one exemplifies that establishment as Sally Quinn does.  Not only is Quinn the doyenne of DC 'society,' she also has a columnist gig at the Washington Post for decades.  Quinn was married to legendary Post editor Ben Bradlee for 36 years until his death in 2014, and has long been a formidable figure in the nation's capital, both politically and socially.  So when Sally Quinn throws someone under a bus, it means something — especially when that someone has been around DC as long as Quinn has.  Quinn tells Tara Palmeri in a new and lengthy interview that the Bidens acted in an "unpatriotic" manner in attempting to extend their grasp on power, and Quinn knows who to blame: [...]

Dems' cover-up of Biden's mental, physical decline is a bombshell of bad news — and it's going from bad to worse.  Those of us who were long convinced that aides were hiding the president's cognitive decline weren't cynical enough.  We also needed to believe they were hiding other serious ailments, such as prostate cancer.  Hmm, what else didn't we suspect that we should have?  Whatever it is, the odds are soaring that we are going to find out.  The announcement of his advanced cancer follows the release of the recording of the former president's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.  Together, they amount to a bombshell of bad news for Biden and his party.  The interview, about the stash of classified documents he kept, electrified Washington because it revealed how bumbling and incoherent Biden was back in October 2023, 16 months before he left office, meaning we had a president unfit for duty for at least that long.

The Concealment of President Biden's Cognitive Decline:  A Betrayal of Voters.  For years, concerns about Joe Biden's mental acuity were dismissed as partisan attacks or "conspiracy theories."  The White House physician declared him fit for office.  Staffers claimed he "ran circles around them."  Meanwhile, public appearances were tightly controlled, questions were pre-approved, and scripted answers were passed off as spontaneous.  But in 2024, the dam broke.  Biden's debate performance made his decline undeniable.  Millions had already cast primary ballots for a man clearly unfit to serve — yet instead of outrage over the scale of the deception, voters watched passively as Kamala Harris stepped in as the de facto candidate.  It was an unconstitutional transfer of candidacy that the media refused to acknowledge.  This wasn't spin — it was a deliberate, coordinated effort to deceive the American public about who was actually running the country.  All while, the same media complex screamed that Trump was the dictator.

Dereliction of duty at the highest level.  Former President Joe Biden has cancer.  He also suffers from dementia.  Anyone with no agenda and half a brain knew the latter and has known since Biden first ran for president.  And all indications are that his cancer developed over time.  So, where was the Surgeon General for the last four years?  Where was the cabinet?  What did they know and when did they know it?  And who was running the country while Biden was sleepwalking through the presidency? [...] Military personnel deployed to Afghanistan, Africa, and elsewhere were killed and maimed, Americans at home and abroad were raped and murdered, hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted or stolen in corrupt schemes, prices skyrocketed, and legal norms were abused.  All by design.  Biden's cabinet should have and could have replaced him under the 25th Amendment to our Constitution, but they didn't.  They were all in on the subterfuge.  The Democrat Party and the national media could have clamored for Biden's removal, but they didn't.  Instead, they lied and went on running the country illegally and unconstitutionally.  It was dereliction of duty at the highest level, with no consequences for anyone involved.

They Lied to Us.  We'll Never Forget It.  Now that Biden is out of office, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have written a tell-all book that explains the cover-up of the president's mental decline.  What they should do is tell us how they were involved in it.  It wouldn't surprise me if more tell-all books followed as mainstream "journalists" try to cash in on the scandal that they took part in.  The whole Democrat media complex was in on the bunko scheme.  They said we were making mountains out of molehills.  They accused conservatives of devising "cheap fake" videos designed to make Biden look bad.  They said we overreacted to what was right before our eyes.  They called us liars when they were lying the whole time.  It's insulting to the intelligence of millions of Americans.

Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy.  President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that there may be a larger conspiracy at work following former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis.  Trump addressed Biden's stage four prostate cancer diagnosis while in the Oval Office, calling the situation "very sad."  The president added that people should look into how Biden's cancer developed into a dangerous situation with no earlier detection.  "If it's the same doctor who said there was nothing wrong there, that's being proven to be a sad situation," Trump told reporters.  "In other words, there are things going on that the public wasn't informed.  And I think somebody is going to have to speak to his doctor, if it's the same or even if it's two separate doctors.  Why wasn't the cognitive ability — why wasn't that discussed?  I think the doctors said he's just fine, and it's turned out that's not so.  It's very dangerous.  Look, this is no longer politically correct.  This is dangerous for our country."

Who was running the autopen that ran the White House?  The question is being repeated almost ad-infinitum:  Who was running the White House while sleepy Joe slept upstairs?  It's an important question that deserves the attention of top forensic experts who can pull fingerprints from the plastics, Plexiglas, and any metal casing surrounding the autopen.  At a minimum, they should be able to determine if fingerprints have been scrubbed.  That, in itself, may be useful information — presuming we needed even more evidence of a cover up.  If fingerprints are recovered, and matched with White House staffers or imposters, they can be given a [really] good interrogation.  Hopefully, investigators and interrogators will be more diligent than those then-Secret Service defeatists who prematurely concluded the White House cocaine investigation in 2023.  Inspecting the physical state of the autopen should be one investigative avenue in answering one of the ineluctable questions in the biggest political scandal in recent American history:  Who [...] dared to flout our sacred Constitution by imposing their radical leftist agenda on America as the figurehead president vacationed and slept?

The calls for Biden amnesty.  How could someone with some of the best medical care available, in a mere hundred or so days, end up in stage four of cancer?  Were his mental issues tied to dementia or his cancer treatments?  The reality is evident — he had been fighting cancer for years.  What was also painstakingly clear was that the Biden family, the White House staff, leaders of the Democrat party, and the bulk of the mainstream media lied and deceived the American people.  They placed our nation at risk by propping up a man incapable of fulfilling his duties.  They willfully backed this deception while fully knowing the truth, flagrantly ignoring their responsibilities under the 25th Amendment.  Up until the cancer announcement, the so-called journalists and the Democrat leadership all maintained that they believed Joe was alert, sharp, at the top of his game.  After the cancer declaration, the left dusted off the COVID Amnesty strategy and rebranded it Biden Amnesty.  Demands were made by Congressional leaders that investigations into Biden, his administration, and any hints of a cover-up needed to be dropped solely because he is suffering from cancer.  Just as they had done with COVID, they called for the Trump Administration to not look backwards.

Biden's last screening for prostate cancer was in 2014, spokesperson says.  Joe Biden was never diagnosed with prostate cancer until last week, and the last time he was screened for it was more than a decade ago, a spokesperson for the former president said Tuesday.  "President Biden's last known PSA was in 2014.  Prior to Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer," the spokesperson said.  Screening for prostate cancer often involves a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test, which measures the level of protein produced by the prostate and could indicate potential disease.  The test has a high proportion of false positives, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not recommend it for men 70 and older since they are more likely to die of other medical conditions than prostate cancer.  Biden, 82, had his last PSA 11 years ago.

The Biden Cover-Up Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine.  The cover-up of Joe Biden's health just got all the more egregious.  When did Joe Biden have cancer, and who knew?  Why are left-wingers wishing him ill?  And is the media really going to try to pull the wool over our eyes again?  Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Dylan Housman and Media and Health reporter Rob McGreevy discuss it all on Tuesday's Rebelcast.  [Video clip]

Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Raises Serious Questions About Who Made These 5 Decisions.  [#2] Biden gave preemptive pardons to former Rep. Liz Cheney, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, Adam Schiff and others who sat on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol as well as to the "police officers from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department or the U.S. Capitol Police who testified before" the committee, according to The Lawfare Institute.  Biden also issued pardons to his brother, James Biden, James' wife Sara, his other brother Francis T. Biden, and his sister Valerie T. Owens along with her husband John T. Owens.  As noted by The Federalist's Beth Brelje, "To be pardoned for a crime, there must be a crime.  None of the people on this list have been charged for the awful ways they harmed people in their official capacities."  Biden also announced in December that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administration described as the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history."  Weeks before that set of pardons and commutations, Biden quietly commuted the sentences of two Chinese spies.

Democrats Told You 'Democracy Is On The Ballot' And Wanted You To Vote For Someone Who Wasn't Even In Charge.  During the entire campaign leading up to former President Joe Biden's July 21, 2024, withdrawal from the presidential race, he and his Democrat Party were telling the American people that "democracy is on the ballot."  While they continued that rhetoric through the end of the campaign once former Vice President Kamala Harris was undemocratically anointed the candidate, they initially wanted to sell the American people on the idea that they should vote for Biden — knowing it would be a vote for a grab-bag of wannabe oligarchs jockeying for power because the man cosplaying as president was mentally incapable of running the country.

Biden's Exit:  The Cancer Cover-Up Was Always the Plan.  Advanced prostate cancer does not erupt overnight.  According to oncologist Dr. Steven Quay, even the most aggressive forms of the disease require between five and seven years to reach the stage of metastasis without treatment.  In Biden's case, the cancer had already spread by the time it was announced.  This implies that his body had been harboring malignancy throughout his presidency.  Such a condition, which is both traceable and treatable, does not elude the world's best physicians.  The White House has access to cutting-edge diagnostics, including the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a simple blood draw that reveals prostate irregularities with high sensitivity.  To argue that Biden's advanced cancer escaped notice despite annual physicals defies medical plausibility and invokes political dishonesty.

Biden's cancer diagnosis is very strange, and a medical cover-up is the least of it.  As I wrote last year, Biden's presidency was an informal and unacknowledged regency.  Biden himself did not have the mental capacity to rule on his own, and so a confined circle of close advisers and family effectively directed the actions of the presidential office on his behalf.  Importantly, this regency was not "the White House" or "Biden's staff" or "the Democratic Party" in general.  It was much smaller than all of those things.  The regents worked hard to obscure Biden's dementia from Congress, from large parts of Biden's own campaign, from the Democratic Party and from many others within Biden's White House.  They ensured that even internal meetings unfolded in highly scripted and predetermined ways, so that cabinet and other officials could not gain a clear idea of Biden's mental state.  They berated and intimidated anyone voicing concern about the president's health behind the scenes.  And they had very simple reasons for doing all of this:  If Biden's dementia were to become common knowledge and not merely an object of private suspicion (however widespread), the regency would be shown up as illegitimate and potentially broken.

Another Biden Health Scandal.  There is a reason why presidents and presidential candidates normally release reports on their physical examinations.  Voters have a legitimate interest in the health of their chief executive, an interest that, most believe, outweighs the politician's entirely legitimate privacy concerns.  Here, the suggestion is that Biden deliberately refrained from getting PSA tests after he entered the presidential picture lest a "false positive" be leaked to the press.  I think we can tweak that hypothesis just a little, and probably arrive at the truth.  I suspect that Biden had PSA tests after 2014 that are not in the public domain, but that indicated an increasingly aggressive prostate cancer.  Biden's team then decided against including PSA tests in the official physical examinations he was given as a candidate and as president, not out of fear of a false positive that would give voters the wrong impression, but rather out of fear that an accurate test report would reveal to voters one aspect of Biden's deteriorating condition.  Putting aside 2020, when Biden and his doctors most likely knew about his prostate cancer, if voters had known in 2024 that he suffered from an aggressive, metastasizing cancer it surely would have doomed his prospects for re-election.

Joe Biden's Last PSA Test Was Eleven Years Ago?  We're Supposed to Believe That?  A Biden spokesperson, according to CNN reporter Arlette Saenz, is claiming that the former president's last PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test was in 2014.  Baloney. [...] Mr. Biden is said to have a more serious kind of cancer, and it's straining credulity that he hasn't had some symptoms that would have prompted him to consult his physician, especially while he was still president.  And he was, we must remind ourselves with trepidation, until only four months ago.  Second, the American Cancer Society's recommendation of "men over 50" seems like it would be the one that, in an abundance of caution, would apply to the Vice President or the President of the United States.  These people get (at least) annual examinations, and generally, much is made of the release of the results of those physicals.

Here Are 9 Questions About The Biden White House That Must Be Answered After Cancer Diagnosis.  It is now socially safe to state the obvious out loud.  Former President Joe Biden was not physically or mentally healthy enough to be president.  And based on his 2020 presidential campaign when he was often hidden from public view and mostly stayed home, Biden was probably not even well enough to campaign.  The reason that talk of Biden's poor health makes the left bristle is because it triggers a big question that can only lead to possibly the biggest presidential scandal in our nation's history.  Who was acting as president in the shadows, running the country from Jan. 20, 2021 to Jan. 20, 2025 while Biden held office?  That key question leads to more detailed questions.  The American people deserve answers.

Welcome to the cover-up for the cover-up.  As with Covid, the propaganda is not so much Orwellian in its ferocity and effort to intimidae as late-Soviet in its contempt for the intelligence of its audience.  We have gone from kids will be fine without in-person schooling and mRNA is a miracle cure to a man with unlimited access to the world's best medical care wound up with cancer in his bones before anyone noticed.  The good news is that if the rebellion on X is any guide, this effort at narrative control is already failing.  People learned during Covid that if they let the media and public health establishment cow them into silence, they and their children would suffer.  They aren't going to let the lies metastasize this time.

Biden's cancer diagnosis raises the question:  Was he ever in good enough health?  On May 18, Americans learned that former President Joe Biden has stage 4 cancer that has, unfortunately, metastasized to his bones.  It's sad that Biden, who for decades served our nation as a senator, vice president and president, now faces a life-threatening illness only four months after leaving the White House.  But I can't help but think about what Democratic Party leaders and much of the news media told Americans only a year ago.  Biden was then portrayed as "active" and "robust."  He was more than ready, according to the Democratic Party, for four more years as commander in chief, even as he approached his 82nd birthday.  And his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, dismissed legitimate questions about whether he should take a cognitive test.  Biden "passes a cognitive test every day," she claimed in February 2024.  Then came the devastating debate with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.  Americans could clearly see for themselves just how unready and unsteady their president was, with four more years suddenly out of the question.

Video of Joe Admitting Having Cancer Makes You Wonder When the Bidens Started Hiding It.  Back in July 2022, Joe Biden gave a speech in Massachusetts about pollution and climate change.  Being Joe Biden, he decided that he'd make the event all about himself and told those gathered that pollution had caused his cancer.  [Advertisement]  A collective, "Wha...?" went up from the media and all those watching."Did the president just say he has cancer?"  Americans wondered.  Many people chalked up the incident to, "Oh, it's just Joe being Joe again," or, "Joe's losing it," but enough people wondered what he was talking about that the White House was forced to clarify.  By clarify, we mean that White House spokesman Andrew Bates quote-tweeted a message by Washington Post media writer, Glenn Kessler, who chalked up Biden's claim of cancer to his treatable skin cancers over the years.  [Tweet]  Why would pollution and global warming have anything to do with skin cancer?  No one knows but Joe.

We Have No Moral Obligation to Forgive or Forget the Biden Lies.  What a remarkable coincidence that Joe Biden's wranglers discovered he had cancer right in the middle of the revelations about how he was totally senile and everyone around him, including his very real doctor wife, covered it up.  Yeah, right.  His puppet masters knew, even if that human rutabaga didn't.  Stage IV prostate cancer doesn't sneak up on you.  It's easy to detect.  I know my PSA.  It's .07.  I got it tested a couple of weeks ago.  I get it tested every year.  Weird that I have better medical care than the President of the United States, right?  But you don't believe that.  And I don't believe that.  The hacks, frauds, and charlatans demanding that you believe that certainly don't believe that. [...] I'm going to say what I want, all the time, and I'm going to continue to point out that Joe Biden is an evil, senile, corrupt pervert, who was and is surrounded by minions interested only in retaining their prestige, power, and plunder.

The Biggest Lie They Told:  Biden's 'Clean Bill of Health'.  They told us he was fine.  Fit.  Focused.  Capable of leading the most powerful nation on Earth for four more years.  Now we learn Joe Biden is battling metastatic, high-grade prostate cancer — discovered just months after the White House and its media lapdogs paraded around his "vigorous good health" like it was gospel truth.  The real story?  We were lied to.  Again.  [Advertisement]  Let's start with what the public was told.  In February 2023, the White House released a medical summary from Walter Reed Medical Center declaring President Biden "a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male."  The document noted minor ailments — sleep apnea, acid reflux, and peripheral neuropathy in the feet — but assured us there was no cause for concern.  In February 2024, they said essentially the same thing.  "Fit for duty."  "No signs of neurological disease."  All that jazz.  Fast forward just three months — and the picture couldn't be more different.

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Don't overlook the possibility that Joe Biden's sudden announcement that he is terminally ill is just another lie, to keep him from having to testify about any of his many scandals — from "Ten percent for the big guy" to the Autopen pardon machine.  Do not assume that the Bidens have suddenly decided to tell the truth about Joe's health, or anything else.

The — 'You Can't Say THAT; Joe Has Cancer!' — Operation Has Started.  Like clockwork, operation You Can't Say That; Joe Has Cancer! got underway in earnest Monday morning.  It started earlier than I would have predicted.  As Scott writes nearby, David Axelrod set the tone for the rest of the mockingbird mediacrats, and since then, there's been a flurry of "I can't believe he said that" responses to smart people who question how long the Bidens have been keeping the cancer diagnosis under wraps.  [Advertisement]  Few believe the prostate cancer was a bolt out of the blue.  This likely had been festering for quite a while, as this prostate cancer specialist explained on NewsNation.  [Tweet with video clip]  Imagine the Bidens thinking that Americans watching Joe's brain deteriorate before our eyes was preferable to coming clean on his cancer as the excuse for pulling out of the 2024 campaign?  As I explain [elsewhere], Joe's White House spokesman Karine Jean Pierre also called the Parkinsons expert haunting the halls of the West Wing none of our beeswax too.  Privacy and all that.  The mediacrats went along with their plan.

New book reflects Biden family's delusions of grandeur and how their 'greatest strength is living in their own reality'.  There were so many lies told by Joe Biden, his wife and their aides that it's hard to distinguish delusion from reality when assessing his disastrous presidency and determining who needs to be held accountable for all the crimes and cover-ups.  But let's start with Hunter Biden.  According to an exclusive preview of the upcoming book "Original Sin" by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, at the same time that the White House and Hunter were denying the existence of his abandoned "laptop from hell" in early 2022, Biden aides were so concerned about the political fallout that they secretly arranged for the Democratic National Committee to obtain a copy of the hard drive.  "The [re-election] campaign needed to be politically prepared, and Biden needed to be personally prepared," the authors say.  Biden aides spent months mining the copy, through Hunter's homemade porn, crack addiction and hooker fetish, not to mention the copious evidence of influence peddling and millions of dollars of payments from China and Ukraine.

Puppet abuse.  [Scroll down]  But, what of Joe Biden?  He's nominally an esteemed, revered Democrat leader, yet look what they've done to him.  Joe wanted to run for president after Barack Obama's long reign of error, but Barry dumped his pretend friend for the odious Hillary Clinton, and made sure she got the nomination.  What a slap in the face to Biden.  And then, when Joe was already slipping into senility and polling miserably leading up to the November 2019 election, Obama and the boys made him the candidate, pushing other more viable candidates aside in their successful quest to screw Bernie Sanders and his supporters.  Imagine that Joe knew, even in his rapidly diminishing state, that he was going nowhere in '19 until the powers that be literally gave him the presidential nomination.  How emasculating.  And then after historic and unprecedented electoral machinations by the Dems, poor tired Joe somehow wins more votes than the Democrat presidential candidates both before and after him.  Even as he mentally sails out to sea, Biden's gotta suspect his election win was illegitimate.

Joe Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant.  [Scroll down]  Biden was neither decent nor a selfless public servant.  Those who insist otherwise must be undergoing some sort of Freudian dynamic wherein repressed thoughts are coming to the fore.  Focusing on his apparent decency actually hints at his indecency.  I wish not to speak ill of the ill, but evidence of his indecency abounds on this site, here are just a few reminders as we are bombarded with Biden adulation: his treatment of Gold Star families (remember Dover AFB?); his indifference to hostages around the world; his treatment of his fifth granddaughter; his creepy touching and sniffing; his threats to punch people in the face; his general peevishness and petulance; his tantrums towards his enablers; his outbursts toward the rare reporter that questioned him; mistreating American citizens while coddling illegal aliens.  I know I'm omitting many other of his very indecent behaviors, but I'm trying to be charitable given his condition.

Biden likely knew he had cancer for some time:  Urologist.  Word of former President Joe Biden's diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer immediately spawned speculation he may have known about the disease while still in the White House — maybe even as he was pursuing a second term in office — but others are pushing back and requesting empathy for the 82-year-old.  Urologist Dr. David Shusterman said Biden, who received the finest health care while in office, could have known for some time.  He said the type of metastasizing cancer the former president has takes years to develop.  "This is what I typically would see in a VA hospital, where a patient hasn't had medical attention in 10 years, presents to an emergency room with bone pain, and then they find that it's metastatic prostate cancer," Shusterman told "NewsNation Prime" on Sunday [5/18/2025].  In a statement released on Sunday afternoon, Biden's office said the cancer was spreading to his bones but could potentially be treated through hormone therapy.  The statement said the disease was characterized with a Gleason score of 9, underscoring the aggressiveness of his case.  "The fact that we just find it at a Gleason nine is just pretty much unheard of in this day and age of medicine," Shusterman said.

The Bidens must have known about his cancer for years.  [Scroll down]  How is it that Biden's first inkling that he has prostate cancer is when it has metastasized to his bones, given that metastasizing takes years and he presumably has been getting PSA tests at least annually?  My guess is that the Bidens have known of his cancer for a long time.  It's quite possible — nay, it's likely — that he has undergone radiation treatment for it.  (Prostatectomy treatment appears out of the question, because reports are that a nodule was discovered on his prostate; so it's still there.)  The radiation treatment appears to have ultimately failed, as it not infrequently does.  When the cancer became detectable again, it would have produced elevated PSA levels.  By the time it was metastasizing, those levels would be very high.  Again, this does not happen in a matter of weeks or months, but years.  It's inconceivable that the Bidens were unaware of this cancer last November.

Something Doesn't Add Up About Biden's Cancer Announcement.  On Sunday, news broke that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 and metastasis to the bone.  The announcement, made by Biden's office, detailed that the diagnosis followed the discovery of a prostate nodule after worsening urinary symptoms a week prior.  While the statement emphasized that the cancer is hormone-sensitive, offering hope for effective management, the timing and context of this revelation raise serious questions about transparency and political motivations.  The key question I have is this:  Did Joe Biden's inner circle know about this diagnosis last year?  Obviously, questions about Joe Biden's physical and mental health have been raised for years.  Let's be honest here.  Joe Biden had access to top-notch health care while in the Oval Office — with a personal physician, Kevin O'Connor, who, back in 2023, described him as a "healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency."  We all knew that assessment was garbage.  Would the same doctor who claimed Joe Biden was "healthy" and "vigorous" also cover up a cancer diagnosis until after the presidential election?  Yeah, I think so.

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This story about Joe Biden having an advanced stage of a slow-growth cancer is very difficult to accept at face value.  Here's why:  Joe Biden's last-minute pardons, which were either signed by Biden himself or forged by parties unknown through the use of an Autopen device, are now under investigation, as they should be.  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]   It has been obvious for some time that Joe Biden was too senile to know what he was signing, or to be aware that someone else was signing decrees for him.  [1] [2]   That's a parallel scandal:  The press knew Biden was senile and incompetent years ago, but kept it quiet.  How convenient it is, that Joe Biden is suddenly much too ill to answer any questions about the stack of documents he "signed" in the last two months of his presidency.  (As a result of this Biden/Autopen fiasco, I predict that in another decade or two, the Constitution will be amended to require Congressional approval for any pardons or executive orders issued [by a lame duck President] between the time a new President is elected and the time he or she is sworn in.  That will happen right after the Constitution is amended to include term limits for the House and Senate.  In other words, we won't live long enough to see it.)

Democrats Are the Greatest Threat to Democracy We've Ever Faced.  Think of all these "progressive" idiots who hid Joe Biden's decline.  That treachery still has not been viewed in its entirety.  It is only through the grace of God that something horrible didn't happen while that doddering, old fool was in the White House.  His handlers kept him insulated from exposure, which protected us from him starting a war or having our enemies see just how gone he was to embolden them to take action somewhere else.  But those [bums] were the ones who should have exposed his inability to do the job.  Only for reasons of their political agenda did they conspire to hide it — agenda über alles — from the public.  And hide it they did.  I don't know if that is full treason or not, but if it is not, it is as close as one can get without getting there.  None of this would have been possible without a compliant media.  If I could see it, and you could see it, in the limited, necessary public "proof of life" appearances Biden made during his administration, the people just outside the inner bubble [surely] could.  They chose to ignore it.  More than that, they actively worked against anyone who pointed out the truth.

Scraping Joe Biden off their shoes.  Look who's shouting FJB now.  Democrat Party anchorman Jake Tapper officially kicked off FJB season with a new book, Original Sin:  President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.  Tapper is the Captain Renault of journalism who is shocked — shocked — to learn that Biden's brain was fried.  Tapper now is blaming Democrats for covering up what was obvious to everyone:  FJB belonged in a nursing home, not the White House.  Tapper lied.  Everyone on press row did because if I can see it from my back porch in Poca, West Virginia, they can see it in DC. [...] Dace Potas of USA Today was blunt about the situation:  "Biden didn't deceive Democrats about his decline.  It's time to admit the truth."  Potas wrote, "For 2024 to be a real lesson for Democrats, they need to realize Biden didn't hoodwink them and that they willingly went along with it.  Any other narrative is a failure to take responsibility."  Ditto the Tapper and the rest of the media.  I hope they do not learn the lesson because they should suffer at the polls for a long, long time for foisting this brainless patient upon the nation.  FJB should cling to the Democrat brand the way fresh dog doo clings to a shoe.

Robert Hur Has Been Vindicated on Biden's Senility, and Now It's Time for the Receipts and a Reckoning.  As RedState reported, several portions of audio from Joe Biden's infamous interview with former special counsel Robert Hur were published by Axios on Friday, and to say they were shocking would be the understatement of the century.  [Advertisement]  It's not that we didn't know Biden was completely senile.  This site has written countless stories on the multitude of public appearances by Biden that devolved into doddering confusion, whether it was slurring his words, forgetting the names of his cabinet officials, or repeatedly getting lost trying to exit stages.  What we hadn't gotten was a peek behind the curtain of what the former president was like when the cameras were off and his handlers hadn't pumped him full of whatever over-stimulating drug cocktail they were using.  We now have that, and the peek is not pretty.  [Video clip]  But while the actual audio was bad enough, what makes this the largest scandal in presidential history is how those around him tried to cover this up.  With unflinching evidence sitting in front of us of just how bad Biden was while his family and handlers insisted he could serve another four years, it's time to bring out the receipts.  Let's start with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), [...]

President Trump asks a Looming Question, Who Was Behind the Biden Auto-Pen?  At first blush the question seems curious, but when you further think about it the question becomes rather important.  If Joe Biden was not cognitively aware of what was happening around the office of the president, then who exactly was controlling the use of his signature via the auto-pen?  In a functioning democracy with a purposefully curious media, the fourth estate would be demanding a congressional investigation to get the answers and context for who was really carrying out the agenda of the Biden administration.  Unfortunately, as a nation we lost that 'fourth estate' a long time ago, and congress is of no help.

Does the Release of the Hur Recordings Raise More Questions About the Autopen Signings?  In his four years in office, Joe Biden pardoned or granted clemency to more than 8,000 criminals, including his own son, four times more than Barack Obama (1,927), who was in office for eight years.  [Advertisement]  Republicans raised questions about Biden's extensive reliance on the executive autopen to sign all those pardons and acts of clemency.  Indeed, it would seem to be a non-issue.  All presidents have used an autopen for official and unofficial business, so what's the big deal?  Legal experts scoffed at that idea except in one unlikely instance.  Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law expert at the University of Pennsylvania, said, "If the president doesn't know that something was done, then it's not a valid official act."  Did Biden fully understand that he was pardoning and granting clemency to these 8,000 people?  Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement on Friday saying that his committee was going to revisit the autopen issue it raised during hearings last March.  At that time, the Biden White House stonewalled Comer's committee, refusing requests for documents and having aides testify.

Everybody Pretends to Be Shocked By Biden-Hur Tapes.  Nobody Actually Is, Though.  Ed wrote a great piece about the "leak" of the Biden-Hur tapes to Axios and all the breathless stories about how Biden really WAS a rambling, senile mess as the Special Counsel questioned him.  As I peruse X on my morning stroll through the modern information hellscape, I keep coming across people pretending to be shocked at how bad Biden sounds, or others pointing triumphantly and saying, "I told you so!"  I sympathize with the latter, obviously, because this is one more bit of evidence that Americans have been subjected to a years-long psychological operation that successfully brainwashed half the country into believing a mostly-dead president was spry as a teenager and as sharp as Richard Feynman was at his height.  "This is the best Joe Biden ever!"  [Video clip]

The President Wasn't There:  Biden's Autopen Presidency.  "If he approves, he shall sign it."  These words, found in Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, frame the President's role in the legislative process with elegant precision.  The Founders assumed the phrase needed no interpretation.  A bill passes Congress, it arrives at the President's desk, and if he approves, he signs it.  That act of signature is the hinge upon which the legislative process swings from deliberation to law.  Yet during President Biden's rein, this clarity has been obscured by a machine.  The autopen, a mechanical device that replicates a person's signature, has emerged from bureaucratic obscurity to constitutional controversy.  It is no longer a mere curiosity.  It is now central to a troubling question:  Did Joe Biden, in the final years of his presidency, remain capable of approving what was signed in his name?  The evidence suggests he did not.

Why the Biden-Hur Tapes Is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment.  "For posterity's sake."  Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur.  Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment.  The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought by Congress, but was kept under wraps by the government even as Biden campaigned for a second term.  Many of us balked at Hur's conclusion that no charges were appropriate despite the fact that the President removed classified material for decades, stored it in grossly negligent ways, and moved it around to unsecure locations, including his garage in Delaware.  Given President Donald Trump's indictment for the same offenses, it was hard to imagine how the Special Counsel could not recommend the same criminal charges (presumably after he left office).

The Question is, Who Was Running the Country?  Axios obtained the audio of former President Biden's October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.  In the first segment below, recorded on the first day of interviews, former President Biden was questioned about where he kept documents.  Biden had difficulty recalling that it was 2015 when his son Beau died.  Biden also shared that President Obama discouraged him from running for president.  The interview tapes reveal the scope of cognitive decline the control agents around Joe Biden were trying to keep hidden from the country.  As the tapes reveal, Joe Biden was not in any capacity to be in office.  The question remains, who was running the country?  [Video clip]

Biden had many enablers but his wife Jill was the worst of all.  No one did more to hide Joe Biden's decline than his wife, Jill, the first lady, according to a new book that details how she berated staff in private, defended his missteps in public, and sometimes helped him finish his thoughts in conversations.  It describes how her team of advisers became the most powerful in the White House and took extraordinary steps to protect the president from negative headlines.  And it suggests she was instrumental in hiding from her husband just how badly his re-election campaign was going as she tried to cling to power.  "Original Sin", co-authored by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, will be published next week.  It lifts the lid on how Mr Biden, the oldest president in history, struggled to keep up with the demands of the job.  In one episode it describes how the first lady pulled her husband away from a Democratic governor after he raised concerns about the re-election campaign.

Trump's New Pardon Attorney to Scrutinize Pardons Biden Issued Before Leaving Office.  President Donald Trump's newly tabbed pardon attorney said on May 13 that his work will include scrutinizing pardons that former President Joe Biden issued just before leaving office in January.  "I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny.  And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that's used correctly," Ed Martin, the pardon attorney, told reporters during a press briefing in Washington.  "So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did and if they're, I don't know, but null and void, I'm not sure how that operates," he added.  Biden's pardons, issued in his final hours in office, went to multiple individuals, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). The pardons were for conduct for which the individuals had not been charged.

Biden's Autopen Pardons May Just Get Invalidated.  Ed Martin, the new DOJ pardon attorney and head of the Weaponization Working Group, isn't wasting time.  This week, he announced a review of the shady "autopen" pardons Joe Biden's team rushed through in its final days.  "These deserve some scrutiny," he said.  [Advertisement]  That's an understatement.  As PJ Media has previously reported, Biden's White House frequently used an autopen to sign executive orders and pardons, which raised serious doubts as to whether Biden was even involved in the process.  In March, the Oversight Project dropped a bombshell memo detailing 32 instances where the Biden White House used an autopen to sign off on clemency warrants — pardons and commutations that impacted thousands, including preemptive pardons for members of the January 6 Committee.  The report raises a chilling question:  Were these acts of mercy issued by a president or by a rogue staffer who had no constitutional authority to do so?

Justice Department Probing Biden's Last-Minute Autopen Pardons.  Outgoing Acting US Attorney for DC and now incoming Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin said on Tuesday that the Justice Department is reviewing Joe Biden's last-minute pardons amid the growing autopen scandal.  Per CBS News:  In news conference just now, outgoing U.S. Attorney for DC Ed Martin says Justice Dept is reviewing some of the last minute pardons issued by President Biden.  Martin wouldn't comment when asked if he'd launched investigation into members of House Jan 6 Select Cmte, but said pardons "need scrutiny[.]"  [Tweet]

Joe Biden Was Senile?  Who Knew?  Who didn't?  I was on Australian television during the 2020 election campaign, and casually mentioned that Joe Biden was senile.  Rita Panahi was startled and said, "Wait, what?  Joe Biden is senile?"  I explained that this was why he was running a basement campaign rather than putting on campaign events like Donald Trump did.  It seemed obvious at the time.  Biden's debility became increasingly clear over the four years of his term.  The videos of Biden being unable to speak without a teleprompter, being unable to read a teleprompter, falling down, wandering about, speaking inappropriately in various ways, were legion.  You would have had to avert your eyes to avoid seeing them.  I can't explain why the Democratic Party planned to move forward with Biden as its candidate in 2024.  Evidently they thought he was their best option, which tells you something about that party.  In any event, the Democrats' strategy failed, and Biden's dementia became so plain that they had no choice but to dump him.

Chinese Payment Firm Probed by FBI Has Biden-Linked Backer.  A recent investigation reveals that PAX Global Technology, a Chinese company under federal investigation for suspicious data transmissions, has ownership links to Che Feng, a Chinese financier closely connected to Hunter Biden.  Earlier this month, Hunter Biden dropped his lawsuit against two IRS whistleblowers who alleged there had been a cover-up in former President Biden's DOJ to block a tax fraud investigation into the former President's son.  However, the financial sector controversies Hunter has incited, particularly with his business dealings in China, remain an ongoing topic of interest and allegedly extend far deeper than tax fraud.

President Autopen's Administration Threw $100B Away in 76 Days.  Energy Secretary Chris Wright has been working hard to find lost funds and claw back the previous administration's climate cult financing madness.  He found that in the final weeks of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rushed nearly $100 billion in green energy loans and commitments out the door.  In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, he noted that the $100 billion far exceeded the total amount the DOE's Loan Programs Office (LPO) lent in the previous 15 years.  "Like if those were great ideas that were benefit to the America, why didn't they do it in the two and a half years after the inflation reduction act was passed?  What did they wait till they lost the election?  They changed terms and loan covenants.  They basically tried to set bombs to make it hard for us to unwind the mess they'd created."

Joe, don't go!  Every Joe sighting reminds people of why they voted against him.  He demonstrates that he's a creaky, corrupt, cardboard cutout that is incapable of thought and practically incapable of reading a teleprompter containing the thoughts of people who do his thinking for him.  Every appearance reminds people that the Democrats lied that he was "sharp as a tack" right up to the minute that he proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he was dull as a dullard, at which time they dumped him like a stained, plaid Laz-Z-Boy from the 70s and declared that their hand-picked replacement (why bother with primaries to ascertain the people's preference when you have Nancy, Chuck and Barack?) was ... wait for it ... "sharp as a tack."  And joyous, to boot.  And no known hair plugs, capped teeth, or criminal family.  I almost feel bad for Joe that the Democrats are not even pretending to welcome him.  Almost.

See If You Can Spot the Biggest Difference Between Biden's and Trump's China Deals.  While people love to tout Trump's "art of the deal" transactional dealmaking with super powers, it was actually Joe Biden who leveraged his job as vice president and then as president to personally enrich his son's "business" and, by extension, his own personal bottom line.  Biden encouraged his son's ferociously greedy dealings with the Chinese energy firms and even fronted a deal for China to get raw earth minerals to help with the communist state's electric car battery production and to help its notorious "Belt and Road Initiative."  At one point, Hunter Biden and family were paid in diamonds in an  apparent  obvious attempt to avoid paying taxes.  Hunter's company, Rosemont Seneca, whose business product was Joe Biden, helped China's takeover of a cobalt mine from an American company in the Congo.  It was a $3.8 billion deal.  As we now know, Hunter's businesses always had to kick back "10% to 'The Big Guy.'"  His investment firm was involved in a deal where a Chinese state-backed company gained control of a cobalt mine.  This deal involved a $3.8 billion transaction and transferred 80% ownership of the Tenke Fungurum mine from an American company to China Molybdenum.

With Biden's access to power gone, the money has apparently dried up.  One of Harry Truman's most famous aphorisms is that "An honest public servant cannot become rich in politics."  Joe Biden embodied the corollary to that aphorism, for he was anything but honest, and he became very rich, indeed.  When Biden left the White House, despite an almost uninterrupted 50-year career on the public dime, his reported net worth was $10 million, while the rest of his family also enjoyed the high life.  Now that Biden has been tossed onto the trash heap of history, the money allegedly is drying up.  Biden entered politics in 1974, after a very short career as a lawyer.  His Senate salary was never higher than $174,000 per year.  His wife, a community college teacher (and, judging by her misbegotten thesis, a very bad one), peaked at a salary of $86,000.  That's a decent upper-middle-class income, but it's not the stuff of a net worth equal to $10 million, with a portfolio that includes two lovely houses.  So, where did the money come from?  It came from Joe selling access.

Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?  Those who perpetrated the greatest ruse in American presidential history by staging the Biden presidency will never tell us what their ultimate agenda was.  They knowingly fixed the 2020 primaries to ensure a non-compos-Biden would be nominated.  Under the cover of the COVID lockdowns, they kept him in his basement while operatives radically altered the voting laws in the key swing states.  For the next four years, they put their waxen effigy in a hermetically sealed cocoon — one of avoidance of the press, three-day workweeks, and four-hour workdays.  Yet Biden could still not read huge-font, teleprompted scripts.  He could not finish a simple call for unity without snarling, screaming, and damning his opposition as "semi-fascists," "ultra-MAGA," and "garbage."  Was the point to salvage the Democratic Party for one last hurrah before the Squad, and the Sanders socialists inevitably took over and destroyed it?  Was that the idea behind clearing the primary field and anointing a decrepit "good ol' Joe Biden from Scranton" veneer?

Sources Say the Biden Crime Family Is Going Broke.  The Biden crime family is facing a serious cash crunch now that its patriarch is out of power and the influence-peddling machine has ground to a halt.  As we previously reported, on Thursday, Joe and Jill Biden made a live appearance on "The View" in New York City, and according to Mark Halperin, the move is part of a broader effort to rehabilitate Joe Biden's image after a disastrous first 100 days back in private life.  "There's a story in Politico today that says they've hired the former Pentagon spokesperson to manage the Biden comeback," Halperin said.  "Joe Biden wants to be out there... He wants to speak out against Donald Trump.  He wants to defend his reputation."  Halperin also noted that Politico is reporting the Trump administration plans to release audio of Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, the one that led Hur to describe Biden as "an elderly man with a poor memory."  But Halperin offered a blunt insight from someone close to the family:  "I talked to someone very familiar with the Bidens, and I think they've pointed out something that I'm gonna say now, that to me, is the explanation, or at least part of the explanation, which is Biden Inc. has collapsed."

Hunter Biden abruptly drops lawsuit against IRS.  Hunter Biden abruptly dropped his lawsuit Wednesday against two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers who alleged a wide-ranging cover-up in the Department of Justice to stonewall the tax fraud investigation into him.  The Biden scion had slapped a lawsuit against the two whistleblowers in 2023, alleging that they "targeted and sought to embarrass Mr. Biden via public statements to the media in which they and their representatives disclosed confidential information about a private citizen's tax matters."  Without detailing a specific reason why, the scandal-scarred 55-year-old voluntarily moved to dismiss his lawsuit against Gary Shapley, who was an IRS supervisory special agent at the time in question, and Joe Ziegler, who was an agent.

Trump exposed Biden's biggest lie:  that the border crisis was 'unsolvable'.  Last year around this time, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and liberal commentators insisted the only thing that would fix the greatest border crisis in American history was a special Senate bill, or "comprehensive immigration reform," or fixing the "root causes."  There was nothing else that could stop the 10 million illegal immigrants whom Biden allowed into the country.  It took President Trump approximately one hour to prove them wrong.  The signature achievement of Trump's first 100 days in office — fixing the border — was achieved by dusting off a few old tools that were always in the back shed.  Trump first ended Biden's legally dubious temporary "parole" admissions programs that let aspiring illegal immigrants "legally" fly or walk over the border and stay with work authorization for two-year periods.

President Trump Calls for the Person(s) Who Operated Joe Biden's Autopen to be Jailed.  President Trump on Sunday called for the person or persons who operated Joe Biden's autopen to be jailed.  "Hopefully ACTBLUE, the Democrats ILLEGAL SCAM used to raise money, including from not allowed "foreign contributions," is being looked at by authorities.  The Dems only know how to win by CHEATING, something which they do better than any group or party in history.  But now, with their terrible policies and candidates, and with people like Crooked Adam Schiff, who demanded a full Pardon from Sleepy Joe, leading the way, it is almost impossible to reach their money goals.  The USA is wise to these scoundrels and crooks.  Also, why did the Auto Pen give Schiff a Pardon?  Biden knew nothing about it.  Who operated the Auto Pen?  That is the biggest question being asked in D.C. They almost destroyed our Country.  They should all be in jail!!!" Trump said on Truth Social.

Biden pops up at the pope's funeral, looking lost.  Speaking of things that wouldn't go away, Joe Biden decided that he, too, would go to Pope Francis's funeral, once President Trump said he'd be there.  So, somehow, the old toad toddled over to Rome for the funeral:  [Tweet]  It was obviously an attempt to upstage President Trump who was legitimately there.  It certainly wasn't because of any "Catholic" values he had, given the examples out there of his fathering skills.  Religion to Biden was always a political tool.  Biden did try to put out a statement about something or other last week as some sort of political comeback, drawing little attention.  Now he, or whoever's running him, has gotten a spot in front of the cameras for attending the funeral of the pope.  Why do I say that?  Well, because when he was president, he actually skipped the funeral of the last pope, Benedict XVI, not even sending a cabinet official in his place, only his Vatican ambassador, who was there handy.

The Editor says...
I almost feel sorry for Joe Biden, who, at this very late stage in his life, is still being used by his venal family and his corrupt party to score political points.

A Frail Joe Biden Manages to Offend Multitudes During Pope's Funeral.  Joe Biden's appearance at Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday caused as a stir as the 82-year-old former president showed significant signs of physical deterioration, even requiring significant assistance just to navigate a short flight of stairs at the Vatican.  In a telling moment that validates the concerns many of us had about his fitness for office, Biden was seen desperately clutching the arm of an elderly priest while also relying on his wife, Jill, for support.  The scene would have been comical if it weren't so concerning — here was a man who, just last year, was insisting he could handle another four years as leader of the free world, yet he can barely manage to walk down some steps without assistance.  [Tweet]

Hunter Biden:  Burisma's Five Million Dollar Man.  Hunter Biden — former First Son and Biden family bagman — pulled in nearly $5 million from Ukraine energy giant Burisma, just-released court documents reveal, and it is safe to assume that the Big Guy got his 10 percent.  "Swiftboating America" author Hans Mahncke posted Tuesday that following Biden's pardon in December of last year by President Joe Biden, the judge in United States v. Biden "received a request to release the search warrants and affidavits, which have now been made public."  "The documents reveal a trail of money flowing in (even though the media claimed that never happened)."  Five million somethings is a lot of somethings to try to hide — and hide'n'seek time is over.  Just one paragraph from the released papers claimed that "Despite receiving at least $315,000 from Burisma [in 2014 alone], the SUBJECT's Form 1040 does not reflect any of that income.  Therefore, there is probable cause to believe that the SUBJECT filed a false 2014 Form 1040 in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1)."  This is where I like to remind people that Al Capone was put away for tax fraud.  But Capone didn't have a daddy sitting in the Oval Office.

What Is Democratic Legality?  Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways.  One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court.  In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at the very doors of the court chambers.  He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name.  Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices' views would make them "reap the whirlwind," and the two would not know what "hit" them.  In the ensuing months, protestors mobbed some of the conservative justices' homes — likely committing felonies.  The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing — although eventually a would-be assassin turned up.  Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans.  Indeed, he boasted, "The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn't stop me."  In response, no one on the left ever complained about endangering the "rule of law" or Biden as "a dictator."

Unredacted Hunter Biden search warrants detail payments linked to Ukraine and China.  Newly-unredacted IRS and FBI search warrants tied to the federal investigation into Hunter Biden provide new details on the information that investigators had in their possession about President Joe Biden's son's business deals linked to Ukraine, China and elsewhere.  The multiple search warrant applications were released, with only some redactions remaining, late Tuesday following an agreement between Hunter Biden's legal team and the Justice Department.  The search warrants detail the knowledge that federal investigators had years ago related to lucrative payments Hunter Biden had received from Ukrainian gas giant Burisma, since-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, Romanian businessmen, and more — sometimes including when Joe Biden was still vice president.

Media hypocrisy:  Hegseth must go because he'll get us all killed.  The media's grotesque hypocrisy is on full display, with the campaign calling for the firing and replacement of Defense secretary Pete Hegseth receiving a renewed burst of vigor. [...] First of all, nothing was more embarrassing than Joe Biden representing America on the global stage.  And not even a Joe Biden in his "prime" (still a liar and an idiot), but a geriatric Joe Biden — dumb, dishonest, and senile.  He couldn't speak without mumbling, sniffed and fondled children while on camera, made inappropriate comments about youngsters while on camera, constantly fell to the ground like the decrepit and decaying corpse he is, and was undeniably, a corrupt and scandal-ridden traitor.

Donald Trump:  Right Man, Right Moment.  [Scroll down]  The attempted hostile takeover of our minds was underway.  And then came the Trump/Biden debate and the scales fell quickly from the eyes of even the most ardent of the president's supporters.  It confirmed for some and reaffirmed for many the reality of a modern-day replay of Hans Christian Anderson's famous folktale declaring, "The Emperor Has No Clothes" as the beleaguered and bewildered Biden proclaimed that we had, "finally beaten Medicare."  "Yes," declared Trump, "You beat it to death" and along with it any hope of continuing the two-plus year cover-up of an incapacitated President.  And so the final Hail Mary play was the last-minute substitution of Kamala Harris, a proven loser at the highest levels of politics.  Having peaked years ago on her knees in California, she ushered in a Trump second term with a landslide.  The spell had finally been broken.  And as this truth continues unfolding, a collision of cultures, liars, patriots, despots, heroes, and their clashing philosophies are in a showdown and Donald J. Trump is proving to be the right man at the right moment in time, a reoccurring historical theme in American Exceptionalism.

Joe Biden accused of Easter photoshop fail.  Joe Biden posted a smiley photo of himself and Jill surrounded by their family on Easter Sunday — however many people online were quick to call him out.  The former Democratic president shared a heartfelt X post wishing his more than 38 million followers a happy Easter from him and his loved ones.  'We wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter,' he captioned a photo that features his loved ones — without his son Hunter Biden — sitting on a staircase in Delaware.  But swathes of social media users and trolls claimed that Biden had in fact photoshopped himself into the photo.  Several people pointed out that the 82-year-old, seated at the top of the outdoor staircase wearing a navy blue suit, looked out of place — because of his formal outfit, his higher position above everyone else, and because of the lighting on his face.

The Editor says...
The picture in question is the most obviously photoshopped picture I've seen since Joe Biden's obviously photoshopped picture of himself and DOCTOR Jill Biden squatting next to Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Carter a few years ago.  The light on Joe Biden's head doesn't match the other people in the picture, but the biggest giveaway is that Joe Biden is spliced in to the back row, off to the side.  You would expect to see Joe Biden front and center in a picture like this.

Report: Democrats Just Want Joe Biden to Go Away Already.  Joe Biden has been back in the news, but if he was hoping to rebuild his tarnished legacy, he is achieving the opposite result as his gaffe-filled appearances have merely reminded us of why he was not fit to be president and was forced to step down from his reelection campaign.  At his first major speech since Donald Trump took office, Biden on Tuesday began before the music stopped (which meant no one could hear him), rambled on about "colored" kids, tried to fear-monger that Trump wants to take away your Social Security — which he weirdly called a "psychic calm," whatever that means — and joked about fraud within the program.  Yes, 300-year-old people taking Social Security is a laugh riot, Joe.

Joe Biden [is] 'having trouble booking gigs' with $300K per speech asking price.  It's not just Biden family artwork that's struggling to sell these days.  Former President Joe Biden's attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned — as some of his own former aides say it's time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about "colored kids" Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.  A source familiar with Biden's faltering speaking career said that the 46th president's standard pitch is $300,000 — 25% below Barack Obama's $400,000 asking price upon leaving office in 2017.  It's unclear how negotiable Biden's rate is.  If travel is required, a private jet and expenses for five staffers also is expected for Biden, who has been repped since early February by the Creative Artists Agency.

This Is Hard to Believe:  The Price Joe Biden Demands for Speaking Fee.  I don't know who thinks it's a good idea that Joe Biden wants to come "back" and get more involved again.  You would think his handlers would have sense and just say "Enough" and time for retirement.  We're already seeing how badly the "coming back" is working out: making weird remarks about "colored kids," confusing Ukraine and Iraq, and even dropping his ice cream on the ground.  But if you thought that was already nuts, you ain't heard nothing yet.  Guess how much Joe Biden (or his handlers) wants you to pay him if you book him to make a speech and stumble through a few remarks?

The Editor says...
I think at a certain point, I think you've made enough money.^*

Newly Unredacted Documents Show Joe Biden Was Negotiating Oil, Gas Deal to Benefit Hunter and Burisma Through Private Email Account.  Joe Biden's private email scandal is likely much worse than Hillary Clinton's email scandal.  And just like Hillary, Biden was never indicted for his use of burner phones and private emails while he was US Vice President.  Special Counsel Robert Hur ignored Joe Biden's use of private emails.  The National Archives previously confirmed through a FOIA response that they found 5,138 email messages and 25 electronic files pertaining to the known Joe Biden pseudonym accounts [...]

While publicly rebuking Russia, Joe Biden opened 2014 back door for Moscow gas to flow to Ukraine.  While Joe Biden publicly led the charge to punish Russia for its first invasion of Ukraine, he used his role as vice president to quietly open a backdoor for Moscow's gas to flow to its neighbor in fall 2014, at a time when his son Hunter's Ukrainian energy company sought such help, according to government messages in a private email account kept from Americans for more than a decade.  The emails, sent to Joe Biden's private account that used the fake name RobinWare456@gmail.com, were recently turned over by the National Archives, mostly redacted, to Just the News under an open records lawsuit and in unredacted form to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that continues to investigate corruption concerns surrounding the former first family.  They confirm that Joe Biden played a secret role at a "critical moment" to help secure Russia's willingness to re-open natural gas spigots to Ukraine, a deal that publicly Germany and its then-chancellor, Angela Merkel, received credit for brokering.

Paying a Heavy Cost for Going After a Tax Cheat Named Hunter Biden.  Joe Ziegler is not a beaten man — not for his antagonists' lack of trying.  Across his seven-year pursuit of Hunter Biden's unpaid taxes, Ziegler, a special agent in the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigative division, and his colleague Gary Shapley were shunned, threatened, and lied to.  Ziegler was doxed.  Shapley was told to accept a demotion or resign.  Convinced the IRS and Department of Justice were stonewalling their efforts to bring charges against a sitting president's son, the agents went public as whistleblowers in 2023.  The result, during the hyper-polarized years spanning the Trump-to-Biden-to-Trump administrations, was predictable:  The two men were accused of partisanship, lambasted by Democratic members of Congress and the press, and had their reputations impugned by high-powered lawyers paid for by those sympathetic to the Bidens.  The fortunes of these political victims have now turned.  In mid-March, incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Ziegler and Shapley would start work as senior advisers, helping to guide tax reform.

James Zumwalt: Does Trump Have a Secret Partner Working With Him?  With God-less, supposedly Catholic, Democrat Party leaders like President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) at the helm, America had been a nation in religious decline.  Biden's disdain for Christianity was best shown by his selection of Easter Sunday as "Transgender Day of Visibility."  It should be obvious why he gave no thought to selecting one of the holiest periods under Islam — Ramadan — for such a celebration.  He also weaponized the FBI to go after Catholics, spying on traditionalists from coast to coast.  A 2022 study cited the Democratic Party as a prime example of a group that has transitioned away from religion.  Such disdain by Biden for Western religion, reflected as well by his pro-abortion stand, has helped contribute to a decline in church attendance.

Pardoned Devon Archer says Hunter Biden leveraged Biden brand, gave 'halo' of protection to clients.  In his first interview since being pardoned by President Donald Trump last month, former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer tells Just the News that there was "no doubt" the younger Biden was talking business with his father and confirmed that his former partner was selling the "Biden" brand in deals abroad.  Archer previously testified in the impeachment inquiry into former President Joe Biden, telling lawmakers he witnessed Hunter Biden introduce his father, whether in person or over the phone, to several foreign business partners, including a Russian oligarch, a Chinese fund manager, and Ukrainian energy company executives.  The former business partner also told Congress he considered Hunter Biden to be a "lobbyist" who leveraged a "very powerful name" to score millions in deals with these companies, including the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was was seeking protection from corruption probes and other legal woes at the time he and Archer joined the board.

Hunter Biden's Smoking Gun Letter Exposes More Biden Family Corruption.  Now that Joe Biden is out of the White House and the Democratic Party has all but tossed him aside like yesterday's news, the media has suddenly discovered its courage.  After years of running cover, they've now permitted themselves to report on the very corruption they actively ignored: the corruption of the Biden crime family.  A bombshell letter that the New York Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals exactly how Hunter Biden was peddling influence while his father served as Vice President.  The State Department, in a completely unsurprising move, had withheld this damaging evidence until after Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.  They want us to believe the timing was just a coincidence.  Right.  What makes this revelation particularly [bad] is that Hunter wrote the letter on Burisma letterhead, openly seeking help from the U.S. ambassador to Italy.

Now It Can Be Told:  Letter Reveals What Hunter Biden was Doing for Burisma.  Yesterday the NY Times published a follow up to a story about Hunter Biden's work for Burisma while his father Joe Biden was Vice President.  The original story was published last August and Ed wrote about it here.  Here's a bit of what Ken Vogel reported at the time:  ["]Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S. government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews.  The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member... The State Department did not release the actual text of the letter.["]  Essentially, this was proof that Hunter had been acting as an unregistered foreign agent while his father was VP.  But just as significant as the story was the timing of it.  The NY Times had been trying to get the information though an FOIA request for years.

Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation.  Now that the war appears lost, and newspapers abroad (conspicuously, not here) are full of news about an apparent bombing of Vladimir Putin's motorcade, and the future of NATO hangs by a thread, the Times has run a 13,000-word "Secret History" that shows the same U.S. officials who denounced Trump and American voters for saying it out loud long ago concluded that they, too, should probably "walk away." [...] From Joe Biden down, they all lied about the risk of World War III.  They risked our lives and our children's lives, knowingly, repeatedly, and for the worst possible reason:  politics.  Afraid to admit a mistake, they planned individual excuses while letting bureaucratic inertia expand the conflict.  Worse, as was guessed at on this site late last year, the Biden administration after last November's election increased the risk of global conflict by "expanding the ops box to allow ATACMS and British Storm Shadow strikes into Russia," in order to "shore up his Ukraine project."  If you check this "secret history" against contemporaneous statements of American and European leaders, you'll find the scale of the lies beyond comprehension.

Congress to grill reclusive White House doctor on Biden's mental decline as Republicans probe 'shadow presidency'.  Former White House doctor Kevin O'Connor will be among those grilled by House Republicans for hiding President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the American public, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) told The [New York] Post.  "Dr. Kevin O'Connor will absolutely, positively be implicated in the cover-up of this.  He is a massive, massive part," said Jackson, a physician by trade who served in the White House Medical Unit under three presidents before being elected to Congress, where he now chairs the House Intelligence Committee's subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations[.]  "I guarantee you Kevin O'Connor has medical information that the American people don't have," Jackson went on.  "He was probably putting President Biden on lots of medications that we have no clue of — in efforts to try to treat his cognitive decline."

The Biden dam breaks.  During much of the last administration, and especially in its final year, the president of the United States suffered serious cognitive impairment.  It wasn't a secret — 81-year-old Joe Biden frequently had senior moments during public events.  What was striking about the situation was that Biden's staff, fellow Democrats, and allies in the media insisted that he was in good shape and sharp mentally when he obviously wasn't.  The situation exploded on June 27, 2024, when Biden met rival Donald Trump for their first and, as it turned out, only debate.  You know the story.  Biden was so out of it that Democrats scrambled to push him off the party's ticket, to be quickly replaced by then-Vice President Kamala Harris.  Then, the presidential campaign quickly moved on to a disastrous conclusion for the Democratic Party.

Top Aide Finally Admits Biden Was Rapidly Declining, Falling Asleep By The Pool.  One of former President Joe Biden's senior aides admitted in a new book that the 82-year-old couldn't grasp the back and forth of debate and would fall asleep by the pool while they prepped for his showdown with Trump, according to a book excerpt.  Top Biden aide Ron Klain, who helped the former president with debate prep, was "half-seriously" wondering if Biden believed he was the president of NATO rather than the president of the United States, according to the excerpt of Chris Whipple's new book published by The Guardian.  While they prepped, Klain reportedly told Whipple that the then 81-year-old president "didn't know what Trump had been saying and couldn't grasp what the back and forth was" and would have to cut training sessions short because he was tired.

Trump Should Release The Audio From Robert Hur's Interview With Joe Biden.  President Donald Trump has already given us thousands of files on the JFK assassination, and now he's pushing for the Epstein files to see the light of day.  But there's something else we need from him — the audio from special counsel Robert Hur's interview with Joe Biden.  Hur declined last February to pursue charges against then-President Biden for retaining top-secret documents.  Hur described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" and said that "based on our direct interactions with and observations of [Biden], he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt."  "It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness," the report continued.  Hur also found Biden's memory "appeared to have significant limitations" and said Biden was unable to remember the start and end date of his vice presidency.  Biden could not recall specific dates in relation to his son's death "even within several years" and had a "hazy" recollection "when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him."

The Editor says...
[#1] This interview was conducted long before Joe Biden signed (or somebody forged) a string of last-minute pardons, before leaving the White House.  If the interview indicates to any reasonable observer that Biden was mentally unfit for his office, the pardons are highly suspect.  [#2] Was the interview recorded on video, or just audio?  Who makes audio-only recordings of depositions these days?

Hunter Biden To Permanently Lose DC Law License.  Hunter Biden is expected to permanently lose his license to practice law in Washington, D.C.  Biden, who was pardoned by his father in December 2024 after being convicted on federal gun charges and pleading guilty to tax charges, wrote in an affidavit filed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals under seal on Tuesday that he would "consent to disbarment," the New York Post reported on Tuesday.  Hunter Biden's license was initially suspended in June 2024 after a Delaware jury convicted him on three felony charges related to his purchase of a revolver while addicted to drugs.  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals order suspending his license noted the offenses were "serious crimes as defined by D.C. Bar Rule XI."  Former President Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon to his son in December, though he previously promised that he would not, which covered all crimes he may have committed since 2014.  He also pardoned his brothers and several other family members minutes before Trump's inauguration.

The Editor says...
Why does Hunter Biden need a law license?

Ex-Biden aide Ron Klain was alarmed by 'out of it' prez ahead of disaster debate, book says.  Ron Klain, a longtime aide to former President Joe Biden known for his intense loyalty, is insisting he "never doubted" Biden's mental fitness — as a new book describes Klain's distress ahead of Biden's dismal June 2024 debate against Donald Trump.  In "Uncharted:  How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History," author Chris Whipple writes that Klain viewed Biden, then 81, as "out of it" and even "half-seriously" worried that Biden thought he was "president of NATO."  "I never doubted the president's mental acuity," Klain told The [New York] Post Wednesday after a report on Whipple's book was published by the Guardian.

Absolutely Wild Details About How Democrats Covered Up Biden's Decline Reveal a Historic Scandal.  As RedState recently reported, there was a point late in his ill-fated re-election campaign when Biden's handlers had to use fluorescent tape on the floor to keep him from wandering off during a speaking engagement.  That was revealed in a new book entitled "Fight:  Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," and more excerpts have been released.  One incident involved Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), with Biden seemingly not knowing who the Congressman was.  He then had to coach the former president into remembering him. [...] Swalwell may not be the most well-known politician out there, but he had been a fairly visible part of the Democratic Party for over a decade, including meeting Biden face-to-face several times.  The former president not knowing who the congressman was should have been a major red flag, but the cover-up took precedence over everything, and everyone involved stayed quiet on the matter. [...] It's a cliche, but this was "Weekend at Bernie's" going on in the White House, with the former president's entire inner circle lying to the American people for personal gain.

Who among us ever doubted it?
Confirmed: Biden Was Given the Press Questions In Advance.  Imagine if the Donald Trump for President campaign demanded that questions directed at Trump were pre-scripted and that the campaign would get the right to pre-approve quotes derived from those interviews.  [Advertisement]  We would hear nonstop about propaganda, suppressing the truth, First Amendment concerns, and be treated to a media freakout that would go on for days or weeks.  [Tweet]  Now look at how the same Pravda Media responded to demands by the Biden administration's demands for the same privilege:  mute compliance.

Biden's Perjury.  Part of the problem with the Freedom of Information Act is the timeliness of production.  If you file a simple request it might take over 7 years for a response.  (It happened to us.)  Even where you file suit, like we do, you're probably looking at over a year to get responsive documents.  And that's not even counting the exceptions the Government asserts, whether it be "privacy" or the need to redact embarrassing information or, in the case of COVID-19, to further the cover-up.  And while timeliness and unnecessary redactions aren't exactly related, they help to serve the same purpose.  In the case of late production, many times the story has lost steam or the subject of the documents is no longer in office.  That's the necessary lead-in to what we have today:  President Joe Biden's written answers to questions from Special Counsel Robert Hur, available [elsew]here.  I believe this is the first time these have been published.  We just got them today; the Government was in no rush to hand them over, though we appreciate the fact that they aren't redacted.

Live by the Autopen, Die by the Autopen.  President Trump concluded this week that all pardons granted by Biden, including those for Jan. 6 prosecutors, certain criminals, COVID-related authorities, and family members, are considered "void" because Biden reportedly signed them using an autopen during his time in office.  What's next?  What would happen if Trump instructed the FBI and DOJ to investigate, arrest, or prosecute individuals who may have committed crimes, including those who received potentially dubious presidential pardons?  Criminal defense lawyers can be expensive, with legal fees potentially reaching millions, causing angst as the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates on the legal validity of autopen-signed documents.  If lawfare is good for the goose, it's good for the gander.  Does accepting a presidential pardon imply guilt?  The White House Historical Association states:  ["]The Burdick v. United States (1915) ruling determined that a pardon implies guilt; acceptance is a confession of it.["]  This suggests that individuals who have received pardons have admitted to their offenses.  Following this, sentencing should occur.

Biden Didn't Pardon. He Erased the Law.  The media's interest in presidential pardons seems sudden.  Just a few months ago, President Biden granted a blanket clemency to 1,500 criminals in a single day; overruled federal law on capital punishment by rescinding it for 37 of the 40 federal death row prisoners; and nullified federal drug laws by commuting the sentences of 2,500 alleged "nonviolent drug offenders," in what his White House boasted was "the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history."  The [New York] Times is worried about Trump abusing the presidential pardon?  If Trump were selling pardons at a card table at Mar-a-Lago like merch at comic con, it could not compare to the lawlessness of Biden using the pardon power to repeal federal law.  With the stroke of a pen, the dementia patient — or whomever was functioning as president — thumbed his nose at the legislative and judicial branches, the U.S. Code, his own law enforcement officers, the federal judiciary, and, most of all, citizens voting in a democracy (that thing that dies in darkness).

The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along.  Almost as soon as Joe Biden was inaugurated, the left knew that he was physically and mentally unable to serve as president.  Indeed, that was the point.  Biden's role was designed as a waxen figurine for hard-left agendas that, without the "old Joe Biden from Scranton" pseudo-moderate veneer, could never have been advanced.  His handlers operated a nightmare administration: the destruction of deterrence abroad, two theater wars, 12 million illegal aliens, a weaponized justice system, hyperinflation, and $7 trillion more in debt.

Adventures in Politics:  When I Was an 'Autopen'.  [W]hen word broke that Joe Biden [had] been using the autopen, not to just sign photos to admiring fans — both of them, apparently — all hell broke loose.  His staff, aware of Biden's four-year vacation in Lala Land, began using his autopen to sign executive orders, for instance, but most of all, pardons.  Biden seemed to authorize thousands of pardons for people in prison or those who might one day face criminal charges — like Hunter — many of whom he'd never heard of.  In this, there was nothing specifically significant, except for one small point.  Only the president can sign a presidential pardon.  Like signing bills into law or signing executive orders, this can't be delegated.  A close analogy: when someone stands before a judge in open court, swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, nobody else can do that for him.  So, if it turns out that Biden did not personally sign those thousands of pardons, those are not real.  Nobody but the president — not even a machine programmed to sign the president's name on his behalf — can issue a pardon.  Not the vice president, not the chief of staff, not even Dr. Jill.

Time for the Trump DOJ and FBI to Deal the Pain.  Let's start with that autopen pardon thing.  The demented eggplant who was masquerading as our president for the previous four years allegedly pardoned hundreds and hundreds of weirdos, losers, mutations, degenerates, and congresscreatures, to the extent that's any different, before his humiliating ejection from office.  However, people noticed that these pardons were not signed by hand.  Rather, his handlers used an autopen.  That's a device that signs someone's name mechanically.  Presumably, it is done at the guidance and behest of the person whose name is being affixed to the document.  This is where the controversy comes in.  Joe Biden seems manifestly unable to have understood what he was doing with regard to these pardons. [...] Here's my take and some people aren't going to like it.  He can autopen pardons all day long, and they're absolutely effective.  The discrete autopen issue is a certain loser in the courts, and it should be.  But the question really isn't how something got signed but, rather, whether Joe Biden actually meant to issue these pardons of all sorts of scumbag criminals or whether he, in his advanced state of dementia, thought he was signing off on a proclamation proclaiming National Ice Cream Cone Day.  His competence to issue these pardons is a real issue.  Let me give you some more lawyer analysis you might not like.  This theory has a practical problem.  It's going to be very hard, if not impossible, to prove he didn't know what he was doing.  The burden of proof would almost certainly fall on the government to invalidate the pardon rather than on the accused criminal asserting it.

Jenna Ellis:  Whether Biden's Autopen Pardons Are Legal Depends On One Crucial Detail.  The controversy surrounding former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen to sign pardons has fueled a political and legal debate.  President Donald Trump and his allies argue that these pardons are "void" because Biden did not personally sign them.  However, legal experts overwhelmingly reject the claim that just the use of an autopen invalidates a pardon.  The more significant issue, and the one that could raise real constitutional concerns, is whether Biden himself authorized the pardons — or whether they were issued without his knowledge or without him having the requisite intent to grant clemency.

Joe Biden's First Speech Since Leaving Office Has Funeral Like Feeling — And No One Covered the Event.  Joe Biden emerged from his Delaware basement bunker last week to deliver his first speech since leaving office and virtually no one noticed.  Since leaving office in January, Biden has only popped his head up to give a pre-recorded message for the DNC's winter meeting.  Biden delivered a speech at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) last week and not one media outlet covered the event.  The most popular president in US history who garnered 80 million votes in 2020 gave a speech after leaving office and no one cared or even noticed.

Say, Where Is Joe Biden These Days?  On the menu today:  President Trump has made the preposterous claim that he can declare Joe Biden's pardons "void, vacant and of no further force and effect."  If Trump's argument about his far-reaching, unprecedented presidential powers ever gets up to the Supreme Court, the Supremes will reject that so quickly and overwhelmingly, NBA players will be impressed.  But there are at least a few reasons to wonder how much Biden understood what he was signing at any given moment — from Mike Johnson's tale of Biden being unaware of a liquid natural gas export ban, to the fact that in the two months since leaving office, Biden has spoken in public ... once ... for two minutes ... in a pre-taped statement on video.  How is Joe Biden doing these days?  We have no idea.

Hunter's Secret Service boondoggle.  Keeping in mind Hunter's 24/7 security probably involved about 18 agents, necessitating they go wherever he went and that Hunter was making numerous international trips to collect paychecks for virtually no reason other than being the son of the vice president and later president, taxpayers were taking a major hit in financing his Secret Service force.  This was true too when Biden was living a life of luxury in Malibu that mandated his security team rent very expensive property nearby.  Meanwhile, as taxpayers were footing Hunter's tremendous Secret Service costs, he was receiving millions of dollars, it is estimated, which included $3.8 million from CEFC China Energy — an oil and gas company linked to the Chinese Communist Party that ultimately went belly up — and from Burisma Holdings.  Hunter had begun working with CEFC when his father was vice president.  It presented the worst possible image for someone in Hunter's position to open doors for China — a country with national security interests far different from our own.

Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is a big deal.  The Autopen is a fascinating device.  Developed to allow celebrities to mass-produce autographs for hordes of swooning fans, it was never intended to enable a Muppet to serve as president of the United States.  But that seems to be exactly what happened.  Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office — every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) — was signed with not one, but two Autopens.  The only known exception was Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. [...] Now there's even more reason to believe that nothing Joe the Vegetable allegedly signed is worth the paper it's printed on.  He didn't even read it, much less sign it.  What's truly dismal about this is that millions of voters have short memories.  They'll forget this, or they'll never even hear about it, and they'll vote for the next DPDS [Democratic Party Deep State] nominee.

Is This the Aide Who Abused Joe Biden's Autopen?  The latest scandal for the former Biden administration has exploded into the spotlight thanks to Trump's declaration Sunday night that Biden's pardons are "VOID, VACANT, AND NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT" because they were signed via autopen, and Biden may not have authorized them.  The lingering question, of course, is who may have been using the autopen on Biden's behalf without his knowledge or consent.  An explosive New York Post report revealed a disturbing pattern of potential power abuse within the Biden White House, centered around the controversial use of the presidential autopen. [...] While the New York Post didn't name the staffer, speculation is swirling around Neera Tanden.  A longtime left-wing operative, Tanden was Biden's controversial pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget — until her nomination collapsed over a slew of hyper-partisan attacks on Republican lawmakers.  She later found a role as White House Staff Secretary.  Now, she finds herself at the center of this constitutional crisis.

President Trump Calls Biden J6 Pardons Null and Void Following Revelations of Auto Pen Use.  President Trump sends a shot across the bow to those who received a preemptive pardon from the administration of Joe Biden, noting the use of an autopen could nullify the issuance.  [Lengthy quote from Truth Social]

Null and void:  Autopen misstep means arrests are now on the table.  Until today, the Democratic Party Deep State (DPDS) and its propaganda bureaus — once known as "news media" — have carefully avoided the Autopen scandal, because it hasn't had any consequences that couldn't be comfortably ignored.  But this morning, President Trump declared that all the pardons Joe Biden allegedly signed, during his final days in office, are null and void. [...] Now it seems that such propaganda bureaus as MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times have some catching up to do.  They can't ignore it any longer, because some high-profile DPDS operatives are about to be prosecuted for their crimes.

Trump strips Hunter and Ashley Biden of Secret Service protection 'effective immediately'.  President Trump revoked Hunter and Ashley Biden's Secret Service security detail on Monday after the former first son, flanked by agents, was spotted on an "ultra-luxurious" getaway in South Africa when he was due for a deposition in court.  "Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer," Trump wrote on Truth Social.  "There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!"  "He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned," the president added.  "Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance.  "Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection," Trump announced.

Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies As He Says Biden Pardons Void.  President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect."  In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopen — a device that replicates a person's signature.  Trump also warned members of the former January 6 House select committee that they would now be "subject to investigation at the highest level."  Biden issued last-minute preemptive pardons to members of the January 6 committee to prevent Trump from seeking "revenge" against them.

Trump Puts Cheney, Fauci on Notice:  Declares Pardons Officially 'Void' and Demands Investigation.  President Donald Trump declared any pardons signed by former president Joe Biden via autopen are officially "void," directing his ire very specifically at the House Select Committee behind the investigation of the January 6th protest at the Capitol.  Trump's comments were posted on his Truth Social media platform in the early hours of Monday morning.  "The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen," the President wrote.  "In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!  The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden."

We Have Another Tax Scandal for the Biden Family.  The Biden family's penchant for playing fast and loose with financial disclosure laws continues.  This time, it's the president's daughter and shower buddy Ashley Biden who's in hot water over a quarter-million-dollar "forgotten" donation to her nonprofit from none other than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.  The National Legal and Policy Center has referred Ashley's organization, Women's Wellness Spa(ce), to the IRS for investigation after discovering that the group conveniently failed to report a $250,000 grant from the Archewell Foundation in 2023.  What is it with the Biden family and tax fraud?  "This large contribution raised eyebrows because of the political implications of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's attempt to ingratiate themselves with President Biden and his family," the complaint reads.  "But more importantly, the $250,000 cash grant made in 2023 was not reported on Ashley Biden's group's 2023 Form 990, which only reported receiving a total of $170,296 that year.  A full audit of Ashley Biden's group is warranted to determine where the $250,000 cash grant was deposited and its disposition."  The numbers simply don't add up.

Second Biden Autopen Discovered:  New Analysis of Second Frequently Used Autopen for Biden's Pardons.  A second Biden Autopen has been discovered by the Oversight Project.  The Oversight Project discovered there was a second frequently used autopen signature for Joe Biden's pardons and commutations.  [Tweet]  Analysis by the Oversight Project reveals out of 51 clemency warrants issued by Biden:  16 were signed with Autopen A, 16 were signed with Autopen B and 19 appear to be wet signatures.

Hunter Biden, Beset by Legal Woes, Flees to... South Africa?  On Saturday, we learned that Hunter's woes are worsening.  He was facing an uncomfortable deposition in California, but a kindly judge allowed that case to be dismissed as Hunter's too broke to continue.  So now the poverty-stricken former First Son has jetted off to Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by his Secret Service retinue, to suffer from his poverty in a $500/night beachfront villa. [...] As it turns out, Hunter has been gifted some unusual legal foresight, as he headed out to South Africa before his case was even dismissed. [...] And why does the ne'er-do-well son of a former president have Secret Service protection?

Hunter Biden hotfoots it to a luxury vacation in South Africa, seemingly to avoid a deposition on his claimed poverty.  Less than two months after Joe Biden issued them all a slew of blanket multi-year pardons for unspecified but obviously abundant crimes, Hunter Biden is back to his old ways. [...] So he's too poor to continue his junk harassment suit against former Trump official Garrett Ziegler, but he's not too poor to take himself onto a luxury vacay with his latest wife and most recent child, who is Navy Joan's younger stepsister, complete with a full Secret Service entourage in tow. [...] The basis for the [Secret Service] protection is pretty skeevy, too — Biden extended it for six months after his exit from office even though Congress authorizes it only for presidential children under the age of 16.  Biden wrote in an exception for Hunter.  But Hunter's claims to poverty to the judge rather stand out.  Hunter says nobody wants to buy his blow-pipe 'masterpieces' now that old dad is out of office.

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The most questionable assertion in that article is, "Biden wrote in an exception for Hunter."  Joe Biden was too senile to put a coherent sentence on paper, so I suspect somebody else "wrote in an exception for Hunter."

Trump Drops Savagely Funny Tweet About Joe Biden and the Autopen Scandal.  The autopen affair is an incredible scandal.  As we reported, many of Joe Biden's signatures on documents — including on things like pardons — were allegedly signed by an autopen.  The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project did a deep dive into Biden signatures and said most of what they saw was done by autopen.  That raised many questions:  had he even approved them, and were they valid?  [Advertisement]  Then an updated story came out with a NY Post report where an unnamed aide was suspected of using the autopen without it being clear if Biden had approved.  What was worse was the source that told the post that said there was an internal culture of not questioning so no one was able to really ask.  That of course added to the questions about who was running things.  Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has called for an investigation into this to determine what was going on and if Biden was actually approving the things he signed.  Bailey and the DOJ need to get the answers as to who was behind the autopen, what was signed with it, and what the approval process was.

Hunter Biden fled to 'ultra-luxurious' vacation in South Africa with round-the-clock Secret Service protection — avoiding grueling deposition.  Hunter Biden fled last week to South Africa for a luxury vacation — with round-the-clock Secret Service protection — avoiding a grueling deposition scheduled for this week in a California lawsuit.  California District Court Judge Herman Vera granted Hunter's motion to dismiss the case Thursday after the former first son claimed he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo.  But photographs show Hunter was already in Cape Town the day the case was dismissed, staying in a $500-a-night beachfront villa described on its website as an "ultra-luxurious designer home with spectacular 180 degrees unobstructed views of the sea."  [Photos]  Ziegler's lawyers alleged to the court last week that Hunter had fled to South Africa to potentially "avoid his deposition in this case," which was set for this week, after originally being planned for February.

Hunter's Wonderful Life.  A ne'er do well (or, is that a bon vivant?), a Yale law graduate who was booted from the Navy for failing a cocaine test, bedded his recently widowed sister-in-law, sold childish splashes of paint masquerading as art for millions of dollars, denied paternity and support for his illegitimate daughter, and received $30 million by trading on his father's stature and willingness to break bread with his marks, Hunter Biden apparently blew it all on sex, drugs, and more sex.  In a new court filing, Hunter lamented that his art sales are down 98%, no one will hire him to give speeches, he has millions in debt, and the dog ate his homework (I made up the last one).  Even worse, the District of Columbia Bar is investigating whether to disbar him, though a RealClearInvestigations report led by Paul Sperry suggests the result may be a whitewash that spares Hunter the usual consequences of his sordid past.  Hunter is used to that.  Even after he repeatedly failed to file his tax returns or pay the taxes his returns showed were due — net of illegally deducted gifts, travel, and payments to prostitutes — Hunter skated.

Biden sources suspect key aide may have abused autopen as Trump's 'far more restrictive' signing rules revealed.  A key aide to former President Joe Biden may have exceeded their authority by liberally using an autopen to sign official documents, according to two former White House sources, as President Trump's aides set up "far more restrictive" rules governing the use of the mechanical device.  A document obtained by The [New York] Post outlines the narrow set of circumstances in which Trump's signature can be affixed to documents, following controversy this week kicked off by a Heritage Foundation analysis of Biden signatures on various records, including last-minute pardons.  A small group of officials under both Biden and Trump have been delegated the power to get documents "signed" robotically, but 82-year-old Biden's perceived cognitive decline sparked debate about whether some aides may have assumed his wishes in his final stretch as commander-in-chief.

A Lot of Things are Starting to Make Sense Now.  [More discussion of the White House autopen scandal, in which the reporters apparently know who the "acting president" was, but can't really prove it yet, so nobody will utter the name.  Whoever-it-was is guilty of treason, which is punishable by death, so it's best to have solid evidence lined up before making an accusation.]

Hunter Biden wins bid to drop laptop hacking lawsuit after crying poverty — but can't bring case again, judge rules.  Hunter Biden has won a bid to drop his laptop hacking lawsuit because of money problems, but he can't bring the case again in the future, a judge has ruled.  California federal Judge Hernán Vera Thursday partially granted the request by Biden, 55, to dismiss his case against former White House aide Garrett Ziegler after Biden claimed he can't get out of debt.  He said he's broke because no one is buying his memoir or art and because he and his family were forced to relocate from their posh Malibu rental home after the wildfires.  The [New York] Post exclusively revealed photos last week showing Hunter's home appearing unscathed while all the surrounding houses appeared destroyed by the Pacific Palisades fires that raged in January.

Obama briefing memos, sensitive foreign conversations forwarded to Biden private email, memos show.  Briefing materials for President Barack Obama, subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings and discussions about sensitive conversations with foreign leaders and even fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts were forwarded to Joe Biden's private pseudonymous email accounts when he was vice president, according to a new tranche of documents turned over to Just the News by the National Archives.  Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden's insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk.  "The new set of emails from Joe Biden's time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations," former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz told Just the News.

Biden's "Covid shot" was probably fake, too.
Old Joe's Fake Oval Office — and Its Fake News Apologists — Exposed.  Joe Biden's stage set is to the Oval Office what Dylan Mulvaney is to women: completely fake.  We know that now, but there was a time when the media said all claims that Joe Biden was working from a virtual or fake Oval Office were considered to be "fake news."  Now, with Trump White House adviser Alina Habba personally finding the fake Oval Office set and showing it to the public in a video, people are discovering the story all over again.  From January through September 2021, Joe Biden's water carriers in the media went out of their way to "debunk" claims that he was doing appearances from a phony Oval Office, a Hollywood-like set.

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The people who put Joe Biden on a mock-up Oval Office set for a photo op are the same people who want to criminalize "disinformation."

Biden autopen signature appears on almost every document he signed, bombshell report finds.  Many documents signed by President Joe Biden were done so using an autopen, according to a new report by an arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, sparking questions over who was pulling the strings during the former president's four years in office.  'WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY,' the Oversight Project wrote in a post on X on Thursday.  'We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency.  All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year,' it continued.  The report comes after Biden's four-year presidency was hampered by accusations and concerns over his mental acuity and fitness to serve.

WATCH: Alina Habba Has a Little Fun When She Discovers Biden's Fake 'Oval Office'.  Alina Habba is President Donald Trump's legal counselor.  She posted on Tuesday about what she found when she was visiting the White House — Joe Biden's old "fake Oval Office."  And she had a little fun pointing out what it looked like and why she thought they used it.  [Tweet]  She asked people "to look at the room that they put her in."  "We're in Biden's fake Oval Office!" Habba declared.  She said she thinks she figured it out — why they used such a fake set.  She directed the camera to turn around, and she said there was a screen — a "teleprompter to the face."  "The last administration was a disgratz (disgrace)!" she said. [...] It was all a show to deceive us.

Tulsi Gabbard Rips Security Clearances From 51 Spies Who Lied, Hits Biden With Some Bad News Too.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday that the security clearances of 51 intelligence officers who signed a letter portraying Hunter Biden's laptop as 'Russian disinformation' have been officially revoked.  Gabbard, one of several strong, intelligent women with a significant role in President Trump's cabinet, delivered the bad news to some high-profile members of the intelligence community.  Names such as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Directors Mike Hayden, John Brennan, and Leon Panetta, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton signed on to the letter.  And by doing so, they eventually signed onto their own security clearance revocation.  Gabbard further ripped clearances from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, New York Attorney General and rabid anti-Trump advocate Letitia James, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.  Rounding out the delicious declaration on X is a note from Gabbard that former President Joe Biden is no longer privy to his Daily Brief.

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I doubt if Joe Biden will ever notice that he no longer gets daily intelligence briefings.

Was Joe Biden's Presidency One Long, Quiet Insurrection?  Shocking new evidence suggests that Joe Biden was not the one really calling the shots inside the White House over the past four years — just as conservatives alleged all along.  Late last week, the Oversight Project, an investigatory arm of the Heritage Foundation, revealed on X that a study of presidential documents from the Biden administration showed that virtually every one was signed by an autopen rather than by the president's own hand.  "We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency," the Oversight Project wrote.  "All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year."  If the Oversight Project's findings turn out to be accurate, it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the scandal it would represent.  It would raise the alarming possibility (which Republicans long warned of) that the country was effectively being run by unelected Biden aides rather than the duly-elected President of the United States — a soft coup d'état that should enrage every American voter, regardless of political affiliation.

Is the Pardon Attorney's Dismissal Sign of an Investigation Into Biden's Last-Minute Pardons?  On March 7, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — on his second day in office — sent a written notice of termination to Liz Oyer, Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice.  The Pardon Attorney is a "career" position in that it is not an office that requires a presidential appointment that is confirmed by the Senate.  The Pardon Attorney is appointed by the Attorney General, but the position is in the "Senior Executive Service." These are the top management positions just below the presidential appointees in all federal agencies.  Oyer posted the written notice she was given on her LinkedIn page.  It reads in part: "This memorandum serves as official notice that you are removed from your Senior Executive Service (SES) position of Pardon Attorney, Office of the Pardon Attorney, and from federal service, effectively immediately." [...] Liz Oyer was appointed as the Pardon Attorney by Merrick Garland in 2022.  Oyer was not a long-time DOJ career employee — she spent most of her career as an assistant federal defender in the District of Maryland.

Here's a 10-Minute Video That Obliterates the Liberal Media's Protection of Joe Biden.  We know about the liberal media cover-up regarding Joe Biden's mental health.  It wasn't a mid-way through his term crisis either.  On day one, his staff noticed he was losing his marbles and did whatever they could to hide this from the public.  Toward the end, it was clear to voters that Biden had retreated into the bunker, the beach, or anywhere that would limit access to the White House Press Corps.  Many reporters knew of his condition and said nothing out of fear of helping the Republicans or losing access.  Here's the quintessential video that obliterates the protection the establishment press afforded the former president, sticking to the script despite Joe being a mumbling, confused mess before the nation.  The top talking point was "fiery," repeated so often that it could be a drinking game.  Kudos to Matt Orfela who clipped this work of art, exposing the Democrat-media complex:  [Video clip]

When a Machine Signs, Who Rules the Republic?  The question of whether President Biden's frequent use of an autopen to sign legislation violated the Constitution turns on a deceptively simple phrase in Article I, Section 7: "If he approves he shall sign it."  At first glance, this Presentment Clause seems straightforward.  A bill passes Congress, reaches the President, and, if he agrees, he signs it into law.  Yet Biden's administration leaned heavily on the autopen — a mechanical device that replicates his signature — often while he was out of state or abroad, raising a worry that gnaws at the foundations of executive responsibility.  Was he even aware of what was being signed in his name?  The constitutional stakes are high, and the answer is not as obvious as it might appear.  Let's begin with the core issue:  what does it mean to "sign" a bill?  Critics of the autopen contend that signing is a personal, deliberate act — an expression of the President's approval, not a task to be outsourced like mailing a letter.  The Framers, they argue, envisioned a direct connection between the executive's judgment and the physical act of affixing his name.

Was Biden aware of anything?  What if everything a POTUS signed while in office wasn't actually signed by that POTUS?  What if somebody else signed all those executive orders, all those laws, all those proclamations, all that stuff?  What if someone just had an autopen sign all those official documents? [...] If Joe didn't know about those documents, if he didn't sign them, who did?  Hunter?  Dr. Jill?  Nancy Pelosi?  One of Biden's handlers?  Did they take turns, or was there constant, brutal infighting until the most leftist of them took over?  We've no idea.  This must be sorted out.  It's obviously going to the Supreme Court.  It needs to go there.  Congressional Dems won't cooperate because they want to be able to do it again in the future.  Biden's handlers won't cooperate for that reason and because they know they wouldn't do well in federal prison.  Joe can't cooperate, even if he's promised ice cream.  Whoever played POTUS the last four years did enormous damage, but if the Supreme Court sanely decides these issues, perhaps some good can come of this revelation.

Despite his claims of being broke, Hunter Biden's 'lawfare' continues against IRS whistleblowers.  Hunter Biden sought to dismiss one of his lawsuits this week, arguing that he was too broke to continue the legal effort, but he is still continuing his lawsuit against the IRS over two whistleblowers who exposed the Justice Department's mishandling of his criminal case, lawyers for the IRS whistleblowers told Just the News.  Hunter Biden filed a motion on Wednesday to voluntarily dismiss his lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, a former White House aide who published contents of Hunter Biden's laptop through his Marco Polo research group, claiming he was facing financial difficulties.  The two whistleblowers still in court with Hunter Biden are IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler.  "In one court, Hunter Biden is claiming he doesn't have enough money for his lawyers to keep the lawfare going, but in another, his top-dollar hired gun from Big Law, Abbe Lowell, is still pushing a bogus suit against the IRS to target the whistleblowers for harassment and retaliation," Jason Foster, the founder of Empower Oversight, which is representing the IRS whistleblowers, told Just the News.

Joe Biden's Handlers Just Humiliated Him on Social Media.  The most irrelevant former president in history just can't stop embarrassing himself.  We haven't heard much from Joe Biden since he left office, but his social media handlers thought it would be a brilliant idea to post a saccharine International Women's Day message on Saturday, apparently hoping everyone would forget how he single-handedly sought to destroy women's sports during his disastrous presidency.  "Like so many of you, I'm celebrating the incredible women in my life today," Biden's handlers wrote, presumably while he was enjoying his afternoon ice cream cone.  "International Women's Day is a time to recognize the achievements of women and girls everywhere and recommit our efforts to advance dignity, opportunity, and equality for all."

Why [the] Biden administration might not have been the kind of bad we thought.  For all the talk of insurrection surrounding January 6th, the truth of the matter is that if people were simply deciding on laws and executive orders without the president being aware of it, it's an insurrection.  They took over for the sitting president without the consent of the people.  The question then boils down to whether Biden was aware or not and whether he was in a position to be aware.  Was his cognitive abilities sufficient, even in that moment, to make decisions?  If not, the use of the autopen to sign anything is a huge issue simply because we cannot be sure who knew what was being signed.  Instead of Biden issuing all of these executive orders and signing laws, it may have been someone the American people didn't vote for making all of the decisions, such as Jill or Hunter Biden.  Both have been suggested as the Wormtongues behind the throne.  Using an autopen to sign correspondences with various people is fine.  The letter I got from Ronald Reagan when I made Eagle Scout was probably signed with an autopen.  That's what it's for.  Using it to sign a pile of documents that need a signature, but not necessarily need the president himself to read it because it has no force of law, is perfectly fine.  The idea that it could be getting used to circumvent the Constitution by allowing unelected parties to create law is... troubling.

Who Signed Joe Biden's Name?  This is a surprising — or perhaps not too surprising — twist in the was-Biden-senile game.  Research by the Heritage Foundation's investigative arm, called the Oversight Project, looked at every document it could get its hands on that Joe Biden "signed."  Turns out that most of them were signed by autopen.  We're not talking about form letters.  We're talking about things such as executive orders.  If true, this raises several legitimate and very troubling questions.
  •   Did Biden know that he was "signing" these documents?
  •   Who had control of the autopen?
  •   Was it ever used without Biden's knowledge?
  •   If Biden himself didn't sign these documents, are they legally binding?

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If all those last-minute blanket pardons aren't really valid, let the hearings begin — starting with Dr. Fauci.

Report: Nearly All of Biden's Official Signatures were Autopens, so Who Was Really Running the Country?  Joe Biden's cognitive decline was obvious to anyone paying attention.  Biden would tell non-sense stories on the 2020 campaign trail, including his infamous incoherent one about "Corn Pop:  A Bad Dude."  The Washington Post's Robert Samuels tried to whitewash Biden's rambling story by writing Soviet-level propaganda validating the tall tale.  Even Democrats knew that Biden "wasn't all there" during the 2020 campaign.  Biden would shake hands with people who weren't there.  Biden would walk towards doors that weren't there, at other times staff would walk him around like a dog. [...] Leftists continue to try and lie about the extent of Biden's mental breakdown though, claiming that it only came on recently.  Now, the intrepid investigators at the Heritage Foundation's Oversight project, led by longtime investigator Mike Howell, has compared the Biden signatures on nearly every document from his administration.  They find that it's obvious Biden never actually signed anything himself.

Keywords: Forgery, impersonating a public official, wholesale fraud, treason.
Big Questions Raised:  MO AG Demanding DOJ Investigation Into Biden Executive Orders, Pardons, Actions.  Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has done something that could be extremely significant.  Bailey is demanding the Department of Justice investigate whether Joe Biden's cognitive decline "allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval."  [Tweet]  "If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void," Bailey claimed.  Bailey referenced in his letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz the conversation that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had with Biden, where Biden didn't appear to understand/know that his signature was on an important LNG executive order.  [Tweet]  That's pretty shocking and it then raises big questions.  Was he actually signing the orders?  Did he understand and approve, if he did sign them?  Bailey pointed to the observations of Special Counsel Robert Hur that Biden was an elderly man with a "poor memory" who couldn't even remember when he was vice president or the year his son died.

Could a Bombshell Discovery Render All of Biden's Presidential Actions 'Null and Void'?  The Biden presidency might have been the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the American people.  A shocking investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has revealed that virtually every document bearing Joe Biden's signature during his presidency was signed by an autopen — except for one.  What makes this revelation particularly damning is that the only document confirmed to have Biden's actual signature was his letter announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.  Let that sink in for a moment.  Remember when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) revealed his discussion with Biden when Biden couldn't recall signing the executive order halting LNG exports?  Now we know why — he probably didn't.  The real question is:  Who did?  Who was running the country while Biden was not all there?

The Joe Biden 'Now They Tell Us' Phenomenon.  I don't know if you've noticed, everyone, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, they all knew about Joe Biden's dementia.  Suddenly we're given all of these revealing quotes that he was completely physically and mentally unfit to carry out the oath of office.  But we all knew that.  People had been writing about it.  And yet, when you wrote about it, you were called a "cheap faker."  You were ageist.

Hunter Biden's 'art' clients flee now that Joe has left White House.  After 50 years of Hunter Biden profiting off of his father's power in public office, the younger Biden's consistent revenue stream has run dry.  In his request to dismiss his lawsuit against a former White House staffer to President Donald Trump over the now-infamous laptop leak, the former first son has confessed that nobody wants to buy access to Joe Biden — er, I mean, the younger Biden's "artwork" — now that the former president has been exiled from public life.  "Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened," a bitter Hunter Biden, who noted that sales of his paintings and 2021 tell-all Beautiful Things dropped off a cliff after his father's political fortunes disintegrated, laments in his latest filing.  In the final months of 2023, as panicked Democrats saw Joe Biden's sliding polling against an ascendant Trump, Hunter Biden's book sales collapsed by two-thirds.

Hunter Biden Wants His Laptop Lawsuit Thrown Out, Claims He Is Broke.  Hunter Biden wants a judge to throw out his laptop lawsuit after claiming he is now broke, according to the New York Post.  The 55-year-old tried to drop his lawsuit against a former aide to President Donald Trump.  He previously accused the aide of publishing an online database of emails from the infamous laptop.  Biden's lawyers filed the motion Wednesday in California.  The filing stated he has not been successful in selling art as he claimed he last sold one in December 2023.  "In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000," Biden's lawyers claimed on his behalf.

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Hunter Biden used to get $83,000 a month from Burisma.  So where did all that money go?

Shocker! Hunter Biden [is] Broke Because Nobody Will Buy His Paintings Any More.  Hunter Biden is dropping a lawsuit against a website that had circulated materials from the infamous "laptop from hell."  He is doing so, he tells the judge, because his financial position has become "dire" and he is deeply in debt and apparently unable to continue paying his lawyers.  Hence, he is asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed. [...] Cry me a river, Hunter.  You have your pardon, have lived high off the hog for decades because your father was corrupt, and now that Slow Joe is out of office and disgraced nobody is willing to buy your crappy paintings.

Boo-Hoo: Hunter's Grift Machine Has Run Dry So Now He Can't Afford to Litigate His Civil Cases.  When Hillary crashed and burned in 2016, her family grift, The Clinton Foundation, took a hard turn toward the ground.  It didn't completely auger in, but the international contributors turned their car around like a John seeing his favorite hooker in cuffs.  With all due respect to the Clinton Grift Machine, Joe Biden and his family have been running their money scam for a lot longer.  Sure, it took years for the bagman to come of age, but Hunter Biden filled that role, and the rest was history.  I used the past-tense because the grift is over.

Hunter Biden says his art sales plunged since dad left White House, claims he's broke.  Hunter Biden says he's just a starving artist now that his dad's not in the White House anymore.  The former first son claimed he's millions of dollars in debt, nobody's buying his art and he lost his house to the Los Angeles wildfires in a bombshell legal filing in which he asked a a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped on a former Trump White House aide.  The embattled former first son, 55, said he has managed to sell just one piece of art — his catalogue is mostly colorful abstract paintings that have been compared to "hotel art" — since December 2023.  He raked in nearly $1.5 million during dad Joe Biden's campaign and the early years of his administration.  "In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000," Hunter Biden's attorneys said as they laid bare his apparent financial woes.

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This is essentially an admission that the "artwork" is worthless, and that he was actually selling political favors.

Hunter Biden's $3M house appears untouched — while every neighboring home was burned to ash.  The $3 million rental home that Hunter Biden claims is "unlivable" after the California wildfires — leaving him broke and unable to continue a 2023 lawsuit he filed — appears unscathed even though all the homes around it burned to the ground.  The former first son, 55, was living in the four-bedroom Malibu home with his wife, Melissa, and their son, Beau, when the raging Palisades Fire tore through his neighborhood in January, sources confirmed to The [New York] Post.  The wildfire made the property "unlivable for an extended period of time," Hunter claimed in a motion filed in federal court in California on Wednesday.

Chuck Todd says the 'mythology' of Joe Biden as a family man is [untrue].  Former NBC "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd delivered a brutal opinion about former President Biden, calling him a "craven political animal" who was more concerned about his political career than his own family.  During an appearance Sunday on Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt's "The Warning" podcast, Todd delved into why the Democrats lost the 2024 election and what he perceives as the media's relationship with the second Trump administration.  After decrying older politicians remaining in the leadership of the Democratic Party, Todd returned to Biden's role in the November election loss.  "You know, Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right?  Number one, he shouldn't have run for president [in 2020]," Todd remarked.

Trump: Cocaine Found in WH Belonged to 'Either Joe or Hunter'.  President Donald Trump suggested that either former President Joe or his corrupt son Hunter Biden is responsible for the cocaine found in the White House in July 2023, promising to launch an investigation into the matter.  In a statement, Trump implied that the discovery of the drugs raised serious questions about the Biden family's involvement, vowing to push for a thorough probe.  During an interview with the Spectator World, Trump said that his return to office convinced him that "either Joe or Hunter" misplaced the cocaine in the West Wing of the White House when asked, "Who actually left the cocaine in the White House?"  The president promised to investigate the matter "because ... bad stuff happened there."  "That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with ... they're not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints," Trump said, referring to the lockers where the cocaine was found.  "And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry with the strongest form of alcohol.  You know that, right?"

Joe Biden's 577 vacation days over four-year term tops modern presidents.  Joe Biden's time as president was truly a sleeper.  Biden, 82, took more time off than any other US president in modern history, spending 577 of his 1,463 days in office — or 39% of his presidency — on vacation, according to shocking new data compiled by the Republican National Committee.  The average American — who gets 11 paid vacation days a year — would have to work 52 years to rack up as much down time as Biden scored in his four years.

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We're Living through the Biggest Scandal of All Time.  All four of the biggest scandals in U.S. history have happened in just the past few years:
  (a) the cover-up of Joe Biden's decline;
  (b) lawfare against Trump;
  (c) the cover-up of Hunter Biden's influence-peddling [...]; and
  (d) billions wasted, by not just the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but also by many other agencies, and being uncovered by Elon Musk's DOGE.
In this writer's opinion, it's all a series of causes and desired effects.  The Democrat party Deep State (DPDS) loathe Trump.  They used every trick in their trick bag, from "Russia collusion" to lawfare to assassination attempts, to beat him and present Hillary, then Biden, then Kamala as a superior candidate.  The scams are the "why."  The worst example is the vanishing migrant children.  Some of the NGOs getting contracts from Team Biden to house unaccompanied minors (now known as "child-trafficking victims") were getting multi-billion-dollar contracts.  Over 300,000 of those children have simply vanished.  Anyone who made them vanish was, almost certainly, also paying the NGOs.  That's the scam.

Biden Crime Family Pardons Serve as a Confession of Their Corruption.  This week, President Biden followed his unprecedented pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, by issuing additional preemptive pardons to family members, dating back to his time as vice president.  These preemptive pardons for the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves. [...] Bank records don't lie.  Through these records, we identified over 20 shell companies that the Bidens and their associates created — most of which were created after Joe Biden became Vice President of the United States.  The Bidens and their associates then used these shell companies to accept payments from foreign entities and individuals.  Once the payments arrived in the shell companies' bank accounts, they would then launder money in incremental payments to members of the Biden family.  In fact, we identified ten members of the Biden family who benefited from these schemes, including Joe Biden.  Including loans that do not appear to have been paid back, the Biden family's enrichment scheme generated over $30 million in payments to the Bidens and their associates from corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.  What were they selling?  Access to Joe Biden and his influence.

So, That's Who Was Running the Country After Joe's Disastrous CNN Debate.  Lindy Li, a Democrat-turned-MAGA supporter, continues her media tour, spilling her former party's behind-the-scenes drama, which kicked off reports that top donors are furious that they collectively shelled out $2 billion and got the brakes beaten off them by Donald Trump and the Republicans.  She also offered insight into the delusional world Democrats wallowed in before Election Day, where some thought Iowa was within their reach.  Now, she revealed that Hunter Biden 'commandeered' the White House after Joe Biden got pummeled by Donald Trump in the June debate on CNN, which eventually became an election-killing event for Democrats.  It gets even more insane:  Hunter Biden took over the White House.  That's what Li alleges — it wasn't Lady McBiden, aka Jill, it was Hunter.  The former Democrat donor shared these details with Shawn Ryan.  [Video clip]

Trump revokes Biden's security clearance, citing cognitive decline.  In a tit-for-tat move, President Donald Trump revoked former President Joe Biden's security clearance.  Trump announced his plans to do so on Truth Social, saying "we are immediately revoking Joe Biden's Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings."  In 2021, shortly after taking office, Biden had revoked Trump's security clearance.  Former presidents typically retain their security clearance as those in the very small club of past presidents have a unique perspective on domestic and global matters as well as on the rarified position that they each have held.  "There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump said, echoing the words Biden had used when he pulled Trump's clearance.

Trump says he is 'immediately revoking' Biden's security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings.  President Trump announced Friday that he is "immediately revoking" former President Joe Biden's security clearances and access to daily intelligence briefings — telling The [New York] Post he doesn't "trust" his predecessor with such sensitive information.  Trump, 78, argued in a Truth Social post that the former president set the precedent when he barred him from receiving access to the same briefings four years ago, citing Trump's "erratic behavior."  "There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump wrote.

Trump Revokes Biden's Security Clearance, Bars Him From Intelligence Briefings.  President Donald Trump on Feb. 7 announced that he was revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearance and stopping his access to daily intelligence briefings, an entitlement of most former presidents.  Biden, when he took office in 2021, revoked Trump's access to classified information and daily intelligence briefings, citing the events of Jan. 6, 2021 — where Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the certification of the Electoral College vote, for which Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives and later acquitted by the Senate — as his reason.  Trump announced his decision in a social media post on Truth Social, citing Biden's previous action as well as the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated the alleged mishandling of classified information by Biden and issued a report in 2024.

Delaware Judge Went After Elon Musk; Now Delaware Losing Corporations at Alarming Rate.  Remember last year when an activist Delaware judge invalidated Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla — twice — despite it having been overwhelmingly approved by stockholders — twice?  [Advertisement]  The compensation package was unconventional — he wouldn't get paid unless he delivered extraordinary results.  He multiplied the value of the company by 10x.  Which is shareholders approved the package — he made them extremely wealthy, and they rewarded him by making him even wealthier.  He put it all on the line, performed, and the judge took it all away and gave a bunch of it to lawyers.  The judge was, by the way, closely tied to the Biden crime family.  [Tweet]

Liberal media's lies to protect Biden were even worse than you think.  Sometimes in life, it is only once a crisis passes that we can truly see just how awful and harmful it was.  This week, in these pages, Joseph Wulfsohn offered a long read, detailing the prevarications of the mainstream media in the Joe Biden era, and its complicity in the lie of the century.  You should read the whole [...] thing, as only now journalists begin to admit their duplicitous role in propping up Biden.  I applaud Wulfsohn for persevering.  I would have thrown a coffee mug through my laptop about halfway through writing it out of sheer anger.  The story begins at the beginning with the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop, and here is what Marc Caputo, then at Politico, had to say about his coverage of the first son's crime-scene-on-a-hard-drive being quashed: [...]

Now We Know the Shocking Truth About the 51 Intel Officials' Role in Hunter Biden's Laptop!  We all remember how, in the fall of 2020, the Biden campaign scrambled to discredit the New York Post's bombshell report on Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell."  Just days before a crucial debate, they enlisted 51 former intelligence officials to sign a letter suggesting the laptop was Russian disinformation — giving Biden the perfect excuse to dismiss the story when Trump confronted him.  That letter also handed Big Tech the justification to censor the story across social media, making it one of the most brazen examples of election interference in U.S. history. [...] President Trump's executive order was decisive action aimed at ensuring the intelligence community stays out of the politics.  In addition to stripping security clearances from the likes of James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, and John Brennan, it also bars anyone holding a clearance from using their position to sway elections and puts strict limits on the use of classified information for personal memoirs.

The Big Guy's Treason.  [Scroll down]  [I]t was obvious to me for a long time that Joe Biden was the head of a lucrative crime family — even if the Democratic Party, the legacy media, the CIA, FBI, IRS, and Department of Justice insisted otherwise, and even if 51 high-ranking veterans of intelligence organizations asserted that Hunter Biden's laptop bore all the marks of Russian disinformation.  Seeing through these bald-faced lies wasn't brain surgery.  After all, what other than mammoth corruption founded on influence-peddling would explain Hunter's extraordinary income from Ukraine, China, and elsewhere, and the conspicuously lavish lifestyle that's been enjoyed for years by him, his father, and his uncle Jim, none of whom had ever had the kind of job at which people tend to earn enough to afford such luxury?  Even now, roughly half of Americans seem to believe that all the attention that's been paid to Hunter Biden and his laptop has to do with his love of prostitutes and drugs rather than with high crimes and misdemeanors committed by him on behalf of his dad and other members of the clan.

The Greatest Crime Wave in U.S. History.  The Democrats, along with the FBI and numerous toadies, were complicit in one of the greatest series of crimes in American history.  A veritable 4-year crime wave by a political party unwilling to abide by the law or a clean election.  Joe Biden had a long road to the presidency but a short road to the exit door.  With 40% of his time spent on vacation, he probably departed the presidency early on, entrusting the decision-making to others, namely Barack Obama.  Obama had always dreamed of being president in the background, free from the press and public scrutiny.  Biden and his wife, Jill, just had to play the role, loving every minute of it.  Biden never had the mental capacity to be president of the most powerful nation on earth.  He was not a talented law student.  He was accused multiple times of plagiarism.  He was corrupt, amoral, and certainly had few, if any, core values. [...] Biden was fortunate to have Obama as his boss when he was vice president.  The country was so enamored with having a Black president, however un-scrutinized, that both Obama and Biden were able to get away with election crimes, breaking every immigration law, the building up of Iran, almost destroying our military, legitimizing every perversion, sending race relations back thirty years, and Biden selling his influence.  The legacy press paid little attention.

Hunter Biden's name, signature, and shared bank account showed up in $60M fraud investigation.  When a million-dollar securities fraud wrapped up two of Hunter Biden's business partners at Burnham Asset Management, Hunter Biden escaped scrutiny.  However, bank records and corporate document drafts now show one of the future first son's shared bank accounts was used in the fraudulent bond transaction.  After his partners were arrested and charged in the scheme, Biden moved immediately to distance himself from the firm.  He later told lawmakers during the impeachment inquiry into his father, former President Joe Biden, that the proposed work with Burnham never came to fruition.  Any personal liability for his association with the company at the center of the fraud scheme has now been wiped out, after former President Joe Biden delivered a sweeping pardon for his son from 2014 to the present day.

Joe Biden Scandal Deepens Post-Term After 'Accidental' Commutation Is Revealed, Dem Hypocrisy Exposed.  Joe Biden left the White House a week ago, but the scandal surrounding his mental health is only deepening.  On his way out the door, the former president signed a series of pardons at the ACLU's request.  Billed as applying to "non-violent drug offenders" (which is an insanely broad generalization), they ended up including a drug lord who murdered an eight-year-old boy and his mother to stop them from testifying.  Adrian Peeler is now set to be released in July. [...] Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), infamous for lying about serving in Vietnam, responded, "Someone dropped the ball."  Well, I've got a pretty good idea of who did, Senator.  Who signed those pardons?  That would be Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.  That makes him responsible.  Yet, I'm noticing a distinct lack of outrage from various Democrats and their press allies.  Keep in mind, these are the same people who are still obsessing over the January 6th pardons.

CNN Host Casually Mentions Biden May Have Secretly Pardoned Himself Before Leaving Office.  Trump recently commented on the fact that of all the pardons issued by Biden, he didn't pardon himself.  Or did he?  CNN's Jake Tapper was talking to NY Times journalist Maggie Haberman this week and casually suggested that it's possible Joe Biden secretly pardoned himself before leaving office.  That sounds like kind of a big deal, if true.  Wouldn't it be nice if journalists actually did their jobs and found out if this happened?

Jake Tapper Raises Eyebrows With Suggestion Biden May Have Issued a Secret Pardon in Final Days As POTUS.  CNN anchor Jake Tapper is raising some eyebrows by speculating that there is a possibility former President Joe Biden may have issued a pardon no one knows about.  Tapper brought up the issue during an interview with New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on CNN's "The Lead" on Friday.  He began by playing a clip from Wednesday, which has some leftists on edge, in which President Trump pointed out to Fox News host Sean Hannity that Biden didn't deliver perhaps the most important pardon — his own.  Haberman stated that Trump isn't alone in his outrage over Biden's slew of last-minute pardons saying that she'd spoken to some "former Biden officials," who were not especially happy the pardons included those that are pre-emptive for some individuals who haven't been charged with anything yet — and others that have been backdated years to cover potential previous crimes.  "Although it is possible, we don't know, but it is always possible for a president to pardon somebody and not announce it," Tapper said, hypothesizing.

5 likely choices for who really ran the disastrous Biden White House.  For years, conservative media, lawmakers and talking heads have been sounding the alarm about President Joe Biden's cognitive free fall.  And for years, left-wing media, lawmakers and their loyal mouthpieces waved it off with the same condescending dismissal — accusing us of lying, fear-mongering or worse.  Some even went so far as to say they couldn't keep up with Biden's supposed brilliance and jam-packed schedule of what was mostly just one morning briefing and two mid-afternoon naps.  Fast-forward to the post-presidency.  Now that Biden has shuffled out of office, left-wing media seems to be waking up to the glaringly obvious.  The New York Times of all places — yes, the same paper that acted as Biden's PR firm — has revealed that he relied on teleprompters during intimate fundraisers in private homes.  At events where he was supposed to come across as casual and personable, he needed scripted prompts.  Donors weren't exactly brimming with confidence.  House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped a bombshell about a January 2024 meeting in which Biden was apparently stunned to learn he had signed an executive order halting liquefied natural gas exports just weeks earlier.  He repeatedly denied even knowing about it.  Johnson believed Biden didn't know what he signed, leaving him with a terrifying question: "Who is running the country?"

Whither Joseph Biden:  What Will the Former President Do Now?  [Scroll down]  Except, of course, we're pretty sure now that befuddled old Joe wasn't really in charge.  Commentator, radio host, and podcaster Jason Rantz has some thoughts as to who may have been running the show. [...] Mr. Rantz lists some possibilities, including former President Barack Obama, Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden, Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and some anonymous Gen Z staffer or staffers.  My money is on the former First Lady and other members of the Biden clan, including ne'er-do-well son Hunter, as they had the most to gain by keeping old Joe more-or-less upright and awake.

Joe Biden Potentially Faces Excommunication After Quiet Induction Into Historically Black Masonic Lodge.  Former President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, joined a historically black Freemason lodge just one day before he left the presidency, an offense punishable by excommunication in the Church.  Biden was conferred with "Master Mason membership" and "full honors" on Jan. 19 at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, according to the Conference of Grand Masters announcement.  Joining the Freemasons as a Catholic forbids an individual from receiving communion, with the potential for excommunication, according to canon law of the Catholic Church.  "Herefore, be it resolved, that I, 27th Most Worshipful Grand Master, Victor C. Major, on behalf of the members of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, hereby confer membership upon President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in recognition of his outstanding service to the United States of America," the statement reads.

Did Joe Biden join the Freemasons?  An announcement surfaced online Friday, issued the Conference of Grand Masters of Prince Hall Lodge Freemasonry, and stating that the Grand Lodge of South Carolina had conferred membership on President Joe Biden.  According to the announcement, dated Jan. 19 — the day before Biden left office — the president was granted a "resolution of membership" by the lodge in recognition of his "exceptional dedication and service to the United States" which "reflects the core values of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, including brotherly love, relief, and truth."  It is not uncommon for outgoing presidents to be honored by groups and organizations.  But as the second Catholic to hold the office, Biden's new "membership" of the lodge presents a particular issue:  Catholics have been banned from joining masonic lodges and organizations since 1738, and are subject to canonical penalties for doing so.  So, is Joe Biden now a Freemason?  And if so, what canonical penalties does he face?  Based on the facts available, the situation is more complicated than you might think.

Legal Experts Criticize Biden's Preemptive Pardons, Arguing They Offer Incomplete Protection.  Joe Biden's issuance of preemptive pardons to family members and political allies has been criticized by legal experts who argue that such actions may not offer comprehensive legal protection.  On Monday, just hours before leaving office, Joe Biden granted preemptive pardons to individuals including Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House January 6 Committee, such as former Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.  Additionally, he pardoned five family members: his brothers James and Francis Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, and their spouses.  Renowned attorney Jesse R. Binnall of the Binnall Law Group broke down the implications of these preemptive pardons on social media platform X, calling the situation "great news" for those seeking accountability.

"If They Weren't the Crime Family, Why Do They Need Pardons?" — Speaker Johnson to Investigate Biden Family Pardons.  The Biden Crime Family is real and Joe Biden proved that when he preemptively pardoned members of his family who participated in his influence-peddling scheme.  House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republican lawmakers are going to investigate Joe Biden's family pardons.  After pardoning his son Hunter, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to five members of his family:  Sister Valerie Biden, her husband John Owens, brother Jim Biden, brother Frank Biden, sister-in-law Sara Biden.  Johnson said GOP lawmakers are going to look into the pardons.

The List of Movies That Biden Screened at the White House Is Beyond Disturbing.  The White House has released its official list of movies that Joe Biden screened in the White House Family Theater during his term, and it's weird, to say the least.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  One flick that stands out is Adam Sandler's "Little Nicky."  Really?  I like a few Sandler movies, but there are plenty I've never bothered to waste my time watching, and this is one of them.  There are admittedly, plenty of films here that I've never seen or even heard of.  "Shortbus," according to IMDB, is about "a group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality."  "The Adventures of Drunky" is about a barfly named Drunky "who finds himself in the middle of a cosmic bet between God and the Devil over the fate of the Earth.  With his life destroyed, Drunky must travel through Heaven and Hell to rescue the girl he loves and save the world."  You know, the usual high-quality films you'd expect to be screened at the White House.

Shocking new twist in Biden family crime drama reveals likely reason Joe pardoned everybody.  Joe Biden's handlers didn't pardon him — maybe by design.  Perhaps, in the end, Joe, the man riddled with dementia, will be the fall guy for his entire criminal enterprise.  And wouldn't that be sweet justice?  The buzz about this possibility is gaining traction, thanks to a bombshell twist in the Biden crime family drama.  A newly discovered bank account reveals over $240,000 in foreign money wired directly to Joe Biden, with no explanation.  Is this more classic Biden laundering tactics hiding in plain sight?  [Tweets]  So, did the handler's know this new bank account was about to be exposed?  That's the question on everyone's mind.  The revelation broke on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo, and the moment it hit the airwaves, it went viral.  [Tweet with video clip]

Democrats Sure Do Have A Lot Of Criminal Friends.  In their latest email, our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which has become an indispensable daily source of valuable information and sharp commentary, included a chart of presidential pardons going back to Harry S. Truman.  Until Joe Biden, pardons were almost entirely reserved for people who had actually been convicted of crimes, but even without those pre-crime pardons, Biden leads the pack by an eye-popping margin, with 8,064 in his four years.  Nobody comes anywhere close.  Trump pardoned just 237 in his first term.  Given that Biden barely knew what day it was, we suspect that the tsunami of pardons reflects the ability of Democrats to slip them on Biden's desk knowing he'd sign whatever was put in front of him.

Biden grants clemency to drug dealer convicted in double slaying of 8-year-old boy and his mom.  A Connecticut drug kingpin convicted in the deaths of an 8-year-old boy and his mother was granted clemency by President Joe Biden — in a stunning 11th-hour move slammed by fellow Democrats.  Adrian Peeler, 48, of Bridgeport, served 25 years in state prison on conspiracy charges in the deaths of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy "BJ" Brown, in January 1999, CT Mirror reported.  The two had been slated to testify a month later against Peeler's brother, fellow drug gang leader Russell Peeler, who was on trial for killing Clarke's boyfriend, rival dealer Rudolf Snead, the Hartford Courant said.

Joe Biden's corrupt last act as president proved his family hustle always superseded the truth, the law and the country.  Imagine you are one of those gullible people who believed mentions of a Biden crime family was a Republican fever dream and a sinister plot to smear an honest, devoted father, his surviving son and other relatives. [...] By Tuesday, you could no longer escape the conclusion that Biden and the media had been lying to you all along.  This, of course, was the same White House and media that lied to you to hide Biden's rapid cognitive decline.  It has you wondering what else they kept from you.  Biden's pardons for his family and a few others were his final act as president.  And although he and Trump rode together to the inaugural ceremony, Trump said Biden never mentioned the pardons.  No doubt Biden was ashamed because he knows it makes the recipients look guilty.  It was also something he had promised he would never do.

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I still think it is possible Joe Biden did not pardon his whole family — that somebody else wrote up the pardons and forged them with the same mechanism that neatly signs other documents on Joe Biden's behalf.  Joe Biden, in his current mental state, may know nothing about it!  Tell me that's impossible.  Joe Biden said he would never do such a thing, and it's possible that he was telling the truth, for once.  Not likely, just possible.

Biden's Pardons Prove His Corruption.  In one of Biden's final interviews, he ranted that he is "concerned about how fragile democracy is," implying that President Donald J. Trump is a threat to our democracy.  Hey Joe — nothing makes our republic more fragile than having a dishonest president intent on becoming wealthy, and making family members wealthy using criminal means similar to those of organized crime, along with a corrupt Department of Justice and equally corrupt FBI that refused to investigate any of the Biden family corruption while simultaneously investigating political opponents for made-up crimes.  And then, after years of using his elected offices to stuff his bank account, on the way out the door, he gives "preemptive" pardons to his entire family, ensuring their ill-gotten gains would never be investigated, and if investigated, never prosecuted.  This is cronyism, nepotism, and corruption on a scale the United States has never before seen. [...] To the surprise of nobody, Biden lied.  He did exactly what he promised he wouldn't do — pardon his family members.  Just last December, he gave a full pardon to Hunter for his convictions of gun crimes and tax crimes.  Then, during Trump's inauguration ceremony (literally the final minutes of Biden's presidency) he gave [preemptive pardons] to Biden family members.

This Corrupt Biden Pardon May Already Have Caused Innocent Deaths.  Former President Joe Biden's last-minute clemency decisions included pardoning his son Hunter, Joe Biden's siblings and their spouses, and commuting the capital sentences of almost every federal prisoner on death row.  They have drawn a boatload of public attention and justified criticism.  Indeed, some will likely cost people their lives.  That is clear in the pardon Biden issued to arms trafficker Viktor Bout.  Last October, The Wall Street Journal reported that, in August 2024, the Houthis in Yemen sent emissaries to Moscow to purchase $10 million in automatic weapons.  There, according to the WSJ's sources (which included a European security official), the Houthi agents met Viktor Bout, an infamous arms trafficker responsible for perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths.  Bout once was the Number 2 person on America's Most Wanted List, right after Osama bin Laden, to whom Bout had sold weapons.

Joe Biden Pardons His Brothers, James and Frank, along with his sister Valerie, and their spouses..  Literally minutes before he leaves office, Joe Biden just issued blanket pardons for his closest family.  Having previously pardoned Hunter Biden, the departing executive just pardoned his brothers, James and Frank, along with his sister Valerie, and their spouses.  The Biden family crime syndicate, those who engaged in the benefit of Joe Biden selling the influence of his office for financial gain, are attempting to preemptively pardon themselves from any investigation or prosecution of their criminal conduct.

Biden warned against Trump preemptively pardoning family after 2020 election, then did it himself minutes before leaving office.  Former President Joe Biden said he was "concerned" about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons to family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020 — before he went on to pardon his own son and siblings while doling out the highest number of presidential pardons and commutations in US history.  In a December 2020 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Biden warned against then-outgoing President Trump issuing preemptive pardons to his adult children, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and possibly even one for himself before the Democrat's Department of Justice took over.  "It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks (at) us as a nation of laws and justice," Biden told Tapper during the joint interview with then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Special Counsel Smith, Fani Willis, and the Others Biden Snubbed in Pardon Flurry.  It was frankly a despicable presidency, and on the way out the door, Joe Biden tarnished his already dirt legacy by issuing a slew of pardons for his son Hunter, J6 hysteric Liz Cheney, former General Mark Milley, COVID misinformation czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a whole bunch more.  But who did he leave off his list?  Turns out, quite a few folks who could be facing some much-needed scrutiny into their dubious actions.  As RedState's Bonchie reported, Rachel Vindman, wife of Alexander Vindman, "the pudgy member of the first Trump administration's national security council who allegedly leaked classified information to a 'whistle-blower,'" spent Sunday whining that her man didn't get a pardon.  The Vindmans aren't the only ones who didn't get their coveted get-out-of-jail-free card.  There are at least four miscreants who might be looking in their mirror when Pam Bondi becomes the country's Attorney General:
  (Former) Special Counsel Jack Smith
  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
  New York Judge Juan Merchan
  Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis
To a person, each of these people overstepped ethical boundary after ethical boundary in their desperate attempts to "get Trump" and put him behind bars before the election.  How's that looking now, guys?

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Joe Biden is senile, and for some number of months has been unable to perform the duties of the U.S. President.  Apparently he can only stay awake a few hours a day, and can't speak a coherent sentence extemporaneously.  I don't think Joe Biden himself wrote up all those pardons and signed them so neatly.  But who has the ability to get him away from his handlers and ask him about it?  If Joe Biden were to deny having signed pardons for any of those individuals, then somebody has probably committed forgery.

Biden crime family free at last.  With less than 20 minutes before his term in office expired, the head of the Biden crime family preemptively pardoned his three siblings:  James Biden, Francis Biden, and Valerie Biden Owens.  He also pardoned his in-laws, John Owens and Sara Jones Biden.  This was in addition to the pardon that the family boss had previously conferred on his son, Hunter Biden.  I'm referring, of course, to "President Biden."  "Biden" also preemptively pardoned General Milley, Dr. Fauci, and the members of Nancy Pelosi's January 6 House Committee.  Among the January 6 Committee members pardoned by "Biden" is Rep. Jamie Raskin.  As House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer cruelly recalled, "Raskin once claimed that 'the seeking of pardons is a powerful demonstration of the consciousness of guilt, or at least the consciousness that you may be in trouble.'  It's clear that the chickens have come home to roost for Jamie Raskin."  The statements posted on the White House site regarding all these pardons appear to have been removed upon the inauguration of President Trump.

Bye-Bye Biden:  The Departure of America's Worst President.  In two earlier pieces for Townhall (here and here), I've sounded warnings for the Biden administration:  Unless something changes, President Biden will be ranked as among America's worst chief executives.  And this is not only according to the Constitution's job description, a measure conservatives might use to assess presidents.  It also is true according to indicators left-of-center academics employ to raise the rankings of presidents whose policies they like and suppress the rankings of presidents they don't like.  Like nearly all deficient presidents, Biden served only one term.  He is now mercifully gone.  But his actions during his final days will cement his low rating.  Biden was unique among presidents in scoring poorly not just on one or two of the factors academics use for demoting chief executives, but on several: corruption, failure to enforce the law, executive ineptness, incapacity, divisiveness (or lack of moral leadership), and civil liberties violations.

The Biden Crime Family cashes out after 52 years of trading on the family name.  After more than half a century of brandishing the Biden family moniker to trade access to the federal government in exchange for cash, the Biden Crime Family has finally cashed out.  As a parting gift to his grifting kinsmen, Joe Biden exited his historical disgrace of a presidency by granting an eleventh-hour categorical pardon to his siblings, Jim Biden, Frank Biden, and Val Biden Owens, and their spouses for any and all nonviolent crimes "they may have committed or taken part in" during the decade-plus since January 1, 2014.  Only the "full and unconditional" pardons the former president issued to his son Hunter and then to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci were more sweeping.  Biden issued 8,064 acts of presidential pardon or clemency during his four long years, more than any other president since Jimmy Carter, who pardoned hundreds of thousands of draft dodgers in the wake of the Vietnam War.  [Paywall]

Trump Declares 'National Emergency' At Southern Border.  Biden's pardons — which previously included Chinese spies, the judge convicted in 2011 over the "kids-for-cash" scandal (where he took kickbacks for wrongfully sending children to juvenile detention centers), and Biden's corrupt, drug addict son, Hunter Biden — have already been controversial and eye-raising.  For one, Biden has pardoned up to 8,000 people — the most pardons made by any president in history and far more than any president since Andrew Johnson, who pardoned more than 7,000 people. [...] What's most extraordinary about these pardons, of course, is that while it's normal for a president to use his office to grant clemency to some citizens convicted of crimes on his last day in office, Biden's last wave of pardons provides clemency to public officials who haven't been convicted of a thing.  Biden justified his decision by pointing toward Trump's warning of an "enemies list" filled with those who crossed him.  Biden says that he wants to avoid those pardoned being subjected to Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department (coincidentally, exactly what the Biden admin did to Trump).  Nevertheless, one can't help but detect a major incongruity in this justification; if someone hasn't committed a crime, why should they fear the investigative process?

Biden Pre-Emptively Pardons Fauci, Schiff, Cheney, Milley, & Family Members.  As everyone sat in the Captol Rotunda 'golf-clapping' the inauguration of President Trump, President Biden snuck in a last minute pre-emptive pardon for his family members[.] [...] As AP reports, it's customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term, but those acts of mercy are usually offered to everyday Americans who have been convicted of crimes.  But Biden has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible:  to pardon those who have not even been investigated yet.  And with the acceptance comes a tacit admission of guilt or wrongdoing, even though those who have been pardoned have not been formally accused of any crimes.

Forget General Milley, Joe Biden Just Pardoned Lawfare Operative Mary McCord.  This is so far beyond corrupt, the light from where corruption emanates could not catch this level of corruption for a year.  Let us be clear.  Joe Biden didn't actually pardon anyone.  Biden wouldn't know who, how, or what a preemptive pardon actually is.  Nope, the non-pretending version of what just happened is:  the people who control Joe Biden, just used the tool he represents to pardon themselves.  No one has picked up on this yet, but the people in control of the pardoning process Joe Biden represents, just pardoned themselves; including Mary McCord.  Notice the wording: [...]

Joe Biden Pardons His Brothers, James and Frank, along with his sister Valerie, and their spouses..  Literally minutes before he leaves office, Joe Biden just issued blanket pardons for his closest family.  Having previously pardoned Hunter Biden, the departing executive just pardoned his brothers, James and Frank, along with his sister Valerie, and their spouses.  The Biden family crime syndicate, those who engaged in the benefit of Joe Biden selling the influence of his office for financial gain, are attempting to preemptively pardon themselves from any investigation or prosecution of their criminal conduct.

No one is above the law!  Except these guys.
President Biden pardons brother James, other relatives for unspecified crimes before leaving office.  President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James Biden and other relatives Monday for unspecified crimes, a similar last-minute move to protect his family from potential investigation as when he pardoned his son Hunter Biden for gun and tax convictions.  The president said he pardoned his brother and other relatives — James's wife Sara Jones Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John Owens, and another brother, Francis Biden — because of concerns about "baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families," he said in a statement released minutes before the end of his term.  "Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances," Biden said.

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People who have done nothing wrong do not need blanket pardons.

Trump's Department of Justice Needs To Go After the Biden Family Immediately.  Smart people don't talk about how smart they are, funny people don't waste your time telling you they're funny, you just notice.  Joe Biden has spent years telling everyone how "normal" he was — claiming the nicknames "middle class Joe" and "lunch bucket Joe," neither of which anyone other than Biden has ever called Joe Biden.  He's been so full of that post-digested food his whole life it's a wonder his hair ever went grey, until you realize what happens to that "dog dirt" if it sits in the yard for a couple of weeks.  To hell with him and his wife.  When Joe pardoned his family it was an attempt to cover up a conspiracy in this Joe was not only a participant, but the hub.  I don't know the answer to this, but I believe there is a legal challenge that should clarify the answer to:  Can a President pardon members of a criminal conspiracy that he is a party to?

The final corruption of Joe Biden.  For four years, the media worked tirelessly to deny or deflect the corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family.  The pardoning of James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens and Francis Biden brought an inescapable clarity to the corruption of what is known in Washington as Biden Inc.  I have written about the Biden family's corruption for decades.  Influence-peddling has always been the favorite form of corruption in Washington, but this city has never seen the likes of the Biden family.  Millions of dollars were secured from foreign sources and distributed to various Biden family members.  Biden repeatedly lied about the influence peddling.  He long denied knowing about his son's foreign clients or business.  He denied ever meeting Hunter's clients.  Later, photos and emails showed that Biden had clearly met these clients and knew about the business deals.  He was fully aware that his family was cashing in on his name and various offices.

Supreme Court Ruling:  Accepting a Pardon is an "Admission of Guilt!"  A Presidential Pardon does not take effect unless the suspect accepts it.  That according to a little known, 1915 ruling from the Supreme Court, once accepted, the pardon serves as an "imputation of guilt," or what's more commonly known as an admission.  Because accepting the pardon is "essential to it's validity," I am demanding the Biden family, Dr. Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members of the J6 Committee and everyone else Biden unsurprisingly pardoned declare their acceptance of the pardon publicly.  Because, according to the Supreme Court, it would also serve as a declaration of guilt.

Trump brilliantly baited Biden into admitting the guilt of the Biden-ites.  In one of his very final acts as the putative President, literally minutes before Donald Trump was re-inaugurated, the Big Guy issued a pardon to all his siblings and their spouses.  Joe's five pardons together with his earlier pardon of his son Hunter for tax evasion and gun-running convictions (and all other crimes known and unknown over a period of ten years) bring Joe's pardons of family members to a total of six.  In case you're wondering what crimes these six family members could possibly have committed that required a presidential pardon, let's just say it was a family business.  It was a lucrative one that raked in tens of millions of dollars in exchange for unidentified work.  According to emails from Hunter, 10% was earmarked for the guy issuing the pardon — that very same Big Guy.  These Sordid Six thus join the 1,499 rapists, murderers and molesters whose sentences Joe commuted last week.  It wouldn't surprise me if the 1,499 feel insulted to be lumped in with these particular six.

Donald Trump Rips Joe Biden for Pardoning Biden Family During His Inauguration.  President Donald Trump slammed former President Joe Biden for pardoning members of the Biden family business during his inaugural address.  Joe Biden pardoned James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden just before noon Monday.  Breitbart News has previously reported on their participation in the family business.  Receiving clemency raises questions about potential wrongdoing.  It is unknown at this time if he also pardoned himself.  "Did you know that Biden, while I was making my speech, pardoned his whole family?" Trump asked the crowd at Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC.  The crowd replied by booing the family that made millions while Joe Biden was an elected official.  Republicans say the family members only made millions due to peddling influence to the elected official.  "The brother, the whole deal was pardoned," he said.  "Can you image that — while I was making my speech?

Trump Slams Biden's Family Pardons: 'Makes Him Look Very Guilty'.  Republicans in the House have been investigating the Biden family's corruption for over a year, especially their involvement in laundering millions through family-owned shell companies.  It seems Biden took these actions to shield his family from accountability for their alleged wrongdoings.  "President Biden's preemptive pardons for the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves," House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement.  "Our investigation revealed that at least ten members of the Biden Crime Family and their associates raked in over $30 million by selling Joe Biden's influence to corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.  The legacy media should be ashamed of themselves for covering up Joe Biden and his family's abuse of power, corruption, and obstruction.  The American people have seen through the legacy media's coverup and the Bidens' lies, and they know the truth:  President Biden abused his public office to create a slush fund for his family.  President Biden will go down as the most corrupt president in U.S. history, and our investigation will be remembered as one of the most successful ever conducted by Congress."

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If nobody went to prison, how is that a successful investigation?

Biden ends his presidency with hypocritical and terribly dangerous pardons.  As we all knew would happen, Biden's last act was to pardon every bad actor in his administration.  This is hypocritical, to say the least, given his government's vindictive pursuit of everyone in the Trump administration, including Trump himself.  However, even worse than that, it sets a dangerous precedent that can destroy the American Constitution — and no, I'm not exaggerating. [...] Our nation is founded on the Rule of Law.  Our Constitution is the bulwark for a government that is constrained by a contract with the People and the legal principles that flow from that contract.  However, Biden created a new precedent that undercuts the rule of law entirely and unleashes the executive branch in a way that threatens to undermine the Constitution.  Why do I say this?  Because, moving forward, future administrations can have their employees do anything and everything the administration wants.  Then, the president can pardon all this illegal conduct because the next administration might prosecute the actors.

Biden's Final Act in Office:  Joe Pardons Family After Claiming They Did "Nothing" Wrong.  In his final moments as president, just as President Trump was preparing to take the oath of office, Biden unleashed a tsunami of pardons that would make Tony Soprano look like an amateur.  The outgoing president granted clemency to five family members deeply involved in the Biden family business, including his brothers, James and Frank Biden.  The pardons, announced literally minutes before Biden departed the White House, cover his siblings and their spouses, who have been central figures in various financial dealings that caught the attention of House investigators.  House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer didn't mince words, calling the moves "a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves."  The investigation revealed a staggering $30 million in payments from foreign entities between 2014-2019 alone.

Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier, Indigenous activist convicted in 1975 killing of FBI agents.  With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.  Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn't eligible for parole again until 2026.  He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.  "President Biden took an enormous step toward healing and reconciliation with the Native American people in this country," Peltier's former attorney Kevin Sharp said in a statement Monday.  "It took nearly 50 years to acknowledge the injustice of Leonard Peltier's conviction and continued incarceration, but with the president's act of mercy Leonard can finally return to his reservation and live out his remaining days."

Goodbye to Joe Biden, and Whoever Was President the Last Four Years.  For four years, while Buster Keatonesque videos of stumbling, tumbling Biden filled social media, a mere handful of clues leaked about the ethereal "Presidency" running the American superpower.  The latter existed separate from Biden and is scheduled to slither aside Monday.  It exits on a bitter note, blaming an "avalanche of misinformation and disinformation" (not enough censorship) for its inability to be re-elected while strapped to a corpse.  It hopes to get away unseen and probably will, as reporters prepare to chase the great baited hook that is Donald Trump.

How Mike Johnson Fumbled the Question of Biden's Senility.  Last Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La), in an interview with Bari Weiss, made several revelations about Joe Biden. [...] Johnson's revelation isn't shocking anyone paying attention.  Biden's incapacity was obvious to Democrats during the 2020 Democrat Primary.  Biden's decline was obvious to anyone when he appeared lost and confused on many occasions. [...] It was obvious that Biden couldn't possibly be running the country.  This was a crisis like never before.  To run a country by proxy is what occurs in third-world dictatorships or communist nations.  This is not the way the world's sole superpower should function.  When the nation is confronted with a grave crisis of this scale, four groups must function as watchdogs, namely the news media, government agencies, honorable members of the party that the President belongs to, and the political opposition.  Alas, over many decades the mainstream media has devolved into the PR wing for the Democrats.

The Lousiest President of All Time.  Anybody who wants to explain how bad the Biden administration is has to start with COVID. [...] [T]his society was immediately cleaved in two.  All the healthy and thoughtful people were pitted against the sanctimonious do-gooders, the goose-steppers, and the hysterical weaklings.  And they beat us into submission, big time.  And Joe Biden was their champion.  Almost overnight, millions were thrown out of work, and a vaccine was made up that nobody had properly tested, which no company was liable for and, in its experimental form, until the pandemic hit, had never been approved by the FDA.  Joe Biden tried to force every American in a company of more than 100 people to take it or lose his job — around two thirds of the whole country, it turned out.  Heart attacks in teenagers went through the roof.  People had to choose between gambling their health and losing their homes.  Pfizer was completely unaccountable and made a windfall.  Mom-and-Pop stores across the nation went bankrupt, and gyms and churches were forced shut, and Walmart and Amazon made a killing.  To make up for the mass unemployment Democrats caused and encouraged, Joe decided to print more money than anyone ever did in American history — a bill worth $1.9 trillion, which singlehandedly made the dollar implode.  This made everybody in the country take a giant pay cut, effectively, and now most Americans can't afford the groceries they were buying in 2019.

Biden's So-Called 'Oligarchs'.  In his last address, Joe Biden offered a Parthian shot at "oligarchs" and the dangers these "billionaires" pose to the republic.  At the same time, left-wing senators hammered Trump cabinet nominees on the grounds that they would be too complacent in the face of a supposed takeover of the country by Trump's "billionaires" and their "oligarchy."  Many things could be said about Biden's farewell address, but I will limit them to three.  First, Biden was attempting to copycat the warnings of outgoing president and iconic war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower. [...] Second, until November 2024, Biden had no problems with oligarchs.  In fact, he courted and used them.  And they, in turn, eagerly donated lavishly to his agenda.  Multibillionaire George Soros nearly wrecked the criminal justice system by pouring millions of dollars into big-city radical district attorney races to ensure the election of left-wing ideologues who would not arrest, indict, jail, convict or incarcerate thousands of dangerous violent felons — all in pursuit of bankrupt progressive ideas like "critical legal theory" and "critical race theory".

Biden pardons Fauci, Milley, Jan. 6 committee ahead of Trump inauguration.  President Biden on Monday morning, just hours before President Trump's inauguration, granted pardons to Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and other members of the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.  Biden said he was doing so to protect the public servants, who have all faced attacks from the man about to replace Biden in the White House.  "These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions," Biden said in a statement.  Biden issued pardons for Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who led the nation's COVID-19 pandemic response, and Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Joe Biden's Long Goodbye.  What is the Joe Biden Democrat legacy?  Lies and using the government hammer to make their fortune as they sold their country to foreign powers like China.  That is the Biden legacy.  It was always lies with China Joe.  He'll always be a liar.  He was a liar 50 years ago when he used his brother as the bagman and he's a liar now as a senile old man, with his son Hunter as the family bagman.  They're old school Democrats, and so they've always been grifters as well.  The Biden Crime Family have been grifters for a half century, using Democrat politics and the government hammer to build their fortunes, taking treasure from foreign oligarchs in China, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere while wrapping themselves up in American patriotic virtue.  And they've also taken from American tech oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg and others who paid the Bidens big-time by helping them suppress legitimate news stories to protect Biden Inc., and the Biden hold on power.

CBS Morning Show:  Only history will tell us whether Biden is remembered as the best or only a great president.  Who ARE these people, and at what point did having a lobotomy become a requirement for being a "journalist" on these shows?  Among normal Americans — at least the ones who went to school back when American history was taught as something other than one long train of colonialist abuses — the hot topic when Joe Biden's ranking among the presidents is whether he is in competition with James Buchanan as one of the most actively harmful presidents, or with Jimmy Carter as one of its most inept.  I suppose you could compare Joe Biden to Wilson — he was both awful as a policy president and also had his brain turn to absolute mush.  Wilson for the win, I guess.  And no doubt the folks at CBS would like Wilson.  He threw his political opponents in jail, expanded the federal government, loved the administrative state, hated the Constitution, and pursued a "peaceful" foreign policy that left the world in flames.

There's Bad News Coming for the National Security Officials Who Pushed the Hunter Biden Laptop Lie.  It's time for some revenge.  Sorry, I want scalps nailed to the walls in some cases.  After he's sworn in as the 47th president of the United States today, President Donald J. Trump will issue between 50-200 executive orders in the coming days.  We could see 100 later today.  From immigration, DEI insanity, increasing energy production, and getting the Biden price hikes under control, Trump will likely undo what soon-to-be-former President Biden has done in four miserable years.  Yet, he's also planning to revoke the security clearances of dozens of national security officials who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop.

In one final insult to victims, Biden commutes sentences of killers and sex traffickers.  I guess sex trafficking, violent assault, gun possession and murder all count as "non-violent drug offenses" in Joe Biden's America, and crime victims are irrelevant.  In his last days, Biden commuted the sentences of 2,500 federal defendants he claimed were convicted of "non-violent drug offenses, who are serving disproportionately long sentences."  Biden is either lying or his senior advisers are lying to him.  Biden reduced the sentence of Lairon Graham, 67, a Buffalo man convicted in 2023 of organizing and heading a drug conspiracy to sell fentanyl, crack, cocaine and heroin.  When police raided his home, they found fentanyl, crack and cash.  He also possessed a firearm in his residence.  In addition to heading up the drug gang, Graham was also convicted of "sex trafficking by force or coercion" from 2013 to 2021.

The Art of the Dodge:  Hakeem Jeffries Flails and Squirms When Confronted Over Biden Gaslighting.  We've reported extensively on what should be considered one of the top political scandals of the century:  the years-long conspiracy by the media, the First Family, high-level Democrats and the corrupt corporate press to hide the reality of Joe Biden's mental decline from the public.  Now, as the president prepares to become the former president tomorrow, Monday, more and more stories keep dribbling out from accomplices like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who are revealing that the signs were there for all to see but he and his ilk simply fibbed about it.  Here's three-plus minutes of the media lying to you:  [Tweet with video clip]

Strange interlude.  "President Biden" probably won't be done inflicting harm on the United States until he leaves office later today.  There is yet more to come.  At the moment, we have today's preemptive pardons.  Biden's "presidency" already seems like a strange interlude in our history.  One might have thought that only an avowed enemy of the United States would open our borders and invite the rest of the world to come on down (or up, as the case may be).  Along with many other such items one might have thought — items such the proposition that boys and men should be allowed to force themselves into the women's bathrooms and women's sports by law — not so.  One might have thought that a man with half a mind to be president would long ago have been exposed and relieved of his duties.  Not so either.

JD Vance Just Obliterated Joe Biden on Social Media.  Is it a sign of senility or bad staff work?  It's likely a combination of both since Joe Biden's mental decline was noticeable on day one of his presidency, which led to staffers and his inner circle wrapping the aging Delaware liberal in bubble wrap for the past four years.  Biden is mentally cooked, and his staff seems to have been pushing policies that skirted constitutional norms.  Some might not even be legal since the president admitted he doesn't remember signing some executive orders, but that's for another time.  [Advertisement]  Biden declared this week that the Equal Rights Amendment is in the books.  It's codified, which led to a bunch of Democrats rejoicing.  The only problem is that it isn't true.  The community note was brutal:  ["]The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.  There is no 28th Amendment.["]  Biden and the Democrats were roundly mocked over this eye-roll-worthy victory lap.  It's such a failed presidency that even their wins are fake news.

Biden's Equal Rights Amendment stunt is an effort to break the system.  Of course, a president "affirming what I have long believed" is as meaningless as a state's "ratifying" a proposed constitutional amendment after the deadline has expired.  (And Congress does have the authority to set such deadlines.)  Biden's puppet masters know this.  But they also know that leftists will respond by imposing the ERA on Americans' consciousness and institutions.  Thus, Wikipedia responded instantly by pretending that the Constitution now has 28 Amendments:  [Tweet]

Speaker Mike Johnson Drops Bombshell, Proves Biden Was Never President For The Past 4 Years.  During a one-on-one meeting, Speaker Johnson asked President Biden why he paused LNG exports to Europe, says Biden was completely unaware he had done so.  The United States hasn't had a president for four years.  Johnson says Biden was completely unaware of an executive order he signed.  The comments from Johnson came during an interview with Bari Weiss.  [Video clip]

Mike Johnson Recounts Meeting With Joe Biden, Shocks With Tale of Senility and Subterfuge.  With President Joe Biden soon to be out of politics for good, the tales of just how far gone he has been over the last four years are getting more and more disturbing.  In mid-December, RedState shared a post-election report detailing his memory and sundowning issue.  Of course, it's been known for years that Biden was facing serious cognitive decline.  That it only became acceptable for major press outlets to discuss it in the last couple of months is an indictment of their credibility.  [Advertisement]  It's not just news outlets that are sharing scary stories about Biden, though.  House Speaker Mike Johnson recently sat down for an interview and described a wild meeting with the outgoing president.  [Video clip]

It Isn't Funny.  We and many others had fun yesterday at Joe Biden's expense.  He tweeted an announcement: the Equal Rights Amendment has been adopted!  It's the law of the land!  No one took it seriously; if a president really tried to change the Constitution via executive order, he would be impeached and driven from office.  Personally, I doubt Biden has any idea that he tweeted the supposed adoption of the ERA.  I assume that was done by some nameless intern in the White House.  Democrats see no problem with the fact that we have a president who has no idea what is going on.  Happily, we have only two more days to go.  But Biden has been out of commission for most of his term in office, maybe all of it. [...] It is easy to ridicule Biden's obvious incapacity, but his senility is no laughing matter.  We haven't had a real president for a long time — maybe four years.  In the Constitution, the executive function of government is embodied in the president.  The Executive Branch reports to him.  That is what the Constitution says, but it isn't how our government has functioned since 2021.  Someone has been making executive decisions, but it wasn't the President.

Biden: After I'm Gone, I Don't Care What Happens.  [Scroll down]  Misusing his pardon powers, besides pardoning his son Hunter for a multitude of crimes, [Biden] commuted the death sentences of 37 men who had been convicted of child rape, serial murders, and cop killing.  He just issued 2500 new commutations, ostensibly for those with drug convictions, many of whom were drug dealers of the worst sort.  He and his administration have been shoveling money out the door as fast as they can, among others to people with student loans (despite repeated court setbacks), to Ukraine and to favored companies — this week it was a $6.7 billion low-cost loan to Rivian, a company that manufactures luxury electric vehicles.  Since 2020, the national debt under Biden has ballooned to $13 trillion.  On her way out of office Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellin indicated the U.S. debt limit will be reached on Tuesday, a day after the inauguration.  This means that the federal government after Tuesday will not be able to borrow to pay already-authorized spending, and that Treasury will have to adopt "extraordinary measures" to temporarily finance government expenditures and obligations.  In other words, the profligate spending will leave the incoming Trump with a fiscal crisis.

Biden burns it all down on his way out the door.  How much more damage can President Biden do to this country on his final days in office?  A lot.  Before dawn Friday morning, the octogenarian Democrat proudly pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of a record number of individuals the far-left hailed as guilty of "non-violent" drug offenses.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a Republican, to see that many of these hardened criminals are anything but peaceful.  Take, for example, Dwayne Appling, 37, of Illinois.  He's just one of the thousands of soon-to-be-freed drug traffickers, an armed and dangerous career criminal and gang banger.  And one whom Biden found worthy last month of having his 27-year sentence drastically reduced, plunked back on the streets to sell heroin and other poison to children.  Or worse.  In a lot of these cases, there is a body count.

Biden pardons 2,500 for what he claims were 'non-violent' drug offenses.  In the past few weeks, following his pardon of his corrupt son, Hunter, Joe Biden has commuted and pardoned over 4,000 other people. [...] Which is pretty unprecedented and extreme, and sure to unleash another crime wave upon America as President Trump takes office.  It also highlights the hypocrisy of the Democrats, who clap like seals to hear of criminals and predators being let out of prison.  Trump's attorney-general designate, Pam Bondi, who is now in Senate confirmation hearings, had the disgusting experience of having to enage a belligerent, congenital liar, Adam Schiff, who asked her if she would personally review all files before Trump issues pardons or commutations on J-6 trespassers, who were mostly peaceful. [...] Does anyone think Biden reviews the records of anyone before he signs the papers that someone shoves in front of his face?  The other day, it didn't even appear he knew where to sign a document.

There's a good argument that Biden's mass pardons are unconstitutional.  The Constitution has three clearly delineated branches of government:  Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary.  Technically, the Executive cannot legislate or pass judgment, the Legislature cannot take on administrative duties or decide cases, and the Judiciary cannot manage the government or legislate. [...] But now it's time to go back to the White House statements about Biden's mass pardons and commutations.  In both cases, Biden is not saying that the law was too harshly applied to individuals or that the nation's wounds need binding.  Instead, he has proudly announced that he doesn't like the applicable laws and is unilaterally rewriting them.  That is a purely legislative act that is entirely outside the president's constitutional purview, including the broad pardon power.  Biden can say he's issued the commutations and pardons, but he actually hasn't.  Trump would be well within his authority to reinstate the death penalty sentences, although I suspect the drug pardons will get a pass.  A lot of evil people are going to plague our nation again.

Biden Wanders the White House With a Milkshake.  Joe Biden was a one-man blooper reel.  He was a never-ending source of fodder for columnists and humorists and never failed to amaze, baffle, and sometimes even terrify those of us tasked with chronicling and commenting on the last four years.  Potential senility aside, were it not for the fact that he is a mean-spirited, corrupt, avaricious, and vindictive old man who felt entitled to his ride in the Oval Office despite driving the nation to the brink of poverty and chaos and the world to the edge of war, I could almost feel sorry for him.  Actually, no, I couldn't.

Biden Proved Wrong on ERA Amendment by National Archives, Community Notes.  On his way out, President Joe Biden continues to wreak havoc and cause plenty of confusion.  With just three days to go until President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, Biden announced on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is now "the law of the land" as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution as part of yet another desperate attempt to keep focusing on promoting abortion.  The eligibility for ratification long expired, according to the National Archives.  Several states have also rescinded their ratification.  Nevada voted to ratify the ERA in 2017, becoming the first state to do so since 1977.  Thirty-eight states were required to ratify the amendment in order for it to pass, though that didn't happen until Virginia did so in January 2020, according to the Brennan Center.  Further, in January 2022 — during Biden's term — the Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo for the Counsel to the President on the legal status for ratifying the ERA.

If you're going to pull a fast one and rule by executive flimflam, do it on a Friday.
Biden Attempts To Change The Constitution Via Press Release On His Way Out.  It's normal for elderly people with dementia to say things that don't represent reality.  It's not so normal for those people to be president.  After years of fist-thumping about the "rule of law," Joe Biden is ending his presidency with a bizarre attempt to press-release a constitutional amendment into existence.  "I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:  the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex," Biden (or whatever staffer guides Biden's hand) wrote on Friday morning.  The "Equal Rights Amendment," which would prohibit the government from recognizing differences between women and men, died 43 years ago when it failed to obtain ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures.  It's dead in the water. [...] Biden's weird Hail Mary accomplishes nothing but weakening the Constitution, and he knows it.  Making it easier for Democrats to trample on the Constitution next time is the entire point.

Biden Says New Constitutional Amendment Is Ratified, Despite Opposition.  President Joe Biden on Jan. 17 announced he has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), despite the U.S. archivist recently saying the president could not ratify the constitutional amendment. [...] Biden pointed to how Virginia in 2020 became the 38th state to ratify the ERA, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender.  The U.S. archivist and U.S. deputy archivist said in late 2024 that the president could not ratify the amendment because the amendment did not receive the required support from three-fourths of the states by the deadline Congress imposed, which was June 30, 1982.  The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel in 2020, while Donald Trump was president, and in 2022, after Biden took office, also said that ratification cannot occur unless Congress or the courts extend or remove the ratification deadline.

Biden Goes on Screaming Tyrannical Rant About Unilaterally Declaring a 28th Amendment to the Constitution.  Joe Biden on Friday unilaterally declared a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution.  The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has not been ratified.  The ERA states: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.  The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."  There are currently 27 Amendments to the US Constitution, not 28.

The Equal Rights Amendment Is Back, and Old Joe Biden Says It's Now the Law of the Land.  Remember the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)? It's back, and Old Joe Biden, trying to do as much damage to the nation as he can before he slouches off to his taxpayer-funded Delaware beach house for good on Monday, now says that it's the law of the land.  What's that?  You didn't notice that we suddenly have a new Constitutional amendment?  Well, we may not, but on Friday, Old Joe's joyful announcement that the amendment was a done deal added an eggbeater to already troubled waters.  The ERA was a central preoccupation of the 1970s when the outgoing figurehead was just beginning his storied career as a leftist prevaricator, character assassin (see Clarence Thomas for details), and premier corruptocrat in the United States Senate.  Feminists bombarded Americans with propaganda slogans including "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" and "A woman's place is in the House... and the Senate."  But when Congress approved the ERA on March 22, 1972, it set a deadline of seven years for the necessary three-fourths of the states to approve it.  That deadline came and went on March 22, 1979, with only 35 states approving of the amendment.  Thirty-eight were needed, so that was that.  In 2017, however, as the #MeToo movement was cresting, Nevada became the 36th state to approve the ERA, with Illinois following in 2018 and Virginia in 2020.

"No one is above the law!"  That's what he usually says, but not today.
Biden sets record for most pardons and commutations with new round of clemency for nonviolent drug offenders.  President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, cementing his legacy as the president who has issued the most individual pardons and commutations in U.S. history.  Biden said in a statement that commuting the nearly 2,500 sentences would help "equalize" sentencing disparities.  "Today's clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes," he said.  "This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars," he added.  "With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history," Biden said.

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Since Joe Biden is too senile to do his job, it is obvious that somebody else wrote this "clemency action."  Maybe it's the same person who left a bag of cocaine in the White House, the ownership of which was impossible for the Secret Service to determine.

Arrogant Biden could care less about 'oligarchs'.  In his final remarks to the American people on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden launched a parting shot at the tech "oligarchy" that he says is taking over the country.  Such arrogant and hypocritical remarks should be met with scorn by all those who languished under the program of social media censorship for the previous four years — a program largely forced on tech companies by the Biden White House, as an example of the very kind of merging of government and corporate power Biden now claims to oppose.  "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead," said Biden.

Hunter Biden was in the Oval Office for dad's farewell speech.  Disgraced first son Hunter Biden was seated just steps away from his father, President Biden, as the outgoing commander in chief called on Americans to respect "the courts" and "pay their fair share" of taxes during his final Oval Office address Wednesday.  Biden, 82, asserted that his more than 50 years in public office has taught him that "believing the idea of America means respecting institutions that govern a free society," including "the courts" — as his recently pardoned 54-year-old son looked on.  In his farewell speech, the outgoing president also urged wealthy Americans to "play by the same rules" and "pay their fair share of taxes."  Last September, the first son pleaded guilty to nine tax charges — including three felonies — for dodging $1.4 million in payments to the IRS while spending extravagantly on "drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing," and other personal items.

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I wonder if "Devout Catholic" Biden knows what eventually happens to shameless unrepentant liars.

$174 Million in Anonymous Contributions:  Biden Is the Top Recipient of Dark Money Support in American Political History.  "Joe Biden received $174 million in anonymous contributions, making him the top recipient of dark money support in American political history."  And that doesn't count the other $1B+ groups like Arabella spent for Dems in 2020 alone.  This con man, this grifter, this Soros puppet had the audacity to admonish the American people last night, "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."  [Tweets]

Biden Declares 'Oligarchy' of 'Extreme Wealth, Power' Threatens Democracy'.  President Joe Biden declared during his farewell address that an "oligarchy" of the "ultra-wealthy" and powerful is forming that "threatens our entire democracy."  Joe Biden issued his warning while speaking to the American public from the Oval Office for the final time.  [Tweet with video clip]  "...I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern ... and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people," Biden said.

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Who are the ultra-wealthy people that Biden considers dangerous?  And here's a related question:  What is the average net worth of the members of the US Congress?  A list of the fifty wealthiest members of Congress exists on Wikipedia, but it doesn't include Nancy Pelosi, who should be #3 on the list.

Nobody empowered oligarchs like Biden did.  As part of Biden's farewell speech (where he spread a tremendous amount of misinformation, while claiming to care about the dangers of misinformation), he warned about billionaires having too much power.  Throughout Biden's four years in office, he has had unelected bureaucrats abusing their power issuing regulations as fast as they can.  These regulations put massive burdens on businesses and especially harm the small- and medium-sized businesses Biden only pretends to care about.  The regulations that CFPB, FDIC, and others force on banks destroys small banks and makes big banks more powerful.  Obamacare made big insurance companies much more powerful.  It destroyed the ability of small- and medium-sized health insurance companies to compete and that forced all Americans to pay more.  The COVID lockdowns that Democrats kept in place for a long time destroyed small businesses and made big businesses much more powerful.  Biden never said a word about companies such as Meta or anyone else having too much power while they were supporting him.  Only now is he supposedly scared.

Biden Blanks On How To Sign A Bill After 50 Years In Government.  President Joe Biden's continued public decline was on display Tuesday as he appeared to forget how to sign a bill despite serving as an elected official since 1971.  "The second I'm signing is the establishment of the Highlands National Monument.  Here we go.  I gotta fill this in?" Biden asked a room full of onlookers as he attempted to sign a bill to designate the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.  [Advertisement]  He stammered and eked out what sounded like it could be a mention of "Sáttítla," the name of the new monuments, as he appeared confused.  "The day of?" he read from the bill before looking around and asking his staffers "you'll fill in the dates here, guys?"  The onlookers laughed.  "All right," Biden said after the laughter died down.  [Video clip]  As he signed the bill someone in the room reminded him of the date.  "It's the 14th, sir," the man said.

No One Wants A Biden Presidential Library.  Every president is actively encouraged to plan and construct an official repository of his documents from his time in office.  The resulting library is more than the collection of the paperwork generated during his tenure, however.  It is also where items like official gifts to the president and his spouse are housed. [...] Having visited a number of presidential libraries, I now find myself wondering:  What will the future Joe Biden Museum and Library be like?  More to the point:  Who is going to want to visit it?  Who is going to want to be on staff there?  What has Biden accomplished?  Half a century is a long time by any measure, but even more so when one devotes a lifetime to an ever-precarious career in politics.  Surely there has to be something good in there to commemorate... right?  Perhaps not.  Biden's life and time in office have been thoroughly ridden with malpractice, corruption, and abuse of power.  There is absolutely nothing commendable about Biden and his career, especially about his four years in the White House.  If they are going to be remembered at all, it will be with derision and mockery.  How does a library accommodate that reality without descending into full-scale revisionism?

Epic Failures of Incompetent Leaders.  Crisis and times of chaos are those crucial points when our cultural disaffection with leadership qualities costs us all dearly.  When your house is burning you might be grateful to see a "toxic male" running to the rescue.  We might not mind the patriarchy if it saves our neighborhood and our city.  During a crisis, the pace of decision-making and action increases dramatically.  Speed becomes a necessity.  Rapidity may mean coercive power tactics and harsh words may be used.  Successful leaders are often bold and assertive.  They cannot be concerned with their own popularity when moving quickly and speaking abruptly.  They grab the reins of power and command action throughout their playing field and among all the relevant players.  Those making decisions cannot be risk-averse or hesitant.  They must be confident and secure in their own decision-making abilities.  Those who need more time to analyze, to gather data, and to gain input from others will be lost in a cloud of confusion.  Chaos reigns when a leader cannot, or will not, lead.

A Confused Joe Biden Has No Idea What He's Doing as He Signs New National Monument Into Law.  Joe Biden on Tuesday [1/14/2025] signed proclamations to establish the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in California.  "The 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California will be located at the meeting of the Mojave and Colorado deserts and will include mountain ranges, rock formations, woodlands and canyons, including the Painted Canyon, which is known for its colorful walls," The Hill reported.  "The 224,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands National Monument is in Northern California and features the dormant Medicine Lake Volcano," The Hill reported.

Special Counsel David Weiss's Final Report: 'Inappropriate to Discuss' More Hunter Biden Charges.  Special Counsel David Weiss issued a brief report Monday on his investigation into the criminal conduct of Hunter Biden and claimed that "it would be inappropriate to discuss whether additional charges are warranted."  Marco Polo, a nonprofit that compiled a dossier on the Biden family, estimates Hunter violated more than 140 statutes.  Most, if not all, of those alleged violations occurred between 2014-2024, the period of time for which President Joe Biden pardoned his son.  "Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations," Weiss wrote.

Biden's legacy.  Reading serious reference to President Biden's "legacy" as though it is anything but an unprecedented catastrophe presents a challenge to my progress in anger management.  Joe Biden — this is the guy who opened our borders and invited the world to "come on down," like someone trying to find his calling as a game show host.  This is the guy who deployed the forces of the Department of Justice to incapacitate his foremost political opponent.  This is the guy who never said a true word about the corrupt family business and enlisted the former denizens of the deep state to disparage evidence of his corruption as Russian disinformation — that is. to lie about it.  This is a guy whose staff worked overtime to protect him from exposure of his age-related mental debility and suppress true information of all kinds.

We Need Immediate Action to Reverse Joe Biden's Executive Orders.  On Joe Biden's first day in office in January 2021, he signed seventeen executive orders.  These orders are notorious and remained controversial throughout his term in office.  They included such measures as stopping the Keystone Pipeline — an order that was blamed for rising gasoline prices throughout Biden's term (the real cause of such price increases was the Biden administration's massive spending sprees, but the pipeline shutdown made the situation worse). [...] These orders and others were created and signed without a national consensus and generally without legislative authority.  These actions set a precedent that undermines the other two branches of government and the Constitution itself.  All of Donald Trump's supporters are aware of what Joe Biden has done — especially these executive orders.  Executive branch efforts to limit the authority of the other two branches have become notorious in the Biden-Obama administrations.  The only way to take the initiative, reverse the prior encroachments on Constitutional checks and balances, and undo the harm of the past four years is to undo all recent executive orders.

Biden and Harris Hold a Wildfire Briefing, and It Turns Into a Total Disaster.  President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decided to cosplay as leaders on Monday by giving a briefing on the devastating California wildfires.  That's the thing about pretending, though.  It rarely ends well, and things went downhill very quickly.  [Advertisement]  While sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Biden kept his eyes locked on his script, bragging about giving victims a "one-time payment of $770."  What that is supposed to accomplish wasn't immediately apparent.  [Tweet with video clip]  Giving away a one-time payment of $770 is basically meaningless to anyone who lost their home in the wildfires.  That might cover a few nights at a hotel, but that's about it.  It certainly won't be useful in actually recovering from the damage.  But let's put that aside because this is a matter of priorities.  For context, at the end of December, it was reported that the United States had provided $3.4 billion to pay the salaries of Ukrainian bureaucrats and schoolteachers.  Not to buy weapons for soldiers on the front line, not to supply ammunition, but to pay government officials living in the safest parts of the country.

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You would have probably received a one-time payment of $855, but they had to skim off 10 percent for the Big Guy.

Delusional and Insulting:  Joe Biden Uses Final Foreign Policy Speech to Shamelessly Lie to Americans.  Mercifully, President Joe Biden gave the last foreign policy speech of his single term on Monday, and it was as delusional and insulting as you'd expect.  Instead of taking responsibility for his laundry list of failures, including the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden painted a much rosier picture, proclaiming America's enemies have become "weaker" under his leadership. [...] Here's the kicker, though.  Nothing Biden did led to any present-day weakening of Iran.  The destruction of Iran's proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza happened because Israel ignored every red line the Biden administration set in terms of military action.

How Joe Biden became America's obstructor-in-chief.  In his final days at the White House, President Biden is preparing to deliver multiple speeches in an effort to shape his legacy.  But make no mistake: the history books on Joe Biden are already written.  Let's rewind for a moment back to January 2023, when the House Oversight Committee began to investigate Biden's involvement in his family's corrupt influence-peddling operation.  According to Joe Biden, everything Hunter Biden did was "ethical;" no member of the Biden family took money from China or other foreign entities; he knew nothing about his son's business dealings; and he never met with or spoke with any of the foreign nationals who had wired the Biden family money.

Biden Rules Out Plans to Pardon Himself: 'I Didn't Do Anything Wrong'.  President Joe Biden ruled out the idea of pardoning himself, explaining he had not thought of pardoning himself because he "didn't do anything wrong."  During a press conference at the White House, Biden was asked if he had "ruled out" issuing a pardon for himself or "any other additional members" of his family.

It's Not Too Late to Boot Biden.  President Biden has gotten an undeserved free pass for violating the 25th Amendment.  That goes double for Kamala Harris and by extension the Democrat party.  Governing while incapacitated will prove to be the most serious offense of the Biden presidency, with stiff competition.  Even now, Biden should be removed from office, given that the constitutional process takes immediate effect.  No one doubts that Biden's mental decline has rendered him "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."  Not a single voice argues to the contrary.  The residual debate for historians is when the inability commenced.  Did his cognitive decline predate and explain his basement campaign?  How long has the legacy press misled the public on his behalf? [...] First and foremost, [the 25th Amendment] specified that the president is obligated to declare his own inability, either temporarily or permanently.  Biden thus bears specific constitutional responsibility for failing to remove himself from office.  His exercise of power while disabled exceeds that of Edith Wilson, marking Biden's term as the most constitutionally illegitimate in U.S. history.

Joe Biden Falls Asleep at Jimmy Carter's Funeral.  Joe Biden fell asleep during Jimmy Carter's funeral on Thursday.  Former President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 last month.  All five US presidents attended Jimmy Carter's funeral:  Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Biden Bends His Knee To Radical Islam And Pays Tribute To Terrorists.  Joe Biden began his Presidency by ordering a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.  In a matter of weeks, twenty years' worth of effort was squandered.  Our forces fled.  Our allies were routed.  The Taliban went house to house using our own security files and technology to identify those who had cooperated with us and haul them away to be tortured to death.  Biden and his minions assured us the Taliban were now our allies in fighting terrorism.  To date, his administration has paid these jihadists $2 billion even as they harbor Al Qaida, ISIS, and other groups and provide them the platform they need to prepare fresh attacks on the United States and its allies.  [Video clip]  In Afghanistan, women are forbidden to leave the house without a male escort.  They cannot speak in public.  They cannot stand in the windows of their own homes if they can be seen from outside.  They are denied education and are sold as child brides to old men who keep them in sexual slavery.  [Video clip]  Syria is now under the control of radical jihadists who are busy creating their own Islamic emirate in the heart of the Middle East.

Joe Biden Is And Always Was A Massive Jerk.  Joe Biden, especially since becoming president, has benefited from corporate media portraying him as a unifier, civil, and even a "decent" man.  He is not.  In fact, when the going gets mildly tough, Biden flies off the handle.  [Numerous anecdotes.]

This has Barack H. Obama's fingerprints all over it:
Joe Biden Releases Dangerous Islamist Terrorists from Guantanamo Bay Just Days Before Trump Takes Over.  The return of President Donald Trump to the White House cannot come soon enough because Joe Biden continues to burn down the country before he departs for good.  His latest move will likely come at the cost of American lives.  The New York Times reported Monday that the Biden regime has decided to release 11 dangerous Islamist Yemeni terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Oman for them to supposedly 'start new lives.'  Oman has supposedly ensured they will 'monitor' the newly released prisoners.  As NPR notes, all of these savages were captured following the 9/11 terror attacks.  Some had been cleared for transfer previously under the Barack Obama regime but remained at Gitmo for political and diplomatic factors.  In recent weeks, the U.S. has also released four other Guantánamo inmates: a Kenyan, a Tunisian and two Malaysians.  This cuts the total number of prisoners at Gitmo precisely in half, from 30 to 15 prisoners.

What Joe knows.  Biden is angry in a an old-man-shouting-at-clouds sort of way.  He could have beaten Trump if someone hadn't elbowed him aside!  He shouldn't have appointed Merrick Garland as Attorney General!  Garland was too slow on uptake of the Trump lawfare beat!  You can tell Biden is choking on his own bile.  He's senile.  He's unfit.  And we have a couple of weeks to go before he is scheduled to exit the White House daycare program.

Will We Make It Until Jan. 20?  Joe Biden's first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism, the effects of which the world will be dealing with for years.  But it wasn't enough for him.  He's accelerated his offensive on his way out.  Inauguration Day can't arrive soon enough.  The candidate who ran in 2020 on restoring dignity to the office of the president is a small and petty man.  This is not a revelation but a fact known since he "served" in the U.S. Senate and was especially evident when ran for president the first time, nearly four decades ago, dropping out after he could no longer cover his serial lies, blatant plagiarism and the vicious side of his personality.  So it's not in the least surprising that he would try to burn down the world around him as he moves toward the door.

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[#1] Leaving stink bombs for President Trump is exactly what Barack H. Obama did, eight years ago.  [#2] Joe Biden is not mentally capable of running the "Biden administration," so an anonymous committee is doing so.  The person most likely to be in charge of that committee is either Valerie Jarrett or Barack H. Obama.  Therefore, it is not unreasonable to attribute the current series of stink bombs to Barack H. Obama.

Why Biden Is Carpet Bombing His Exit.  In every way possible, on every from he's able, abusing as much power as he possibly can the current President of the United States is attempting to obliterate America.  At the end of the very same week where at minimum two terrorist attacks were attempted on American soil, Biden decided to release a terrorist from Guantanamo Bay.  In a day where crime has exploded across our cities and violent crime taking human life, Biden commutes nearly all of the sentences of mass murders on death row.  And at week's end he awarded the most anti-American, anti-western, anti-Semite the infamous George Soros the Presidential Medal of Honor.  He's literally rewarded terrorists, killers, and treason.  He is unrepentant about opening the southern border and saying "ya'll come."  And his minions in legacy media like Lawrence O'Donnell are out there pushing the theory that the real tie connecting heinous murderous terror pushing devils is the uniform of the U.S. Army instead of the fact that they get radicalized and change their names to something like "Jabbar."

Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time time for Trump to take office.  As evidence keeps building that the hapless Biden administration couldn't end fast enough, there's also evidence that the first Trump presidency of strong growth and low inflation pre-COVID won't return immediately.  That's the signal we're getting from the bond market:  The possibility that the fiscal time bomb of nonstop spending that Joe Biden and his minions have planted is ready to explode just in time for Trump to take office.  Most of the financial punditry is too obsessed with stock indexes to appreciate the bond market's warning signs.  Stock prices have their place, of course.  When investors pile into stocks as they've been doing since Trump's election — until recently, that is — it's an indication that many are betting his policies of lower taxes and less regulation will lead to higher corporate earnings and GDP growth.

Biden soils the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  A naked globalist, [George] Soros was openly disdainful for concepts like citizenship and patriotism, calling himself "a stateless statesman."  Sound like the kind of guy who ought to be getting a U.S. citizenship award?  He hates conservatives, and in the wake of 9/11, said that America was in need of "de-Nazification."  Worse still, his meddling in domestic politics yielded monstrosities like the "Secretaries of State Project" to elect leftists to count ballots around the country, open borders of course, decriminalization of drugs, which has made blue cities into hellholes, and worst of all, his financing of district attorneys receptive to his empty-the-jails, no-prosecution agenda.  Any city that has elected such leftists has seen their cities go downhill into a sump of crime, lawlessness, and disorder.  In short, he's been an unprecedented disaster for the country, doing at least as much harm as Joe Biden himself.  Now he's getting rewarded by Biden, turning the value of that award into rubbish.

Biden's disgraceful exit.  It would be hard to pick a figure that better personified the Democratic Party's contempt for average Americans than failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more recent damage to them than billionaire financier George Soros.  But President Joe Biden chose as one of his parting shots to the nation and people he serves to honor both of them with Presidential Medals of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian can be awarded by the United States government.  Soros's selection is arguably the bigger slap in the face to Americans, especially those who live in jurisdictions where Soros funded district attorneys who refuse to prosecute most property and even violent crimes, encouraging crime waves that have pushed previously Democratic strongholds toward Republicans.  In Los Angeles, for example, under Soros-funded DA George Gascon's soft-on-crime policies, violent crimes rose 12%, robberies climbed 16%, property crimes jumped 20%, auto theft spiked 23%, and shoplifting soared 133%, according to data from the California Department of Justice.

Biden gives a Medal to Moderna and Pfizer — 10 reasons that was a bad idea.  [#1] By awarding Moderna and Pfizer but not J&J and AZ, the current administration essentially admits that the adenoviral vector products were dangerous.  Many young people died from these products and this administration, and many public health experts, lied about the risks of VITT.  The mantra that the 'best vaccine is the one you get' was yet another lie perpetuated by this administration.  [#2] Moderna and Pfizer are corporations that have failed to meet the post market commitments.  They have failed to study subclinical myocarditis.  This conduct is shameful and they should be fined or worse.  It also represents FDA failure.  [#3] These companies have already made 100 billion dollars from these products.  Most of that directly paid for by the taxpayer.  They do not need a medal.  [#4] The key sequencing of the virus was not done by companies.  [#5] The companies sell an annual mRNA product that has no reliable data.  This product is given to babies.  There is no evidence that it helps.  [#6] No one benefits from this medal.

Biden awards Hillary and Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  There is a difference between being non compos mentis and being possessed by a deranged and demonic desire to reward the most dangerous and despicable anti-American prevaricators extant or otherwise.  These decisions reek of Obama — with perhaps a little Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi thrown in for bad measure.  Hillary Clinton is to decency and transparency as Josef Mengele is to Judaism.  George Soros, the Hungarian bagman, funds a significant percentage of all the Leftist and anti-American groups and activities in existence.  Awarding PMFs to characters like these is demeaning to the American people and all those who value honesty, integrity, and America itself.  These actions perfectly illustrate today's Democrat party — with its simultaneous worship of depravity and rabid pursuit of power.

The Final Biden Disgrace?  We can't be sure, since his alleged presidency still has 16 days to go.  But Biden's awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros is likely to stand as his final insult to America. [...] Soros hates this country, and has done nothing but work to destroy it.  He has been the principal sponsor of pro-crime, anti-free enterprise, anti-free speech, anti-affordable energy initiatives in the United States and around the world.  And there is every prospect that his disgraceful legacy will be carried on by his heirs.

In His Latest Presidential Act, Biden Again Attacks Religion.  If there was ever a question about how much Joe Biden hates God and all religions (with the possible exception of Islam), that question has now been completely answered with his choice of honoring two of the most anti-religion individuals in our nation with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest award for a civilian. [...] A self-proclaimed Catholic, whose actions have always been directly antithetical to Catholic theology, Biden is awarding this honor to Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood. [...] It is one thing for Joe Biden to tacitly support the anti-religion practices of Planned Parenthood.  But for him to consciously award Richards with this high honor is a direct assault on the theology that he claims to subscribe to.  It is an attack on every Catholic, pro-life Christian, and authentic Jew.  Bestowing this honor upon the President of Planned Parenthood is yet another example of Joe Biden thumbing his nose at God, religion, and people of faith.

How to invalidate the Presidential Medal of Freedom in one fell swoop.  The Biden administration, whoever is running it, is illegitimate.  The 2020 election was stolen, rigged to defeat Trump by any means necessary.  Many means were employed, all illegal, all unconstitutional.  The truth is coming out, bit by bit.  We should know by now that the left could not care less about the Constitution; they hate the limits it imposes on government, so they ignore the Bill of Rights and most of the Articles.  These past post-Constitutional four years have been a disaster by any measure, from the open border to the third world and China to the imposition of woke on our military.  But beyond Biden's hostility to all things American is his administration's gross immaturity.  It is intent upon poking Trump and his supporters in the eye on their way out.  They are like spoiled little playground bullies.  Their actions since the election have been not only childish but treasonous.  They would rather destroy the country than make the transition to the Trump presidency smooth and trouble-free.

Biden senior moments in review.  The Washington Free Beacon has posted a We Told You So edition of its long-running Biden's Senior Moments series.  [Video clip]

Jill Biden [was] Handed [a] $20,000 Diamond as [a] Gift from India's PM.  First Lady Jill Biden has been showered in gifts while her husband has been in office, receiving donated trifles worth tens of thousands of dollars in 2023 alone including a diamond worth $20,000 from India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  Modi's generosity came during his first-ever state visit to the country where he was hosted by outgoing President Joe Biden and Mrs Biden.  The prime minister gave a handcrafted sandalwood box to the president as the official gift.  The diamond was noted in an annual accounting published by the State Department on Thursday, AP reports.

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DOCTOR Jill Biden must now come up with a way to give 10 percent to the Big Guy.

The Morning Briefing:  I Can't Wait for All of That Biden Decency and Dignity to Go Away.  During the bad drug trip that was the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his advocates kept saying that "decency" and "dignity" were on the ballot.  Anyone who had followed Biden's career knew how laughable it was to think that Biden would be the guy to do that, but reality didn't come into play much in that election.  What the Biden family brought to the White House was embarrassing tawdriness.  It's like some backwoods, low-rent criminal family hit the political lottery and couldn't wait to trash the joint.  I wonder if Jill Biden has hit up Hillary Clinton for pointers on how to steal stuff on her way out the door.  People can say all they want about the chaos of the first Trump term or the ego-driven classlessness of the Obama years, but nobody was finding bags of Peruvian marching powder lying around the nation's executive mansion when either of them were in office.  As part of the Biden parade of decency, the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media became more biased and corrupt than they ever had been, which is a monumental feat.

Joe Biden Awards Hunter's Friend with Presidential Citizens Medal.  President Joe Biden awarded Hunter Biden's friend, Bobby Sager, with the Presidential Citizens Medal on Thursday, underscoring Hunter's influence over the octogenarian.  Sager, a photographer and philanthropist, earned the award after he allegedly created opportunity for low-income people abroad, including Palestinian women artisans.  Sager is also a self-described "selfish" person who became friends with Hunter only in the last two years, NBC News reported.  Sager is a huge fan of Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter, claiming Hunter had a challenging history while making millions from foreign entities while his dad was vice president.

Trump's Inaugural Address and the 25th Amendment.  The fact is that the Democrats and their allies in the media — which means almost all the media — engaged in a years-long coverup of perhaps the greatest scandal in American history:  the incompetence of the president of the United States.  The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in order to deal with precisely the problem that Biden presented:  becoming incompetent after being elected.  It is possible, of course, that Biden was already incompetent before he was elected, but because he campaigned from his basement, with minimal exposure to the public, that is less obvious.  Biden's "handlers" may have known of his senility from the beginning, but the public learned of it only later.  But it became abundantly obvious — and long before the June 27 debate — which, finally, prompted some of the party leaders to remove him.  And yet, Democrat politicians and members of the press who knew of his incompetence told us again, and again, and again that he was not just competent but the sharpest guy in the room.  It was all a lie, and that scandal far exceeded Watergate.  Trump should make that very clear when he takes office.

Biden Walks Away Without Taking Any Questions About New Orleans Terror Attack After Remarks at Camp David.  Joe Biden addressed the nation from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland on Wednesday evening following a terrorist attack that left at least 15 people dead in New Orleans.  At least 15 people were killed, 35 injured after a terrorist identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar plowed through a crowd in New Orleans during the New Year's Eve celebration.  According to law enforcement, Jabbar did not work alone and was part of a larger network of terrorists.  Earlier Wednesday Joe Biden stopped to chat with reporters as he departed Wilmington, Delaware for Camp David on Wednesday for another vacation.

All Is Not Well in the Biden White House.  While Biden has recently expressed regret over dropping out and says he could have won, according to the Wall Street Journal, that belief "isn't widely shared in the White House or among the Democratic establishment, where the more common view is that the party would have suffered a much larger electoral defeat and lost even more congressional seats had Biden remained the nominee." [...] As Biden prepares to leave office, he's focusing on cementing his legacy with plans for a presidential library in Delaware.  How controversial death sentence commutations for child rapists and murders fit into that equation, I have no idea, but according to the report, Biden has plenty of regrets, including his decision to appoint Merrick Garland as attorney general.  Biden believes that Garland didn't target Trump more aggressively, thinking that if he had, he could have stopped Trump's return to the White House with more aggressive prosecutions[.]  Curiously, no one on the left expressed outrage over Biden's blatant desire to have done more to weaponize the justice system against his political opponent.

Lie of the Year:  Joe Biden Is "Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused".  When former Vice President Joe Biden entered the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the party quickly rallied behind him, convinced he was their best chance to defeat Trump.  It was evident, however, that Biden had changed during his time out of the spotlight.  He had slowed down, struggled to speak without a teleprompter, slurred his words, and frequently lost his train of thought.  While Republicans and foreigners recognized the early signs of cognitive decline, Biden's handlers worked tirelessly to cover it up. [...] Four years later, Biden's cognitive lapses have become too big to hide.  Yet the party continued to insist he was fully compos mentis, a vital trait for any world leader.  Their carefully constructed narrative came crashing down during a late-June debate in Atlanta, Georgia, when the truth was laid bare.  In that moment, the leader of the free world was exposed as a senile, doddering old man, shattering the illusion his party had tried so hard to maintain.  No amount of spin could save the situation.

Biden Flies Back From St. Croix; What He Does Next Says Everything About Him.  Joe Biden headed back from his umpteenth vacation on Tuesday.  Biden was coming back from yet another luxury vacation in St. Croix, where he's been since Thursday.  He was staying at the beachfront resort home of billionaire supporters Bill and Connie Neville.  He's come under fire before for not declaring the free stays on his ethical forms.  Yet you barely see any mainstream media attention to this. [...] Biden had been in St. Croix with his wife Jill, his daughter Ashley, and his son Hunter as well as Hunter's son, Beau.  But even after the vacation there, guess what he's doing when he comes back?  He's going to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, for New Year's Eve, and then he's going to Camp David.  Oh, hey, even more vacation!  Does this guy ever work?  Or is he even capable of it?

Still Sharp as a Tack After All These Years.  Joe Biden is on vacation in the Virgin Islands.  Nothing surprising about that; he has spent around 40 percent of his term on vacation.  And that is the official White House tabulation.  I suspect the true number is significantly higher.  If it were a Republican president, that would be a scandal. [...] My only point here is that Biden has been exactly like this for years.  His incapacity has been obvious to anyone who paid attention.  The pretense that he suffered a precipitous decline in recent months may be absurd, but it is necessary.  Without the myth of a late-term decline, the national press, the White House and Congressional Democrats would have no plausible defense to the charge that they sacrificed national security and well-being for partisan advantage.

2024's Winners and Losers: Year in Review.  [Joe Biden:  Winner!]  What is left of President Joe Biden is a winner in the year of our Lord 2024.  Even though Biden's own party threw a coup against him (the sitting president of the United States!) and removed him from the presidential race, the flip at the top of the ticket ended up being a flop. [...] Biden was a party man for half a century, but ever since Democrats switched Biden for Kamala Harris, Biden has seemingly helped Republicans at every turn and acted purely out of self-interest.  His loyalists leaked details of the coup and Democrat infighting to the press, he wore a MAGA hat, and he gave Republicans a last-minute turnout boost by calling Trump supporters garbage.  And, of course, since losing the election, he's pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, after promising for years he would not.  He's created one political mess after another, and the Democratic party will be left to clean it up.  Meanwhile, the president and his son will be on the beach in Delaware.

Who is Running the Country?  In name, Joe Biden is America's 46th president.  His "signature" is on official documents.  He is photographed periodically, whether in the Oval Office, wandering in foreign lands, or inappropriately sniffing or nibbling young children.  But he is the president in name only.  Is Joe Biden even real?  As this tweet illustrates, his height varies.  In one photo, Donald Trump and Barack Obama are the same height.  In another, Obama is taller than Biden, and in another photo, Biden is taller than Trump.  Like an Escher print, this optical illusion begs the question of whether there is more than one "Joe Biden." [...] After propping Biden up for years and now that he is heading out the door, the media admits they kinda sorta knew all along that Biden had dementia and can tut-tut over this massive coverup, dancing around their complicity in one of the worse political and journalistic scandals in history.  Lies, lies, and more lies.  This is truly "The Big Lie."

A Big Year for Big Lies.  Consider this far-from-complete list.  There were the Democrats' repeated claims that Joe Biden was "sharp" as a tack and at "the top of his game" — in fact, he was clearheaded enough to run the country for another four years!  Or remember when Kamala Harris was the "border czar" — until she wasn't, and, really, had never been the "border czar?"  Or the Ohio "cat eaters" who were nothing of the sort? [...] But nothing could top Biden's vehement denials that he had any knowledge of Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.  Indeed, he consistently said he never even met with any of Hunter's business partners, or spoke to his son about his business ventures.  And yet, here we are, weeks before Biden leaves office, and one last incriminating piece of evidence has emerged.  The official photos of the 2013 visit to China by then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter were just released by the National Archives.  They show Biden shaking the hand of future BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li, and Hunter speaking with Chinese president Xi Jinping.  Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee has documented 16 separate times that Biden lied about his knowledge or involvement with his family's business.

Who Hid the incriminating Biden Family China Photos from the American Public — And Why Have They Not Been Arrested?  Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joined Jason Chaffetz on Sunday Morning Futures this morning to discuss the incriminating photos released by America First Legal that were published last week of Joe and Hunter Biden meeting with their Chinese business associates while Joe Biden was in China representing the United States government.  Government Officials with the National Archives and partisan Records Administration hid and concealed these photos from the American public the last four years to shield and protect Joe Biden from any legal  [sic]   Last week, America First Legal obtained new photos of Joe Biden meeting with Hunter's Chinese business associates and introducing Hunter to China's Xi Jinping.

A Spiteful Biden Adds to His Failed Legacy.  Joe Biden became the basement campaigner whom liberals touted as the candidate who would unify the nation with his years of government experience and grandfather-like personality.  Kamala Harris was showcased as his youthful, female-of-color running mate who gave a two-for-one promise (female and a person of color) to the long-held hope of a future female President of the United States.  The bias of the MSM against Trump and for Biden was so obvious that every fair-minded voter took pause.  Nonetheless, the pandemic allowed for untested and unreliable voting strategies and, when coupled with the social chaos of the George Floyd riots, made Trump vulnerable.  It was this unprecedented election environment that resulted in a narrow and problematic Biden/Harris victory.  The real result of the 2020 election, however, was to enable what would become the worst presidential performance in modern history, displaying at a uniquely vulnerable time with the nationwide George Floyd and BLM unrest in major American cities.

Jonathan Turley Punctures CNN's Latest Defense About Biden and Those China Connections.  As we reported the other day, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) dropped some big truth bombs on CNN host Abby Phillip over Joe Biden and money from Chinese nationals.  [Advertisement]  The biggest problem was her confessed cluelessness when it came to the question.  "I'm still waiting to see the proof of Joe Biden enriching himself.  I take his brother and his son, perhaps," CNN host Abby Phillip said.  Then as I noted, Lawler did lay out a direct line.  [Tweet with video clip]

Five 'Accomplishments' Joe Biden Touts As Successes — but Which Were Failures.  If you took about a hundred dumpsters, all on fire, loaded them on a train full of burning porta-potties, and crashed the whole thing into a giant pile of the stuff one normally finds under the south end of a northbound horse, that would be the Biden presidency.  Befuddled and confused, inarticulate, showing flashes of unfounded anger and creepy whispering, Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the history of the republic.  We can take some comfort in knowing that Joe Biden will be vacating the White House on January 20th.  But he's not going quietly into that good night; instead, he's touting five so-called "accomplishments" of his term that, against all available evidence, he (or whoever is pulling his strings) see as successes.

Look back in anger.  On Thursday we took a first look at "Pictures from the Biden family business."  The story of the Biden family business — i.e., money for nothing — takes us back to the Hunter Biden laptop, the Deep State coverup of its authenticity courtesy of Antony Blinken and the Dirty 51, and the 2020 Biden presidential campaign.  It is a key that unlocks a secret history — or unlocked a secret history.  Anyone who cared to know long ago scoped out the heart of the story.  The photos provide further evidence that Joe Biden was lying when he disclaimed involvement in the family business.  Until this week the photos were held under lock and key at the National Archives. [...] We have known the outline of the story of the Biden family business since the Post's suppressed October 2020 laptop coverage.  The photos only add the ocular proof.  Like the work of British playwright John Osborne and the other irate young men of the 1950s, the photos let us look back in anger.  But how have the photos been kept under wraps until now?

Joe Biden Is No Longer In Touch With Reality.  Is President Joe Biden making any decisions anymore?  Who knows?  Probably not.  Heck, it was debatable from day one whether he was the one actually in charge of his administration.  Well, now he's made it crystal clear that he's utterly disconnected from reality.  According to White House insiders, Biden is reportedly lamenting his decision to to drop out of the presidential election, and — try not to laugh — he still believes he could have easily defeated Donald Trump had he stayed in the race. [...] The Harris-Walz campaign raised and spent $1 billion, but failed to win a single battleground state, highlighting the futility of their efforts.  It really didn't matter whether Biden ran or not, or had dropped out earlier; the Democratic Party brand was already in the toilet due to the failures of the Biden-Harris ticket.  Still, Biden's perception of how the election would have played out is indeed a curious mix of denial and delusion.

GOP Rep Humiliates CNN Host With Evidence of Biden Corruption.  Can you believe there are still voices in the liberal media clinging to the claim that Joe Biden never financially benefited from his family's corrupt business schemes?  This despite the fact that Biden issued his son Hunter a blanket pardon covering 11 years of potential crimes — the period where he was making his shady business deals with foreign business partners.  House Republicans have been digging up evidence of how shady the Biden Crime Family has been for years now.  They've got sworn testimonies, bank records, emails, phone calls, videos, photos, text messages, and even White House visitor logs proving Biden's corruption.  Not only is that true, but the evidence continues to pile up.  Adding fuel to the fire, photos surfaced earlier this week, showing Joe Biden introducing Hunter to Xi Jinping back in 2013 — right in the midst of Hunter's shady business dealings with his Chinese partners.  Yet even with the latest evidence, CNN's Abby Phillip claims she is "still waiting to see the proof" that Joe Biden enriched himself, while vaguely conceding his son's and his brother's involvement.

Byron Donalds Floats Theory About the Biden Death Row Commutations, and He Might Be Right on the Money.  As RedState previously reported, President Joe Biden decided to drop an unwelcome Christmas surprise on the families of murder victims whose killers were on federal death row by commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [...] Though the death row commutations were particularly infuriating, some have suggested that maybe it wasn't Biden himself who was the driving force behind the move.  Among them is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who during a Fox News interview Thursday noted that he believed Biden didn't even know what he was signing: [...] Donalds then expanded on his point, stating that this was something the radical left wanted to do all along but now had the chance to do because, in his view, Biden — for all intents and purposes — is not in charge anymore (if he ever was at all) in the final weeks of his presidency.

Feds finally release photos showing then-VP Biden meeting son Hunter's China biz partners — days before he leaves office.  The National Archives has finally released photos showing then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden's Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the president lied about not interacting with his family's foreign patrons.  The cache of photos, released long after their potential political salience and days before Biden retires on Jan. 20, also show Chinese President Xi Jinping grinning as then-Vice President Biden introduced his son during the same December 2013 trip to Beijing.

All of Team Joe aided in the Big Lie — now the world knows the truth of the Biden crime family.  Ever since The [New York] Post broke the story of Hunter Biden's laptop in October of 2020, it's been obvious that Joe Biden was involved in his son's influence peddling schemes.  The president's serial denials were as credible as Bill Clinton's claim that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."  Biden's most ridiculous lie was that he never even discussed Hunter's foreign business with him.  Laptop messages and photos showing Joe meeting with some of Hunter's skeezy clients proved otherwise.  Revelations that the son got millions from Ukraine energy company Burisma, despite knowing nothing about energy or Ukraine, destroyed the fiction that this was a merit-based business.  So did crucial public statements by Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden partner who bravely authenticated many of the emails and identified Joe as the "big guy" slated for a 10% cut in a Chinese deal.

Bag Men:  The Bidens' Perfection of Grifting and Corruption.  Joe Biden's political portfolio was exposed by CBS before Barack Obama picked him for his running mate in 2008.  According to CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs:  "With over 30 years of baggage accumulated in the U.S. Senate, Biden is not the kind of running mate you would think of for someone who has campaigned on a pledge to change the way politics is done in Washington."  How prescient does that comment seem given what has been uncovered about the corrupt Biden modus operandi these past four years?  Here is what Biden's 30 years in Washington, DC, entailed up to that moment in 2008:  Serial plagiarist and liar.  Shameful interrogation and belittling of Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing in 1991. [...] He certainly wasn't going to "broaden Obama's base," which is typically why VP selections are made (to balance the ticket regionally, demographically, and/or ideologically).  The reality is that Biden's true constituency existed among the corruptocrats and insiders who infest the Democrat Party, as well as their donors and "investors," and that is the reason Obama picked him in the first place.  We have seen that play out in spades during the Biden regime.

Non-stop junkets for the next few weeks:
Biden Slips in Even More Vacation, Raising Ethical Questions.  We're counting down the days until Joe Biden and his wife/handler Jill finally have to leave the White House.  But they seem to be intent upon milking every last bit they can before they are out the door.  He's no longer "working" after January 20, but how much has he actually "worked" since the election?  His time seems to have been full of vacation.  There's his time in Delaware, plus he also took his regular trip to Nantucket over Thanksgiving.  Jill snuck in a trip to Italy and France earlier this month.  Joe is planning on visiting the Pope next month before he leaves.  Then, on Thursday, he took off for St. Croix until New Year's with Jill and his daughter Ashley.  You know what he told reporters was his "resolution" when he was there last year?  It wasn't to get the American hostages back from Hamas or cure inflation, but to go back to St. Croix this year.

What Was So Different This Time About Trump's Election?  [Scroll down] [D]uring the 2024-2025 transition, Trump has all but assumed the presidency.  Over 100 foreign leaders have elbowed each other to be invited to Mar-a-Lago or to phone in their congratulations to the newly elected Trump.  Remember that in 2016 the left screamed "Logan Act" if a Trump transition appointee even talked with foreign officials.  So why is newly elected Trump a veritable cultural hero in 2024 in a fashion unimaginable eight years ago when the media had rendered him a near demon?  One, Trump is now seen as a welcome relief.  A departing and unpopular Joe Biden will leave with about a 36 percent approval rating.  The prior Biden years are now seen as abnormal, if not disastrous.  The left's cultural revolution championed fringe policies never quite seen before: destroying the border, welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens, nihilist critical race and legal theories, institutionalizing a third sex, and mandating woke/DEI quotas and indoctrination sessions.  Yet Biden had inherited from Trump a secure border, an economy rebounding after the COVID quarantines, 1.23 percent inflation, no wars abroad, and cheap energy.

Congress Must Expose the Senility Coup.  At some point in the last four years, the president ceased to be.  We do not yet know the date at which the man holding the office became incompetent to carry out his duties.  What we do know is that his entire administration engaged in a concerted conspiracy to cover up his incapacity.  This conspiracy was not just one of the many lies told for political purposes: it was a coup.  As America's political class grows sicker, we have witnessed the spectacle of members of Congress who are institutionalized or so decrepit that they no longer know where they are, 'sponsoring legislation' and 'casting votes'.  These are not just deceptions:  they are crimes.  The United States has a representative government of elected officials who are the only ones entitled to wield their powers.  Voters do not elect staffers and staffers are not empowered to wield legislative power only to provide advice and assistance to qualified elected officials.  Staffers who not only cover up the mental decline of an elected official, but who act in his or her name, are seizing power from the people and acting on their own behalf.  This is a coup.

2024 Man of the Year:  Jill Biden.  The "official record" will reflect that Joe Biden served as the 46th president of the United States between 2021 and 2025 (assuming he lives to see the new year), which is why you should never believe anything you read in a history book.  The American people know the truth.  Sleepy Joe has been scientifically dead for at least two years, if not longer.  His body crippled by rigor mortis, his brain the color and consistency of fecal slurry.  That's why we're giving this coveted Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year award to the person who has actually been running the country this whole time:  Jill Biden, America's desperate housewife.  In fact, we're going to call her Dr. Jill Biden from now on.  At first it was fun to mock her demand for the title on account of a worthless education degree.  But considering the actual experience she's accumulated in the field of home health care these past few years — giving sponge baths, changing bedpans, and administering the military-grade narcotics that allowed our nominal leader to present as semi-coherent in public settings — we feel she's earned it.  Caring for a spouse with severe dementia is never easy, even for the vast majority of us who aren't secretly in charge of the world's largest economy and commanding its most powerful military, not to mention having to put up with a crackhead stepson who once called you a [...]

Biden is King Midas in reverse.  He turned the border into a national security nightmare and humanitarian crisis.  He turned Afghanistan into a disaster that did not have to happen.  Add the economy and you know what I mean.  And then to top it off he has turned pardoning and commutations into a joke. [...] He could have told us why he did it and explain to the families why he did it now.  Furthermore, why did this moment of principle happen now and not during the campaign?  Once again, we were left in the dark with a little White House statement that he may or may not have written.  So the pardon powers, a very important presidential prerogative, has now been messed up too.

A Look Back At KJP's Greatest Fibs As Her Time In The White House Ends.  President Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter was a direct contradiction to numerous public statements from his Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.  On at least four occasions since Hunter Biden's plea deal for gun charges collapsed in July 2023, Jean-Pierre assured reporters, in no uncertain terms, that President Biden would not be pardoning his son.  Shortly after the deal fell through, Jean-Pierre offered a simple one-word answer to the question of whether or not Biden would pardon his son:  "No."  Later she was asked again and repeated, more emphatically this time "It's still a no.  It's still a no.  It will be a no.  It is a no.  And I don't have anything else to add.  Will he pardon his son?  No."

Election-Eve Coverup: Biden & the Art of Concealing Evidence.  In the closing days before the November 5, 2024, presidential election, a tale of political duplicity unfolded — one that would make even the most jaded Roman senator wince.  The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), ostensibly the neutral custodian of America's historical record, found itself ensnared in a scandal implicating the sitting president, his predecessor, and the Biden family's lucrative entanglements with China.  What transpired was a coordinated effort to withhold [scathing] evidence — photographs and records that expose a pattern of influence-peddling — until the polls had closed.  The American public, once again, became collateral damage in the Democratic Party's endless war on accountability.  At the center of this sordid affair are newly unearthed photographs obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against NARA.  These images, initially slated for release on October 23, 2024 — 13 days before the election — capture then-Vice President Joe Biden alongside his son Hunter, prominent Chinese business figures, and even President Xi Jinping.  AFL's persistence forced NARA to prepare these documents for disclosure, but in a move straight out of Tammany Hall, Biden and Obama's legal teams intervened to delay their release until just after the election.

Joe Biden cynically heads over to the Vatican to buy himself some salvation from the pope.  After fraudulently taking office and then wasting his presidency in a sump of corruption, economic ruin, anti-religious acts, and mayhem rained down on the little guys, Joe Biden has decided that as his presidency ends, now's about time to jingle those rosary beads in his pocket and make his final presidential visit to the Vatican to see the pope.  According to Fox News: ["]The White House announced that President Joe Biden will head to Italy next month for a public meeting with Pope Francis in Vatican City before his term comes to an end. [...] ["] [...] Meanwhile, the claim that the pope did the inviting is questionable.  We don't hear the pope saying he invited him.  The pope did, however, ask Biden to reduce the penalties of death row inmates in the states, and Joe was happy to do that for him, commuting the sentences of 37 murderers, quite likely in exchange for this one last meeting and photo op for "history."

The Editor says...
Joe Biden is rushing over to Vatican City — at the taxpayers' expense, to benefit only himself — "before his term comes to an end."  That's one way to put it.

Biden cleared the bench, pardoning the entire federal death row but three.  Somebody needs to put that Autopen back in its box.  The Pen — or the Cabbage, I suppose it's possible he signed them himself — commuted the sentences of 37 men whose heinous acts were so horrifying that the New York Times did not describe or even name a single one.  It offered no examples whatsoever, and to make it harder to research for ourselves, did not name the men who received presidential mercy.  The Times described them only in reassuringly generic and racially fair statistics:  all men, 15 white, 15 black, a token Asian and six Latin-exes, or Latin-'X', or however you say it.  Hispanic.  Biden curiously made no public statement.  He released a crack-of-dawn written statement cynically saying his heart aches for the victims' families, but he was "guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender."  In the statement, invisible Biden explained "his conscience" guided him to thwart President Trump:  "In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."  So, he pardoned the Biden 37 out of spite.  He didn't even try to hide it.  It was a terrible reason.

Biden's Most Dangerous Commutations Coming Soon.  Joe Biden, who is unable to perform his duties, follows the dictates of the hardcore left.  The Left, some media, and the Red Pope demand that he commute the sentences of Death Row prisoners.  The people on Death Row committed horrendous, inhuman crimes.  Newspapers like the Chicago Sun-Times want the commutations.  A commutation means these monsters could one day get out of prison.  We have a lot of people whose hearts bleed for criminals, not victims.  Biden will likely do as the Leftists want.  The Red Pope wants them released.  [Statement by the Pope omitted for brevity, among other things.] [...] The corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland has recommended that Biden, who opposes capital punishment, commute the sentences to life imprisonment for all but a handful of the 40 cases, the report said.  Merrick Garland oversees federal prisons.

Invalid Presidency.  In this episode of Truth Over News, we revisit the issue of Biden's diminished mental faculties and discuss whether there are grounds for invalidating his actions, such as pardons and commutations, on the basis that others, rather than Biden, were running the show and that he was unaware of what was happening.  [Video clip]

Then-VP Joe Biden Met Hunter Biden's Chinese Partners in 2013.  Then-Vice President Joe Biden introduced his son, Hunter Biden, to Chinese premier Xi Jinping, on an official visit in 2013, new photos show.  Vice President Biden also met Hunter's business associates in China, despite later denials.  The photos — only a partial archive — were released in response to a lawsuit filed by Stephen Miller's America First Legal foundation against the National Archives and Records Administration in 2022.  They shed new light on the Biden family's history of influence-peddling, which dates back to the Obama administration, and which Democrats denied as they impeached President Donald Trump and claimed Hunter's laptop was Russian "disinformation."  In 2013, Hunter Biden accompanied his father to China on Air Force Two.  When he returned, he brought with him a multi-billion dollar deal with a subsidiary of the Bank of China, which is owned by the Communist Party government.

How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days.  Biden infuriated many senior members of the Democratic Party with his shocking U-turn and pardon of his son Hunter a fortnight ago, after months of publicly vowing he wouldn't make such a move.  The pardon came alongside the quiet commuting of around 1,500 sentences, including for the relative of a member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been caught with child porn on his computer.  Now, sources say, the first lady has been egging her husband on to further inflame fury among his colleagues.  'Jill views Democrats on Capitol Hill, the [wider] party, the Obamas, staff inside and outside the White House, the media, and all of Washington DC with such misguided resentment that I can't imagine she [isn't] encouraging [Joe] to burn the whole thing down, despite his better judgment,' an insider said.  A particular target for the First Couple is said to be former house speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led the effort to push Biden out of the 2024 election race — personally calling him and demanding he quit in the hours before he withdrew on June 21.

Was It Really Joe Who Just Spared Death Row Killers?  Someone acting for the president just made a decision that only a president can make and commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 murderers on federal death row out of a sense of someone's moral imperative.  The Office of the President of the United States of America announced the commutations early Monday morning of Christmas week.  A statement issued by the White House said the president was "guided by my conscience" to commute the death penalties for some of the worst of the worst offenders in America.  It begs the question of how consciously Joe Biden does anything these days after the Wall Street Journal last week detailed how the White House staff covered up the elected president's mental deficiencies as the pall of dementia continued to overcome his cognition.  Staff acted as the president.  The White House statement claimed that the president said he was "more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.  In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."  How much "good conscience" he possesses and the extent to which he ever had any moral conscience on the issue of life in the first place is also in question.

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I want to see some evidence that Joe Biden knowingly commuted the death sentences of 37 people.  Put him on live television and ask him if he knows that he signed such an order.  Ask him about specific people on the list, and see if he recognizes any of the names.  If he denies signing the document, NOW the "administration" has a scandal on its hands that the press can't ignore.

Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas.  President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers — while leaving out three notorious fiends.  In the stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas, Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to some of the nation's most violent murderers — nine of them found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at "ensuring a fair and effective justice system," the White House said.  "Make no mistake:  I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement.  "But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.  In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."

The Editor says...
[#1] Any statement by Joe Biden that includes the phrase, "guided by my conscience," is highly suspect.  [#2] When was the last time you heard Joe Biden utter a complete and coherent sentence?  Joe Biden DID NOT write that "White House" statement.

There's a terrifying reason behind Biden's Christmas gift to child rapists and killers.  Remove him.  Now.  It's been sold by Democrats as a mercy to allow disgraced President Joe Biden to ride out his term.  How much harm can he do?, they ask.  A lot, it turns out.  An ungodly amount.  Devastating, unjust, dangerous harms — all exacted by a president we now know, thanks to blockbuster exposés last week, has been cognitively impaired since before Day One.  If the Democratic Party has a shred of self-preservation left, if its leaders hold any hope for rebounding in 2028 as the self-appointed guardians of decency, moral uprightness, and democracy itself, they must remove this dishonorable president immediately.  Early Monday morning, Biden commuted the death sentences of nearly all forty men on federal death row, including child rapists and murderers.  That's Joe Biden's version, I guess, of wishing 'Merry Christmas' to the grieving families of these murdered children.  Ever the coward, he dumped this news the day before Christmas Eve, hoping the bulk of mainstream media will ignore it.

Cotton: Can't We Reverse Biden's Despicable Clemencies Over Incompetency?  Short answer:  Nope.  Longer answer:  Tom Cotton already knows the short answer.  He's actually asking two other questions.  One is a long national conversation that has also been a long time coming — and the other a question that should have been coming for at least the last five months.  Cotton actually broaches the latter in his tweet about Joe Biden's decision to commute the death sentences of 37 Death Row convicts.  "Who is making these decisions," Senator Cotton asks, "and signing for "Joe Biden"?"  This is the question that everyone should have been asking since the Easter Bunny ordered the Leader of the Free [...] World off a White House rope line in April 2022.  The debate on June 27 made Biden's incompetency obvious and the question of power-wielding acute, but for some reason, members of Congress have not been interested in getting answers to it — even when Democrats are admitting that Biden's been non compos mentis for a while.  So why only now, after 'Biden' is issuing manipulative and despicable clemency actions, is this question getting seriously asked?

'Stain on the Presidency': Biden's Latest Commutations Aren't Going Over Well.  President Joe Biden's 11th hour commutations for 37 federal death row inmates, many of them who raped and murdered children, are not going over well.  "37 murders are spared the death sentence in yet another desperate act of outgoing president Joe Biden trying to get some media and left-wing approval.  They include some of the most heinous of double and triple murders," Democratic pollster Mark Penn posted on X.  "Would he have done this with an election pending?  Of course not.  He had four years to do this if believed it was the right thing to do as crime and murders spiked from before Covid.  And he could have been applauded for taking political risk and arguing his case.  But instead, freed from the will of the people, Biden in effect nullifies our will and our laws not by pardoning worthy individuals wrongly convicted but instead commuting the sentences of our worst miscreants."

Floating the Unthinkable Considering What's Happened — Blanket Pardoning Illegals.  Everyone knows we have had an unnamed cabal running this White House since 20 January 2021.  It was as plain as the nose on POTATUS face from the moment he first hid in his basement — while DOCTOR Jill did campaign stops for him, and the ones he did attend were highly scripted events with twelve chairs set fifteen feet apart — that Biden was not all there and should not even be running, [or] elected president.  But our corrupt, corrosive press enabled lie after lie to live unabated and unanswered on the airwaves — actively encouraging the spread of ones helpful to the Biden campaign while ensuring the entombment and negation of any contrary stories, however well documented and sourced.  They were ably assisted by the ceaseless censorship machines of the tech companies and the skullduggery of entrenched bureaucrats in federal departments charged with ensuring blind justice and accountability for the actions of all.  The deck was stacked, not just against Donald Trump, but against America.

Fox News Runs Through Brutal Examples of Murderers and Rapists Whose Death Sentences Were Commuted by Biden.  Fox News ran through several brutal examples of the convicted murderers and rapists who had their death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden with legal expert Andy McCarthy on Monday.  Earlier in the day, Biden announced that he was "commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole."  "Make no mistake:  I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," he continued.  "But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.  In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."

Biden Commutes Federal Death Row Sentences.  There were hints that it was coming, but in a stunning move early Monday morning, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row.  There has been a moratorium on carrying out federal executions since 2021, and Biden's move is seen as an attempt to prevent the incoming Trump administration from carrying out the executions. [...] Who were the three men not on the receiving end of this sweeping clemency?  The three inmates not included are:  Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-dead brother to perpetuate the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds.

Democrats — Don't be sheep.  On December 19th, the Wall Street Journal published "How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge" outlining their, the Biden Cabinet, the DNC, Democrat Donors, Kamala Harris, and the legacy media's long-held awareness from the earliest days of his "presidency" that Joe Biden's mental capacities had waned.  To put it bluntly, they lied.  They then proceeded to gaslight anyone with a functioning brain that what we were seeing with our own eyes were "cheapfakes."  Yet, another conspiracy theory come to conspiracy fact.  The question must be asked — who was running the country?  Was it Dr. Jill?  Barack Obama?  His strategically placed minions?  George/Alex Soros?  Maybe some globalist cabal, operating in the shadows?  Likely, all the above.  Of course they lied.  They lied to their base.  To their voters.  They played you all for stupid.

Biden Leaving a Steaming Pile of Syria Under Trump's Christmas Tree.  President Joe Biden is often unaware of his surroundings or behavior, but he surely knows that Christmas is almost here.  Playing Santa Claus, he is handing out gifts — pardons to existing and as-yet-unprosecuted criminals and members of Congress and special gifts to those succeeding him in the White House, particularly President-elect Donald Trump.  Concerning Biden's cognition, we are now learning that the White House was fully aware of his mental decline since before he took office and concealed this information from the public, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.  Has Trump been naughty or nice?  Will he receive a glittery Christmas present like a robust economy, world peace, or a secure border?  Or will a nuclear war, drone attack, or pandemic be in his Christmas stocking?

The Least Successful Conspiracy.  [Scroll down] This Wall Street Journal article, for example, has been described as a "blockbuster" story.  In my opinion, it contained little that was new and nothing that was surprising.  I don't doubt that various people, including the press, conspired, but the fact that Joe Biden was senile was open and obvious.  It was obvious even before he became president.  He ran a basement campaign in 2020, while Donald Trump, who is nearly as old as Biden, toured the country putting on one massive rally after another.  I assume everyone understood the reason for that contrast:  Biden wasn't up to running anything like a normal presidential campaign.  Biden's disability was obvious throughout his presidency.  He couldn't talk without a teleprompter.  On the rare occasions when he wasn't reading a script, he quickly veered into incoherence or worse.  Even with a teleprompter, he couldn't be trusted.  He would read instructions like "Pause" and "Repeat line."  An intelligent fifth-grader would have done better.  Biden fell down (or up) steps.  He wandered aimlessly.  He was officially on vacation half the time.  The fact that his aides protected him from public exposure was obvious.  And it's not as though no one was talking about his evident incapacity.

The Gift That Just Keeps on Giving.  In our previous exposé, we revealed the staggering scope of Biden's Christmas clemency spree:  1,500 convicted criminals — including spies, predators, and fraudsters — were granted freedom under the guise of "second chances."  Public outrage was swift and justified.  But the deeper we dig, the clearer it becomes that this was no impulsive act of misplaced mercy.  Instead, it was the culmination of three years of calculated efforts orchestrated by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and a cadre of radical bureaucrats at the Department of Justice (DOJ).  With Biden largely absent from the helm, this administration's ideologues have seized the reins, turning clemency into a political weapon aimed squarely at reshaping the justice system into a caricature of equity — where the rights of victims are an afterthought and public safety is sacrificed for ideological purity.

Wall Street Journal Interviews 50 Biden Staff and Officials Who Outline Cognitive Decline.  The Wall Street Journal triggered a lot of attention with a lengthy expose' article sourced from 50 members of the Biden administration who mostly admit:  Joe Biden's cognitive decline was obvious early in the administration and rapidly worsened in the last two years.  The article outlines what most of the non-pretending group already knew, Biden was selected by Team Obama specifically because he was easily controlled by a group of insider staff allowing the Obama agenda to continue with Biden as the avatar for it.  Heck, they even created a soundstage and fake Oval Office backdrop; but we are not supposed to mention that reminder, are we?

Pre-emptive Pardons and Cheap Grace.  Pre-emptive pardons, which essentially are instruments designed to protect persons who have not yet been investigated or charged with crimes they may have committed, are fundamentally unearned blanket forgiveness.  They are what Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian and martyr, characterized as "cheap grace." [...] Pre-emptive pardons amount to secularized salvation based only on the grace and mercy extended by a mere human being, the president of the United States.  The president decrees that the law has not been and is not presently applicable to those he pre-emptively pardons.  They are guiltless, no matter what they have done or whom they have harmed.  They are guiltless even though they have not confessed, have not repented, and doubtless remain disinclined to change their ways.

Massive 17,000 Page Report on How the Biden Admin Weaponized the Federal Government [has been Published].  A bombshell 17,000-page report was just dropped, detailing specific instances where the Biden administration has weaponized the federal government for political gain.  The extensive document, compiled by the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, outlines claims of misuse of federal agencies to target political opponents, suppress dissent, and influence public opinion.  This raises serious questions about the integrity of the federal bureaucracy and the Biden Administration's four years in office.  [Advertisement]  During the nearly two-year investigation, exposed a "two-tiered system of government," witht the committee finding several cases of censorship, whistleblower retaliation, and the politicization of federal agencies and top law enforcement.  The report notes that the objective of the committee is to "protect and strengthen the fundamental rights of the American people."  Although its work is not done, the report assures the American people that this was the necessary first step to stop the weaponization of the federal government and to make sure it no longer works against the United States.

Joe Biden Met With Hunter's Business Associates More Times Than With His Cabinet.  They say the U.S.  presidency is the loneliest job in the world.  Maybe the second-loneliest gig is that of Cabinet secretary in President Joe Biden's administration.  A piece published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal pulls from dozens of sources who say Biden's inner circle of trusted aides increasingly kept contact with the president at a minimum, including the people he should have depended on most to consult and advise for the good of the nation.  The president who has spent a good chunk of his term out of the office apparently was not all that keen on meetings with his Cabinet secretaries.  In fact, Biden may have met more often with his criminal son's sketchy clients than he has with his administration's top managers.  Joe Biden was such a political liability that his handlers hid him away during the 2020 presidential campaign.  The man campaigned from his Delaware basement through the brunt of the election year.  The cloistered strategy wasn't as much about protecting the feeble geezer from Covid as it was designed to prevent American voters from seeing what a physical and mental mess Biden really was.

For 4 Years, America Had No President.  The Wall Street Journal has an article delving into the efforts to cover up Biden's mental state.  But the article raises as many questions as it answers. [...] This has been old news for a while and hardly anyone except a few insiders is even denying the obvious.  The real question is who was actually running the country?  We already knew that Biden had limited interaction with cabinet members.  The article amplifies that. [...] A small group of 'close aides and advisers' was running the show on the inside while cabinet members and lower level policymakers were able to do what they wanted.  There's a lot of conversation within the Dems about the influence of 'groups' like the ACLU on the functioning of the administration.  All that was possible because there was [no] place that the buck really stopped.  There was no president.

Fraud in the Oval Office:  The White House Cover-Up Exposed.  For four long years, the nation was deceived.  The so-called leaders of the free world operated as though the American people were mere spectators at a puppet show — and the marionette strings were held tightly by an unelected clique of aides and handlers.  We now know, thanks to a [scathing] investigation by The Wall Street Journal, that President Joe Biden's mental decline was not only a known issue from day one but was systematically covered up by his closest advisors and White House staff.  This wasn't just poor management or political spin; it was fraud against the United States government and the American people.  The deliberate concealment of a president's inability to fulfill his constitutional duties is not only immoral but illegal.  The culprits must face both criminal and civil consequences to restore integrity to the republic and ensure such a betrayal never happens again.

The Terrifying Scandal Is That Biden Was NEVER President.  Having been lied to for years by the Democratic Party machine and most of the mainstream media — who insisted Joe Biden was not diminished by his age but energized by it — well, it turns out we skeptics were right all along.  And what we're learning is terrifying.  Infuriating.  An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort.  Will we ever know who these conspirators are?  Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president thoroughly out to lunch for his entire term: Top cabinet members unable reach him.  Staff regularly taking his place at official events.  Biden refusing to hold morning meetings but clocking out at 4pm — even though he naps every day and, in July, announced that he'd no longer hold events after 8pm.  How many hours has Joe Biden actually spent working?  How was the 25th amendment not invoked?  Was the danger of a President Kamala Harris — who the liberal media also tried to sell as viable — truly that unthinkable?

'Black Widow,' Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden's Historic Clemency Spree.  A Maryland woman dubbed the "Black Widow" for murdering two husbands and a boyfriend for insurance money is now free after President Joe Biden commuted her 40-year prison sentence, undercutting the White House's claim that Biden released only "non-violent" offenders in a clemency bonanza last week.  Among the 1,500 federal convicts granted clemency was Josephine Virginia Gray, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2002 for insurance fraud schemes connected to the murders of three men between 1974 and 1996.  Gray was resentenced to the same amount of time again in 2006 following a series of appeals.  Gray, who collected $165,000 from the three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities but ultimately convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating what's known as the "slayers rule," which prohibits killers from receiving inheritance and insurance proceeds from their victims' death.

Biden considers commuting the sentences of federal death row inmates:  report.  As President Biden's term comes to an end, he is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government's death row.  The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that the move would frustrate President-elect Trump's plan to streamline executions as he takes office in January.  Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversees federal prisons, recommended that Biden commute all but a handful of egregious sentences, the sources said.

Biden Mulls Commuting Sentences of All 40 Federal Death Row Inmates After Trump Promises to Accelerate Federal Executions.  Joe Biden may commute the sentences of all 40 federal death row inmates after pressure from more than 130 human and 'civil rights' groups.  This is after Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others — the biggest single-day act of clemency in history, the AP reported.  Biden also pardoned his son, Hunter, who was convicted of felony gun crimes after he promised he would respect the jury's verdict.  President Trump has promised to accelerate federal executions so Joe Biden is likely going to commute their sentences in an effort to derail Trump's plans.  Trump's DOJ signed off on 13 federal executions during Trump's first term.

Jill rags on Joe to 'burn the whole thing down'.  After doddering, napping, and vacaying through his presidency, Joe Biden has found himself out of a job.  It's no big loss, given that he never did the job anyway, but his string-puller behind the Oval Office desk is still fuming. [...] Now that the ouster maneuver came about by Pelosi, George Clooney, and Obama, and Joe threw Kamala Harris in their faces in response, and then marveled at how Kamala could lose the election with his billion-dollar campaign war chest, it's the season of bitterness for Jill Biden.  But although Joe is doing his level best to take out Trump before he can start his presidency, selling off parts of the border wall for a pittance, and sealing civil service jobs to prevent layoffs, and pardoning a slew of sleazebags with political ties, which threw mud all over his already wretched presidential record, Jill is busy focusing on Democrats.  Whatever she does to them, will be well and mightily deserved, and one can only hope it will be creative and politically painful for them.  As long as she's around, she probably will take down that whole house of cards.

All the warning signs Biden was 'senile from day one' of his presidency.  These are President Joe Biden's stumbles and mistakes that should have been a clue to his rapidly declining mental health[,] after bombshell report revealed how Democrat insiders and cheerleaders hid his condition from the public.  The Biden Administration launched an extensive, deliberate and years-long cover-up in attempt to hide his ailing mental state, a new explosive investigation by The Wall Street Journal has exposed.  The bombshell report revealed how Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his 'bad days', and kept him at arm's length from his own Cabinet members.  But despite the efforts of 'eager beaver hand-holders', Biden's decline became increasingly obvious throughout time in office, with voters now branding him the worst president in almost 50 years.

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Calling Joe Biden "the worst president in almost 50 years" implies that Jimmy Carter was worse.  That is not true.  I was an adult during the Jimmy Carter years, and while Carter was weak and incompetent, he wasn't venal, corrupt, lazy, dishonest, perverse and greedy.

White House Biden health cover-up blown wide open in bombshell report:  Joe was senile from day one of presidency.  The White House tried to hide from the public Joe Biden's rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report.  Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his 'bad days', and kept him at arm's length him from his own Cabinet members.  An explosive investigation by The Wall Street Journal has exposed an extensive, deliberate and years-long cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden's abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama's vice president.  Despite the efforts of 'eager beaver hand-holders', Biden's decline became increasingly obvious, especially after Special Counsel Robert Hur last year released a report depicting a forgetful and frail then-81 year old.

Three Reports: Biden Is Out of It Mentally, Has Been Since at Least 2021.  Three reports in the last two days reveal that President Joe Biden's cognitive decline worsened almost as soon as he entered office in 2020, that a phalanx of gatekeepers kept the president hidden away, and that he suffers with "degraded mental faculties" that began just about 12 months after taking office.  The latest in reports from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and O'Keefe Media Group follows the revelation from a top national security aide that Biden is out of it mentally.  The disclosures explain why President-elect Trump crushed Biden during their debate in June, and why top Democrats let it proceed:  so he would lose, which would force him out of the race.  [Tweet]  Remarkably, the Journal's refreshingly honest headline didn't sugarcoat the ensuing report:  "How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge: Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted.  The administration denied Biden has declined."

This means the undercover video was authentic and what he said must have been true.
Department of Homeland Security Official OUT at DHS After Getting Caught on Undercover Video Discussing Biden's Accelerated Mental Decline.  As previously reported, the O'Keefe Media Group on Wednesday evening released undercover video of DHS Under Secretary for Policy, Robert Silvers, admitting Biden's mental decline accelerated 12 to 24 months into his presidency.  Silvers also said Trump's win was a "traumatic" and "crushing blow."  "[Biden] has degraded faculties," Robert P. Silvers, Under Secretary of Policy at the US Department of Homeland Security admitted on hidden camera footage to an undercover OMG journalist, referring to Joe Biden's accelerated mental decline.

Proof that the Biden DOJ is not only corrupt but is pure evil.  Now, after four years of the most corrupt, devious, destructive and anti-American administration in U.S. history, the American people are waking up to this fact:  Joe Biden was never a competent member of Congress or the Senate.  He was always a pathological liar, an avowed racist, and a money-grubber.  He would do anything for money, including betray his own country and use his family to do it.  Joe Biden has been selling out his country for decades to enrich himself and his family.  This is common knowledge among the D.C. thugs; every denizen of D.C. probably knows this.  Does the left care?  No, they do not.  They care not one iota about ethics, the truth, or what the Constitution actually says.  It is quite likely that few of them have ever actually read it.

Biden Wanted to Save Assad.  It was galling, to say the least, to see President Joe Biden, taking credit for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. [...] It was the Obama/Biden administration that elevated Iran and its terrorist proxies in client states like Syria and Lebanon in the first place.  Biden hired the same Obama team, his administration representing "Obama's third term."  These included Robert Malley as the "Iran Envoy" (since removed for 'mishandling classified documents'), Jake Sullivan, Obama's National Security Advisor, Anthony Blinken, now Secretary of State, and Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.  They are Iran-firsters.  It has also been one of their obsessions to pursue the so-called Joint Coordinated Plan of Action (JCPOA ) that ultimatelyprovides a pathway to a nuclear bomb for the ayatollahs and Iran, an oil-rich nation with a radical Islamic regime — that would render the region and world far less safe.

Hypothetically, if Our President Were Brain-Dead and the VP an AWOL Drunk, What Would Our Enemies Do?  Hey, remember all those wonderful promises that Kamala Harris made?  Just five or six weeks ago, she was running for president because she wanted to do all kinds of great things for the American people — and she couldn't wait to get started!  After all, she could truly relate to our plight, being from a "middle-class family."  (She might've mentioned that a few times.)  And just a few months before that, Joe Biden was determined to run for reelection himself, because there was just too much [...] work to be done.[...] It's not that Trump has usurped Biden's presidential authority — Biden and Harris have functionally abandoned it.  For better or worse, there's a power vacuum.

A Biden Email Scandal Worse Than Hillary's?  In 2016, a scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state dogged her campaign.  The sending and receiving of classified and top-secret information on the server, which didn't meet government security protocols, left sensitive information vulnerable to being hacked by foreign enemies.  Apparently, she wasn't the only one in the Obama administration trying to get around disclosure requirements.  According to a report from Just the News, "New email records released by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about sensitive foreign policy matters by then-advisor Antony Blinken on his private email account, including details about a failed North Korean missile launch."  These records show that Biden used a private email account, robinware456@gmail.com, to receive sensitive foreign policy briefings — a practice that may have introduced significant vulnerabilities.

Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History.  Consider what Biden managed in a few short weeks.  The unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his son Hunter made a mockery of not only his solemn pledge that he'd trust the justice system but managed to infuriate every Democratic leader and media fanboy who'd sung his praises for that pledge. [...] Biden's decision to commute nearly 1,500 sentences for people — who, he said, "have shown that they deserve a second chance" — and pardon 39 others has raised hackles, even among the mainstream media. [...] CNN ran a story with this headline: "Victims 'shocked' after Biden grants clemency to 'kids for cash' judge and $54 million embezzler."  The "kids for cash" judge refers to Michael Conahan, who was convicted of "funneling juveniles to for-profit detention centers in exchange for more than $2 million in kickbacks."  One of those juveniles committed suicide.  Now we learn that Biden acted "without considering the specifics of his case."

Biden Should be Ashamed of These Pardons & Clemency Grants.  President Biden has pardoned or granted clemency to TONS of people, including some controversial prisoners.  Glenn and Stu review some of the worst, including a woman who stole $54 million from her small town and the "kids-for-cash" judge, who sent kids to a for-profit juvenile detention center in exchange for $2 million.  [Video clip]

Jill Biden Announces Retirement.  Joe Biden will finally be going off into the sunset on Jan. 20 after more than 50 years occupying public office.  He managed to completely finish off his reputation over the past few years and is leaving having fully earned the title of the worst person to occupy the Oval Office in the last 50 years.  Jill Biden will be out the door with him and a lot of this failure is on her head for having him stay in long after he should have retired.  She even ridiculously wanted him to run again.  How power-hungry can you be?  He's now leaving with everyone knowing how cognitively impaired he is and how much he's hurt the country.  And he was shoved to the side in a genuinely anti-democratic move that was truly embarrassing for him.

Joe Biden Delivers Delusional Speech at DNC Holiday Party.  Lame-duck President Joe Biden took the stage at the Democratic Party's holiday party Sunday evening, reflecting on his time in office and touting his supposed international achievements.  Unsurprisingly, his speech was packed with the usual dose of delusion. [...] If you were expecting humility or even an honest assessment of the state of the country, you haven't been paying attention to this presidency.  Biden's remarks were a mishmash of self-congratulations, revisionist history about his accomplishments, and a healthy dose of fantasy.  For example, despite the Democrats losing an election that was entirely a referendum on the Biden-Harris administration, Biden stood there and declared, "The one thing I've always believed about public service, and especially about the presidency, is the importance of asking yourself, have we left the country better shape than we found it today?  I can say without every fiber in my being, with all my heart, the answer to that question is a resounding yes.  Yes."

James O'Keefe Releases Shocking Video of NSC Advisor Admitting Biden Is Far Worse Off Than We Know.  James O'Keefe dropped an undercover video on Monday in which one of President Joe Biden's National Security Council advisors explains that the cognitively declining president is far worse off than the public knows. [...] Joe Biden is the sitting president of the United States.  He figuratively has his finger on the nuclear button.  He is handing out pardons to people, including his son Hunter, like they're going out of style, not to mention that the pardon of Hunter and multiple other undeserving recipients makes a mockery of justice.  This situation should never again happen with a sitting president.  Heads should roll for it happening at this time, and legislation or a constitutional amendment should be passed to ensure that it doesn't.

Are the Years of Madness Ending?  For four years, the public, elected officials, and pundits have all warned that Joe Biden was dangerously cognitively challenged and indeed completely unfit to fulfill the duties of the presidency.  A long-suffering nation winced as Biden slurred his words, spoke in unintelligible sound bites, stood frozen and mute, screamed at and libeled half the country, tripped, fell, wandered aimlessly, became bewildered, and more or less proved a global embarrassment.  All knew Biden was not able to run the country; yet none knew exactly who was actually in charge of America in his stead.  The Obamas?  Leftists like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, Jill Biden, and the Biden staff?  Our allies worried that the usually resilient American president was now all but demented.  Our enemies enjoyed these leaderless years of opportunity.  And the left serially misled the public that the decrepit Biden, whom they feared in private was senile, was "dynamic," "energic," and "fit as a fiddle."

Joe Biden may set a dangerous new precedent with 'preemptive' pardons.  There are growing indications that President Biden is about to fundamentally change the use of presidential pardons by granting "prospective" or "preemptive" pardons to political allies.  Despite repeated denials of President-elect Donald Trump that he is seeking retaliation against opponents and wants "success [to be] my revenge," Democratic politicians and pundits have called for up to thousands of such pardons.  While there is little threat of any viable prosecution of figures like the members of the House's Jan. 6 committee, the use of "White Knight pardons" offers obvious political benefits.  After many liberals predicted the imminent collapse of democracy and that opponents would be rounded up by the Trump administration, they are now contemplating the nightmare that democracy might survive and that there will be no mass arrests.

Biden Pardons The Worst People In The World.  We know that Joe Biden pardoned his crackhead bagman son, but that was just the start of a pardon and commutation spree of just amazingly awful people. [...] Also getting their sentence commuted was Rita Crundwell, who embezzled a little bit of money while she was comptroller of Dixon, Illinois.  Namely, $54 million. [...] But wait!  Crundwell isn't the biggest embezzler in Biden's pardon list.  That honor goes to "Eric Bloom, the former CEO of Northbrook-based Sentinel Management Group, Inc., who defrauded hundreds of customers of more than $665 million."

Biden Granted Clemency To Multiple Public Officials, Democrat Politicians Convicted Of Corruption.  Biden granted clemency last week to several Democrat politicians and public officials convicted on corruption charges.  Among the nearly 1,500 criminals whose sentences Biden commuted last week were at least three Democratic politicians and several other public officials, including a former judge notorious for putting thousands of kids behind bars for kickbacks.  Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, one of two judges convicted in 2011 for his role in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by Biden.  Conahan and another judge received millions from sending children to private detention facilities where they had a business interest.  Several victims of the scheme spoke out against Biden's decision.

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Joe Biden is a senile old man.  He signs whatever his handlers put in front of him.  If you ask him today if he has ever heard of Judge Michael Conahan, he would probably say, "No".

When has any president ever issued a preemptive pardon?
Bernie Sanders Says Biden Should Consider Preemptive Pardons for January 6 Committee Members.  Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said President Joe Biden should "very seriously" consider preemptive pardons for members of the House January 6 select committee after president-elect Donald Trump said last week they should be jailed.  Sanders twice called Trump's recent statement "outrageous."  "This is what authoritarianism is all about.  It's what dictatorship is all about," the former Democrat said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning.  "You do not arrest elected officials who disagree with you, who undertake an investigation."  During a wide-ranging interview with NBC News host Kristen Welker last Sunday, Trump said the seven House Democrats and two House Republicans who served on the January 6 panel "should go to jail."  The two Republican members were then-Representatives Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.), both of whom Trump has verbally attacked for their role in investigating the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.  Trump was implicated in that investigation for allegedly inciting an insurrection that day before exiting the White House nearly four years ago.

Dem Sen. Klobuchar:  I Don't Agree with Biden's 'Middle of the Night' Pardons of His Son, Others.  [Transcript of Face the Nation, and little else.]

It Turns Out That Biden Never Considered the 'Specifics' of the 1500 Clemency Cases He Commuted.  A "Massachusetts woman on Biden's clemency list was sentenced for 'lethal' fentanyl trafficking conspiracy," according to the Boston Herald.  She led a "large-scale criminal enterprise that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits and caused untold misery."  "Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell stole $53 million from the little town, a crime so notorious that a documentary was made — highlighting that she perpetrated the largest case of municipal fraud in American history," reports Politico.  Perhaps most incredibly, the "Cash for Kids" judge in Pennsylvania who wrongly sent dozens of minors to a for-profit prison and got kickbacks for it, was released without any examination of the facts of his case.  "The White House commuted the sentence of the judge at the center of a notorious 'kids-for-cash' scandal without considering the specifics of his case, beyond whether it fit into a broad set of criteria," reports Politico.  We can assume the rest of the cases of the 1500 prisoners were also examined just as thoroughly.

The Top Five Presidential Public Relations Crises of 2024.  Even Reagan, the great communicator and 49-state victor in 1984, lost his first debate with Walter Mondale, of all people.  But the crisis for Biden was the way his own leading Democrats talked themselves into a feeding frenzy of horror at having Biden for a candidate.  They kept pushing one another (and Biden), forcing him to step down until, three weeks later, he could no longer mount a viable campaign.  His was the first presidential coup d'état — admittedly a bloodless one — in American history.  Never before had a sitting president, nominated and running for re-election, been forced out by his own party.  However, a vengeful Biden cleverly played against that putsch.  He'd originally picked beyond long-shot Kamala Harris for his vice president as "insurance" against a 25th Amendment run-around that would have removed him from office.  Seeing how weak and ineffective Harris was as VP, nobody would rationally try to push Biden out.  Not until the debate made him look — to his opponents — like a loser.

Joe Biden & Co. are doing as much damage to the US as they can before they leave.  Joe Biden and the Dem apparat around him have made it plain:  They are going to do as much damage to America as they can on the way out the door.  Last week brought a record number of presidential pardons, including 1,500 commutations of the sentences of "nonviolent" felons, most of whom were already serving their sentences at home after being sprung from prison during COVID.  Except the White House upped the count by overlooking some truly heinous offenses: a Pennsylvania judge who took bribes to send kids to a for-profit "detention" center; an Illinois clerk who embezzled over $53 million from a town of just 15,000 people; a Massachusetts woman convicted for a fentanyl-trafficking conspiracy.

Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies.  President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history."  But it's not Thursday's set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it's those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.  X user Nick Sortor posted that "Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p[o]rnography.  WHY?"  But the thing is, Biden didn't "just" commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.  While most Americans were finalizing their menus and getting into the holiday spirit, Biden commuted the sentence of Yanjun Xu on November 22.  Xu was convicted in 2022 for "conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or deception."  But according to Biden's pardon, "it is in the national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the aforesaid conviction not be served in its entirety."  Xu was ordered to leave the United States and never return or commit any other crimes against the United States, according to the pardon.

The question that the press corps needs to ask but won't.  In the statement accompanying the recent pardon of his son, Hunter, President Biden stated that he believed that his son was being improperly prosecuted by the Department of Justice because of their familial relationship. [...] While I disagree with the president's view of the propriety of the pardon, it does raise an interesting question:  if the president sincerely believes that the Department of Justice is acting improperly and out of control, then why does he allow those members of his administration, especially Attorney General Garland, to continue to serve in his office?  Shouldn't he be fired immediately for incompetence or improper behavior?  How can he reasonably be allowed to continue in office, given the president's view?  He serves at the pleasure of the chief executive.  If Biden's view is to be taken seriously, Garland's immediate firing is required, even if only a few days are left in the administration.

So long is too good a word.  Earlier this week President Biden wandered up the street from the White House to [give a speech at] the Brookings Institution. [...] Biden was introduced by Brookings co-chairman Glenn Hutchins and, more briefly, by Brookings president Cecilia Rouse.  From 2021 to 2023, Rouse served as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.  According to her, "inequality and climate change" are what it's all about.  The "climate" for "inequality" should be "changing."  Rosue, by the way, is one of the Biden administration economists who toed the "transitory" line on inflation.  In May 2021, Rouse attributed inflation to a mismatch between supply and demand due to the pandemic and the economic snap-back that had pushed inflation higher.  She assured us the mismatch should prove temporary. [...] Hutchins then held out Biden as a person "who exemplifies the Brookings mission" and who has "consistently shown his commitment to evidence based policy making."  If only Hutchins had congratulated Biden on his good judgment and integrity, we could be sure that he was kidding.

Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention.  President Biden on Thursday commuted the prison sentence of Michael Conahan, a former judge who pleaded guilty to sending juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks.  The 72-year-old judge pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in 2011 and was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for the "Kids-for-Cash" scheme.  He has been in home confinement in Florida under federal supervision since June 2020, when he requested a "compassionate release" because of the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing he was "in grave danger of not only contracting the virus, but of dying from the virus."  Conahan, whose commutation was first reported by the Citizens' Voice, was one of 1,499 commutations Biden granted this week.

Another skanky Biden pardon:  A corrupt judge who jailed kids for long terms on minor offenses in exchange for kickbacks.  After spending his entire presidency coddling criminals and supporting Sorosian lawlessness, Joe Biden decided to commute the sentence of the one judge out there who sentenced kids to draconian, disproportionate jail terms on minor drug offenses — in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks from private prison owners who belong in jail, too. [...] Rats like this belong in jail, given the level of injustice they do to young people from their position of respectability and public trust.  A sentence that overpunishes a miscreant is just as bad as a slap on the wrist sentence for a bad crime, but in some ways worse, actually, given the injury it does to the detainees' psyches.  And to see that in this judge's case, that it was done for big dollars for himself, is unspeakable.

Joe Biden Considers A Scorched Earth Policy On His Way Out The Door.  Biden, the politician who's never had a job that didn't come from the government, has contempt for the Republic.  For him, America, and in particular the government, is just a vehicle for accumulating power and money.  The man is an inveterate liar.  He lies about important things and trivial.  He lied about riding the train, the death of his grandfather, and being shot at in Iraq.  He lied about the truck driver who killed his wife and daughter in 1972, claiming that the man had been drunk despite police records of the time showing no such thing.  He cheated in college, lied about his standing at graduation in law school, and, fatally for his 1988 presidential run, plagiarized Neil Kinnock, a British politician.

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Joe Biden needs to read Revelation 21:8.

Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies.  President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history."  But it's not Thursday's set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it's those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.  X user Nick Sortor posted that "Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography.  WHY?"  But the thing is, Biden didn't "just" commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.

The Most Corrupt Administration In American History Just Got Even Worse.  You might think that the Biden administration had already hit rock bottom.  Pardoning Hunter seemed like it set the bar in terms of sleaze.  Surely, even Beijing Biden could not go any lower.  But, of course, he has.  [Video clip]  Yanjun Xu is a Chinese intelligence officer.  He was sent to the United States to target American companies and steal defense secrets.  His job was to acquire intelligence that would allow the Chinese to win a war against us and kill our servicemen and women.  He set up a network of sources in the United States in pursuit of this objective.  Xu was caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned. [...] Joe Biden just pardoned Xu and ordered him released from custody.

Biden Takes Credit for Syria Regime Change He Tried to Prevent.  There are lots of mostly bad things that President Joe Biden can justly take credit for, but the fall of Syria is not one of them.  The only real reason this happened is because Israel threw off the shackles and decided to go after Hezbollah after a year of terror.  And Biden did everything to prevent that.  At the very end, he used an arms embargo to force Israel into a fake "ceasefire" with Hezbollah.  But by then Israel had done enough damage to Hezbollah that Turkey's Jihadists were able to just roll into Syria, and Iran decided to sell them out and pull back.  But now Biden is trying to take credit.

Six Weeks Until Our Long National Nightmare Is Over.  Biden's lies were so egregious that at a recent White House press briefing, CNN reporter MJ Lee asked a very pertinent question, "The next time that the president says he will or won't do something, why should the American people believe him?"  Of course, the American people should never believe Biden, for he has been lying and plagiarizing his entire political career.  For example, in the 1988 presidential race, Biden was forced to withdraw his candidacy after it was discovered he repeatedly plagiarized from the speeches of British political leader Neil Kinnock, among others.  Sadly, Hunter's pardon will be just the beginning, for over the next six weeks, Biden will undoubtedly issue more controversial pardons.  Some political observers speculate Biden could pardon other family members, such as his brother James.  He could also issue preemptive pardons for people who might face an investigation from the Trump Justice Department.  This list includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney.  These pardons will only make the unpopular Biden more hated by the American people.

Biden's Pardon:  A Smokescreen for Corruption.  Joe Biden has carefully cultivated his image as an empathetic man of the people.  In reality, his career has been marked by a relentless pursuit of wealth for himself and his family.  His son Hunter Biden was central to these schemes, operating as the family "bag man" for various influence-peddling operations overseas.  [Advertisement]  As such, Joe Biden's decision to pardon Hunter is not an act of mercy or justice or even paternal loyalty but a cynical maneuver to shield both Hunter and Joe Biden from responsibility.  [Advertisement]  Its brazenness has moved even Joe Biden's most ardent defenders to condemnation.  [Advertisement]  After all the pious talk invoking the "rule of law" during the years-long prosecutions of Donald Trump, Hunter's pardon shows that there has always been a parallel set of rules, through which the powerful and politically favored can escape scrutiny.  This case is also a reminder of how the rule of law can be perverted not only by being too harsh but also by being too solicitous.  The media have feigned shock at his pardon, but they should have known better.  Even before he was facing charges, Hunter's job as a highly paid board member of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, was absurd on its face.  He had no relevant skills or qualifications justifying a $50,000 monthly salary — except, of course, his last name.

The Biden Crime Family Is Above the Law.  If Hunter Biden had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence peddling or launder millions through his "art" or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high school without any real consequences.  If Hunter's last name weren't "Biden," special counsel David Weiss would never have let him get away with failing to register as a foreign agent or avoid paying millions in taxes that flowed from his foreign arrangements.  If your name isn't Biden, don't try writing off your hookers and crack as tax deductions.  If Hunter had been treated like anyone else, the Justice Department wouldn't have tried to give him blanket immunity not only on gun and tax charges but on a slew of uninvestigated potential offenses, including bribery and corruption.  If it hadn't been for a principled judge named Maryellen Noreika asking the government's so-called prosecutors if they could provide a single precedent in which immunity was offered to a person for "crimes in a different case" (they could not), Hunter Biden would have walked last year.  The DOJ was trying to pardon Hunter Biden long before Donald Trump won the presidency.

Beijing Biden's Real Reason for Pushing Electric Vehicles So Much.  [Video clip — No transcript or synopsis available.]

Biden's Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality.  Joe Biden has now established two precedents in presidential history.  First, he "pardoned" his own son Hunter.  No prior president has ever tried that shameless act, which is an affront to the entire hallowed notion of "equality under the law."  Second, he did so in a way that no president has rarely, if ever, pardoned anyone.  Hunter, a convicted federal felon awaiting sentencing, was gifted by his father a blanket exemption from federal prosecution over the entire past decade (2014-2024).  Biden thus exempted Hunter from a series of much-discussed past criminal activities and provided further pardons for any federal criminal exposure occurring over the last ten years — yet to turn up. [...] Third, in the remaining waning 40 days of his now nonperforming presidency, Biden threatens to establish yet another presidential precedent.  He contemplates issuing pardons to a variety of controversial cronies, bureaucrats, and officers — even though none of them have yet been indicted or even are under federal investigation.

Guns, lies and audiotape:  How Biden's family ties could lead to another pardon.  Booneville, Mississippi — In this sleepy county seat dotted with vacant brick storefronts, the immense estate that dominates the southern approach into town stands as a monument to legal savvy and political pull.  The property's endless brick walls and winding footpaths represent the tangible fruits of decades of courtroom wrangling and backroom deal-making that made Joey Langston Booneville's leading citizen — and a longtime political ally of the Biden family.  Now, the Langston family's relationship with President Joe Biden could be the difference between freedom and incarceration for one of its members.

How Trump Can Leverage the Hunter Biden Pardon.  [Scroll down]  When Joe Biden pardoned his son, he showed us that Democrat claims that "nobody is above the law" were always a cheap political lie.  If he pre-emptively pardons those who have undermined our Constitution, he'll be showing us that "equal justice under law" is similarly inoperative.  I have no doubt that Biden will use his remaining days in office to commit of any number of acts in service to himself rather than his country.  He will then retire to his estate in Delaware — which was paid for by Russia, Ukraine, and China — safe from prosecution and without a care in the world about the damage he has done.  Any Republican candidate who fails to remind the public — for the next decade — what the closing days of Biden's administration revealed about the Democrat party will be guilty of political malpractice.  I suspect Joe's actions will be seen by history as more damaging to a political party than any action by a politician in generations.

Wailing and Gnashing at the DNC.  [Scroll down]  Democrats will blame Biden for these policies, but they are the result of a dream that became a nightmare for the elitists at the DNC.  They thrust Biden on the people, made him president, then armed him with the outlandish policies discussed above.  Joe Biden couldn't stay upright on a bicycle, on a stage, or on stairs.  He struggled to speak from a teleprompter and couldn't deliver a coherent response to a reasonably posed question.  Biden is the proverbial character who would rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stand his ground and speak the truth.  While Biden's mental health visibly deteriorated, Democrat politicians professed his competence, energetic bearing, incorruptible character, and brilliant intellect.  In the end, the cohort of Democrats that supported Biden's incompetence were the biggest liars in the room.

Tommy Tuberville Shares What We're All Wondering About the Hunter Biden Pardon.  It's been a week since President Joe Biden announced he was pardoning his son, Hunter, after he and White House Press Secretary Karine-Jean Pierre had already claimed multiple times he would do no such thing.  The reaction has been strong and swift, with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) among those weighing in. [...] The pardon for Hunter isn't merely noteworthy when it comes to the first son's crimes and convictions, but the timeframe.  The pardon dates back to nearly 11 years, when Joe Biden was actually in office as the vice president.  In speaking with Dakick, Tuberville repeated what he had said earlier that week to a gaggle of press, which is that "that's his son, most parents would do that."  It goes deeper than that, though, as Tuberville lambasted the corruption involved.  "Number one, it's the most corrupt political family, even more than the Clintons, that's been in politics all their life.  They have taken millions of dollars from Ukraine, from China.  It's a known fact.  The money has gone into the banks, millions of dollars to grandkids, the kids, to Biden himself.  They made a fortune off this country, off the American taxpayers.  They haven't paid taxes on it.  The kid is a drug addict.  He'll never get off crack.  He can't get off of it.  He's got huge problems," Tuberville shared, speaking about the Biden family as a whole and specifically about Hunter.

Biden White House Isn't Blaming Trump for His Pardon of Hunter.  It's Blaming This Guy Instead.  Oddly enough, [Biden's chief propagandist, Karine] Jean-Pierre did not blame the man whom the left regards as the focus of evil in the modern world, Donald Trump, for the Hunter pardon.  Would that have been too much of a stretch even for the dwindling number of true-believing Bidenites to accept?  Instead, she blamed Rep. James Clyburn (D-Trump Is Hitler).  What Clyburn has done to offend the Biden crime family remains a mystery, but the New York Post reported that Jean-Pierre claimed that Old Joe had a hard time making up his mind about whether or not to pardon Hunter, and that it was Clyburn who pushed The Big Guy over the edge into naked, gleeful, my-family-is-above-the-law corruption. [...] Clyburn himself, meanwhile, is calling for even more corrupt pardons, saying: "I also told them that I thought he ought to go even further, because all the noise about Jack Smith and Liz Cheney and Doctor Fauci and all of that."  The Post helpfully added that it isn't just Clyburn:  "senior White House officials are discussing the need for Biden to issue such preemptive pardons to stave off potential inquiries and indictments against Trump critics."  In addition to Smith, Cheney, and Fauci, on the short list for get-out-of-jail-free cards are Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Get Trump) and retired Gen. Mark Milley, who has fifteen medals on his chest for every war he lost.

Joe Biden is claiming a 'plenary' pardon power even kings did not enjoy.  It's one thing to do as Joe Biden did with Hunter's pardon; make all past crimes forgiven.  That was broad and bad enough.  But what's being discussed now wasn't ever even in the purview of kings!!!  We decamped from England over King George III's tyranny but even his tyranny did not involve effectively immunizing his pals for all past and future crimes!  Joe Biden is claiming a right even kings never enjoyed! [...] It's quite literally unheard of and completely unprecedented for Joe Biden to actually do what he is considering doing for his deep state allies and fellow conspirators against Donald Trump and, by extension, us, the American people.

Not a Joke.  The Hunter Biden super-sized blanket pardon went over so well around the country that "Joe Biden" — or the shadowy league of not-quite-geniuses who run the twilight White House operation — floated the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for a few of the most spectacularly dishonest characters in US political life:  Dr. Fauci, Senator-elect Adam Schiff, and Liz Cheney.  Does "JB" plan on legally adopting them so he can claim he was moved to act out of a father's love?  Like every official act ever associated with the name "Joe Biden," the preemptive pardon idea has that reality-optional feel.  None of the three has been convicted of a crime to be pardoned for, or even been hauled-in for questioning by federal law enforcement agents on a probable cause writ.  But a pardon would necessarily paint them as criminals, ipso facto.  Would they accept a pardon, with what it implies, or run shrieking from it as from an apple polished with novichok?  The proffer of a pardon itself must amount to a declaration of probable cause, igniting the very legal process it seeks to dispose of.  An inquiry would have to be launched to discover what laws these three desperadoes might have broken, followed perhaps by a grand jury to evaluate the evidence, and so on.

The Talk of "Preemptive Pardons".  This time the White House discussion boils down to 'Lawfare agents must be protected from any retaliation for their action'.  Pardons presumably provide the mechanism to protect the victims.  In the big picture of ideology, this is a continuation of the same mindset.  Politico started the narrative with an outline saying the White House was having an internal debate as to whether Joe Biden should preemptively issue pardons to members of the J6 committee, members who constructed false impeachment accusations, members within the DOJ who fabricated political cases using the Special Counsel process, or generally people on the political left who supported/facilitated all the aforementioned false attack fronts.  As the narrative is told, all those who supported the attacks against President-Elect Trump and his allies, now need to be protected from "retribution."  Inherent in the argument, and within the use of pardons, is the baseline that some form of illegal activity was taking place.  [Indeed], if it wasn't unlawful conduct, then no pardon would be needed.  This is the political catch-22 created by the preemptive pardon narrative.

Biden's Preemptive Pardons:  A Shield That Could Become a Sword.  President Biden's reported consideration of preemptive pardons could reshape the accountability landscape dramatically, potentially exposing him to greater legal jeopardy rather than providing the insulation he might expect.  If he proceeds to issue sweeping pardons to everyone involved in his alleged influence-peddling — including his brother Jim Biden and figures tied to his various international dealings during his time as vice president — alongside key players in the lawfare targeting Donald Trump, such as Attorney General Merrick Garland, Special Counsel Jack Smith, NYC DA Alvin Bragg, acting Justice Merchan, and Fani Willis, Biden's decision could trigger unintended and disastrous consequences.  The strategy may provide temporary relief, but it ultimately risks dismantling the very network of protection he has established, potentially turning once-loyal allies into significant liabilities.

Schweizer: The Truth About the Hunter Biden Pardon — A Proxy Deal for the Whole Family.  In addition to effectively ending investigations into alleged Biden family corruption, The Drill Down notes, six other factors should be stressed about Joe Biden's unprecedented pardoning of his son.  [#1] The enormous scope.  Not only was this for a family member, but it effectively made Hunter Biden immune anything he might have done for the past 10 years, whether charged or uncharged, convicted or accused.  The president made sure his son could not be charged based on the results of investigations that are still ongoing into his influence peddling.  [#2] This is a proxy pardon that will extend to Joe Biden and other members of the Biden family.  By pardoning Hunter, Biden crippled ongoing investigations into influence peddling that also implicated Joe and his brothers Frank and James, who made deals in similar fashion.  Schweizer calls it, "a stunning acknowledgment of how corrupt this family is."  [#3] The timing matters.  Why does it specifically start with Jan. 1, 2014, and end Dec. 1, 2024? Because, Schweizer explains, right after the start date is when the money from China first began to flow.

Here's the Discussion Reportedly Going on About More Biden Pardons — and the Big Names Being Mentioned.  Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter is incredibly concerning particularly given the breadth of what Joe Biden covered — everything in the past 11 years, not just the tax or the gun charges.  So, it could cover any federal crime in that period of time — including drugs, trafficking, foreign influence peddling, which could touch Joe himself.  Talk about throwing over the norms and stomping on them.  I warned he might not be done yet.  As I wrote in a VIP story after the Hunter pardon dropped Monday, more pardons might be coming, including potentially a pardon for Joe Biden himself: [...] Then if the pardons are as preemptive and broad as Hunter's, they could absolve them of all kinds of potential criminal behavior.  This is a complete repudiation of the rule of law.  And as I said, Martin's column blames the discussions on concerns about "reprisals" and "revenge."

The Real Hunter Biden Scandal:  The pardon is the least of it.  In what might be the greatest subtweet of 2024, outgoing Democratic congressman Dean Phillips spoke for many Americans when he posted on X: "Let's just say the quiet part out loud, certain Americans are indeed above the law and influence is always for sale."  Phillips was, of course, responding to the big news on Sunday that President Joe Biden had pardoned his son Hunter — something he had repeatedly vowed he would never do. [...] Every president hands out pardons at the end of his time in office — but not like this.  When Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother for a 1985 felony drug conviction, Roger Clinton had already served a year in prison.  The current president pardoned his son before he was even sentenced.  So the president has not just gifted his son with a get-out-of-jail-free card for Hunter Biden's embarrassing gun charge.  He has not just wiped the slate clean for his tax code violations.  The presidential pardon also applies to Hunter's most egregious offense: his well-documented efforts to peddling access to his dad, when Biden was vice president, to foreign interests ranging from a Chinese state-run bank to a well-heeled Kazakhstan oligarch.  That should outrage anyone who cares about our justice system.

Politico Predicts:  Presidential Pardons for Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and Adam Schiff?  Hunter Biden isn't a sympathetic character.  He's an adulterous, gun-toting addict who broke laws, ripped-off creditors, and used his dad's connections to pocket millions of dollars he didn't deserve.  That's not exactly the resume of Atticus Finch.  On the merits of the case — or the strength of his character — Hunter Biden is a PR nightmare.  He's a spoiled, unlikeable trust fund kid who dotes on hookers, guns, and oodles of drugs.  From his bizarre affair with his brother's widow to denying paternity (and money) to a child he fathered with a stripper, Hunter Biden isn't the kind of guy you can stick on "The View" and hope he charms middle America.  The opposite is true:  The more we see and hear, the less we like.  Which is why the White House PR team emphasized their father-son relationship above all else.

President Biden's Pathetic Public Life.  Many TV outlets are obsessed with President Biden's pardoning of his son.  The pro-Democrat outlets defend Biden's assertion that political motivations within the Justice Dept. are driving prosecution of his innocent son (sic).  Also, there are sentimental defenses regarding a father's connection or compassion for his own son — his flesh and blood — as being completely understandable.  The more conservative media see this "pardon" as completely hypocritical and an outright lie, noting the frequency of the president's assertions that he would not under any circumstances pardon his son, which assertions were backed up by repeated assertions by his mature and brilliant press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, that he would not be pardoning his son if the son were convicted. [...] It is interesting that no mention has been made by conservatives about Tony Bobulinski, who repeatedly reported on Hunter Biden's and Joe Biden's complex pay-to-play "business dealings" (sic) with interests in the PRC and Ukraine.  No mention has been made about all the Biden so-called family businesses that were incorporated over the years, which businesses have no listed products or services.

Preemptive pardons?  Biden has pardoned his pathetically criminal son who he has obviously abused in ways most of us could never imagine.  Hunter was, and probably still is, as perverted and degenerate as he has always been, but he's now been absolved of the few and minimal abuses for which he was charged while the far more serious and treasonous crimes he's committed in his father's name have been ignored.  The Biden family is most assuredly a crime family in every way that phrase is meant.  Think "The Godfather" without the essential and requisite smarts.  Our left thinks they are smarter than the rest of us, but they're not.  They're just arrogant, smug, and purposefully pernicious.  That the Biden cabal is willing to admit the many crimes the Democrat party has performed and hopes to bury by seeking pre-emptive pardons for their anti-American operatives is proof that they know what they've done is predatory, criminal, and unconstitutional.

Nobody Knew (Except Most Did!)  Media mouth-breathers are shocked that Dementia Joe Biden would pardon his son for eleven years' worth of crimes against the United States.  He said he would do no such thing!  He gave us his word — as a Biden!  Yeah, about that last bit — I don't know exactly when Child-Sniffing Joe started referencing his family name as a way to assure the public that his promises are always kept, but the word "Biden" has been synonymous with corruption at least since the Delaware Dimwit first entered politics a half-century ago. [...] President-in-Name-Only Biden gave his "word as a Biden" to protect U.S. service members leaving Afghanistan, struggling families crushed by inflation, and blue-collar towns enduring both "green energy" regulations and increased crime from Democrats' open borders.  Joe repeatedly promised to keep Americans safe, lower household costs, and create an economy that works for everybody.  His "word as a Biden" was as trustworthy as Hunter's promises to pay rent, alimony, child support, and taxes.

As People in NC Are Living in Tents in the Cold, Biden Pledges More Money Overseas.  We reported on Tuesday about how Joe Biden said that he was giving Africa a billion dollars to deal with disasters, including "food insecurity."  I noted how insane that was given that we have people right now in North Carolina living in tents who are still not getting the help or the money they need to survive in the wake of Hurricane Helene — that's since September.  What is he doing in Africa when his first priority should be America and Americans?  All he seemed to be doing was embarrassing us including falling asleep at a summit meeting.  Here's another video of how obviously it was he was asleep as the leader of Tanzania was speaking.  [Tweet with video clip]

Biden aides mulling preemptive pardons for Dr. Fauci, Liz Cheney and host of Trump critics in his line of fire.  Aides of President Joe Biden are debating whether the outgoing Democratic president should issue preemptive pardons for figures President-elect Donald Trump has named as his political enemies.  Politico reported Wednesday that among those being discussed for blanket pardons are former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, Sen.-elect Adam Schiff and Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Biden — who has been busy dealing with the fallout from his decision to pardon his son Hunter over gun and tax crimes — hasn't been brought into the discussions yet, the outlet said.

Hunter's Pardon Vindicates Trump.  [Scroll down]  To put it more bluntly:  Joe Biden has just pardoned his son for the very crimes that Trump sought to investigate, which ultimately resulted in Trump's impeachment.  In fact, the most notable aspect of the pardon is the timeframe it encompasses.  The offenses for which Hunter was convicted occurred in 2018. The official narrative regarding events prior to 2018 has consistently portrayed Hunter as just an ordinary businessman who did nothing wrong.  So why, then, is the pardon retroactively dated to begin on January 1, 2014?  That was eleven years ago, an excessively long period for which all crimes and potential crimes have now been forgiven.  This timing is not coincidental.  Most, if not all, of the Ukraine corruption involving the Biden family began in 2014 and largely concluded by the time Joe Biden left the vice presidency in January 2017.  In other words, the extended timeframe covered by the pardon, beyond what Hunter has already been convicted of, conveniently coincides with the exact period during which the Bidens were profiting from their Ukraine schemes.

Jonathan Turley Says Language Of Hunter Biden Pardon Is 'Unprecedented'.  George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday the language in President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter, is historically "unprecedented."  Biden formally issued a "full and unconditional pardon" for Hunter regarding any crime he is charged of or may have committed since 2014, including any potential charges regarding an alleged influence peddling-scheme during his time on a now-defunct Ukrainian gas company's board.  Turley told Fox News' Martha MacCallum that there has never been any language resembling Biden's pardon seen in previous pardons which showed a "breathtaking act of contempt for the American people."  "The language of this pardon is virtually unprecedented," Turley said.  "I mean, [former President Richard] Nixon was very, very broad.  But we've never seen anything like this.  [Biden is] literally pardoning his son for any crime that he may have committed during these years.  Everything from money laundering to murder.  Now he could be charged with state offenses, but the statutes of limitations have largely run on those offenses.  So it's a really breathtaking act of contempt for the American people and it has happened over and over again."

Behold the Hundreds of Crimes for Which Hunter Biden Just Got Pardoned.  To no one's surprise — go stand in a corner if you were — Joe Biden went back on his "word as a Biden" and pardoned the family bagman, his 54-year-old son Hunter, for crimes he committed from 2014-2024.  That ten-year retrospective pardon covers a lot of crimes, many of which we'll go through below.  The pardon is breathtaking in its scope.  Usually, someone serves some time for a crime, and then a president commutes a sentence and pardons the person for the reasons they're in the slammer.  Not so here.  Far from it.  Hunter hasn't been sentenced yet.  He likely wouldn't have done prison time.  But there's an entire universe of crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop that he committed for the family business, the product of which was access to and favors from Joe Biden.  As former federal prosecutor and former congressman Trey Gowdy asked Sunday night:  Who's the pardon for, Hunter or Joe?  The answer is both.

Maureen Callahan's howl of rage and disgust at Biden's Hunter pardon.  What little was left of Joe Biden's legacy is in tatters.  Having promised the American people repeatedly, and for months, that he wouldn't do it — well, on Sunday night, President Biden announced that he had pardoned his son Hunter, for crimes committed as well as any future charges.  Future charges! [...] The totality of Hunter's depravity, however, begs the question:  What does Joe Biden know that we don't?  What other skeletons hang in the family closet?  We certainly can't rely on the liberal media, which spent years denying that Hunter's laptop was real — a Russian hoax, per the New York Times, MSNBC and their ilk — while telling us that Biden was sharper than ever (until he wasn't), that the border was secure, the economy was gangbusters, that men can be women, that Kamala Harris was totally qualified and that Donald Trump was Hitler.

Just How Stupid Do They Think We Are?  As I'm sure you're well aware by now, père Biden's blanket pardon forgives all of Hunter's transgressions going back ten years, when father (then vice president) and son were both playing footsie with Vladimir Putin's old cronies in Kyiv.  Burisma?  Pardoned.  Million-dollar tax evasion?  Ditto.  Gun offenses, all of it.  Then there's the Big Lie because it isn't Joe Biden without one.  "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son," Biden said in a statement on Sunday, "and that is wrong."  Oh, please.  Hunter was guilty of far more than he was ever convicted of.  The Biden DOJ dragged its feet and let the worst offenses slip under the statute of limitations and only brought him to court after whistleblowers blew up the DOJ's sweetheart plea deal.  If Joe had gotten his way — and he nearly did — there would have been no need for pardon.

James Woods Shreds Hunter Biden Pardon as Cover Up of 'Biggest Criminal Operation in American History'.  Actor James Woods has provided some much-needed perspective following President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter, saying the real issue isn't drugs or guns, but rather "the money laundering scheme headed by the Big Guy."  James Woods put the war in Ukraine front and center in an X post late Sunday, focusing on the billions of tax payer dollars the Biden presidency has funneled into the conflict.  "The Big Guy" is a reference to the nickname that is widely assumed to be for Joe Biden.  The nickname was used in multiple business correspondences involving the Biden family and their mysterious overseas business partners.

The Biden paradox.  If you think President Biden is the leader of a crime family and everything he says is a a lie, father pardoning son despite numerous vows he would never do so comes as something other than a surprise.  When Joe pardoned Hunter yesterday, however, he prefaced it with a laughable statement.  The White House has posted the text of the statement and the pardon [elsew]here.  Biden actually includes this proposition in the preface:  "For my entire career I have followed a simple principle:  just tell the American people the truth."  The proposition is refuted by the pardon itself.  Like the man from Crete who propounded the famous paradox, Biden may as well have declared: "All Bidens are liars."  What a pathetic farce.

Joe Biden is the self-serving liar Democrats claimed Trump was.  Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter marks a new low for the Democrats.  As Adrian Vermeule has noted, dredging up the President's criticism of the Supreme Court ruling on Donald Trump — "no one is above the law" misses the mark; this is not a matter of legal technicality but cartoonish nepotism that lays bare the rank hypocrisy of his party.  For months leading up to the 2020 election Democrats thundered from the pulpit about Trump's venal, self-serving nature, how he was a liar unfit to serve as President, and how he needed to be replaced to protect American democracy.  In order to achieve this end, they proceeded to lie about Hunter Biden's laptop, lie about Russian collusion with Trump, and repeatedly stated their doubts about any vaccine announced before polling day in 2020.  How lucky for them, then, that the announcement of Pfizer's success was delayed due to a change in trial protocol after pressure was poured on the company by public health officials, with the new data available just after the election.

Why did Joe release the pardon on Sunday?  [Scroll down]  The pardon covers everything Hunter did or may have done from 1/1/2014 through 12/1/2024. That covers a lot of ground.  It's been said that Ukraine has a bit of a corruption problem and that Burisma Holdings is no bastion of honesty itself.  Hunter went to work for Burisma in 2014.  Apparently they valued his expertise in the extraction, processing, sale and distribution of fossil fuels.  I've underestimated that boy.  Now reports are surfacing that perhaps as much as 50% of all U.S. aid to Ukraine has been embezzled.  Former Polish deputy minister Piotr Kulpa has alleged, "US aid programs are a mechanism to 'write off large sums of money that finance shady systems under the Democratic Party's control.'"  If that's true, then the DNC has profited handsomely from the U.S. support of Ukraine.  How buddy-buddy are pResident Biden and the DNC right now?  He's still wearing the tire marks from where their bus ran over him.  He's always been an angry, spiteful little man, he's got a big axe to grind and this might be his way of getting some of his own back.

Why Hunter's Pardon Could Expand Accountability for Biden Family.  In fact, President Joe Biden's blanket pardon of son Hunter Biden could provide more leverage for Congress to investigate other Biden family members, said Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, a conservative legal group.  "President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter means that Hunter can no longer invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination," Davis, Republicans' former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Daily Signal in a telephone interview Monday.  Hunter Biden was convicted earlier this year on gun and tax charges, for which he faced a maximum of 17 and 25 years in prison, respectively.  The president's pardon Sunday night covered any crimes his son "has committed or may have committed or taken part in from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024."  "The House Republicans should subpoena Hunter Biden now.  This is a much bigger issue than hookers and blow," Davis added, using slang for the drug cocaine.  "This is about the president of the United States being compromised, with $23 million going to what seems like every member of the Biden family[.]"

The Lies of Joe Biden and his Lying Enablers.  Biden essentially pardoned himself by exempting all of Hunter's crimes since 2014, in which Hunter had enriched the Biden crime family cartel due to 'the big guy's' opportune calls and appearances with foreign crooks.  Joe knew that only a silenced Hunter would save the Biden syndicate after January 20, 2025.  Certainly, he feared and remembered how reckless Hunter could be, even when "clean" — grifting donors as a "paintbrush in the mouth" artist to show his father-president that he was capable of bringing down the entire clan.  Biden also knew of Hunter's laptop bitter references to the "Big Guy" and Mr. "Ten-percent," who grabbed Hunter's grifted money and free stuff, but never appreciated Hunter's dirty, bagman role that made them all rich.  Recall Hunter's own lawyers at one point threatened to call in President Joe Biden and embarrass him by putting him on the stand to testify in Hunter's tax cheating case — a threat that prompted a scared DOJ to craft its original sweetheart deal.  So, Biden was terrified of a loose-cannon, bigmouth Hunter.

Joe Biden, liar liar liar.  On Sunday night, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for gun- and tax-related felonies - undoing both a jury verdict in Delaware and Hunter's own guilty plea in California.  The pardon is extraordinary and dangerous, especially at a time when both parties are playing a game of chicken with the open politicization of law enforcement.  More on that issue soon.  But first it's vital to point out the hypocrisy not just in what Biden did but in how the media is covering it.  Biden promised he would not pardon Hunter.  Unequivocally.  Without exception.  To take just one example, in June, ABC News anchor David Muir asked Biden directly:  "Have you ruled out a pardon for your son?"  "Yes," Biden answered.  Give Biden the benefit of the doubt for a moment.  Assume he wasn't planning to pardon Hunter all along.  Biden's still lying.  He gives himself no wriggle room in his answer, presumably because he knew anything but a flat denial would hurt him politically.

Flashback: Adam Schiff said pardons in which the president is directly implicated could be an 'obstruction of justice'.  As Adam Schiff said in 2018, we wouldn't want a president abusing the pardon power in order to "shield himself from liability" because such circumstances could very easily amount to an "obstruct[ion of] justice."  Schiff made the comments on a CNN segment with Don Lemon shortly after he introduced legislation that would compel a president to hand over all the investigative files of any potential pardons in which the president is/was directly implicated.  [Tweet with video clip]

Hunter Biden may be pardoned here, but he's committed crimes elsewhere.  Many people are angry that because Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden, who engaged in a seemingly endless laundry list of manifestly illegal activity (illicit drugs, prostitution, lying on a gun application, laundering money to hide it from the IRS, underpaying his taxes, etc.), means Hunter will walk on all current and future federal convictions and charges.  However, Anony Mee believes that justice may yet come for Hunter.  The icing on the cake is that Joe Biden may have been too smart for his own good.  For Joe, the pardon may prove to be a case of "hoist by his own petard."  In an admirably concise tweet, Anony Mee points out that Hunter's wrongdoing wasn't limited to America.  Instead, it took place in Ukraine.  Indeed, that's what Trump's first impeachment was about — Burisma's and Hunter's corrupt conduct in Ukraine:  [Tweet]

Biden claims he pardoned Hunter because he was targeted by DOJ, but...  President Biden was adamant that his son "Hunter was treated differently" when he broke his public pledge and issued a rare sweeping pardon spanning almost 11 years for his troubled son late Sunday.  But the 54-year-old is far from the only one to have been charged with similar firearm and tax evasion crimes.  Several legal experts believe that he already received favorable treatment than others who have committed comparable transgressions.

White House ridiculous 'war politics' excuse for Hunter pardon is another strand of the Biden Inc. cover-up.  Oh, the shamelessness of Karine Jean-Pierre:  The White House press secretary on Monday defended President Biden's pardon of son Hunter as justified because of "how politically infected these cases were" — that "war politics infected the process and it led to a miscarriage of justice."  What garbage.  First off, KJP herself had insisted repeatedly and vehemently that Joe wouldn't pardon Hunter — even after the First Son was convicted.  Is she claiming the "political infection" somehow popped up in the last two months?  Second, all the prosecuting was done by the Biden Justice Department, yet she has not a word of blame for Attorney General Merrick Garland for failing to stop the "infection."  Again, if the "war politics" were so powerful as to leave the AG helpless, that was true for all the long months that KJP was butter-won't-melt-in-her-mouth claiming the prez would respect the courts' rulings.

Special Counsel:  Hunter Biden Was Not Selectively Prosecuted.  President Joe Biden's claim that his son was selectively prosecuted was unfounded, special counsel David Weiss's office said in new filings on Dec. 2.  "There has never been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case," Weiss and other federal prosecutors told a federal judge in Delaware.  In another filing, lodged in federal court in California, they wrote, "There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case."  The president on Dec. 1, when announcing a pardon for Hunter Biden, said that he was reversing his previous pledge not to do so because his son was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."  Weiss's office noted that a number of judges, including some appointed by the president, have previously rejected similar arguments from the president's son.

Addressing the Hunter Pardon.  Some context for this claim is in order.  Hunter isn't accused of being a sociopath.  He isn't accused of murder or rape or felonious property destruction.  Tax evasion on the order of $1.4 [million] commends incarceration upon conviction, but the illegal gun procurement would not typically result in incarceration for a first-time offender.  And the most egregious crimes, for which Hunter should have been held responsible, have been slow-walked by the corrupt Special Counsel David Weiss so that the statute of limitations has passed.  The father, Joe Biden, pardoned his son.  Every empathetic father understands this.  However, different standards apply to the President.  The President should issue pardons for injustice (think J6 political prisoners) and to avoid unnecessary social turmoil (think President Ford's pardon of the disgraced Richard Nixon). For his own part, President Joe Biden committed yet another nefarious act with the pardon of Hunter Biden.  For this, the President deserves widespread and lasting condemnation and criticism.  His putrid legacy has been tarnished by himself yet more.

Hunter Biden's Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son.  President Biden is the one at the center of the influence-peddling and bribery schemes that Hunter ran while Biden was vice president.  Joe, not Hunter, was the one being bribed.  It was his influence, not Hunter's, that was being purchased by Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese businessmen, both during and after Biden was vice president.  There's no Biden family business without "the big guy."  Focusing on Hunter's crimes, and his pardon, is a distraction from the far more serious crimes his father committed.  Even Hunter's prosecution wasn't really about him or his misdeeds.  The tax and gun charges were about protecting him from being indicted for more serious charges that would have implicated the president and forced him to answer questions about his involvement in Hunter's overseas business deals.  That's why Special Counsel David Weiss never indicted the younger Biden for failing to register as a foreign agent, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on that and other serious crimes, and then trying to engineer a sweetheart plea deal that would have granted him blanket immunity — immunity he's now gotten from his father in the form of a pardon that covers a jaw-dropping eleven years.  Why did Weiss do this?  Because Hunter's real tax crimes stem from failing to disclose the tens of millions he and his family raked in from the Biden family's overseas influence-peddling operations in Ukraine and China.

Hunter Judge Blasts President For Making False Statements In Pardon.  The California federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden's tax charges issued a scathing five-page ruling in response to President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, saying that the president justified his pardon with reasons that are false and offensive.  Judge Mark C. Scarsi wrote Tuesday that the reasons listed in "the President's statement" for pardoning his son "stand in tension with the case record," and while the president has the power to pardon, "nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history."  "The President asserts that Mr. Biden 'was treated differently' from others 'who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions,' implying that Mr. Biden was among those individuals who untimely paid taxes due to addiction.  But he is not... Mr. Biden admitted that he engaged in tax evasion after this period of addiction," the judge wrote.

What sort of legacy does Joe Biden have to 'tarnish'?  It was clear to anyone with a brain that Biden was always going to pardon his son.  No matter how many crimes Hunter committed, Joe always said he was the smartest man in the world and never did anything wrong.  As he issued the pardon, they continue to lie that he had just decided to do it.  He obviously knew he was going to do it long before the election, no matter how many times he said he wouldn't.  Biden continually lied that he had no idea what his son was doing when he was taking him around the world, taking kickbacks from foreign countries, including our enemies.  As the Republicans continually presented evidence of the kickbacks, the media and other Democrats continually regurgitated the lie that there was no evidence that Joe Biden had done anything wrong.  It is clear that Joe Biden, whose mind is shot, did not write the language in this pardon.  He didn't come up with the blanket pardon for ten years to cover the kickbacks.  It looks to me as though Hunter's attorneys wrote the pardon to cover his crimes as a foreign agent and other crimes he may have committed.  It is pathetic to give Hunter a blanket pardon.

It's time to reform the presidential pardon.  The presidential pardon power is listed in the Constitution, so any modification would probably require a constitutional amendment.  I believe in mercy, and I believe in redemption, but the current use of the presidential pardon is one more example of Washington insiders playing by one set of rules and the rest of the country having to fend for themselves.  I don't believe that the pardon should be abandoned, but the following reforms could be enacted.  [#1] The Congress, by a vote of two thirds in each chamber, could void any pardon.  [#2] The president cannot pardon himself or any member of his immediate family.  [#3] Any pardon should take place between the months of February and September, and Congress must be in session.  This means that the president must risk paying a political price for any pardon he may propose.  [#4] The president may present Congress with only one individual pardon each day.  This would not only limit the number of pardons, but also prohibit presidents from changing criminal law completely by in effect changing the sentencing structures in place that they don't like for certain types of crimes.  [#5] Also, the president may not pre-emptively pardon someone for something he may have done (the Hunter rule).  Any pardon must be after the person has been tried, convicted, and sentenced.

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There's (at least) one thing wrong with Idea #1:  The Democratic Party exists to protect and perpetuate itself.  The Democrats would never veto a "Joe Biden" pardon, even if it was public knowledge that Biden himself didn't write the pardon and it wasn't his idea.  Even if Biden later stated that he didn't remember signing any such pardon.  Idea #2 would have to include the definition of "immediate family," or some future lying Democrat will stretch his family tree to suit his (or her) purposes.  Idea #4 (February through September) and Idea #3 (one pardon per day), when combined, limit the number of individual pardons to 241, even if Congress is in session seven days a week.  That means it would take more than a year just to pardon the January 6 political prisoners.  The concept is good, but it needs some work.

Joe Biden's predictable pardon of Hunter cemented an already corrupt legacy.  The horror at Biden's betrayal of his promise not to pardon Hunter recalls the story about the newspaper astrologer who was surprised when he was fired:  If he was any good, he would have seen it coming.  So it is with the Dems and media stenographers who are barking mad at Biden.  Did they really believe his pledges not to pardon his son under any circumstances?  Once he was convicted, a pardon was inevitable.  How did they not see that coming?  What will they do when he pardons his brother, Jim Biden?  Claims that the Hunter pardon threatens Biden's legacy suggest the suckers actually believed the Hitler hysteria that Trump was a threat to all that is pure and good and that Biden was an honorable and honest man.  Oh, please.  The pardon doesn't threaten Biden's legacy.  It cements it.  He's been corrupt for decades, as the family influence-peddling scheme proved.  Those who refused to consider the possibility that Joe personally profited from the estimated $20 million that foreign sources paid his son and brother didn't lack for evidence.  They simply refused to see the evidence.

Jill Biden pushed President Biden to pardon disgraced son Hunter: report.  First Lady Jill Biden may have convinced President Biden to pardon his disgraced son, Hunter Biden, according to a report.  "Clearly there was pressure inside the family," Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent, said during an appearance on the network Monday.  "We were told really in recent weeks that Dr. Jill Biden — first lady Jill Biden — was very supportive of the president doing something like this," he added.  Zeleny claims Biden, 82, "was not sure" about the pardon, suggesting that the 73-year-old first lady's push may have been the deciding factor.

Jill Biden's 2024 White House Decorations are the Worst Yet — A Circus Freak Show!  Jill Biden unveiled her 2024 White House Christmas decorations on Monday and it might be her worst work yet!  The theme for this year's Christmas decorations is "A Season for Peace and Light."  Jill Biden's tacky decorations mock Christianity.  [Tweet]

Hunter Biden accused of stiffing LA landlord out of over $300,000 in rent after being pardoned by dad Joe.  Hunter Biden allegedly stiffed two Venice landlords for a total of more than $380,000 in rent, sources close to the property owners claim.  DailyMail.com revealed last year that Hunter owed Sweetgreen CEO and co-founder Jonathan Neman $80,000 in back rent after leaving his Venice rental property trashed, according to sources briefed on the dispute.  And now Shaun Maguire, a partner at San Francisco investment giant Sequoia, has come forward claiming Hunter also owes him at least $300,000 after failing to pay rent 'for over a year' in 2019 and 2020.

From Hero to Hypocrite:  Biden's Pardon of Hunter and the Shattered Promise of Justice.  Biden's promise not to interfere in Hunter's prosecution was celebrated as an exemplary moment of transparency, a clear attempt to paint himself as the anti-Trump.  Democrats lined up to praise Biden's respect for the rule of law, proclaiming that his refusal to pardon Hunter epitomized a commitment to fairness and justice. [...] Yet here we stand.  The once-celebrated refusal to pardon has given way to an all-encompassing pardon for Hunter Biden, conveniently issued at what can only be described as the most opportune moment for the president.  First, this past weekend represented the best time for Biden to pardon his son before Hunter's December 12, 2024 sentencing hearing on the three felony gun charges on which a jury convicted him in June.  Second, reports from the White House indicate that Hunter told his father this weekend that he was planning to release a tell-all book because he needed the money and had nothing to lose, given his impending imprisonment.  In response, a day later, Joe issued the pardon without consulting anyone else in the administration, much less the pardon advisory group he is supposed to talk to.  It would seem Biden was buying his son's silence.

After Hunter's Pardon, It's Time To Prosecute The Rest Of The Biden Crime Family.  The pardon is an unprecedented, corrupt trick that we all knew was coming no matter how brazen and how many times Biden and his media mouthpieces lied about it.  Biden isn't just trying to protect Hunter, he's desperately trying to cover up the scam he's been running on the American people for the past decade.  Hunter might have been the dumbest member of the Biden crime syndicate and the easiest to prosecute, but he's not the only one implicated in crimes against the United States.  It's time for the incoming Department of Justice to prosecute everyone else who participated in the apparent scheme to trade government favors to foreign actors for money, diamonds, and fancy cars, starting with the "big guy" himself.

Special Counsel Rejects Hunter Biden's Pardon, Files Scathing Rebuke In Court Case.  Last night Hunter Biden's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss his California tax fraud case after Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon absolving him of all crimes committed over a 10 year period. "The President's pardon moots Mr. Biden's pending and yet to occur sentencing and entry of judgment in this case and requires an automatic dismissal of the Indictment with prejudice," wrote Hunter's lawyer Abbe Lowell in the filing, adding that "this Court must dismiss the Indictment against Mr. Biden with prejudice and adjourn all future proceedings in this matter."  Special Counsel David Weiss isn't having it.  In a Monday response in opposition, Weiss argued that "The defendant's motion should be denied since there is no binding authority on this Court which requires dismissal."  "As a matter of past-practice in this district, courts do not dismiss indictments when pardons are granted," Weiss wrote — citing cases involving Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio and Ollie North, Above the Law reports.

Dems are saying FJB.  We knew FJB would pardon Hunter, his bagman and son.  Blood is thicker than water, but not as thick as someone having the dirt on you.  Hunter had the receipts and put them on a laptop.  The question was when the pardon would come because timing is everything in politics and comedy.  Friday afternoons are great for burying bad news and the best Friday of the year is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when everybody is either sleeping off a turkey or slugging it out at Walmart over a $99 big screen TV.  Weaves be a-flying on Aisle 12.  FJB passed on that opportunity and chose the worst time of the week — Sunday afternoon, making sure the story would be on front pages and morning talk shows on Monday to set the tone for the week.  When Democrats threw him under the bus, they awoke the demented kraken.  First, he sabotaged Kamala by endorsing her.  Then he put on a MAGA hat.  Now this.

Flacks, hacks, & quacks.  President Biden's comprehensive pardon of Hunter for crimes he may have committed since 2014 presents as a barking dog of a clue to the "work" of the Biden crime family.  It also presents as a barking dog of a clue to the "work" of the flacks, hacks, and quacks who work us over every day.  Somewhere along the way they lost their sense of shame.  Shamelessness is a bona fide occupational requirement.

The Second Anti-Trump Insurrection Is Now Underway.  Liberals love minority women, but they hate losers — and after blowing the national election, Harris is history.  She failed them, and they'll never forgive her for it.  So who [...] is running our country right now?  Since the election, there's been a series of "mad" moves from the Biden White House.  From recklessly expanding America's involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian War to "Trump-proofing" Biden's legacy, the White House is attempting to box in the incoming Trump administration, deepening our foreign entanglements, whether the American people like it or not.  At least, someone in the White House is.  It's not Kamala Harris because she's not there.  And it's not Joe Biden because he's mentally gone.  Which means an unelected, unaccountable federal employee is risking World War III on his or her own.

Joe Biden pulls trigger on pardoning son Hunter, after saying countless times he would not.  Despite pledging he would not do so, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday after the president's son was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year.  "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden wrote in a statement.  "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

Joe Biden Tries To Justify Hunter Pardon By Peddling Another Round Of Lies.  On Sunday, President Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a "full and unconditional pardon."  For someone who's covered the Biden family corruption scandal since the censorship-industrial complex falsely portrayed Hunter's laptop from hell as Russian disinformation, my reactions are several and sundry.  [#1] Joe Biden Is a Lying Liar:  First up was imbibing in the hilarity of Joe Biden, once again, proving he lies with as much ease as he has in insulting Republicans.  In June, the president repeatedly vowed not to pardon his son, including during a joint news conference with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  As the time, the elder Biden stated: "I'm not gonna do anything.  I said I abide by the jury — decision.  I will do that.  And I will not pardon him."  President Biden's "no pardon" position remained firm as recently as last month, when the issue arose during a press conference.  "We've been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in early November. [...] There's no way Hunter would have pled guilty to the tax felonies if he didn't know the Big Guy would pardon him.

After Hunter's Pardon, It's Time To Prosecute The Rest Of The Biden Crime Family.  Joe Biden, who spent his vice presidency as the "big guy" behind his son Hunter's foreign influence-peddling exploits and skated into the presidency because media and tech gatekeepers covered up news of the family pay-for-play business, issued a blanket pardon to Hunter for "offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024."  The pardon doesn't just apply to the (comparatively) minor crimes the Special Counsel David Weiss reluctantly prosecuted, but the host of potential crimes, from money laundering to bribery to FARA violations, for which Hunter hasn't been prosecuted.  The pardon is an unprecedented, corrupt trick that we all knew was coming no matter how brazen and how many times Biden and his media mouthpieces lied about it.  Biden isn't just trying to protect Hunter, he's desperately trying to cover up the scam he's been running on the American people for the past decade.

On pardons, justice, and privilege.  The pardon by President Biden of his son Hunter is likely to be met with cynicism and even contempt.  The pardon extends not only to the gun and tax offenses to which the younger Biden had pled guilty but also to any crimes that he "committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024."  President Biden should not expect the benefit of the doubt when the public entertains the suspicion that the pardon resulted from corruption and the use of a constitutional power as a personal privilege rather than sound executive governance.  There is no question that President Biden had the constitutional authority to pardon his son.  Granting a pardon for unspecified offenses, however, would seem to violate the spirit of the pardon power and consequently legitimize suspicions of improper motives.

Jonathan Turley Rips Biden's Pardon of His Son to Shreds.  George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley has now weighed in on the sweeping pardon that Joe Biden just gave his son on Sunday.  It not only covers the crimes for which he was convicted or to which he pled guilty, but it also covers any other possible crimes that may have occurred over 11 years from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.  Turley just eviscerated Biden when he was asked about it by Fox News and the "bad precedent" that Biden could be setting.  [Tweet]  Turley pointed out how this brings to mind the actions of Bill Clinton, who pardoned his brother.  "It also shows a degree of contempt for the American people," Turley observed.  Biden "didn't just simply lie about not ever speaking to his son's business associates, of never being in meetings with them.  He lied repeatedly to the American people when he was a candidate for reelection."

Biden Pardons Hunter on All Charges and Anything Else He Might Have Committed Since 2014.  President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter despite the White House saying over and over he would not do it.  The pardon includes charges Hunter faced or might have faced from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.  Yes, ten years.  Absolute insanity.  That means anything else that pops up in that time period doesn't count.  Hunter cannot face any charges.  [Tweet]  Hunter pleaded guilty to tax evasion.  He was going to face sentencing on December 16 for lying on a federal form by saying he was not using drugs or addicted to drugs when trying to buy a gun.

By Pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden Covers Up His Own Influence-Peddling Crimes.  President Joe Biden allowed himself to cover up his own apparent role in his son Hunter's influence peddling by issuing a pardon Sunday evening that extended back through 2014, including Hunter's corrupt role in Ukraine.  While President Biden focused on his son's conviction for gun crimes, and his son responded with a statement about addiction, the reality is that the pardon covers more serious conduct: selling U.S. foreign policy for monetary gain.  The pardon covers actions between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.  Hunter Biden's appointment to the board of the corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma was announced in May 2014. Reporters and State Department staff immediately flagged the appointment as a potential conflict of interest, given that then-Vice President Joe Biden was in charge of the Obama-Biden administration's foreign policy in Ukraine (which is likely why Hunter was appointed).

Biden Lied to ABC News in June:  Said He Had 'Ruled Out' Hunter Pardon.  President Joe Biden lied for years about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter Biden, for his crimes — even telling David Muir of ABC News in an exclusive interview in Normandy, France, in June that he had "ruled out" a pardon. [...] Hunter Biden was ultimately found guilty on three gun charges, and later pleaded guilty to tax violations as well.  The White House continued to claim, for months, that the president had no intention of pardoning his son.  For Democrats, and for a sympathetic media, that promise was evidence that Biden had not politicized the justice system, despite the fact that it was pursuing Donald Trump and his supporters while protecting Hunter Biden for years.

The Fumes of the 2024 Election.  [Scroll down]  Joe Biden has now descended into utter incoherence without even the past lies that he is fit as a fiddle, strong as an ox — from wandering into the jungle to mumbling at the podium in a bizarre untranslated language unknown to man.  Can he finish the next 60 days, as the world is on the way to a veritable DefCon 1?  Unhinged Harris supporters talk of a 2-month, 25-Amendment imposed President Harris, an insane idea except not so insane when one listens and watches the current state of Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Makes History as First President to Pardon His Criminal Son.  President Joe Biden spent his final days in office rolling out a full and complete pardon of his criminal son, Hunter Biden.  "I will not pardon him," Joe Biden said in June after a jury found him guilty on three federal gun charges.

President Biden pardons son Hunter, breaking promise as he leaves office.  President Joe Biden on Sunday night pardoned his son Hunter on gun and tax charges, breaking a promise he had made to voters.  The clemency was announced by the White House, which included a statement from the 46th president.  "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden wrote in a statement.  "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted." [...] The clemency was a major about-face.  The White House had repeatedly said Biden would not pardon his son.  And the president answered "yes," when ABC News asked if he would rule out pardoning his son.

This was predicted by me — at least twice.  The news tonight is that Worst President Ever (hereinafter "WPE") has pardoned his son.  You know the one — the crack-smoking, drug-addicted, whore-mongering, influence-peddling, gun-toting, tax-evading, lie-teller.  After stating time and again — but that was in the past, so it doesn't count — that he wouldn't, WPE proved himself to be as big a liar as the miscreant son.  Don't say I didn't warn you.  I explicitly warned that WPE would do this, but for obvious reasons he would wait till after the election.

Joe Biden Has Pardoned Hunter Biden, Administration Lied to Everyone for Years.  In news that will surprise no one but the imbeciles in the mainstream press, Joe Biden is getting set to announce a pardon for his degenerate son.  In September, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to charges of unpaid taxes and tax evasion, putting him at risk of spending up to 17 years in a federal prison.  That came after a jury found him guilty of separate gun charges in June.  For years, the White House insisted that President Joe Biden would not pardon his son.  [Tweet]  That turned out to be a blatant lie.  On Sunday evening, following a 52-page public plea from Hunter Biden himself, Joe Biden released a statement announcing he had issued a pardon.  In it, he claimed that he "kept his word" while the Department of Justice "selectively" targeted his son.

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Joe Biden is a senile old man.  He almost certainly is not the author of Hunter Biden's pardon, or the official announcement of it, and may not have known he was signing a pardon when somebody placed it in front of him and said, "Sign this."

Joe Biden Pardons Hunter Biden.  Outgoing President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, just weeks before he leaves office, after initially promising not to do so. [...] Hunter Biden was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year, pleading guilty to three firearm offenses and a felony tax charge.  Regarding the firearm case, the president's corrupt son was caught making false statements while purchasing a gun, providing inaccurate information that is required to be kept by a federally licensed gun dealer, and illegally possessing a firearm while being addicted to a controlled substance.  These charges highlight serious lapses in legal accountability that shouldn't be overlooked.  Hunter Biden then pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges after failing to pay federal income taxes from over $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018.  He earned this money through shady overseas business dealings.  Over the summer, Biden told the press that he would not pardon his son, claiming he would "abide by the jury's decision."

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Look on the bright side:  At least now we can find out who left a bag of cocaine in the White House, the ownership of which has completely baffled the FBI and Secret Service until now.  If it happened in the last ten years, let's blame Hunter!

Biden accused of extending Hunter's pardon to cover his alleged corruption at Burisma in 2014.  Critics of Joe Biden's shock pardon of his son Hunter have noted a key detail that connects the reprieve to the younger Biden's time on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.  The bombshell U-turn decision to grant Hunter a pardon comes just weeks after The White House denied the president would make the drastic move in the final months of his lame duck presidency.  The document grants a full and unconditional pardon for Hunter's potential crimes committed 'from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.'  This has led many to theorize that there is something lurking underneath the pardon which is meant to acquit Hunter Biden of charges that came to light in 2018.

Some of These Reactions to Hunter Biden's Pardon Are Pure Gold.  Outgoing President Joe Biden decided to pardon his son, Hunter.  The crack-cocaine-addicted influence peddler was given a massive blanket pardon — he is now forgiven of any crime he committed between 2014 and 2024. [...] Two things happened with this pardon:  Democrats can't talk about gun control anymore, and this is a classic example of what happens when one side tries to seize on and monopolize a moral superiority.  No American voter expects their leaders or elected officials to be ethical leaders.  They understand they'll likely end up as corrupt snakes.  Still, it's the cover-up and, in this instance, the blatant attempt to shove this pardon in our faces despite Hunter's many crimes that are remarkable but unsurprising. [...] Now, a horde of liberal commentators and reporters must eat crow after they slobbered over Biden's initial declaration that he wouldn't pardon his son.  It's the moral high ground, the nauseating self-righteousness that infests every liberal.  Former CNN reporter John Harwood had a hall-of-fame-worthy take, followed by Mr. Biden.  What ever happened to "no one is above the law?"  That's self-explanatory.

We always knew Joe Biden would pardon troubled son Hunter.  We always knew Joe Biden would pardon his troubled son Hunter, no matter how many times he promised he wouldn't.  So it is fitting that one of the final acts of this mendacious president before leaving office was to break yet another promise to the American people.  Thus on Sunday night, the president issued a statement from the White House declaring that he had just signed a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" for Robert Hunter Biden, 54.  The pardon Joe vowed he would never give comes just days before Hunter was due to be sentenced over a felony gun conviction in Delaware in June and California felony tax fraud charges in September to which he pleaded guilty on the first day of trial.

Catherine Herridge Nails Biden on Big Problem in Hunter's Pardon As IRS Whistleblowers Speak Out.  Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday not only for the crimes he was convicted of or pled guilty to — he gave him a blanket pardon for any possible crimes for 11 years from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2014.  The IRS whistleblowers involved in his case have issued a statement skewering Joe Biden's pardon and calling out what they have been put through and the "special privilege of the powerful."  [Tweet]  "No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the President's son off the hook for multiple felonies.  We did our duty, told the truth, and followed the law.  Anyone reading the President's excuses now should remember that Hunter Biden admitted to his tax crimes in federal court, that Hunter Biden's attorneys have targeted us for our lawful whistleblower disclosures, and that we are suing one of those attorneys for smearing us with false accusations.  President Biden has the power to put his thumb on the scales of justice for his son, but at least he had to do it with a pardon explicitly for all the world to see rather than his political appointees doing it secretly behind the scenes.  Either way it is a sad day for law abiding taxpayers to witness this special privilege for the powerful."  They put everything on the line to tell the truth and were allegedly persecuted for it.  Meanwhile, Hunter takes a walk.

Tom Homan, Greg Abbott Serve Thanksgiving Meal to Troops While Biden Vacations In Swanky Nantucket.  While outgoing President Joe Biden spends the holiday week strolling around in the land of woke and elites, President-elect Donald Trump's new border Czar, Tom Homan, and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) are serving American troops a Thanksgiving dinner.  [Multiple tweets]  Meanwhile, lame-duck Biden and outgoing First Lady Jill Biden headed to billionaire David Rubenstein's $34 million Nantucket compound for the consecutive fourth year to celebrate the holiday.  [Tweet with video clip]  The Biden family, including the president's just as corrupt son, Hunter Biden, touched down at the Nantucket Memorial Airport after arriving via private jet before making their way to the 14-acre property.  Two-time felon Hunter Biden awaits confirmation on whether his father will pardon him before he leaves office.  The New York Post pointed out that the Biden family is unlikely to pay to stay at the multi-million dollar compound, which critics say is not a good look for the president.

Congress Dithers While Vlad and Joe Play Nuclear Chicken.  Is President Joe Biden out to start a war?  Or are his shadow warmongers Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan responsible?  War can potentially explode regardless of who pulled the pin on the grenade. [...] Unfortunately, Trump cannot negotiate anything until January 20. All communications from Trump and his entire team are likely being monitored by the same agencies that spied on his 2016 transition, looking for any opportunity to invoke the Logan Act as an excuse not to certify his election.

Biden gets ready to vacay in Nantucket, Kamala holidays in Hawaii — who's running the country?  There are still two months left in Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's presidency.  And for Joe, having spent half his presidency on vacation, what's another vacay to cap it off? [...] Sure, Kamala Harris probably needs some rest after the election, and unverified rumors of marital turmoil.  But so does Trump.  Trump got his rest and is at work.  But Biden and Harris are all about salving themselves, they always have been, even as the pair of them made it a campaign cornerstone that Trump was "in it for himself."  Trump is working.  Biden and Harris have kicked back.  They still have two months left in their failed presidency and odds are, these won't be their last vacations.

Biden's Missile Crisis.  When President Biden approved the use of supersonic Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike Russia, he placed in jeopardy the national security of the United States, the safety of our troops abroad and violated the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, which provides that only Congress can declare war.  Biden has made a decision to insert the U.S. into an unambiguous, escalatory phase, using the territory of Ukraine to attack Russia directly with missiles which can reach 190 miles deep.  This is an illegal act by the President which puts our nation on a path to war with Russia.  The American people voted for Trump to end the wars.  Biden apparently wants to end the world.

'Catholic' Biden Awards Medal to Baby Killer-in-Chief.  As another proof of the fact that Joe Biden is less Catholic than a steak on a Lenten Friday, the Meanderer-in-Chief just awarded the Medal of Freedom to a former president of abortion giant Planned Parenthood.  Ah, for the days when American presidents believed in our founding principle of the right to life.  Abortions kill unborn babies by dismemberment, head crushing, and other unspeakably horrific methods.  They also have numerous negative effects on women's mental and physical health.  Yet a woman who oversaw Planned Parenthood during a period when it murdered almost 4 million babies in cruel, tortuous ways has just been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by "Catholic" Joe Biden.  Biden's X account posted, "Today, I had the honor of awarding Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  With absolute courage, she fearlessly leads us forward to be the America we say we are — a nation of freedom."  Democrats are disgusting in how they apply such sacred words as freedom to anti-American evils such as abortion.

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Joe Biden obviously did not write that tweet himself, and may not even know that it has been posted.  Joe Biden had to drop out of the presidential race months ago because he's too senile to do his job and couldn't form a complete sentence, and surely he hasn't improved since then.  Somebody else (or a committee) is speaking for the alleged President, and strictly speaking, they are impersonating Joe Biden, which is illegal.

Obama's Ukraine Cover Up.  [Scroll down]  In April 2014, UK prosecutors seized $23.5 million in assets owned by Zlochevsky that were held at a London bank, alleging that Zlochevsky had engaged in criminal conduct in Ukraine.  It was at this same time that Burisma appointed Biden's son, Hunter, and his close associate, Devin Archer to its board of directors.  On April 21, 2014, Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine, offering not only his political support, but also $50 million in aid for Ukraine's shaky new government.  During Joe's Ukraine visit, on April 22, it was announced that Archer had suddenly joined the board of Burisma.  Hunter had also joined Burisma's board that same month, but curiously Burisma didn't announce Hunter's appointment until May 12, 2014 — after his father's visit to Ukraine had concluded.  Many have portrayed Hunter's involvement as little more than a means for the Biden family to extract hefty board fees from Burisma for association with the Biden name.  While there is likely a large amount of truth to this, we also suspect something bigger may have been at play — the effective capture of Ukraine's natural gas assets.

Anybody Notice That Nobody Is In Charge?  Is the world careening toward World War III, or is the green light to Ukraine from the Biden Administration to use US weapons to strike deeper into Russia simply political maneuvering that presents no threat of nuclear escalation?  [Advertisement]  The US also approved the use of land mines in Ukraine for the first time.  A Chinese cargo ship has been boarded by the Danish Navy after it is suspected to have cut two vital communications cables in the Baltic.  The war in the Middle East continues, and Israel is now taking damage from rockets in its territory.  [Tweet]  In the midst of all the chaos and increasing threats, Biden and Harris are absent.  The president was wandering around the Amazon rainforest, avoiding reporters, and Kamala Harris flew off for a vacation to Hawaii.  [Tweet with video clip]

Democrats Must Remove President Biden Now.  Today, the world is likely closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.  In its closing days, the Biden Administration is stumbling our nation into a potential nuclear war with Russia.  If you have not been paying attention for the past two days, you need to know the basic facts.  Then, let me offer what I believe needs to happen, and quickly.  Just before midnight Sunday night, AP reported "Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the longer range weapons...."  The long-range, supersonic, ballistic missiles being unleashed on Russia most likely are ATACMs, standing for Army Tactical Missile System.  These weapons were developed for offensive — not defensive — purposes.  The configuration of the specific ATACMs sent to Ukraine is unknown, but they could have a range of from 100 to 190 or more miles.

Biden's venal and dangerous exit gambit.  The talking heads, nattering nabobs, and media wizards wondered why Biden was all smiles when he met with Trump.  Joe Rogan opined that the smile was because Biden secretly voted for Trump.  No, Joe.  Biden was smiling gleefully because as he met with Trump, his dripping-toothed, foul-breath toadies were busy authorizing Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky to launch U.S. missiles into Russia, a dangerous move that prompt retaliation here, and could ultimately unbalance power and destabilize the world.  Now why would a man on his way out of the White House after a bitter humiliation at the hands of his own party want to make such a drastic and dangerous move?  The answer is obvious to anyone who follow the Democrat party's slash-and-burn tactics against all who dare to nay-say his agenda.  Joe and the party abhor Donald Trump so much they are willing to usher in a possible war out of sheer pique just to FUBAR Trump's second presidency.

Beating the 'Committee'.  [Scroll down]  Rather than a worthwhile candidate, the party had chosen Joe Biden (backstabbing Bernie Sanders in the process), a man known to be suffering from cognitive decline, presumably on the grounds that he'd be easily managed.  Unfortunately, Biden was personally belligerent, stubborn, and with an overblown sense of his own toughness.  The issue came to a head earlier this year when Biden's dementia became undeniable at the exact point that the presidential election was heating up.  A debate was "arranged" with Donald Trump in which Biden's shortcomings were in full view.

Restoring Deterrence Will Prevent Endless Wars.  An inept Biden administration has utterly destroyed U.S. deterrence abroad through both actual and symbolic disasters:  the Chinese dressing down of U.S. diplomats in Anchorage; the humiliating skedaddle from Afghanistan; the brazen flight of a Chinese spy balloon across the U.S.; the invasion of Ukraine by Russia; the October 7, 2023 massacre of 1200 Israelis; the serial Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea; the visible restraint of Israeli from fully replying to Iranian missile attacks on its homeland; and renewed bellicosity on the part of both North Korea and China toward American allies such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.  Of course, a second-term Trump must radically reform the Pentagon and beef up the military while warning enemies of the consequences to follow from any unwise aggression.  But if opponents believe such admonitions remain only vocal threats, then empty verbiage surely will erode deterrence further — such as Joe Biden's serial and empty braggadocio, "Don't!"

The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins.  Furthermore, one of the biggest threats to the CIA and the intelligence agencies is Trump's unyielding determination to declassify documents that will jeopardize many agencies' existence, including the DOJ, FBI, DHS, CIA, and NSA.  The documents released will reveal many hidden intelligence agency conspiracies, including the effort to hide the Hunter laptop story from damaging Biden's chance of victory in 2020, in particular, the statement by more than 50 former intelligence agents that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation.  Exploring intelligence agency misdeeds and failures back to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack would be a horror show for scores of top intelligence agency officials, as well as Obama and Biden administration senior officials.

Who's Driving the Bus?  Who's driving the bus?  Not this guy. [...] We know that somebody else is running the country.  It certainly hasn't been Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.  I think conventional wisdom believes it to be a cabal made up of the Obamas, Senate Majority Leader (for now) Chuck Schumer (D-NY), former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett...and whomever else they have surrounded themselves with.  Speculation maybe, but who else in Washington has as much power as they do?  The lobbies?

Killing Kakistocracy.  It's a head-scratcher, really — how do these individuals manage to fail their way upward and claim the most powerful seats in government?  If you've been keeping up with current events, it's hard not to conclude that the United States is stumbling into a kakistocracy.  Case in point is a president, an "elderly man with a poor memory," whose cognitive issues and frail health allowed him to dodge legal scrutiny under the guise of public sympathy.  Joe Biden was never known as the "sharpest knife in the drawer," but his current level of performance became so glaringly destitute that he required strong "encouragement" to abandon his re-election ambitions.  And yet, the problem of obvious ineffectiveness isn't just a "Joe thing."  Glancing at the Cabinet and other key positions of this administration, does anyone inspire confidence or stand out as the poster child of competence?  Anyone?

Hunter Biden overheard moaning about '$18M' in legal bills.  Hunter Biden has apparently found some popularity as a Hollywood party guest ahead of his sentencing next month in two cases.  Spies said that the convicted first son, 54, was at a party in Los Angeles last week grousing about his mounting legal bills and his infamous Ukraine scandal.  Said an insider of the A-list gathering: "Hunter Biden was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA."  The source said Hunter was telling guests that, "'I have $18 million in legal bills, and... my cases hanging over my head.'  He also talked a lot about his Ukraine and Russia connections saying, 'all these stories were set-ups.'"

A reminder of Kamala Harris's primrose path to the Democrat nomination.  [Scroll down]  It was time to replace Biden.  If they didn't want a complete puppet, they would have held a proper primary where all Democrats would have been invited.  Instead, they prematurely subjected Biden to a national debate where he crashed on the runway before taking off.  [Video clip]  Biden was threatened and coerced to step aside.  The humiliating, ruthless, and cold-blooded manner in which Biden was dethroned also served as a warning to everyone, especially Harris — that no matter who they are and which office they held, the establishment runs the show.  This is how Kamala Harris got here.  This is a plot device employed in pastiche mystery novels.  The lord of the manor who is the murderer influences the police to assign the investigation to a bumbling detective to protect himself.  It was an effective but cynical ploy by the establishment to implement their agenda — to accumulate power and enrich cronies.  It is well known that the establishment via the CIA rigs elections in third-world countries and installs their puppets that do their bidding.  This is the first time this has been done in the U.S. with such blatancy.

Harris would be as much a figurehead as Biden — and we'd be ruled by the swamp.  We're seeing a lot of fuss and bother over the 2024 presidential election.  But do we even need a president?  I ask because we don't have one now.  And we haven't had one for all practical purposes for something between a few months and three years. [...] Joe Biden may be capable of lobbing insults at half the country, but he certainly isn't running things.  His dementia became impossible to hide, even with the help of an eagerly cooperative media, by June of this year, and was in fact obvious to anyone who cared to notice well before that.  He's been a figurehead for a long time.  Kamala Harris isn't running things, either.  The vice presidency is not an executive position.  All the executive power the Constitution grants is lodged in the president; the veep isn't a co-pilot or second-in-command or junior president, but merely a backup.  And the only way to deploy that backup is for the president to die or resign.  So who's running things now?  Good question.  During Biden's term, we've heard rumors that Biden's wife Dr. Jill Biden, various named and unnamed staffers, or assorted Obama administration operatives were actually calling the shots.

Biden did her in.  [Scroll down]  Norah O'Donnell of CBS scolded Americans, saying, "Trump was in North Carolina earlier, and tonight, he is also in Wisconsin.  He landed in Green Bay just a short time ago and then pulled this campaign stunt, speaking to reporters from a garbage truck, proof that he and his supporters are giving no grace to a gaffe by President Biden where he, in his explanation, inadvertently called Trump supporters garbage."  On Monday, the media was outraged that a comic would poke fun at Puerto Rico's landfill problem.  They said calling it a floating island of garbage is racist and demanded Trump apologize for the only quote the media used in a four-hour rally by dozens of speakers at Madison Square Garden.  Now the media is DEMANDING GRACE for President Biden calling half the nation garbage.  It was inadvertent, right?  Biden knew exactly what he was doing.  He may be dumb but he is shrewd.  Need I remind readers that he is undefeated in 50 years?  So he knew what he was doing and he will not apologize.  Readers know exactly why he did it.

Kamala is in the Biden Laptop.  Last week was the 4 year anniversary of the Biden Laptop expose by the New York Post.  We have since published the most complete dossier on the contents of the abandoned device, and the American first family is trying to shut down our group with egregious & expensive lawfare because of that comprehensive dossier. [...] [W]e described the 128k emails on the Biden Laptop as "a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue collar crime under the patina of 'the Delaware Way.' [...] That's why the scandal just "won't go away."  It will not go away for multiple reasons — number one, because Marco Polo exists, but (more importantly) because the emails reveal the true (and oftentimes sinister or criminal) actions & motivations of dozens of powerful people beyond the Biden Family.  This cabal, made up of Republicans and Democrats, continues to run the American government.  As just one example:  the current Secretary of State (who spearheaded the "51 former spooks" letter & committed perjury to the U.S. Senate) & his staffer wife are implicated by the email database, and you can surmise that they will both be in the American executive branch should Kamala get pushed over the finish line.

Biden in Delaware, Harris at Beyoncé Concert amid Israeli Strikes on Iran: 'Who Is in the White House?'.  As Israel engages in targeted military action against Iran, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are facing backlash for prioritizing personal engagements — Biden's weekend trip to Delaware and Harris's Texas rally featuring Beyoncé — amid growing concerns that a lack of U.S. leadership at such a crucial moment could further destabilize the Middle East.  Israel's current offensive actions against Iranian military sites have triggered high alert across the region, yet President Biden and Vice President Harris have remained engaged with personal and campaign-related activities, raising concerns about the administration's handling of an escalating crisis.

The Best Laid Schemes of the Ruling Class Have Turned to Ashes.  Biden and his campaign were unable to offer any coherent solutions to the issues plaguing the country while Trump, pointing to the success of his four years in office could and did repeatedly.  By June of 2024 Trump was leading Biden in virtually every poll.  As Trump surged, desperation set in, and Biden was essentially told he had to debate Trump.  It was an unmitigated disaster for Biden and the ruling elites.  Convinced that Trump could easily win in November, they forced Biden to drop out of the campaign.  Whether it was revenge for the de facto coup or doing what he was instructed, Biden publicly endorsed Kamala Harris on his way out the door.  Thanks to decades of worshipping at the altar of tribalism and DEI, this public endorsement by Biden ensured Kamala's nomination.  The party hierarchy could not summarily reject her.  The Democrats and their ruling class allies were stuck with an unaccomplished, vapid, fatuous, and Marxist-indoctrinated candidate.

The Harris Health Report:  A Major Own Goal.  We must remember that on paper Joe Biden is still President.  A few months back, the world saw Biden fumble and bumble on the debate stage with President Donald Trump.  The Democrats desperately wanted to force Biden out of the Presidential race and this debate that was rather early in the race was a perfect setting for global humiliation.  But despite him being non compos mentos and declared unfit to be the candidate for President, Joe Biden still remains President.  This should be a major concern for voters. [...] If Harris is such a stickler for fitness reports she must compel her 'boss' to release his fitness report.  The GOP and the Trump campaign must demand that Biden release his health records.  They must insist that Dr. Ronny Jackson be part of the team that subjects Biden to a health checkup.  Is focusing on Biden, as many, including Republicans and Trump suppoerts have suggested, focusing on the past?  Is it wiser to remain focused on Harris instead?  The mainstream media is totally focused on Harris, but placing the spotlight on Biden's health is important.  It reminds everyone about the coverup that the Democrats, including Harris, engaged in.

Should we wake the president?  President Biden suffers from serious cognitive decline.  The decline continues. [...] Everyone sees it.  Everyone knows it.  It's almost unbelievable.  In the information age, Woodrow Wilson lives!  When the bottom fell out of Biden's public support this past summer, the Democrats shoved him aside in favor of Kamala Harris.  Biden had already secured the votes necessary to secure the party's renomination, but he had to go.  Biden's candidacy posed a threat to the Democrats' phony baloney jobs.  Biden's public appearances are tailored to his disability.  His public schedule is fashioned to accommodate his decline.  Snoozing at Rehoboth Beach fills an absurdly large hole in his life.  The administration and White House staff have lied about his condition.  His staff continues to lie about it.

4 Years After The Biden Laptop Coverup, Media Election Interference Is Worse Than Ever.  Four years ago this week, the corporate press helped airlift Joe Biden to the White House by blacking out coverage of his international pay-for-play scandal, after the New York Post discovered evidence of the scandal on an abandoned Biden laptop.  The press reaction ranged from refusing entirely to cover the story because it was a "waste of time" to only covering it insofar as outlets could cast doubt on its legitimacy.  After the election, polling would show that 1 in 6 Biden voters would have changed their vote had they known about some of the stories suppressed by the media, including the Hunter Biden laptop story.  It was the most infamous, though not the only, instance of journalists interfering to swing the 2020 election for the Democrats by stifling inconvenient reporting and propagating nonsense about Donald Trump, Biden's Republican opponent.  (Biden got a very minor taste of the media's wrath this summer, when the powers that be decided he was no longer an expedient means to Democrat victory, and he didn't last a month.)

Nobody Fights for a World Economic Forum Flag.  One of Barack Obama's first initiatives as president was to undertake an "apology tour" around the world so that he could rub salt in old wounds and provide America's enemies with planeloads of rhetorical ammunition (and pallets of cash).  In deriding President Trump's MAGA movement, Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that America was never that great and never lived up to its promise.  Globalist mosquito John Kerry flies around the world to praise the virtues of one-world government and bemoan America's stubborn constitutional safeguards for individual rights such as free speech.  Having bought in to the gospel of Howard Zinn, those who hold the reins of power in Washington, D.C. are some of the most anti-American zealots on the planet!  That contradiction has produced this odd historical moment, in which people who largely dislike America run the U.S. government and people who love America largely despise the U.S. government.

Do the Democrat Elites WANT Kamala to Lose?  [Scroll down]  The case for Joe Biden wanting Kamala to lose is most compelling.  Harris, after all, helped push him out of the campaign, sidelined him, and made him look like a weak fool.  It was obvious that Biden didn't want to budge — he said so often and loudly enough — and it was similarly obvious that he resented being pushed out.  Many people speculated at the time that Biden's endorsement of Harris hours after the obviously written-for-him letter bowing out of the race was a big screw-you to the Democratic Party.  Harris was thought to be a terrible candidate without a chance of winning, and Biden put our his endorsement separate from the statement pulling out of the race, and was likely not filtered by an establishment which had been pushing for an open process.  Part of the deal in getting Biden out of the race was that there would be no criticism of Biden — at&Nbsp;all — and that he would be presented as a George Washington figure putting country above ambition.  And Biden is enforcing the deal — every time anybody mentions Harris separating herself from Biden, out he pops with a bear hug to draw her back in.

Hunter Biden 'laptop from hell' scandal turns 4.  Hunter Biden's scandalous laptop — falsely dismissed as Russian disinformation — became part of the American lexicon four years ago today, on October 14, 2020, kicking off a years-long scandal with big tech, corporate media and the intelligence community.  "I think that virtually every single mainstream outlet disgraced themselves," former New York Post deputy politics editor Emma-Jo Morris told Fox News Digital.  While at the New York Post, Morris first reported on Hunter Biden's personal computer, which eventually was dubbed the "laptop from hell" by the paper's staffers.  The infamous laptop was filled with shocking videos and photos of drug use, lewd sex acts, and sensitive business communications.  It was exposed by the Post only a few weeks before then-candidate Joe Biden was set to square off against then-President Trump.

FBI's role in Hunter Biden laptop scandal is worse than you know.  Hunter Biden's infamous "laptop from hell" may be the most damning trove of evidence tying the sitting (if sleeping) president of the United States to the over $27 million that his family raked in by peddling his political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes — in particular, the communist regime of Xi Jinping in China.  Still, the enduring relevance of the laptop is not as a Biden story, but as a story of the political corruption of the government's law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus — pillars of our rule of law and our national security.  Think about this:  The FBI took possession of the laptop in December 2019, and quickly authenticated it — not hard to do because there was a mountain of publicly available information for purposes of corroborating the data, which was incontestably Hunter Biden's.

Liberals Call on Biden to Commit Unconstitutional Acts in his Final Days.  With the end of the Biden Administration in sight, liberal pundits seem to be striving to prove that the only difference between a lawbreaker and a law-abiding citizen is the ability to get away with the crime.  Popular figures on the left from Michael Moore to Keith Olbermann are calling on President Joe Biden to commit overtly unlawful acts in his final 100 days in office, including targeting his political opponents.  In one of the few statements of Moore with which I agree, he stated that this is "no joke."  It certainly is not. It is the same logic used by looters that they have a license for illegality.  However, this constitutional looting would endanger not just the Constitution but the country as a whole if Biden were to heed this advice.  In a posting on Substack, Moore told Biden that it was time to yield to temptation and check off a liberal 13-item "bucket list" of demands, tossing aside questions of legality or constitutionality in the process.

Joe's 2024 Exit Results in Hunter Biden's 'Art' to Face Value Plunge.  Now that President Joe Biden's political career is officially over, Hunter Biden must find a new way to profit himself, given that his family can no longer peddle money from shady foreign businesses and his so-called "art" deals.  According to experts in the art industry, Hunter Biden's art career is a thing of the past.  Now that the president's time in the District of Corruption is over, so is his son's shady art business. "His father is no longer relevant in the maelstrom, which is politics," Charlie Horne, president of Gurr Johns, an art valuation and advisory firm, told the outlet.  He predicted that over time, Hunter Biden's art market will be "wash[ed] away."  "His cachet will be short-lived.  I don't think he's ever gotten real traction," he continued.  Critics say Hunter Biden's short-lived art "career" was boosted solely by his father's influence in Washington — and that may be true because only ten people bought his paintings for $1.5 million.

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The worthlessness of Hunter Biden's "artwork" has been obvious for years, but all assertions that his art sales were just laundered bribes were dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy theory.

Biden personally pressured Starmer to give up Chagos Islands.  The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.  According to the Telegraph, Biden administration officials told their British counterparts that a refusal to give up the Chagos Islands in the Indian Sea would jeopardize the U.S.-U.K. "special relationship."  A deal was reached with Mauritius last week to transfer sovereignty of the British territory, one of the last of the United Kingdom's possessions in the Indo-Pacific region.  On March 21, 2025, the old adage that the "sun never sets on the British Empire" will no longer be true, as the sun will set on all of the U.K.'s territorial possessions for the first time in more than 200 years.

Biden Takes a Blowtorch to Obama in New Book.  Bob Woodward has a new book, War, about the inner dynamics of the Biden White House, some of which you probably guessed to be true in the long four years we've suffered under this man.  It paints a picture that's become familiar:  an angry old man, not in control, and holding seething resentment toward pretty much everyone, including Barack Obama.  It captures the baffling arrogance of Mr. Biden, who has never done anything remotely significant to earn such a demeanor.  We learn how he refers to Donald Trump in private — [expletives deleted] — and how he rages against his former boss, even blaming him for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and his lengthy diatribes against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  It can all be grounded in one simple truth:  Biden hates these men due to political differences, perceived lack of experience, like with Obama, or because no one listens to him, as with Bibi.  [Tweet]

Biden raged over DOJ going after Hunter, and other bombshells revealed in Woodward book.  Furious Joe Biden regrets choosing Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead the Justice Department after the agency prosecuted his son Hunter, a new book by Bob Woodward claims.  The allegation is just one of a number of bombshell insights into the Biden White House in "War," out October 15. The book reveals a president desperately trying to stave off war in the Middle East, fearful of Russia unleashing nuclear warfare, and worn down by his wayward son.  Biden also lashes out about everyone from Garland to Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netnyahu and even Barack Obama — who Biden blames for not stopping Putin's 2014 invasion of Crimea, raging that "Barack never took Putin seriously."  The president has publicly said he will not pardon his son's conviction on three federal gun charges or commute his sentence — but remains privately furious at the AG, writes Woodward, who describes how Biden told an associate he "should never have picked Garland."

Joe Biden Keeps Wrecking Kamala's Media Days.  He's not a nice old man.  Joe Biden had a reputation for being Mr. Empathy until that got torpedoed during his weak sauce presidency.  He's intentionally slow walking aid to Georgia and North Carolina to prevent these people from recovering in time for Election Day.  There are other moments where this cantankerous ogre reared its ugly head, but the aftermath of Hurricane Helene has shined a light on it.  And for being half braindead, Joe is doing an excellent job in sabotaging his vice president's 2024 chances, starting with interjecting into Kamala's soft media blitz.  Kamala was on The View today, but Joe held a press conference that cut into this media hit.  It's not the first time, and it's becoming a pattern that's driving Kamala's advisers crazy.

Kamala's Katrina Catastrophe.  Biden's failure to add one rural internet connection, despite spending $42.5 billion, was no accident.  It was planned to deny rural (i.e., Republican) residents internet service, divert massive sums to unknown nefarious purposes, and prevent Elon Musk's Starlink network from profiting.  Where is the congressional forensic accounting?  Even legitimate administrations couldn't spend billions without substantial graft.  Vanishing $1 billion a month — well over $1 million an hour — requires considerable effort. [...] The intentional failure behind the rural internet scam is confirmed by Biden's fabricated tale of pandemic parents parking outside McDonald's so kids could do homework.  Biden is an incompetent, incessant liar and plagiarist.  Lying supplies the oxygen necessary for his narcissistic need to lord over the rest of us. [...] Biden lies to conceal criminality.  The rural internet scam is only one example.  The bigger the lie, the bigger his crime.  His biggest crimes (second only to treasonous China advocacy) involve Ukraine, including Burisma.

A Tale of Two Hurricanes and Presidents.  Hurricane Helene hit Florida on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 storm, moving north and dumping torrential rain onto Georgia and North Carolina, devastating Asheville, and western North Carolina. [...] On Sept. 30, four days after the hurricane landed, former President Donald Trump visited Georgia.  No flyover, but boots on the ground.  Where were President Biden and Vice President Harris?  Biden was on the sand at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, saying only, "I was commanding it."  What was he commanding?  The hurricane?  Or was he finally beating Medicare?  Remember above how U.S. News & World Report criticized Bush for being "on vacation."  Any similar criticism of Biden?  Fat chance.  Snapshots and soundbites.  Biden at the beach, "I'm commanding."  To pile on, what did the Biden administration do or not do to aid North Carolina hurricane victims?  They cut off communications.

Kamala Harris reassures world that she is still confident in Joe Biden's mental ability to serve president despite recent gaffes.  Vice President Kamala Harris is still vouching for President Joe Biden's mental and physical stamina, even as he continues showing signs of his age.  Biden continues to limit his number of public events with scheduled calls and meetings between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.  'Of course,' Harris spokesperson Ian Same replied, when asked by Axios if Harris had full confidence in the president's mental fitness.

Biden Uses Remaining Power, Hides Hunter's Corruption Until After Election.  Joe Biden decided to use his remaining months in the White House to hide the corruption of his son, Hunter Biden, until after the 2024 election.  The National Pulse reported that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) decided to delay the release of documents related to Joe and Hunter's corruption during Barack Obama's presidential years for the next 30 days, which means that Americans would not be able to view the documents until November 6, which is a day right after the 2024 election.  According to the news source, some of the NARA records could expose the Biden family even more, specifically Hunter's foreign business dealings and how they helped the Biden family to become rich.

Bongino: White House cocaine coverup.  [Scroll down]  Within two months, Donald Trump escaped two assassination attempts by the narrowest of margins.  To be sure, his close protection detail interposed themselves between Trump and bullets, but only after he'd already been shot and after two bystanders were seriously wounded and another killed.  Acting SS Director Ronald Rowe, while admitting failure, has, after the most recent attempt on Trump's life, proclaimed the SS's methodology sound and effective.  Certainly, in coverups, and now we're discovering, thanks to former SS agent Dan Bongino, that methodology was applied to covering for who was responsible for the cocaine found in the White House:  [Tweet]  As one might imagine, the White House is pressuring the SS to destroy the evidence and all information relating to the cocaine's owner, who apparently is known.  Who might that be?  According to Bongino, someone in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or within the Biden Crime Family.  As one might also imagine, government panic has increased as the chance of Donald Trump being reelected increases.  This time around, he might make that kind of information public, which would badly shred Biden's fast-failing legacy.

'The Disappearing Bidens'?  Ever wonder who's really president these days?  You're not alone, even if you're more honest about it than the mainstream media.  Joe Biden spent the weekend at Rehoboth Beach as Hurricane Helene slammed into several states and killed hundreds of people, rather than spending it at the White House directing the emergency response.  It took him days later to finally show up in person, and even then barely managed to do much than gawk.  Axios notes his apparent early retirement in a similar manner.  Since the June 27 debate, both Joe and Jill Biden have been mighty hard to spot. [...] Not doing public events is one thing.  Going AWOL in the middle of a massive, deadly natural disaster is something else entirely.  The press absolutely pilloried George Bush for remaining at his Crawford ranch as Katrina approached and attempting to manage it remotely — and he at least cut the stay short after Katrina made landfall.

Joe Biden's Dawdling in Ordering Federal Troops for Disaster Relief Is Incompetent, Malicious, or Both.  It has been nearly a week since Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, and Joe Biden has finally announced, on behalf of whoever is running the country, that he has authorized 1,000 federal troops from Fort Bragg (I will never call it anything else) North Carolina, to assist in disaster relief operations a mere 250 miles away. [...] These 1,000 troops will constitute the overwhelming majority of the federal military disaster response in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. [...] A lot of hard questions are being asked about the lack of military support.  [Tweet with video clip]

The Advent of Idiocracy.  [Scroll down]  Then, enter Joe Biden.  Biden was "a poor student" in high school.  (Wikipedia's words, not mine.)  Then he attended the University of Delaware in Newark (which at #76 is admittedly slightly better than Kamala's alma mater) where he was "an unexceptional student."  (Wikipedia again, I'm not making this up.)  Then he graduated from Syracuse University College of Law (120th, well behind Kamala's law school) where he placed 76th in a class of 85, thus destined to be the kind of president who would ignite inflation with irresponsible spending, usher over 11 million illegal aliens into the country, and arm the U.S.'s enemy, the Taliban, with more than $7.1 billion in weapons.  Probably much more.  He gave us idiocracy.  What was new about Biden was that he was dumb.  We've had presidents with dumb policies, like Johnson and Carter, but the men themselves weren't dumb.  But with Biden, that changed.  He was only elected because of the coattails of Obama, the frenzy of 2020, the hysteria over COVID, mass censorship, and other shenanigans.

Kamala Harris Doesn't Care About White People.  Natural disasters like Hurricane Helene, a category 4 storm, are of course going to cause massive damage and devastation no matter what.  But it didn't have to be as bad as it has become in the absence of timely federal aid from the Biden-Harris administration. [...] Setting aside the failure to prepare ahead of time for the massive flooding the hurricane would bring to these areas, why has it taken so long for Biden and Harris to address the disaster, and why have they done so in the most cursory, dismissive ways?  Asked by a reporter on Monday why he and Harris weren't in Washington over the weekend coordinating and commanding the emergency response, Biden responded, shockingly, "I was commanding.  I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well."  That retort, "I was on the phone for at least two hours," while Americans are drowning and starving in massive floods, should go down in our history as one of the most callous and shameful things ever said by an American president.  But at least Biden said something.  As of Monday afternoon [9/30/2024], Harris hadn't said a word.

Memories of Hurricane Katrina.  Hurricane Helene has devasted a wide swath of the Southeast, especially portions of North Carolina.  Of course this has nothing to do with the government.  A hurricane is what used to be known, quaintly, as an act of God.  But some of us remember with bitterness how the Democratic Party press blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina, and used that absurd narrative to destroy Bush's second term.  The idea of holding presidents responsible for hurricanes was always ridiculous, and it has never been repeated, although the Democrats did make a halfhearted run at blaming President Trump for Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico. [...] Response to emergencies like hurricanes is carried out overwhelmingly by state and local authorities who are on the scene, not by the federal government.  Happily, no one at any level of government was waiting for instructions from the decrepit Joe Biden, calling in from his vacation home in Delaware.  If only George W. Bush had it so good.

Biden Lounged At The Beach While Floods Wreaked 'Biblical Devastation' On Appalachia.  President Joe Biden remained lounging at the beach this weekend while Appalachian valleys in North Carolina and Tennessee suffered deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene.  As of Sunday morning, dozens had died across the southeastern United States, but the death toll is likely to rise following the torrential downpour from the Category 4 storm that smashed into the Big Bend of Florida on Thursday.  Biden's public schedule had him depart for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday, the day after the hurricane's initial landfall.  He was initially expected to be there through late Sunday evening, but the president reportedly returned to Washington earlier on Sunday as tensions escalate in the Middle East.  Floodwaters almost completely isolated the North Carolina city of Asheville from the outside world, breaking roads and knocking out power and cell service.  State officials are scrambling to airlift supplies into the region.  Ryan Cole, the assistant director for emergency services in Buncombe County, said the "Biblical" flooding had wrought devastation in the area.

What Happened to the 25th Amendment?  Why are we still asked to pretend Joe Biden is running the country?  Every time he shows his face, he reminds the American people how much his cognition has declined and how he can't be trusted to finish a speech or remember which foreign leader he's introducing, let alone manage the daily affairs of running the country.  The man was forced to bow out of his campaign after he embarrassed the national press corps and Democratic Party elites during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump in June.  But Democrats and political operatives in the corporate media aren't as concerned about Biden making us an international laughingstock until Jan. 20, 2025.  On Sept. 20, after not holding a Cabinet meeting for an entire year, Biden gave brief opening remarks and then made the unprecedented move to hand the reins over to his wife, leaving the world asking, "Who's in charge here, again?"

A Natural Disaster and an Infirm President.  The president's continued deterioration is more than a curiosity.  Those near him knew his absence of mind could affect his performance in the event of a crisis — and a crisis is now upon us.  Hurricane Helene cut a 600-mile swath of devastation across the American southeast.  Communities from Florida's A30 to the Smokey Mountains have been devastated.  Thousands are without power and homeless.  As of this writing, nearly 100 Americans were killed by the storm and the ensuing inland flooding.  The White House insists the president is on the case.

Yup, Joe Biden Is As Sharp As A Tack.  Reporter: "Any comment on the strikes in Yemen?" Biden: "I've spoken to both sides.  They gotta settle the strike.  I'm supporting the collective bargaining effort.  I think they'll settle the strike."  [Video clip]

The Shadow of the Shadow.  You have to wonder:  has there ever been a country that marched off to war with no head-of-state at the top of its war machine?  It's exactly that bad in our country, with a broken animatronic Halloween scarecrow popping in-and-out of the White House to yell incoherently at election campaign events for a putative successor too scared of the predicament she's in to think straight.  Really, no one is in charge — and if any of the leading actors on the scene really were, the situation could easily get worse. [...] In fact, the entire Democratic Party and its Deep State intel blob partners have melted down into a desperate mob of political criminals frantic to evade accounting for their acts.  So then, setting the world on fire is all they have left, a fitting act of revenge for a faction thwarted in its mad drive to merely wreck the United States for the sake of "social justice" and "equity."

The Worst Mistake Of Joe Biden's Career Becomes Clear.  If there's a lesson to glean from Biden's last year in office, it is this:  Men need to understand when to bow out with dignity.  There will come a time when you need to seriously assess what you have achieved, what you can still achieve, and what you want in the remaining years.  Biden chose to spend at least two years of his life embarrassing himself on the world stage because he wanted to maintain power.  He could have spent those two precious years toward the end of his life with his family, wife, and grandkids.

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From where I'm sitting, it doesn't look like Joe Biden made the decision to stay in office rather than retire.  He is apparently being used by a lot of people for a lot of purposes, none of them honorable.

The Greatest Scandal in Modern American History That No One Cares About.  A little over eight weeks ago, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, despite being the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee and only true primary vote recipient.  He was forced out by the party elite, who watched his debate with Donald Trump and saw what most of America already knew:  that Biden is senile.  Biden was promptly replaced by Kamala Harris, his vice president, who has since solidified Democratic turnout and is running neck-and-neck with Trump.  But something strange has happened since Biden's ouster:  the country went back to ignoring Joe Biden's senility.  Photographs and footage of Biden asleep at the beach in Delaware have filled X feeds for weeks since he dropped out of the race.  Just last week, Biden turned over a full Cabinet meeting to his wife, Jill, who sat herself at the head of the table and proceeded to lecture Constitutional appointees on women's health issues. [...] So, why isn't it something of an issue that the most powerful seat on the planet — the presidency of the United States — is being currently held as a sort of emeritus position by a doddering old fool?

The Government Is Metastasizing Right Before Our Eyes!  As the illegitimate winner of the 2020 election, Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20. In January, a totalitarian-style regime with many of its political appointees with past or ongoing connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), complete with a figurehead — Joe Biden — was installed in office.  He is also compromised with his history of family associations with the CCP.  The new regime moved quickly ahead at an accelerated pace, utilizing multiple executive orders and sending a series of radical proposals for approval by a Democrat-controlled Congress.  Their objectives are to subvert the American way of life, impose upon America a Marxist agenda, and move our country rapidly from COVID to communism.

A weak and delusional Biden at the UN.  President Joe Biden delivered his final address as president to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, and it was a masterpiece of narcissistic myth-making.  It was a speech of hollow boasts that couldn't have been delivered at a worse time, as America is increasingly disregarded and disrespected around the world by enemies and allies alike.  Casting himself as a great defender of democracy worldwide, Biden tried to turn the coup that removed him as the leader of his own party into an act of historic self-sacrifice. [...] Everyone knows Biden did not quit voluntarily.  He was forced out.  His love of the country is not bigger than his ego.  He did not cherish the understanding that "some things are more important than staying in power."

Creepy Biden Says His Staff Doesn't Allow Him to Have "Young Girls" Next to Him on Stage, But He's Going to Do It Anyway.  Joe Biden on Monday delivered remarks at the Gotham F.C. Championship Visit in the East Room at the White House.  NY Gotham was honored at the White House for its 2023 National Women's Soccer League Championship victory.  Joe Biden just couldn't help himself.  He just had to creep on young girls.  White House staffers have tried to keep Biden away from young children, but he doesn't listen.

History Lesson:  Jill Biden Goes Full Edith Wilson Plus.  Not only do we as humans not learn from history, we don't process what is right in front of our eyes. [...] Unlike President Woodrow Wilson (the worst) and his First Lady Edith Wilson, Joe Biden and DOCTOR Jill Biden have been right out front with Jill running the day-to-day operations of the White House, including a cabinet meeting, and foreign policy.  Well foreign policy that involves travel.  When the foreign Heads of State come here, and DOCTOR Jill has an event at the White House, Joe has to get gone.

Jill Biden takes over as president fades away.  This week's White House Report Card focuses on the latest evidence that first lady Jill Biden is, and long has been, the power in the West Wing.  On Friday, the White House wasn't hiding it.  At a rare Cabinet meeting, the president handed over the leadership to the first lady, sitting at the head of the table, her prepared notes in front of her.  According to the New York Post, Jill Biden "read from a binder about maternal health initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes after her husband spoke for just two minutes off the top of the meeting."

Dazed and Confused, Joe Biden's Memory Issues Reach a Shocking New Low.  The biggest political scandal in modern history continues to live on at the expense of the American people.  Joe Biden, who exited the presidential race in July with no coherent explanation while insisting he's still mentally and physically fit to serve, remains the leader of the most powerful country on earth.  As the story goes, he's the best, most consequential president ever, but also, he can't continue his reelection campaign. [...] I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump drinking a cup of water with two hands spawned calls for the use of the 25th Amendment.  Still, the press remains completely uninterested in questioning the dangerous absurdity of the situation.

The Democrats Defraud the Voters With A Little Help From Their Friends.  The Democrats and their allies also deceived voters about Biden's mental condition.  It is difficult to think of a lie more impactful than deceiving voters into electing a president with seriously diminished mental capacities.  When special prosecutor Robert Hur reported on Biden's mental deficiencies, the MSM joined the Democrats in attacking him.  When videos showing Biden's confusion aired, the MSM and the Democrats engaged in a coordinated deception, saying the videos were "cheap fakes."  Consider this:  You can't sell securities to the public by making statements knowingly false or made with reckless disregard for the truth.  You can't sell your house based on falsehoods; that's fraud.  You can't even sell "banana bread" without actual bananas without disclosing that fact.  But the Democrats and their allies have engaged in major lies to win elections and gotten away scot-free.  These political lies are frauds and far more important than banana bread.

Why Is Jill Running the First Biden Cabinet Meeting in Nearly a Year?  After Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, it wasn't just his campaign that came to a halt — the illusion that he was running the country evaporated as well.  Instead of governing, he spent more time at the beach than in the White House.  The façade that Joe Biden is still in charge took another blow on Friday during the first cabinet meeting in nearly a year, where a visibly exhausted Biden made brief remarks before passing control of the meeting to his wife, Jill Biden. [...] I'm sorry, but this isn't normal.  It's one thing for a First Lady to use her platform to champion personal causes.  Michelle Obama focused on child nutrition, Laura Bush prioritized child literacy, and Hillary Clinton pushed healthcare reform.  But leading a cabinet meeting as if she holds actual governmental power is a different story.  It doesn't matter what Jill Biden was there to comment on — what matters is that she was there at all.  She's neither an elected nor appointed official.  No one voted for her, and she has no political power, which makes her input on policy completely symbolic and essentially an extension of her husband.  But when she shows up to a cabinet meeting, it sends the message that she is the one in charge and that her husband is an extension of her.

Jill Biden Chairs Cabinet Meeting.  What's Going On?  I suppose this has happened often enough during this administration that we probably shouldn't be all that shocked, but that doesn't mean that this behavior should be normalized.  As we have noted here multiple times in the past, It's been almost a year since Joe Biden sat down for a meeting with the members of his cabinet to discuss world affairs and get their agenda in order.  That changed yesterday when the first such cabinet meeting in more than eleven months was held at the White House... sort of.  A meeting was indeed called to order, but Joe Biden's entire participation in it was comprised of his introductory remarks where he welcomed the person who would actually be chairing the meeting.  That would be his wife, Jill Biden.  Dr. Jill wound up doing almost all of the talking while Joe disappeared into the background before departing.  This jarring event led many observers to yet again as the same question we've been wrestling with all year.  Who is actually running the country right now?

Jill Biden's Cosplaying As President Just Got Much Weirder.  The saga of Jill Biden cosplaying as president of the United States just got a lot weirder, and this time the press is involved.  On Friday, questions arose after she was spotted sitting at the head of the table and leading a cabinet meeting at the White House.  That it was the first in over a year only made the situation more perplexing.  Joe Biden doesn't meet with his cabinet for that long and when he finally does, his unelected wife takes the lead?  Then, later on the same day, it was revealed that her name was being embossed on honorary legislation folders as if she were equal to the president.

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DOCTOR Jill Biden should be arrested for impersonating a public official.  No one is above the law!  That's what the socialist Democrats constantly say.

Jill Biden Lives It Up While She Still Has Presidential Power.  It's good to be the king queen!  Especially when you have all of the power and none of the accountability.  Last I checked, no one voted for Jill Biden to be president.  Yesterday, the American public got a real look behind the curtain at the White House, which made it clear that Joe Biden is no longer in charge of the White House, much less his own life and personal care.   Edith Wilson  Jill Biden is in charge of all of that now.  The president in name only held his first full cabinet meeting in nearly a year on Friday.  You know, because there is absolutely NOTHING going on in the world, and after October 2nd of last year, there was no point in having full cabinet meetings because everything in the country and in foreign policy was just going swimmingly.  Yes, you're reading that correctly.  Joe Biden has been such a meat puppet that there wasn't even a full cabinet meeting after October 7th.  I guess that's one way to keep the 25th Amendment off the table — simply never BE AT THE TABLE with the rest of the Cabinet.  But there finally was one on Friday, and Old Grandpa Joe promptly turned over the whole meeting to  Lady Macbeth  Jill Biden — who was sitting at the head of the table.  [Tweet with video clip] 

People Have a Lot of Questions About Report That Jill Biden's Signature Is on Legislation Folders.  X was all atwitter on Friday with the question of what Jill Biden was doing at a cabinet meeting.  Joe Biden hasn't held one in 11 months, as he's abdicated his responsibilities.  At the start of his meeting on Friday he introduced Jill, and then she did all of the talking about the White House Women's Health initiative.  She didn't speak for very long, but she walked through some of the initiatives that they are taking — things that you would think Joe normally would be outlining for the cabinet.  That has a lot of people wondering what was going on, and talking about Edith Wilson.  Here's the end of what she said.  I have a lot of thoughts about the look of this:  [Tweet with video clip]

Jill Biden Takes Over the 1st Cabinet Meeting in Over a Year.  No Cabinet meetings in over a year and Biden turns it completely over to Jill.  Is Jill Biden the President?  We really don't know who is running the country, and Jill is as good a guess as any.  She promises to never go away because there is much work to do.  Oh, goody.  She is so great on women's issues that she wants men in their bathrooms and locker rooms.  MSNBC is falling all over themselves here.  [Tweet with video clip]

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If the Cabinet never meets, that explains why the 25th Amendment hasn't been used to remove Joe Biden.

Joe Biden, 20 Years Ago, Blocked the Potential First Black Female on the Supreme Court.  California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown did not set out to become the first black female nominated to the United States Supreme Court.  But had it not been for then-Sen. Joe Biden standing in her way 20 years ago, Brown might well have been on the road to "breaking this ceiling."  Brown, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, was born in Alabama during Jim Crow. [...] In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, from which more justices go on the Supreme Court than any other circuit.  Even though Brown had majority support in the Senate, Sen. Biden filibustered her nomination.  According to columnist Robert Novak, Biden's obstruction represented "the first full-scale effort in American history to prevent a president from picking the federal judges he wants."

Jill Biden to Honor Cast Members of 'West Wing' TV Show.  Jill Biden is going to honor the cast members of the TV show 'The West Wing' at the White House on Friday to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the show.  This is the same administration that couldn't even be bothered to honor Gold Star families by showing up at Arlington National Cemetery this summer and then had the nerve to criticize Trump for doing so.  This tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats.  This is who they really care about.  This is who they want approval from.

The Biden/Harris Legacy.  Take a moment to think about this.  Under the Biden/Harris administration, we now have two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate the former President of the United States.  The Biden/Harris administration has repeatedly refused to provide enhanced Secret Service protection to President Trump during this run for re-election.  Concurrent with and immediately before both attempts, Biden and Harris have repeatedly used inflammatory rhetoric targeting President Trump.  Regarding the Biden/Harris presidential administration, what will history record?  I suggest that it is likely that the Biden/Harris administration will be recorded as highly corrupt and incompetent.  An administration with a constant appetite for war and other foreign adventures (Nordstream, for example) and yet curiously incompetent in the management of war.  Witness the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the enormously expensive and mismanaged Ukrainian misadventure.

IRS whistleblowers sue Hunter Biden's attorney for $20 million, claim 'malicious harm'.  Two IRS whistleblowers who blew the whistle on alleged political interference in Hunter Biden's tax crimes filed on Friday a $20 million lawsuit against Mr. Biden's lawyer, Abbe Lowell.  IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler accused Mr. Lowell of retaliating against them with "clear malice" when they blew the whistle against his client by making defamatory statements where he alleged that they illegally revealed Mr. Biden's tax information.  They are each suing Mr. Lowell for $10 million.

Merrick Garland's failures.  The most glaring failure in Garland's leadership occurred when his appointed council Robert Hur refused to indict President Joe Biden for his obvious classified records crime on the grounds of Biden's compromised cognition and memory function.  Instead of disciplining Hur or pursuing further duty under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to our Constitution, Garland stood silent.  Garland could have appealed to Vice President Harris and other cabinet members to seek Biden's removal via appropriate constitutional processes.  Garland's inaction has left our country with a president compromised cognitively and legally until January 2025.  Did Garland ever notice Joe Biden's cognitive failures during cabinet meetings?  During individual meetings?  Garland seems to maintain purity in his own performance and responsibilities by silence, passivity, or inaction.  The multilayered prosecution of Hunter Biden is another example of Garland's passive leadership.

Anybody home at the White House?  Anybody seen Joe Biden lately?  He's not on vacation today, which is unusual, having spent 40% of his entire presidency plopped out on a lawnchair on a Delaware beach. [...] That's a nameless, faceless, oligarchy, composed of big Democrat campaign donors, old dinosaurs in Congress, and former Obama operatives burrowed deep in the permanent government that's running the country as Joe Biden lays out like a beached whale.  Kamala Harris is nowhere to be found.

Beating the Cheat.  [Scroll down]  Biden's debate performance — if that's the word I'm groping for — brought the situation into focus in a manner not often seen in politics.  What most of us have known for some time — that SloJoe can't be relied on to safely use a crosswalk, much less run a country — landed before the public with reverberations echoing across the country.  The fate of the Basement President was already clear.  The historical wrong of 2020 was going to be righted, by the most definitive mean — the voters.

Kamala Harris Copied Her Long-Awaited Policy Platform From Someone Else's Website.  The policies themselves are what you'd expect.  Some of them are incoherent word salads that never lay out any actual mechanism for accomplishing the promises being made.  Others are just typical far-left slop, including on issues like energy and healthcare.  At the very least, the release countered the idea that Harris is now a moderate.  Perhaps there's a reason for that.  According to a new report, Harris didn't even author some of the policy positions presented.  Instead, they were lifted from Joe Biden's old campaign website.

Report: Joe Biden Has Spent 40.3 Percent of His Presidency on Vacation.  President Joe Biden (D) has reportedly spent 40.3 percent of his presidency on vacation while Americans suffer from problems such as crippling inflation and an open border.  In a social media post on August 31, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Research shared a video of Biden lounging on a chair at the beach.  He appeared to be talking on the phone as beachgoers walked past:  [Tweet with video clip]

The Biden-Harris World Is Afire.  Somehow the United States ended up this summer with no engaged president and an absent vice president who avoids the missing president and is frantically repudiating everything she co-owned the last three years.  [Advertisement]  The world was already confused over how President Joe Biden was apparently declared by unnamed Democratic insiders and donors unfit and unable to continue as their presidential candidate — as if he were a dethroned Third-World usurper.  [Advertisement]  It further wondered how those who staged his removal had no problem allowing him, in his debilitated state, to continue as America's commander-in-chief until January 20, 2025.  They demonstrated their priorities that focus on retaining power, not the welfare of the nation or the will of over 14 million Biden primary voters.  Vice President Kamala Harris, until Biden's forced abdication, was judged by these same backroom fixers as too incompetent to ever be commander-in-chief and thus for three years a good reason why Biden apparently was not forced out earlier.  [Advertisement]

Hunter Biden 'All Smiles' After Guilty Plea.  He Should Be.  If there's anyone who was truly "shocked" by Hunter Biden's decision on Thursday to plead guilty to all charges in his California tax fraud case, they clearly haven't been paying attention.  You might expect that after entering that many guilty pleas on charges that could bring 17 years behind bars (keeping in mind that he's already a convicted felon), a person might be feeling a bit down in the dumps.  But that wasn't the case with the First Son yesterday.  He was seen heading out to a ritzy Malibu restaurant with his entourage, smiling like a person without a care in the world.  There probably isn't much of a mystery behind this appearance either because Hunter very likely doesn't have a care in the world.  Things may have gone south for his father considerably over the past couple of months, but for Hunter, the timing likely couldn't be better, [...] As you likely saw in the headlines, Hunter said on Thursday that he entered the guilty pleas to "spare" his family from further "embarrassment."  In reality, there may have been a lot more involved than simply further embarrassment and it probably would have involved many more Bidens than just his father.

Guess Who's Not Going to Jail Before the Election?  [Scroll down]  If you recall, Hunter [Biden] was offered an extraordinary sweetheart deal by the Department of Justice, one that fell apart as soon as the judge took a look at it. [...] In June a jury convicted him on federal gun charges.  He was also charged in a nine-count indictment in the central district of California with tax evasion, failure to file /pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return. [...] President Biden has said he will not pardon Hunter.  I wouldn't bet on him holding to this.  It's perfectly obvious that Hunter pled guilty to avoid public exposure of the at least 27 million dollars that flowed into his family's coffers as bribes by foreigners with something they wanted from the then vice-president.  These include bribes from a Romanian real-estate magnate with ties to the CEF China Energy and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.  Other bribes involved, Russian, Chinese, Kazakhstan, and Ukrainian individuals.

Hunter Biden ruined himself every step of the way — now he's betting it all on pardon from dad.  Hunter Biden just showed the perils of playing the game of chicken with yourself.  For months, many of us have marveled at the sight of Hunter careening toward a cliff while declaring publicly that he was prepared to go all the way.  The Justice Department was never going over the cliff because they had nothing to gain or lose in open-and-shut cases in Delaware and California.  There was never a serious question of convicting Hunter of these crimes, just a will of the Justice Department to secure them.  Special Counsel David Weiss inexplicably allowed serious felonies to expire, refused to bring obvious crimes as an unregistered foreign agent, and sought to cut an embarrassing sweetheart deal with Hunter to avoid any jail time on a couple of minor crimes.

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"No one is above the law", the Democrats say.

Biden's astonishing vacation total revealed — prez took 48 years worth of leave in 4.  President Biden spends almost as much time on R&R as he does running the country.  The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years — about 40% of the 1,326 days he's been in office.  It would take the average American — who gets 11 days a year of vacation — approximately 48 years to accumulate that number of days off, according to shocking data compiled by the Republican National Committee.  "The image of Biden fast asleep and lying flat on his back in his chair at the beach while America and the world is on fire will define the Biden presidency," said Mark Paoletta, the general counsel of the White House budget office under former President Donald Trump.

A Barely-There Joe Biden Admits the Inflation Reduction Act Was a Total Scam.  Remember Joe Biden?  It's hard to believe, but despite his escalating dementia, he's still the President of the United States because nothing matters anymore.  He's also still speaking publicly on occasion, and on Thursday, he managed to admit the Inflation Reduction Act was a scam.  Why did he do that?  The simple answer is that he's senile and doesn't even realize what he's saying half the time at this point.  [Tweet with video clip] [...] This dude is still the president despite dropping his re-election bid with no official explanation, and the press just moved on like it was no big deal.  The fact that the 25th Amendment hasn't been used against Biden is a major scandal, and one Kamala Harris should be made to answer for.  She won't be, but she should be.

Hunter Biden changes his plea to guilty as his $1.4 million tax evasion trial kicks off in LA.  Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to at least some of the nine tax evasion charges against him, in a stunning last-minute reversal at his criminal trial in Los Angeles.  The change was not due to a plea deal, with prosecutor Leo Wise telling Judge Mark Scarsi on Thursday: 'this is the first we're hearing of this'.  The shock revelation was made by Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell in front of the judge, while 120 potential jurors waited next door to be selected for his trial.

Hunter Biden Admits He Committed Every Element of Every Crime Charged in Indictment.  Hunter Biden entered an open guilty plea in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday afternoon to nine charges brought against him in a federal indictment related to failure to pay income taxes and tax evasion.  He will be sentenced on December 16 and faces up to 17 years in prison and over $1.3 million in fines.

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And of course, he will serve the entire 17 years, because no one is above the law, as the Democrats constantly say.

Hunter: On Second Thought, I'm Actually Guilty.  [Scroll down]  Anyway, this should put an emphatic end to Joe's claims that his son did nothing wrong.  And it will put an emphatic start on the pardon process, which is clearly what is driving the effort to avoid the trial and get right to sentencing.  Hunter must be worried that his father may not be holding the keys to that authority for much longer — or his father may be worried what would have come out in court.  Or both.

The Media Lies Add Up.  [Scroll down]  More hysteria followed when Trump was impeached in December 2019.  The left claimed he had pressured the Ukrainian government to look into the family of Joe Biden (then a potential 2020 election opponent) for its corruption with Ukrainian oligarchs — as a condition for releasing military aid designated to Kyiv.  Yet Hunter Biden was paid nearly $1 million a year by a Ukrainian energy company to enlist his father, Vice President Joe Biden, for quid pro quo services.  In turn, Joe Biden himself later bragged he had pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor, Victor Shokin — who happened to be looking too closely into the various shady schemes of the Biden family.  The deceptions and lies continued.

Lawsuit probes whether Joe Biden got FBI warning of security risk of Hunter's foreign biz.  On the eve of Hunter Biden's tax trial in California, the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project has sued the FBI, CIA and five other federal agencies for records revealing whether Joe Biden or any of his family members ever received a defensive briefing on the First Son's business dealings.  The Heritage records requests "go to the heart of whether President Biden or his family were, at a minimum, made aware of the potential Kompromat that could have been developed against the then-Vice President and future President of the United States as a result of his son's foreign business dealings," says the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Washington DC District Court.  A defensive briefing is a security heads-up given to government officials and other exposed individuals at risk of becoming targets of foreign intelligence services.

Joe Biden's quiet quit.  Early in the first and only term of his presidency, Joe routinely worked 30-hour weeks.  It's common knowledge that he spent about 40% of his time back at that Delaware beach house.  From that low baseline, he's descended still further after being defenestrated from the 2024 race by the three Y's — Nancy, Barry and Kammy.  I would say Joe is pouting, but he seems to lack the energy for even that.  He has simply checked out.  Let's look at his schedule for the last couple of weeks.  For that, we have the venerable non-partisan newspaper "Roll Call" which keeps tabs on such things based on the White House official reports.  Last week, Joe did nothing all week, except "receive the President's Daily Brief" each day. [...] The prior week he did do something.  On Monday of that week, he shouted at the teleprompter in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.  His shouting was pushed back to 11 pm, in order to minimize the number of people watching it.  That's way past Joe's bedtime, so then he immediately jetted off to wine country in Napa Valley where he recuperated for the rest of the week at the 8,000-acre estate of a rich Democrat donor.

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Biden has now surpassed Obama as the laziest president in American history.

Is Biden Trying to Help Kamala Lose?  The conventional wisdom is that Kamala Harris is trying to separate herself from the Biden-Harris administration's record.  On the economy, the border crisis, and even Israel, Kamala desperately wants to brand her potential presidency as a "new way forward" and turn the hyphen in "Biden-Harris administration" into a ten-foot pole.  So why is Joe Biden joining her on the campaign trail?  Biden took a break from his vacation to appear on stage with Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh.  Perhaps the theory is that "Scranton Joe" will help her in the Keystone State, where recent polling for her doesn't look so good.  But actually, Biden's presence just reminds us that Harris was a key player in covering up his cognitive decline and is as responsible for the administration's failures as he is.  Biden's performance at the rally was, to say the least, a train wreck.  [Video clip]

Hunter Biden tax trial starts this week.  He faces up to 17 years in prison.  Hunter Biden's tax trial is slated to begin this week in a California federal court.  Hunter Biden faces up to 17 years in prison for nine charges — three felonies and six misdemeanors — related to his alleged failure to pay over $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.  Rather than paying his taxes, prosecutors allege he spent his substantial income on an "extravagant lifestyle," including "drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature."  Like his gun trial in June, where prosecutors secured a conviction on all three felony counts, this should be a "slam-dunk case" for prosecutors since the evidence of guilt is "overwhelming," John Malcolm, vice president of the Heritage Foundation's Institute for Constitutional Government, told the Daily Caller News Foundation[.]

Knives Out:  Administrative State Begins Leaking Information About the Bidens.  Maybe President Joe Biden was never a serious member of the Washington, DC, establishment — like the Clintons, the Bushes, or the Obamas — or, maybe, the establishment just had no more use for him.  Either way, the knives seem to be out for the Biden family after Joe Biden stepped aside from the 2024 presidential election.  In three leaks in the last month, members of the permanent political class in Washington disclosed damaging information about the Biden family.  [Advertisement]  One:  Hunter Biden accepted $3,101,258 from Romanian partner Gabriel Popoviciu to "influence U.S. government agencies" when Joe Biden served as vice president, Special Counsel David Weiss said in a court filing.  [Advertisement]  The filing stops short of accusing Hunter of having "improperly coordinated with the Obama administration," but it underscores how Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to indict Hunter on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations in 2023 while Joe Biden remained in the presidential race.  Two:  The State Department released a document showing that Hunter Biden sought U.S. government help for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian company.  [Advertisement]

House Finds Biden Committed Impeachable Offenses, But Won't Do Anything.  The 291-page report from Congress states the following:  "First and foremost, overwhelming evidence demonstrates that President Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family."  "Among other aspects of this conspiracy, the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden."  According to reporting by Just the News, the committee cited evidence that Biden "actively participated" in an influence-peddling conspiracy by attending dinners with his family's foreign associates and speaking to them over the phone.  These interactions were documented by email evidence and testimony from several of Hunter Biden's ex-business partners.  The Congressional committees also found clear evidence showing Hunter Biden used his father's official position as vice president to "garner favorable outcomes in foreign business dealings and legal proceedings."

Joe Biden Appears to be Done Pretending to be President.  Over at Townhall, Katie Pavlich asks two important questions.  First, where is Joe Biden?  And second, who is running the country at the moment?  The subject arose because people have been looking at the President's schedule as published by the White House.  Normally that schedule is sparse with a very early lid on the best of days.  But now it's absolutely empty.  Biden just came back from a one week vacation in California, but he headed immediately to his mansions in Delaware for another two weeks of rest and relaxation.  There is nothing on the schedule after the President's daily briefing each morning and we're not entirely sure that he's even getting those.  The Vice President is out on the campaign trail constantly.  So we shall ask once again.  We're supposedly overseeing two separate wars overseas and wrestling with multiple crises back at home.  Who exactly is running the United States?

Biden Is on Permanent Break.  Who's Running the U.S.?  Biden and the entire crooked clan are on vacation at a billionaire's California estate.  That's where Biden headed after yelling about how all his opponents are a threat to democracy at the DNC convention (presumably not his own party bosses who ousted him and replaced him with Kamala.)  That's before Biden leaves his vacation in California to go on vacation in Delaware.  Biden headed off to his California vacation on Monday after the DNC in Chicago after flying off to do the event on Friday.  And not much was going on that week either beyond such events as a campaign appearance with Kamala in Maryland on Thursday, "the President drops by the White House Creator Economy Conference" and calls "President José Raúl Mulino of Panama" on Wednesday.  On Tuesday, Biden flew out to New Orleans to talk about claims that he's going to cure cancer.  And on Monday, Biden had been on vacation in Delaware.  Much of the time there's simply nothing on the public schedule.  Or one event.

President Vacation.  At a time when we're experiencing so many threats like an uncertain economy, threatened allies, and wars in multiple areas, it's crucial for America to have a leader who is fully engaged and ready to take on any challenge.  Unfortunately, we have Joe Biden.  Sure, he's the lamest of lame ducks and is probably in "forget it" mode after the way the Democrats so unceremoniously forced him out of his reelection campaign, but you'd think that Biden would be around to address the many crises happening right now.  Instead, he's enjoying some kind of endless summer.

Secret Service Agents Shove Civilians Out of the Way As Joe and Jill Continue Endless Vacation.  Do you remember learning in high school how one of the reasons we rebelled against the English monarchy was because we were freedom-minded and didn't believe in "kings" and "monarchs" who inherited their power instead of earning it?  And how we believed that a leader should be a person of the people and not some distant autocrat who rules on a golden throne from afar?  However, if you're the Incredibly Shrinking President Joe Biden, who seems to be on permanent vacation at the taxpayer's expense, these rules do not apply to you.  Get out of the way, plebes!

These are the Dems who deserve an Oscar for the fake, all-an-act convention.  Best Animated Feature — Joe Biden.  It is amazing what modern animation can achieve.  Way past his normal bedtime of 4 p.m., a character amazingly resembling Joe Biden took to the stage.  He managed a whole speech, whipped himself up into a rage over things that nobody said and wiped a tear from his face as he accepted the gratitude of a party that wanted him gone.  There was reported to be a sequel to this animation in the works.  But word is that the studio pulled the plug after a poor performance at the box office.

No One Is Buying It.  Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander-in-chief explicitly denied that he was "angry at all those people" who said he should "step down" following his catastrophic faceplant at the June presidential debate.  There is not a single soul who actually believes this. [...] As for the notion that Biden is a "good man" — this too is a lie.  Indeed, it has been one of the biggest, most frequently repeated lies of my entire life.  Biden is not a good man.  Let's ask Mary Ellen Bork whether Biden, who teamed up with Mary Jo Kopechne murderer Ted Kennedy to so brutally savage her late husband Robert's Supreme Court nomination that "bork" entered the English lexicon as a verb, is a "good man."  We might also ask Clarence Thomas whether Biden, who did more than anyone else to spread Anita Hill's slanderous lies, is a "good man."  Also:  Can any father in America actually look at Hunter Biden and conclude that Joe was a good father?

Who is running the country right now?  The powers that be have sent President Joe Biden on vacation to California for the remaining days of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).  He is currently tucked away on a five-day vacation at the estate of a billionaire Democrat donor.  His schedule over the past two days has been entirely empty.  Last week, President Biden was on vacation to Camp David.  The week before, he was on vacation in Delaware.  Ever since he was effectively forced to surrender the Democratic nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden has been missing in action.  Sure, before that, he was barely functional, but Biden's schedule has now reached new levels of absurdity.  Yet it looks like this is the game plan for his handlers for the next 151 days until Inauguration Day 2025 arrives.

Impeachment report shows why Dems were desperate to get rid of corrupt Biden.  [House Republicans] released a final report on their long-running probe of the Biden family business — i.e., the lucrative sale of Biden's political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes. [...] It is an important summary of the Biden family business, as much accountability as the public can expect given the limitations of congressional investigations that are stonewalled by an incumbent administration.  It is, moreover, a useful record of that stonewalling — very much including the corruption of the Justice Department — which connects the current Biden administration with the tireless self-dealing of Biden's career, culminating in his term as vice president.  As the investigation spearheaded by House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) documents — and richly corroborates with bank records and testimony from accomplices and whistleblowers — the Biden family cashed in, to the tune of more than $27 million, in marketing access to the current president.

10 Lies Leftists Tell You.  Lie #9: Joe Biden and the Democrats have brought decency back into the White House.  I don't know about decency, but it's true that senile Joe and his lackeys brought a bunch of things into the Executive Mansion:  Dylan Mulvaney, a man pretending to be a girl; a "mysterious" bag of cocaine; a transgendered person flashing his fake breasts on the South Lawn; six of the president's seven grandchildren, the youngest born of an affair between a stripper and Biden's felonious son being persona non grata; the selfish, spoiled, America-hating soccer star Megan Rapinoe; the lewd, obscenity-spewing rapper GloRilla; a pair of vicious German Shepherds, both fond of chomping on Secret Service agents; and, of course, Hunter, the president's crack-smoking, sex-trafficking, illegal gun-wielding Biden Family bagman.  If that's decency, you can keep it.

Ignoring Joe Biden's Corruption Tells The World America Is Corrupt.  With Joe Biden out as Democrats' candidate for president, the House of Representatives' report on the impeachment inquiry released this morning may give off a "What difference, at this point, does it make?" vibe.  After all, even if the House votes to impeach the president, the Senate won't convict him and he'll be out of office and politics forever in January 2024.  The nearly 300-page report nonetheless matters for many reasons, the most important of which is to restore America's standing in the world.  Over more than 150 pages, the House's impeachment report establishes that Joe Biden conspired with his family members and their business partners to monetize his position as vice president.  In exchange for access to then-Vice President Biden, foreign individuals and entities gave various Biden family members and their friends more than $27 million — some of those proceeds passed directly on to the Big Guy.  Those generalities fail to adequately capture the audacity of the conspiracy, or the harm to our country caused by Biden announcing through his conduct that the United States of America can be bought.

Cruz, Issa Demand Answers on Possible Secret Service Cocaine 'Cover-Up'.  Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Darrell Issa are demanding answers from the Secret Service about a possible cover-up and a "troubling pattern of misconduct" surrounding the agency's handling of cocaine discovered in the White House last summer.  The two Republican lawmakers, who serve in key Judiciary Committee roles in the Senate and the House, cited revelations from a RealClearPolitics article last week that former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and senior agency leaders sought to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer.  Despite the push, leaders of the Forensics Services and the Uniformed Divisions rejected efforts to dispose of the evidence and presumably are keeping the bag of cocaine in a Secret Service evidence vault.

Biden DNC Speech Is a Historic Train Wreck — With a Slurring, Stumbling, Screaming Speech Full of Lies.  Joe Biden was, on some level, wrapping up his political career during his DNC speech on Monday night.  He had expected to give the keynote address on Thursday.  That was before the coup, when he was shoved aside and replaced by Kamala Harris as the nominee.  So, you can imagine he's not a happy camper when it comes to that.  It was perhaps appropriate that the day was a mess with protesters breaching the security fence, attacking the police, and getting arrested.  Then, Biden made weird comments about former President Donald Trump, claiming his "stability" was still a question.  [Tweet]

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Jill Biden Walks Out on Stage at DNC Convention Wrapped in a Plastic Trash Bag.  Nurse Jill walked out on stage at the DNC convention in Chicago Monday night wrapped in a plastic trash bag.  Jill Biden put on a fake smile Monday night after Kamala Harris forced her husband Joe Biden off the ballot, stole all of his delegates, and took his donor money.  Attendees holding "Jill" signs cheered as she walked out on stage in another hideous dress.

A Night At the Opera:  Day One of the Democratic National Convention.  [Scroll down]  After his speech Biden would be flying to vacation in California.  But by 11:30 p.m. he began his speech declaring his love for America.  As the crowd called their love for Joe, he retorted that we must save democracy.  He began his false claim about Charlottsville in 2017 as his call to run to rid America of Trump.  For several minutes he recounted his time in Washington.  The second coming of this Messiah included some truths but mostly exaggerations and obvious falsehoods.  But Biden is a master of stretching the truth.  The speech dragged on and on, a litany of everything he has said before in his extended political career.  Listening to his 46-minute speech, I thought that I was in bizzarro world.  In his screaming voice he claimed to have solved the nation's ills.  As he hit the high notes, I thought I was at the opera, but then I remembered I was at a horror show.

Kamala Has Democrats in Real Trouble.  On the one hand, we all know that Pelosi had been conspiring with Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama to get rid of Joe Biden on the ticket after recognizing the polling damage that his obvious senility and terrible performance as president had caused.  On the other hand, she admits to being blindsided by the timing of Biden's withdrawal and also admits to have been blindsided by his simultaneous endorsement of Kamala Harris, suggesting that "everybody wanted an open process" to identify the party's candidate. [E]verybody, that is, except Joe Biden.  Biden's endorsement of Harris effectively bound the DNC's hands, as the exhilarating prospect of having an ethnically diverse female president quickly spread through the party ranks and social media on that Sunday afternoon.  There was simply no time to consider the entirely practical idea to initiate an open and democratic process to identify the Democrats' best and most electable candidate.  As I observed immediately after the announcement, the Kamala Harris endorsement was Biden pulling the pin of a political grenade inside the party tent.

Democrats Broke the Law by Pushing Joe Biden Out of the Race.  On Monday night, Joe Biden will stumble his way through a farewell speech in bidding goodbye to politics after more than 50 years in public office.  Biden undoubtedly plans to offer the same schtick — a caption-necessary combination of self-pity and self-righteousness punctuated by expressions of rage and his signature creepy whisper — as he soaks in his final moments of glory in front of thousands of Democrats assembled at the United Center on the west side of Chicago.  But this is not what Biden wanted.  Far from it.  His address will be less curtain call and more live hostage video performed under duress by a man taken captive by his own party elites including longtime friends and allies who have essentially chained the ex-presidential candidate to his Delaware beach house to keep him from doing any more political damage.  Biden may speak the jumbo-sized words plastered on the teleprompter but all the while he'll hear in the back of his head the voice of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:  The easy way or the hard way.

Donald Trump, Elon Musk: 'We Don't Have a President Right Now'.  Former President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk agreed that the United States does not "have a president right now" while speaking in an X Space on Monday.  "Biden is close to vegetable stage, in my opinion, I looked at him today on the beach, and I said, 'Why would anybody allow him — the guy could barely walk.  Does he have a political adviser that thinks this looks good?  Because it looks so bad," Trump said, referring to a recent video that surfaced of President Joe Biden at the beach.

Top Biden Aide Knows Who Tanked Joe's 2024 Re-election Effort — and It's Not Obama.  [Scroll down]  Biden's huffy and slurred farewell address was a mini-State of the Union where the lame-duck president listed things he planned to accomplish.  None of them will get done this deep in an election cycle and a House Republican majority.  The president made the case for a second term — the country didn't want it.  It's why he quit; he was veering quickly toward a 1980-style defeat.  His June 27 debate with Donald Trump was a disaster, an election-killing event that led to the Democratic Party rebellion that became too widespread to quell.  The president is said to have especially sour feelings toward Obama, who he felt was the true puppet master; maybe he was.  Obama certainly was aware of the damning op-ed penned by George Clooney, which increased the pressure on Biden to quit.  The former president didn't order the hit piece but didn't do anything to dissuade the Hollywood star from sending it to The New York Times.  If Biden had hit grand slams in the three interviews post-debate on ABC, NBC, and BET, he might still be the 2024 Democratic candidate.  Instead, they were middling trainwrecks, with the BET interview being especially brutal, forgetting the name of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who Biden referred to as the "black man."

Our Three Silent Mice.  [#1 — Biden]  President Biden was forced, unceremoniously and unwillingly, to abdicate from his impending reelection nomination.  Since then, we have neither seen nor heard much from our sitting President.  He has vanished, poof, gone.  This is quite unusual if not alarming.  Unlike prior to the June 27 debate, the left now makes no effort to hide Biden's debility.  Indeed, it accepts the reality that an infirm Biden might not be able to finish out his remaining six months. [...] The vanishing Biden caught another case of COVID in mid-July shortly after his disastrous and historically early presidential debate with Trump.  And in the subsequent month, Biden simply disappeared. [...] Americans have wondered what happened to their president.  Apparently, Biden was deemed unfit by his party bosses and donors to remain its nominee but still considered hale enough to continue for half a year as America's president.

Special Counsel Confirms Hunter Biden Was Taking Bribes.  According to a new court filing, the younger Biden took millions of dollars from a Romanian real estate tycoon in exchange for U.S. policy changes toward corruption in the country.  The exchange took place while President Joe Biden was the Vice President during President Barack Obama's administration.  [Three tweets]  The central question regarding the shady, overseas Biden family business has always been whether Hunter — who was business partners with his father and often flew on Air Force Two to make deals in foreign countries — was influencing changes in U.S. government policy in exchange for payment.  In other words, was the Biden family accepting bribes?  According to new information unearthed by the Special Counsel, the answer is yes.

Trump Just Said Out Loud What Everybody in Washington Is Afraid To.  Biden had insisted for months that he would run for a second term, and his party accommodated him, too, shutting off debate and effectively rigging the primary process. [...] Despite Biden's assurances, something mysterious happened one Saturday night in July.  Reports are that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) quite personally but probably only virtually twisted Biden's arm until he cried "Uncle!" and then Biden quit the race by tweet the next day.  Senior Democrats — Barack Obama's name is also mentioned in these reports — forced their nominee and a sitting president (!!!) off their ticket because they had decided he was a loser.  Harris was anointed his successor to avoid party chaos and, needless to say, any of that messy democracy stuff.  You know, the democracy they're saving from Trump.  Everybody knows these facts.  And yet nobody in Washington, particularly in the D.C. press corps, dares to call it what it was:  a coup.

Chum in the Water:  Hunter Biden Associate to Testify That He Bribed the First Son.  I'm beginning to think that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Biden crime family bromance is coming to a close.  Special counsel David Weiss is alleging that Hunter Biden and his myrmidons snagged $3 million from Romanian oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu, an accusation the Oversight Committee made in May of 2023, and Popoviciu is expected to testify in Hunter's tax evasion trial set for next month in California.  Popoviciu allegedly paid Hunter $3 million to "attempt to influence U.S. government agencies to investigate the Romanian investigation," which was looking into the oligarch's affairs, Wiess stated.  This seems to be a similar situation to the Ukrainian debacle where Joe Biden reportedly had a prosecutor fired for investigating Burisma, a company that paid mad stacks to the Biden family, a little piece of skullduggery that Biden bragged about in front of cameras[.]  [Video clip]

Where's Joe?  Political news site Roll Call maintains an objective calendar of the president's schedule, updated "at midnight Eastern Time, or when pushed out [by the White House] via social media, whichever is earlier."  According to Roll Call's "President's Public Schedule," Biden last spoke in public nearly a week ago.  At 10:40 on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 1, Biden undertook the strenuous 15-mile limo ride to Joint Base Andrews.  There, he and Vice President Kamala Harris greeted the handful of Americans who had been freed from Russia as part of an international prisoner swap.

Joe Biden's Schedule This Week Included Two Phone Calls, One Meeting and Then Off to the Beach!  Joe Biden's schedule this week has people once again wondering why this man is still the President of the United States.  His official schedule listed two phone calls and one meeting, followed by an early weekend departure to his Delaware beach house on Thursday.  What other job in the world would include this kind of schedule?  There are major events unfolding across the country and Joe seems to be on a permanent vacation.

Do We Have an MIA President?  What is Biden Doing?  President Joe Biden is headed to Delaware again Thursday after holding an empty public schedule since he returned to the White House Monday.  He was also in Delaware last weekend.  [Three tweets]  During the daily briefing at the White House Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre falsely claimed reporters have had access to Biden.  [Tweet with video clip]

A Fly in the Ointment.  We are being abused right now.  There is no Commander in Chief, there just isn't, unless a president can grow six inches overnight or change the shape of his face and ears, the color of his eyes, from what historical evidence exists.  It's not all that important, when it comes down to it, because the lesson learned is that the whole of congress, Democrats and Republicans, the whole Executive branch is willing to go along with the ruse, because they have no respect or sense of duty to the people.  Where that is true, there is no limit to the degradation and defilement they are willing to heap on the masses.  We mean less to them than a group of ants on the periphery of one's lawn, but should that group of ants begin to invade the picnic, there's no hesitation to dump a load of gasoline on the anthill and incinerate them all.

Well... That Was Fast!  [Scroll down]  Throughout Biden's career, he's been a liar, a cheat and an opportunist.  He's repeatedly used the death of his first wife and baby daughter to garner sympathy from the public.  And even in this, he's lied continuously. [...] Then there's the years of money laundering and bribes the Biden Crime family received...which continue to this day, with ongoing kickbacks from the Ukraine war and the untold trillions of dollars Biden has sent there.  Five million dollars from Burisma.  Ten percent for the "big guy."  Not to mention the Hunter Biden laptop — filled with first-hand evidence of criminal activity, that has been verified to be legitimate, yet nothing has been done and nothing will be done.

Democrats Are Rigging Their Own Election.  Does Anyone Still Think They Didn't Rig 2020?  The whole episode resembles a storyline from a dystopian horror film.  For years, Democrats and their legacy media allies pushed endless propaganda claiming a mentally-declining Biden possessed the rigorous stamina required to be president.  Just last month, media hacks were parroting debunked talking points put out by the White House claiming videos showcasing Biden's frailty were "cheap fakes."  And then the June 27 debate against Donald Trump happened.  Realizing they could no longer hide Sleepy Joe's mental decline and worrying that his cratering approval rating could cost them the 2024 election, the Democrat political machine jumped into action.  These political forces suddenly acknowledged what the general public has known since before the Delaware Democrat assumed the presidency.  In a seemingly coordinated campaign, left-wing media acolytes, Democrat politicos, and Hollywood snobs spent the following weeks feigning a newfound concern about Biden's ailing health and demanding he drop his reelection bid to "protect democracy."

Here's one job she did well:
Former Secret Service director tried to deep-six investigation into cocaine found at White House:  Report.  Secret Service leaders, including then-Director Kimberly Cheatle, tried to crush an investigation into the bag of cocaine that was found in the White House in July 2023, according to yet another explosive report about the federal agency by Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics.  On July 2, 2023, a bag filled with white powder later identified as cocaine was discovered by a Secret Service Uniformed Division officer who was conducting a routine inspection of the White House after the Biden family had left for Camp David for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.  Because of first son Hunter Biden's known history of abusing illegal drugs, including crack and cocaine, and his recent visit to the White House, members of the press immediately began asking whether the bag belonged to him.  Such questions were later labeled "irresponsible."

Former Secret Service Chief Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence.  Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.  Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.  At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident.  But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.

Latest Development in Biden Cocaine-gate Fiasco Raises New Questions About the Secret Service.  Former Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle isn't out of the woods yet.  She tried to sneak out in the dead of night after a shambolic congressional appearance following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Cheatle, at the time, remained defiant that she was the best to lead the agency despite this catastrophic failure in protecting the former president.  More updates about this attempt only reinforce the embarrassing security flaws that led to this event.  Cheatle resigned, but lingering questions, specifically that of a cover-up, lingered.

The Secret Service Cocainegate Cover-Up.  Was it Hunter with the cocaine in the cabinet room?  Ashley with the cocaine in the Oval Office?  Or was it a stranger with access to the White House reference library?  The mystery of the cocaine found in the White House over the July 4, 2023, holiday was closed for lack of evidence almost as soon as it began.  But now there are revelations of a cover-up in the case.  A new report finds that former director Kim Cheatle, forced to resign over the disastrous near-assassination of Donald Trump, wanted the evidence destroyed, the substance not tested, and the case closed quickly.  This was despite the high profile nature of the story — the evacuation of the entire White House, including the media, due to fears that the white powder, which a uniformed Secret Service agent discovered, was ricin or anthrax.  Having been on the Biden's Secret Service detail, Cheatle probably knew what it was.

Former Secret Service Chief Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence.  Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.  Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.  At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident.  But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.

Hunter Biden Sentencing [is] Scheduled For [the] Week After [the] Election.  A federal judge set Hunter Biden's sentencing date for the week after the 2024 election.  Hunter Biden will be sentenced for his three felony gun charges on November 13, according to a Friday order by U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika.  A Delaware jury convicted Biden in June on three charges relating to his purchase of a revolver while addicted to drugs.

Who Is Writing All These Executive Actions Since Biden Is Unfit?  Who is responsible for all of these executive actions in such a short period of time?  Joe Biden isn't capable of doing any of this.  Jill Biden isn't intelligent enough to do any of this.  Biden was always a hack politician, but he was American.  He didn't support open borders or pro-criminal policies.  We have endless funds to Ukraine.  We sent another $2 billion this week.  Marxist Oligarchs like George Soros have been very involved.  Kamala Harris is a Marxist.  Even as Biden is no longer believable as president, we are moving closer to war with Russia.  The US has crossed every redline and crossed another one this weekend. [...] Someone has been busy in the White House, and it's not Joe Biden.  [Long list of edicts and proclamations.]

Biden is five inches taller now, and walks like a much younger man.  And even though it's late at night, and "Biden" is wide awake.  Obviously an imposter.  [Tweet with video clip]

Joe Rogan Questions If There Is A Stand-In For Biden Since This Version Of Him Seems A Few Inches Taller.  Joe Rogan raises serious questions about Joe Biden's Height:  "Look at the size of this guy.  He's so much bigger!  Look how big he is.  He's so much bigger than Jill.  He's so much bigger.  Like, he gained a legitimate six inches."  "What you're seeing right here:  it really looks like a different person.  Now, why are we saying that?  Because it actually does look like a different person."  [Video clip]

Barack 'Luca Brasi' Obama.  The 25th Amendment is a serious option, but not intended to replace an unpopular president.  The LBJ route is the better one, or giving a speech so that your party can nominate a successor.  My guess is that this is going to be an issue in this campaign.  After all, a lot of voters think that the VP knew something of President Biden's condition.  Is it unreasonable to ask why she didn't call for a Cabinet meeting months before?

Joe Biden according to internet conspiracy theorists: bizarre new claims about the president emerge.  X users have devised an outrageous new set of conspiracy theories — including claims that President Joe Biden has been secretly replaced by an imposter.  A viral video showed the President and his wife, Jill Biden, walking out of the White House after he addressed the nation about his decision to drop out of the Presidential race.  While many commenters praised the 81-year-old for his years of service to his country, conspiracy theorists have since made bizarre claims about his height, and that the man in the video was a 'stand in' for Joe.

The Joy of Conspiracies As They Go Mainstream.  The Internet is a treasure trove of conspiracy theories, but if you're like me, when you hear a new one, you're saying, "It wouldn't surprise me!"  Biden disappeared with COVID for several days, walking up the airstairs like he might never take another step.  We got a resignation letter with a photocopied signature and no letterhead and still no Joe.  People demanded proof of life.  Then he reappeared for a teleprompter speech with fake excuses as to why he was leaving, and people said he was inches taller and his face looked different, so they went to the inevitable body double.  It gets better.  Stew Peters said the only question now is, "How long has he been dead?"

Kamala Harris must still hold Biden's border, inflation baggage.  It's no wonder [Kamala Harris] has not done any interviews or unscripted events since being anointed Joe Biden's heir apparent.  Party powerbrokers still have not spelled out why Joe had to go because, if they admit that he's too cognitively impaired to run for re-election, then he has no business being president for another six months.  In his graceless, self-pitying exit speech, the president never explained why he was dropping out.  In fact, he told us his record as president "merited a second term."  It was party "unity" that required him to fall on his sword.  The party machine has so far papered over the anger of the Bidens, which was evident in the sullen faces of Dr. Jill and Hunter and assorted other family members watching in the Oval Office.

The "Brainwashing" Behind the Biden/Harris Narrative: "This is Mind Control".  "This is basically a confession that everybody who was told that you're crazy, you're a Trumper, you don't understand reality.  The president is absolutely fine.  All of us who've been told we were nuts have suddenly been told, you're not nuts.  But the machine is going to continue to go on and lie to us... The system is simply going to try to go and anoint Kamala Harris as if there was a democratic process in place... This is mind control at scale."  [Video clip]

Democracy in Name Only:  How Kamala Harris Became Democratic Nominee.  Like many commentators, I have described the sudden, almost magical elevation of Kamala Harris to the status of presumptive Democratic nominee for president as a "coup."  "What just happened," I wrote on July 23, "is essentially an anti-democratic coup.  Kamala Harris, who got no delegates — zero — when she ran for president in 2020 and was only chosen as Biden's running mate because he had promised to pick a black woman, is on the cusp of being handed the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."  How did that happen?  If you said, "It happened because of the machinations of the deep state," go to the head of the class. [...] Until the very morning of the day he announced his withdrawal, Joe Biden and his team were insisting he was in the race till the end.  His debate performance against Trump was a disaster, true, and his poll numbers were in free fall.  No matter.  He was going to tough it out.

Maybe just one more junket...
Awkward Video of Jill Biden in Paris Raises Questions of Why She's Even There.  It's been a week since Joe Biden left the presidential race, and he's barely been seen in public.  After a fumbling Oval Office address on Thursday in which he failed to offer any explanation for his sudden departure, the president headed off to Camp David.  That would be the same Camp David he hid out at before the debate performance that exposed his worsening mental and physical condition.  In other words, his heading back to hunker down there is a pretty big sign of how bad off he is.  Biden just suffered the most embarrassing moment of his career, clearly due to worsening health.  His heading back into hiding isn't a scheduling coincidence.  So where's Jill Biden?  As the following awkward video shows, she's in Paris for some reason.  [Tweet with video clip]

After knifing her a little through leaks in the press, Obama endorses Kamala Harris for president.  Seems the Schumer and Obama groups executed the coup against hapless Joe Biden, telling him this could be done "the easy way or the hard way," and his recent catatonic address to the nation was like that of a hostage reading a proof-of-life note, a strange bruise on his lower jaw (What was that?  Was it a fall?  A visit from the same kind of guys who once visited Harry Reid?  We don't know.) along with scattered reports of rage and screaming among the Bidenites over the course of several days.

Resident Biden finally emerges from his dark hole with hallmark signs he may have suffered a stroke.  On July 23rd, 2024, Dementia Joe crawled out of his Delaware cave and hobbled toward Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, showing all signs he has just suffered a stroke and can barely function at all.  Was it all just a "deep fake" or a "cheap fake?"  Take a good look at how he's holding his left hand, where the fingers are unnaturally curled inward, and can barely even grasp his Covid face diaper.  Covid is likely just a cover story for Biden recovering from a stroke recently, most likely from the stress of his abysmal debate performance.

Will Biden's Withdrawal Mean the End of Corruption Investigation?  After an agonizing three-week wait that started with Joe Biden's train wreck debate, Biden, or whoever acts on his behalf, has decided to throw in the towel.  But Biden will not go right away.  We'll have to wait until January until he's gone.  Contrary to the media's pronouncements that Biden honorably stepped away from power, he is holding on to power.  The only thing he stepped away from is getting humiliated in the November 5 election.  But eventually, he will be gone, and there will be a new president.  What will this mean for investigating Biden family corruption?  Will those problems go away with him?

Biden lectured us from the Oval Office about honesty, but the truth is that he's lied to the world.  For the umpteenth time, President Joe Biden has shown America that he's no longer fit to serve.  Not that you'd know it from the glowing coverage of his all-too-brief primetime address on Wednesday night, slurring and audibly gulping his way through the most consequential and historic speech of his political career.  'When you elected me... I promised to always level with you,' Biden said from the Oval Office.  'To tell you the truth.'  The truth?  This is a president who has spent the last four years lying about his physical health and cognitive fitness.  A president who terrified the world with his debate performance against former president Donald Trump in June.  A president who had to be pushed to stand down — and, when he finally did, released a typewritten letter with a digital signature.  It didn't even have an official letterhead, or an accompanying photo or video.  But sure, let's have the sitting US president, a proven liar who had to be shoved out the door by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, lecture us on honesty, democracy, and the indispensable need for integrity.

The Biden presidency is ending as dishonestly as it began.  "I made some mistakes," said Joe Biden.  "But now, the exaggerated shadow of those mistakes has begun to obscure the essence of my candidacy and the essence of Joe Biden."  That was in 1987, when the then Senator had to quit his presidential campaign after being caught plagiarising speeches by Neil Kinnock, Bobby Kennedy and John F Kennedy.  Last night, for the first time since his announcement on Sunday that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential election, Biden addressed the nation from behind the Resolute Desk.  "I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation," he said.  Appropriately enough, that was another line ripped off from John F Kennedy's inaugural address.  Biden is now a shadow of his former self, yet his essence remains.  He didn't talk about mistakes this time.  Yet his capacity for self-delusion is as strong as ever.  "I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future, all merited a second term," he said.

Who Engineered the Political Coup Against Biden?  [Scroll down]  And the first question that needs to be answered, and which no one in the mainstream media is asking, is "Who convinced Joe Biden that debating Trump on June 27, nearly two months before the Democratic convention, was a good idea?"  This was unprecedented.  Usually, the major-party candidates don't meet on stage until September.  Of course, if the first debate had been in September, and Biden had suffered the same kind of embarrassment that happened in June, the Democrats would have had no recourse except to suck it up and ride with Biden to defeat.  But they didn't wait.  Someone talked Biden into challenging Trump to a debate so early that it provided the only viable path to supplanting Biden as the Democratic nominee.  Given what we learned after the debate — that dozens of those closest to Biden were convinced that he had suffered irreparable cognitive decline — we are forced to ask who led the president to the slaughter, politically.

Never Underestimate Joe's Ability To Foul Things Up.  Not long after the global temperature, which doesn't actually exist in any statistically meaningful way, blew through the mark at which we are supposed to start burning, and days after a new paper showed that the global warming narrative is exactly backward, the Biden administration awarded $4.3 billion in climate grants.  It's the work of an incompetent. [...] Over his three years and six months as president, Joe has amply demonstrated that Obama was correct.  And he did it again this week, when his Environmental Protection Agency announced its "selected recipients of over $4.3 billion in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to implement community-driven solutions that tackle the climate crisis, reduce air pollution, advance environmental justice, and accelerate America's clean energy transition."

The Fate of Kamala Harris.  Over the weekend, Joe Biden found himself stranded in the political wilderness, long on detractors but short on friends.  Facing insurmountable odds, Biden folded his hand and, giving only one minute's heads-up to his staff, notified the world that his campaign for a second term was over.  He intends to remain in office for the final few months but the House speaker, The National Review, and others are calling for him to skip the curtain call, exit stage left, and retreat to the beaches of Delaware.  At this point, could someone please help this man receive the elder care that he so desperately needs?

Joe Biden proves he is still alive:
Biden, 81, doesn't mention his health or give any more details on why he suddenly dropped out.  President Joe Biden, 81, didn't mention any concerns about his heatlh or divulge additional details about why he suddenly dropped out of the 2024 presidential race during his 11-minute Oval Office address.  The clearest he got to an explanation was that he didn't want 'ambition' to get in the way of his goal of 'saving' democracy — coded language for not wanting to see former President Donald Trump win another term.  Biden's formal address comes 28 days after his disastrous debate performance that put his reelection bid in peril.

Biden Passes the Torch, Vows To Cure Cancer in Slurred Primetime Address.  President Joe Biden refused to resign on Wednesday, but finally explained his decision to begrudgingly "pass the torch" after losing a bitter power struggle with Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats who forced him to end his bid for reelection.  Speaking from the Oval Office, surrounded by family and loved ones, Biden praised his accomplishments, as well as his selfless decision to withdraw from the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.  Even though he clearly didn't want to, Biden congratulated himself for having the courage to "unite my party" and "defend democracy" by stepping aside.  "I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future, all merited a second term," he said.  "But nothing — nothing — can come in the way of saving our democracy.  That includes personal ambition.  So I decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation."

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The last time the Democrats "pass[ed] the torch to a new generation," we ended up with Barack H. Obama.

Who shall be held to account for the Joe Biden hologram?  Biden's steeply and rapidly declining infirmity, and wholesale erosion of cognitive capacity — obvious to at least half of Americans paying even glancing attention — has been known by Democrat party operatives inside the White House, throughout the Executive Branch, and in the Senate and the House since Biden was inaugurated in 2021 — all accompanied by an orchestrated media cover-up eclipsing those pernicious concealments of Woodrow Wilson's and FDR's disabilities.  Perhaps equally breathtaking is the ease with which Republicans acquiesced, cooperated, and facilitated the greatest fraud ever foisted upon the American electorate.  Who shall be held to account for the Joe Biden hologram deceiving a nation?  No one.  Why?  Because half of all Americans don't know or don't care that they've been had, happy to live in a bubble of illusions, where discerning the truth is hard and disagreeable, whereas embracing deceptions is easy and noble.

What WAS That?  Political junkies [...] tuned in Wednesday night [7/24/2024] for an Oval Office speech by Joe Biden, who was supposedly going to explain why he abandoned his reelection efforts despite vociferously assuring us for months that there was no chance that he would do so.  Would the president deliver moving remarks, would he bring the country together in the way that Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster or George W. Bush did after 9/11?  Would he come clean on his health issues, which are so obvious to any sentient American, would he fully reveal his thought process surrounding the monumental decision to give up on his campaign?  Would he explain how he's still capable of running the country for six more months despite the fact that he's now essentially a lame duck?  No, no, no, and no.  He did none of those things.  In fact, it was an inexplicable, sleep-inducing monologue that tried to throw in all sorts of high-minded ideals like "Democracy" and "who we are" but essentially said nothing.

Biden mumbles as he reveals why he decided to 'pass the torch'.  President Joe Biden mumbled his way through an 11-minute farewell address to the nation and claimed he could have served another four years if he wanted to.  Biden, 81, spoke quietly, at times haltingly, and his voice was scratchy as he explained his stunning decision not to seek reelection.  The President said he had chosen to 'pass the torch' to Vice President Kamala Harris because it was time for 'younger voices' and he believed that would 'unite' the country and 'save' democracy.

A Confused Joe Biden Gives Address to the Nation, Only Deepens the Scandal Around Him and Kamala Harris.  After several very confusing days, Joe Biden finally emerged on Wednesday after dropping out of the presidential race over the weekend.  Appearing very frail, the president addressed the nation from the Oval Office in what was billed as an explanation of why he abruptly stepped aside as the Democratic Party nominee.  Unfortunately, though perhaps expectedly, Biden provided no real information at all.  In fact, his clearly deteriorating condition combined with the things he said only served to deepen the scandal around him and Kamala Harris.  Who is actually the president?  Why is he remaining in office if he can't run for a second term?  To illustrate the absurdity at play, Biden essentially argued that he's such an amazing president and so capable of serving a second term that he dropped out to "unite my party."  None of this makes any sense.

Hunter Biden's Legal Team Just Got Scorched by Judge for Making False Statements in CA Tax Case.  Ouch!  That's the only thing I could think to say in response to reading the order handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi on Wednesday requiring Hunter Biden's legal team to show cause why they should not be sanctioned for making false statements in their recently filed motion to dismiss.  While Hunter was presumably focused on his father's Oval Office address, his attorneys were getting lit up by a federal judge.

Everything connected to Washington and the Democratic Party stinks like a rotting corpse.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, the president vanished for almost six days, with no pictures or video of any kind, even as he announced his withdrawal as presidential candidate.  It is no surprise rumors began to fly that he had suffered a much more serious medical emergency then simply getting COVID again, with some even speculating that he was actually dead, and that a palace coup had taken place.  He apparently is not dead, but it is also a fact that a palace coup might have occurred anyway.  At the same time, isn't it interesting that only two days after Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential race his Justice Department was suddenly able to find the transcripts of special counsel Robert Hur's interviews with Biden that prove he is "a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  For months Justice has stonewalled Freedom of Information requests from numerous news outlets, claiming it didn't have those transcripts.  Now, when it no longer matters, Justice locates them.  How convenient.  All in all, the whole situation stinks, reeking of lies, cover-ups, incompetence, and dishonesty, all for the sake of power and factional warfare.

Does Biden Even Know He's Not Running For President Anymore?  It wasn't until Joe Biden's X account posted a statement Sunday afternoon that some of the president's staff found out he would not be running for reelection, Politico reported.  But are we sure the post wasn't news to Joe too?  A few minutes before 2:00 p.m., Biden's X account posted an image of a letterhead document announcing he would "stand down" from the 2024 campaign.  The note said Biden would "speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision."  Half an hour later, a post offered his "full support and endorsement" to Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democrat nominee.  Biden, who is supposedly dealing with a Covid infection, has yet to be seen alive, much less conduct a press conference.  His public schedule indicates he's been at his Rehoboth Beach house in Deleware since Thursday.  Biden's last address to the nation was one week ago, after former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.  The only communication America has ostensibly received from the president about his bombshell news is via a social media post.

Biden's Drop Out Leaves No Doubt:  It's 25th Amendment Time.  In announcing he would no longer be the Democrats' presidential candidate on Sunday, Joe Biden professed he was doing so because he believed it "in the best interest of [his] party and the country."  While Biden did not elaborate further on his reasoning, he promised to address the country later this week with more details about his decision.  When he eventually addresses the nation, Biden will likely portray himself as a modern-day hero, withdrawing from the race to protect America from the existential threat of Donald Trump.  Whether Biden mentions his horrible debate performance remains to be seen, but if he does, the president will surely frame the spectacle as he has over the last three weeks: as a mistake, a bad night, or caused by jet lag or by Trump's off-mic interruptions.  Left unsaid will be the fact that party insiders and Democrat mega-donors forced Biden to step down out of fear Trump would win the presidency again.

How History Will Remember Biden.  History will record that Biden himself oversaw a massive increase in the debt — which as of last Friday had increased approximately $7.1923 trillion during his term.  That will not be the only negative mark on Biden's legacy.  Biden picked Sept. 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — as the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. [...] Biden will leave the presidency after one term.  But decades from now, history will recall the massive debt he accumulated, his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the border he did not secure, and the innocent lives his policies worked to destroy.

Trump's Courage and Biden's Failures.  The Biden gaffes, the falls, the offensive stroking and kissing, the gibberish, the endless stream of "whatevers," the dazed and uncomprehending looks, the creeping instead of walking, the lashing out in anger, the bewilderment, and the shaking hands with invisible persons in the air have all served as incredible distractions and evidence of a leader who, sadly, is non compos mentis.  Nevertheless, until the Trump-Biden televised debate, many of the pundits on mainstream media including those on CNN and MSNBC, continually denied the fragility and lack of coherence of our President. [...] To have a chief executive who is manifestly unfit for decision-making is offensive and dangerous for the country and for the world.  Where is "the buck stops here" individual who was, in the minds of those who voted for him, supposed to lead the country for four years?

Deep State Carnival Barkers Distract Us with Kamala.  Democrats widely praise Joe Biden as the smartest, most energetic, most effective president in American history.  In a shocking turn of events for those drinking that mind-altering Kool-Aid, Joe Biden outs himself as a dementia-riddled imbecile at the June 27 presidential debate — the earliest scuffle between presumptive nominees in recent history.  Bipolar Democrats turn on a dime and demand that their damaged candidate bow out of the race. [...] Finally, after repeatedly refusing to withdraw from the presidential contest despite growing calls for him to do so, Biden hurriedly announces on a Sunday afternoon that he supports VP Kamala Harris running in his place.  Is Biden alive?  Is he okay?  Who cares?  Giddy Democrats are too busy shrieking with delight and pondering the possibility of a multi-racial "Madam President."

Where's Joe?  What's Going On?  Is Any of This Really Happening?  Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday afternoon.  Everyone saw his post on X.  In a follow-up message on X, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential nomination, and Democrat leaders began lining up (with the notable exception of Barack Obama) to endorse her. [...] But the public has not seen Biden since he was announced as having come down with COVID last Wednesday and retired to his taxpayer-funded walled Delaware beach house.  Shouldn't Biden have made such a momentous announcement before the cameras?  If he is too ill to do so, couldn't we at the very least have some still photos that make it clear that this is a decision he has actually made?  After all, he was insisting right up until quite recently that he was planning to stay in the race and win.  There is an uneasy banana-republic feel to this whole thing.  A president whose own base has turned against him comes down with a disease that many have noted has all the strength of the common cold at this point.  Nevertheless, he treats it as if he had gotten the bubonic plague and immediately goes out of sight.

Frank Biden Made Stunning Admission About Joe's Health Indicating We've Been Lied To — Then It Gets Weird.  Over and over and over again, we were told by the White House that Joe Biden's health was just fine.  That he was old, he had some minor issues, but he was basically fine.  We of course knew that wasn't true, given what we've seen day after day, watching his incoherence and confusion.  But they've been selling us this fiction for months as he campaigned.  But now Frank Biden, Joe Biden's brother, has made a concerning comment about Joe's health that's going to cause even more questions.  CBS White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes reported late Sunday that Frank said that his brother's health was definitely a factor in the decision:  [Tweet with video clip]

Sources Say Joe Biden Suffered Neurological Event Before Suddenly Leaving Las Vegas.  Nearly a week ago President Joe Biden abruptly canceled a speaking engagement in Las Vegas after mingling with voters at a local Mexican restaurant, the event organizers being the first to announce that Biden had tested positive for COVID and explaining that he was flying to his Delaware beach house to isolate.  In light of the Biden administration's poor record of truth-telling when it comes to POTUS' medical condition, many people questioned whether that COVID diagnosis was a convenient way to get Biden out of the spotlight for a few days, or if there was more to the story.  Based on the reporting of Charlie Kirk and Jordan Schachtel, portions of which were confirmed independently by RedState's Brittany Sheehan, and exclusive details provided to RedState by a well-placed credible source, it seems that skepticism was justified.  According to these sources, Biden had a sudden medical emergency and was headed toward University Medical Center trauma center before his team decided to "medivac" him out instead, and that medical emergency was some type of neurological event like a transient ischemic attack.

Biden Suffered Medical Emergency Which Led to Abrupt 2024 Exit.  In a twist that sounds more like a plotline from a medical drama than real life, new details are emerging about Joe Biden's reported recent health crisis in Las Vegas.  The 81-year-old President, who recently announced he would not be seeking re-election, reportedly suffered a medical emergency that left political pundits and the public alike buzzing with speculation.  On Sunday, Biden made the surprising announcement that he would not run for re-election in 2024, citing the "best interest of my party and the country" as his rationale.  This decision followed a series of troubling events that began during his trip to Las Vegas.  According to a source close to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Biden faced an "emergency situation" requiring immediate medical attention.

Where's the President?  Biden MIA After Bailing From His Campaign.  President Joe Biden hasn't been seen in public since last week when the White House announced he contracted COVID-19 and was headed to his Delaware beach house to recover.  "Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19.  He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms.  He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.  The White House will provide regular updates on the President's status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre released in a statement on July 17.  [Tweet]

The Editor says...
From where I'm sitting, this story looks like a pack of lies.  If the POTUS had a "vaccine" and a booster, how did he get Covid?  Do the shots work, or do they not?  Mr. Biden is the most isolated man in the country, so who gave him Covid?  If Covid is his greatest medical issue, why did he suddenly disappear?  There's more going on here than Covid.  It would be easier to believe that Mr. Biden had a stroke in Las Vegas.  It would be easier to believe that Mr. Biden is gravely ill, if not already dead.  (Update:  I was wrong — he recorded an "Oval Office address" which was played back on the evening of July 24, 2024 — probably while Biden slept.)

Democracy is Under Attack, But Not By Trump.  We, as a nation, dangerously accepted long ago, without any noteworthy resistance, that it was too implausible for Joe Biden given his obvious mental incapacitation, to be calling the shots.  While that conclusion was easy to draw, we should have never accepted anyone — whether it be Barack Obama, confirmed as a key player and driving force behind Biden's ouster, the Clinton-Soros duo who quickly endorsed Kamala and undoubtedly wield influence through their "charitable" foundations, or even a faceless shadow government — to lead us from behind the scenes.  Nowhere in the Constitution does it make room for such a mob-rule style agreement.

The coup and the country.  The coup d'état against President Biden illuminates the themes exposited in the essay on Senator J.D. Vance's thought and rhetoric, to which I refer the reader.  Coup terminology in this case is not overwrought:  a sitting President of the United States has had his political future terminated, which means his political present is ended as well.  Absent potential there is no power, and therefore no purpose.  The logical corollary to the immediate end of his campaign therefore ought to be the immediate end of his Presidency. [...] Joseph R. Biden at midafternoon Sunday lost the ability to do nearly every meaningful thing intrinsic to the Presidency, including real cooperation with the Legislative branch, persuading the nation to make war, and representation of the whole American people in government.  What's left is a headless apparatus, dominated but not led — ruled but not governed — by the thousands of functionaries of the administrative state.

Hard to believe:
Biden scheduled for White House return Tuesday after COVID diagnosis, abandoning re-election campaign.  President Biden will be back at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he announced he was abandoning his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.  Biden is scheduled to leave his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — where he had been recovering from COVID-19 — in the afternoon and arrive at the Executive Mansion by 2:30 p.m., according to his schedule.  The 81-year-old president was originally expected to leave the beach town, where he had been under quarantine, on Monday to hit the campaign trail, but he extended his stay after announcing that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race the day before.

Biden's surprise call to old campaign staff is labelled fake after viewers spot suspicious detail.  Joe Biden's phone call to former campaign staffers on Monday has sparked new theories on the president's health after an odd moment between the president and Kamala Harris.  The 81-year-old spoke in a scratchy voice from COVID isolation at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and told Harris:  'I'm watching you, kid'.  However, many noted a strange exchange between the vice president and her boss, who has not been seen in five days and since he shocked the world by dropping out of the race via a letter posted to social media on Sunday.  The new presumptive Democratic nominee Harris said: 'Joe, I know you're still on the rec... on the call.'  With many having wildly suggested Biden is seriously ill because of the way he announced his departure, conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene wondered if the game had been given up by Harris' slip of the tongue.

Biden cancels nine trips, extends Delaware stay after dropping out of 2024 race.  President Biden has canceled nine trips that were scheduled for the next two weeks after suddenly dropping out of the 2024 race, The [New York] Post can reveal.  Biden was scheduled to leave Monday for the West Coast, where he was to make stops in California, Denver, Houston and Austin — but all those trips have been canceled, a White House source told The Post.  Biden, who has been isolating with COVID-19, was set to leave his home in Rehoboth, Del., on Monday, but extended his stay until Wednesday after announcing the end of his campaign the night before.

Joe Biden's Final Humiliation and the Fight Ahead.  Alleged President Joe Biden's cowardly capitulation to the will of the Democrat elite validated the cruel truth that we have always known about him — and that he has always known about himself.  He's a quitter.  He's a loser.  He's weak, and he's stupid, the Democrat Party's Fredo, given — by default — responsibility beyond running a nightclub out in the boondocks or picking somebody up from the airport and, predictably, botching it.  Joe Biden is the ultimate personification of the Peter Principle, the only principle he has ever demonstrated.

Conservatives told the truth about Biden.  Democrats failed to listen.  If I were a Democrat, I'd be furious right now.  As an American, I'm appalled at the way President Joe Biden's exit from the 2024 election, announced Sunday afternoon, has played out.  It's far from democratic.  Biden should have made this announcement last year, ahead of his party's primaries, when Democratic voters could have had a say about who they want to run against former President Donald Trump.  Democrats voted for Biden in large part because there wasn't a robust competition, and Biden's advisers, family and many in the media tried to hide the president's true condition from the public.

The Big Biden Lie, Cont'd.  The Wall Street Journal has four bylines and five contributors noted on today's page-one (5,500-word) story "How the Bet on an 81-Year-Old Joe Biden Turned Into an Epic Miscalculation" (behind the Journal paywall).  Some call it "miscalculation," and that is the framework the Journal story fills in.  None dare call it conspiracy, to borrow a phrase.  The "miscalculation" to which the headline refers would more accurately be described as the Democrats' bet that President Biden's patent incapacity could be covered up as long as necessary:  [Excerpt from WSJ] [...] The story of the Biden administration, if not the 2020 presidential campaign, is the story of the cover-up of Biden's senility.

Where is Joe?  After pulling out of the presidential race Sunday, many political observers are asking, "Where's Joe?"  After all, the pullout was highly irregular, with no camera appearances, no evidence of even involvement from Biden, no press conferences.  There was just a written statement with a mechanized signature.  Is the guy even alive?  Is he in some kind of health distress?  That he has staffers covering for him certainly sets off an alarm of sorts, given his dementia.  And more to the point, is this something he was forced into doing against his will?  Some observers think so, saying he was muscled into exiting with a warning that the 25th Amendment was waiting for him if he didn't.  It sounds very mafia-like.  [Numerous tweets]  Whatever it is, it isn't healthy for our democracy, and it's hard to think of any examples like this from America's past that resemble so closely the death of Andropov, or Konstantin Chernenko, or Boris Yeltsin's final days, or those of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez.  Dictators like those like to hide what's going on when an oligarch is dying.  As for Joe, well, where is he?

Biden Reported to Be Gravely Ill, If Not Dead Already.  After more than a day elapsed without compelling proof of life from President Joe Biden, and with various hints from the White House that he may be in deteriorating condition, some have begun to speculate that the president may not survive.  It comes after reports that the illness first claimed to be COVID-19 in Las Vegas was likely more serious.  [Tweet]  On the Wednesday of the medical emergency, Biden was in a Mexican restaurant when "all hell broke loose," according to The Dossier.  "Far from a case of the sniffles, this was sent out on encrypted police airwaves as if something akin to a five-alarm fire had broken out," it said.  Biden initially had been set to go to the hospital before he was instead transferred to Air Force One for the flight back to Delaware, where he has reportedly been convalescing ever since, for nearly a week.  On Sunday, he unexpectedly dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, although many noted that the letter he posted to X was not on official letterhead and it did not appear to be his signature.

Is President Biden Alive?  I don't want to start the morning off with hyperbole or sensationalism, honestly, but rather with what, in my opinon, has developed as a legitimate question over the last 24 to 48 hours: is the current President of the United States still alive and/or fit to lead?  Ever since dropping out of the presidential race on Sunday via a letter with a signature that has been in question and conspicuously lacking the seal of the White House or President of the United States, President Joe Biden has failed to turn up anywhere in person.  [Exhibit]  The swift decision to drop out of the race, combined with the announcement last week that Biden tested positive for Covid and would "self-isolate" — which incidentally came out after Biden said he would consider dropping out if it were due to a 'medical condition' — combined with endless unproven rumors swirling on social media about a medical emergency, have left people no choice but to sadly consider a worst-case scenario.  Since Biden was last spotted on July 17 exiting Air Force One, he hasn't been seen publicly, though reports have put him at his home "recovering" in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

If Biden's Supposedly 'Recovering Fast' From COVID, Why Did He Cancel All These Trips?  President Joe Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, shared an update earlier in a letter shared by the White House.  Biden supposedly "continues to perform all of his presidential duties," O'Connor also noted.  His letters have mentioned such a detail for days.  As Katie mentioned in her piece about such an update from Monday, Biden "is feeling much better and recovering fast," per Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden endorsed to replace him not long after he dropped out of the race on Sunday.  Even still, Biden is canceling multiple trips, per the New York Post.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  As of Monday night, nine trips have been canceled over the next two weeks, which includes "last-minute" cancelations.

Exclusive:  President Biden suffered an undisclosed medical emergency during his time in Las Vegas, police sources say.  On Wednesday [7/17/2024], Biden was scheduled to deliver the keynote at the UnidosUS annual convention at the MGM Grand, with thousands in attendance anticipating his arrival.  With the venue located right off the Las Vegas Strip, the president's security detail and motorcade required massive outside support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.  President Biden did not appear at the convention, or any of his scheduled events later that afternoon.  Instead, he left town, departing Las Vegas on Air Force One for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he remains today.  Since that trip to Las Vegas, President Biden has announced over social media that he would not seek a second term as president, while throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.  President Biden has not been seen in photos or on video since he touched down in Delaware Wednesday night, though he did participate in a phone call with Kamala Harris earlier this evening.

Joe Biden Was Never Fit To Be President.  President Joe Biden formally announced in a letter on Sunday that he will indulge Democrat politicians' and donors' soft coup-like demands to "stand down" and hand the reins of his 2024 reelection campaign to Vice President Kamala Harris.  Biden did not specify exactly why he believes it is in "the best interest of my party and the country" to retire from running for office.  The decision to do so, however, is obviously linked to the left's collective choice to stop covering up the president's obvious physical and mental decline because they know he hurts their chances of winning the upcoming election.  There is a growing chorus of Republican lawmakers who say suddenly deeming Biden unfit to run for a second term despite primary voters' wishes means he is also unfit to finish out the last six months of his presidency.  Former President Donald Trump took it further in a Truth Social post on Sunday when he declared that Biden "was not fit to serve from the very beginning."

It's Hoaxes All the Way Down.  [Scroll down]  Now, in the span of 8 days, we are faced with two extraordinary events that on their face are so shocking and unlikely that you have to wonder what the real facts are. [...] Extraordinary event #2 is President Biden's impersonal withdrawal from the race.  In all his public appearances, he insisted he was remaining in the race, and all the back room stories pretty much confirmed this.  His campaign was canvassing delegates WHILE HE WAS ANNOUNCING HIS WITHDRAWAL, and almost all his aides learned from Twitter that he was dropping out.  [Tweet]  He announced his withdrawal with a letter, and has not been seen for days.  We are at the point where people are asking for "proof of life," and that is amazing.  We do get a short letter from his physician.  How comforting.  [Tweet]  Nobody is sure that the president is even alive because we haven't seen him.  It's bizarre.  We haven't seen Jill either.  The only Biden we have actually heard from is Joe's brother Frank, who said Biden's health was a factor in his leaving and implied he had a terminal illness.  He was viciously attacked by Biden's aides.

Charting A New Course.  For the first time in American history, the nation is literally leaderless, no obvious chain of command exists.  Joe Biden, having dropped out of the campaign for president with a one page memo, with no Biden-Harris letterhead and a suspiciously divergent signature could have been drafted and distributed by anyone who had access to his Twitter account.  Joe has not been seen, he gave no national address and the identity of whoever has been playing the part of Joe Biden for the past several years has always been suspect to me.  The shape of the head keeps changing, the eyebrows are different, the eyes are different, but I've never made such a big deal of that, because what difference would it make if everyone around Washington and the White House agrees to the fraud?  Is he still the president, if he ever was?  Did he drop out of the campaign or the official office?  Does he know the difference?

Joe Biden Drops out.  Today's decision was all but a certainty after his performance in the first debate, where he was a confused and incoherent mess.  A far cry from the man the New York Times described last year as a "super-ager."  Not that he (or the first lady) wanted to give up — it took a push from Democratic leadership and Hollywood icons and wealthy donors.  Political death by a thousand cuts to the man who still believes, to this day, that he is the Democrats' best chance to defeat Donald Trump.  We guessed that the DNC may have used their rules to take out Biden after the nomination but things couldn't wait.

Good News for Democrats:  Throw the Polls Out, Start All Over.  First let's go over what we know about Biden Dropping out,
  [#1]   Biden unexpectedly dropped out today with an official letter that did not endorse Kamala Harris.
  [#2]   In a subsequent Tweet, Biden did endorse Harris.
  [#3]   The New York Times commented that we do not know who wrote Biden's letter.
  [#4]   Democrats are headed for an open convention but Harris is the presumed favorite.
  [#5]   Biden (or whoever is calling the shots for him) finally realized that Biden staying in the race would be a disaster.  Bide[n] was trailing in nearly every major poll.
  [#6]   Billionaire donors pulled the plug on contributions until Biden stepped out. [...]
How Does This Change the Odds?  Actually, no one knows.  The reason we do not know is things change when they morph from hypothetical to reality.

The Biden Campaign and the Knives in the Senate.  On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the White House issued a written statement in which Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from his reelection campaign, while intending to remain in office for the six remaining months of this term.  The announcement followed days of reports — both off the record and on — that Biden's former allies, his fellow party bosses, everyone but his family, was trying to convince him to end his campaign. [...] Perhaps they put the letter in one of those padded blue folders when they handed it to him, so that he'd think he was just signing another unconstitutional executive order, like so many dozens before.  He always signed those, without question.

Biden's legacy is a world in flames.  The praise for Biden is tantamount to a eulogy, making it somehow in bad taste to criticize him.  That's just a smokescreen.  He's still very much alive, and with his vice president the person most likely to succeed him as the Democratic nominee, an honest evaluation of his record is vital.  Nor is the idea that someone spending a half-century in political office is an indication of virtue.  Like many other longtime members of the House and Senate, Biden never really held an honest job in his life; his positions as a senator and then as vice president did allow his family to peddle influence at home and abroad, making all of them wealthy.  Moreover, the notion that he is a wonderful person or a centrist who epitomizes the best aspects of public service is belied by his record of meanness and contempt for opponents.  He assisted in the slandering of the likes of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and even the uber-moderate Mitt Romney, whom he memorably accused of being prepared to put African-Americans "back in chains."

If Biden Cannot Run For Office, Then He Cannot Remain In Office.  Democrats successfully launched a soft coup against President Joe Biden after his senility became a political liability, with Biden announcing he would no longer seek the party's nomination.  But if Biden cannot run for office due to the severe cognitive decline displayed during the debate, then dropping out of the nomination process isn't enough.  If Biden is too senile to run for president, he is too senile to remain in office.

Speaker Johnson Calls on Biden to Resign.  In light of Joe Biden's announced withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race Sunday afternoon, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for Biden to resign the presidency "immediately."  [Tweet]  An intense pressure campaign waged by Biden's fellow Democrats culminated Sunday afternoon in his announcement he would not seek re-election despite recent numerous statements to the contrary from his campaign.  In 2020, Biden said given his age he would be a one-term president.

Biden should resign immediately.  He was the weakest president in the history of the republic.  When a little pressure was applied, not surprisingly, he caved.  For the last few years, walking seemed to take every bit of his concentration.  During the debate, he would lose his train of thought so frequently that he looked like he had full-on dementia.  So, he needs to go — now!  There are too many conflicts both nationally and internationally for a president who can't even remember the name of his own Secretary of State.  Weakness in politics is like blood in a river filled with piranha.  During the Republican National Convention, Trump argued the war in the Ukraine and the war in Gaza would not have happened if he were still the president, and he was right.  Biden is weak.  Biden always has been weak.

Biden's Parting Gift to the Democrat Establishment.  As many have expected, Joe Biden has withdrawn from the presidential race.  His timing is perfect to allow a high-stakes event at the convention next month where the party's new candidate will be anointed.  All evidence suggests that he didn't withdraw willingly, and some have even theorized that the announcement went out without his approval or knowledge.  Whether the latter is true or not is largely irrelevant, because what appears certain is that Biden was the victim of a coup orchestrated by several nefarious conspirators. [...] With the last gasp of his campaign, he emphatically endorsed Kamala Harris to replace himself on the ticket.  He simultaneously ended his own political future while severely wounding the enemies who conspired against him.

The Fracturing of the Democrat Party.  [Scroll down]  It was the liberal wing of the party that effectively drafted a compromised and obviously mentally incapacitated Joe Biden to be the nominee in 2020.  They were convinced they could get him elected by exploiting the coronavirus lockdowns in order to institute mass mail-in voting, manipulate the voting laws of various states, and unleash ballot harvesting and voter fraud.  But above all they were certain they could control Biden and his administration.  They succeeded in getting Biden elected.  However, they failed to consider Biden's lifelong duplicity and dishonor, as it was not the liberal wing of the party that would control Biden and his administration but the Marxist wing that dominates his administration and effectively blackmails him into enacting their policies.

The Elites Just Pulled off a Real Attack on Democracy.  Well, they did it.  I wasn't sure they were going to be able to given the stubbornness of Joe Biden, and even more than that, Jill Biden.  But once Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Barack Obama were working on the matter, it was likely only a matter of time and working out the "deal" behind the scenes.  The donors pulling out was the real kiss of death for his campaign.  That's the other thing I'd really like to know — did they offer a sweetener to get him out, or was it just threats to embarrass him that made him come to the decision?  Interestingly, his letter announcing the decision praised Kamala Harris but did not endorse her.  But then he posted a subsequent tweet indicating his support.  That must have been a bitter pill for Jill.  Some joked, did he know he was endorsing Kamala since that was in the letter?  And it's ridiculous that it comes through a letter, given his last live comments were all about how he wanted to stay in.  It's all beyond squirrelly.

Joe, did you just break up with us — by text?  No press conference?  No teleprompter speech from the Oval Office?  Not even one from his Delaware basement?  It's bad enough to be Starbucked.  We've been texted.  Oh, I know there's the story that he has a bout of COVID, which is why he's retreated to the basement again (though we were also told the symptoms were mild).  But wait?  Wasn't he vaccinated with that stuff that makes it impossible to get COVID?

There's a hidden message in Biden's humiliating withdrawal letter.  What a disgraceful end to a disgraceful presidency.  Rather than exit this presidential race with dignity, rather than show long-suffering Americans the respect we deserve, President Joe Biden hastily declared he's out — on social media.  Joe Biden's ghosted us!  LBJ in 1968 this is not.  In fact, this withdrawal — in tone, tenor, shame, and bitterness — calls to mind none other than Richard Nixon's resignation.  Biden has humiliated himself, the nation, the Democratic elites, megadonors and liberal-media enablers who spent years covering for him.  And he didn't even initially endorse his Vice President!  Someone had to clean up Aisle 9 on X with a hasty follow-up Kamala endorsement tweet.

Biden drops out of presidential race after Democratic revolt following disastrous debate.  President Biden made the unprecedented decision Sunday to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, less than four months after being declared the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee and just weeks after a dismal debate showing.  "It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President," the 81-year-old embattled commander-in- chief wrote in a remarkable letter that he addressed to "My Fellow Americans."  "And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.["]

The Biden Family [is] Fighting the DNC Apparatus to Remain in Power.  That's the essential message coming from the latest developments per the framework pushed by the professionally democrat.  The Washington Post (CIA/IC) frames the battle of the selfish Biden family against the goals of an altruistic DNC corporation (Obama/Pelosi).  The wounds being suffered by the magnanimous heir apparent Kamala are unfair; at least, that's the useful presentation for those who control the left-wing of the club.  Joe Biden is essentially, at his core, the purist manifestation of a Democrat.  The internecine battle underway was created by the Corporation putting one of their toxic generals in charge of the organization.  In the foreign version of the same dynamic, the same people once installed Mohamed Morsi as the President of Egypt.  However, when the blood began flowing on the streets, they didn't have to worry about it because it was over there.  In the domestic version, they want the creep they installed gone now, but he ain't leaving.  Not without a fight, or a bottomless treasury, whichever comes first.

The Final Days:  A Bitter, Resentful Biden Slow-Walks His Exit From the Campaign.  Democratic voters overwhelmingly chose Joe Biden to run for president as their standard bearer.  Of course, he didn't have any competition.  Any Democrat of stature — Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren — refused to take him on, and besides, none of them could make the argument they were any younger than the president.  Now the "party of the little guy" is ejecting the people's choice for president because the elites are struck dumb with terror at the prospect of being swamped in the House and Senate races this fall.  As long as it was just Biden's hide on the line, the elites could accept a close loss to Trump as long as the party still had a shot at keeping the Senate and taking back the House.  Now those chances are being flushed down the drain, and democracy [notwithstanding], Biden's got to go.  Almost every leading Democrat has now either come out publicly and asked Biden to step aside or told him in private that he couldn't win and needed to give way to someone else.

The last (presidential) days of Joe Biden.  Biden's word-finding and cognitive processing appear to have become so poor that he is regularly unsure of what he's trying to say or is saying. "Whatever" and "anyway" buy his brain time to catch up.  They're bridges through the nowhere of his mind.  What's particularly worrisome is not only the frequency of these flubs but that Biden is now having them over and over even when he is reading from a teleprompter. [...] These are no longer gaffes.  They call into question Biden's basic ability to think.  Yesterday, in the New Yorker, Dr. Dhruv Khallar wrote he had spoken to nine other physicians and that "almost all were concerned that Biden's symptoms might go beyond a gradual, aging-related decline."  The piece uses the word "dementia" only once, not in direct reference to Biden (this is still The New Yorker, a house organ for the elite left). But the physicians clearly worry Biden has diagnosable dementia.

Slowly, Then All at Once.  There was a lot of talk about divine intervention at the Republican Convention this week.  The country has witnessed a rush of seemingly providential events since the fateful night of June 27th when, to universal horror, "Joe Biden" was unmasked as The Phantom of the White House. [...] The party big dawgs have paid their terminal visit to the old grifter bringing the sad news that it's over.  Of course, this excites several new headaches for them.  Foremost: how can "JB" bow out of the election on account of mental infirmity but still remain president?  Even if they call it something else, make some other excuse, the whole world knows now that the president is gone in the head.  There are six months remaining to the end of his term and a lot of urgent issues requiring a president's attention.  You can be sure that pressure will rise to shove him out of office altogether.

Obama Lied to Everyone About Biden's Senility at Infamous L.A. Fundraiser.  The push to get Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race continues.  The New York Times is now reporting that Obama himself saw how senile the president was at an infamous Los Angeles fundraiser back in mid-June.  At the time, essentially all mainstream press outlets rushed to dismiss the viral video showing Biden freezing for multiple seconds on stage before being led off by the former president.  [Tweet]  That incident began the now-defunct "cheap-fakes" campaign from the White House. [...] I want to point out the obvious here.  When given the chance to tell the truth, Obama and his underlings lied to everyone.  They didn't just abstain from commenting on Biden's troubles at the fundraiser.  They came out publicly and countered them.  They claimed that anyone who pointed out his senility was pushing disinformation, giving the press everything they needed to run with the "cheap-fakes" nonsense.

The Importance of Official Utterances.  It was on the 8th of July, 2024, that our president uttered the following words:  "I have one job, and that's to beat Donald Trump.  I'm absolutely certain I'm the best person to be able to do that.  So, we're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye,"  It was on July 13, just five days later, that Thomas Crooks did just that.  Can we prove that Old Joe
  [#1]   Knew what he was saying,
  [#2]   Realized that someone might take him up on it, or
  [#3]   Had it all planned out ahead of time?
Of course not.  Not yet, anyway. [...] We can't say Biden caused this — proximity is not causality.  However, we have an irresponsible, mindless idiot in the Oval Office and he's likely to say or do anything.  He might, as commander in chief, give an order that will set off a whole firestorm of death and destruction.  We also don't know who's playing puppeteer.  Whose words are issuing forth from Old Joe?

What Biden Campaign Is Telling Its Staff.  One of the problems with Joe Biden has always been is that he doesn't live in reality.  He makes up things that aren't true, in order to pander to audiences or to pump himself up.  He verbally attacks people who dare to challenge him, He often responds with lies.  But that not living in reality has carried over to his team and his family, I think, when it comes to the present situation that he's in, as top Democrats engage in an effort to shove him out.  Meanwhile, the leaks about what's going on behind the scenes continue.  The campaign had an "all staff call" on Friday to try to pump up the troops, as Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall reported.  The gist of the call?  Don't listen to the news.  "Don't watch cable news all the time," campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon allegedly told the staff at the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Who is running the show at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?  The Wall Street Journal's headline describing Biden's disastrous June 27 debate performance states, "Biden Crashes in First Clash with Trump."  Biden is obviously having problems and has been since running for office in 2020.  After attending a recent G7 summit, the White House decided the president would not to attend a Ukrainian Peace Summit that was being held in Switzerland.  After urging from President Zelensky, it was decided that Kamala Harris would attend the summit, because the matters Joe was facing at home were just too pressing to attend a peace summit of world leaders concerning Ukraine.  What pressing matter could have pried Biden from attending a peace summit that could possibly prevent World War III?  Why, it was a Hollywood election fundraiser orchestrated by George Clooney, Julia Roberts and other "stars" and "elites" to help Joe maintain political power in Washington, D.C.  Besides Biden's callousness concerning world peace, also, like The National Interest states, "The Blue-Collar Joe Biden Myth Needs to End."

Chuck Schumer Tells Joe Biden to Resign.  While Clyburn and Obama hold the ultimate leverage, Chuck Schumer is aligning all the political daggers.  According to multiple media outlets, and seemingly confirmed by the office of the senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer has given Joe Biden advice that it's time to leave.  The interesting (inside baseball part) is that Schumer has given media the story.  That indicates Joe was resistant to the message, so Chuck goes public.

Report: Biden Will Announce His Withdrawal from Democrat Nomination Sunday.  Mark Halperin is pretty dialed in to the deep DNC network, particularly close to the core DNC apparatus.  Halperin is saying the plan for Joe Biden to announce his withdrawal from the Democrat nomination is now underway.  Biden will announce this weekend, likely Sunday.  [Video clip]  According to Halperin:
  •   Joe Biden plans to announce withdrawal from nomination process as early as this weekend, Sunday most likely.
  •   Biden advisor Jon Meacham polishing up remark for delivery to the nation.
  •   Joe Biden with [sic] NOT resign the presidency and will finish the remainder of his term.
  •   Interestingly, Joe Biden will NOT endorse VP Kamala Harris.  Biden will let the convention decide.
  •   There will be an open convention with Kamala Harris and about 3 others on the first ballot.
  •   The infamous super delegates, deep DNC insiders, will not be allowed to vote on 1st ballot.  This point is moot because no one is going to win on the first ballot.

Defiant Biden Handlers Just Threw Obama, Schumer, and Pelosi Under the Bus and Then Backed Over Them.  After Joe Biden allegedly contracted COVID and left Las Vegas for his Delaware beach house on Wednesday, much speculation suggested he was preparing to leave the race.  Even the betting markets shifted, showing the probability of Biden dropping out at an all-time high.  That was exacerbated by an interview where the president said he would drop out if a medical issue arose.

25th Amendment Time?  The panic in the Democrat Party keeps ramping up, and that is pretty amazing.  I thought it hit a fever pitch last week.  But no, things keep getting worse for the Democrats, and Biden keeps saying he is staying in the race.  Nothing has been floated in the media yet, but you can be sure that by now many Democrats are talking about a palace coup — not by the Democrat National Committee or the delegates, but by the Vice President and the Cabinet.  [Tweet]

Details of the Botoxic/Rutabaga phone call have leaked.  They are VERY telling.  [Thread reader]  Botoxic supposedly gave him "data" that he would lose.  This is VERY IMPORTANT:  It tells you they know they CANNOT STEAL IT.  If they could, she wouldn't have made that call!  Contrary to Hoax Media reports — remember, this whole thing is a Hoax Media-led coup attempt on Rutabaga — that Biden was more willing to consider stepping down, he got in a yelling match with Botoxic and said her "data" was wrong.  Next important data point:  She demanded she talk to someone else and told him, the President, to "get off the phone."  Who took over?  Obama?  NO.  Mike Donilon, one member of the "Four-headed hydra" RUNNING THE COUNTRY (Jilly, Hunter, and Andrew ... forget his name, but ... contd ... he is Donilon's accomplice.  They replaced who?  Obama?  NO.  Jayapal, Anita Dunn, and Ron Klain.  NONE of these seven people have any ties to Obama at all.  They are totally NON-Obamaites.

Biden's Insane Comments About Lloyd Austin, Black Neighborhoods in Trainwreck BET Interview.  [Scroll down]  But the reported word is so far Biden has rebuffed the effort, although it looks like they may have gotten to him a little with him supposedly also asking his people about how Kamala Harris would do if she ran instead.  I wonder if they stepped up the effort because of all the reports of his wild interviews and other crazy things he has said.  Indeed, the latest BET one is so crazy I wonder if this was what finally pushed them over the edge when it comes to Biden or if someone tipped them off and said, "Come on, guys, really?"  Because this one was bad, even on a Joe Biden sliding scale of bad.  We heard about a little of it already.  It was in that interview that he said if he had a "medical condition" and doctors came to him, he indicated that might sway him.  But it was so much worse.  He had some of his typical lies about inflation, blaming corporate greed, not taking any responsibility for driving it up with his policies.  Somehow they weren't greedy under former President Donald Trump, but they're now supposedly greedy?

CNN Urges Biden to Use His Covid Diagnosis as 'Excuse' to Drop Out of the Race.  Former President Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt, and the next day, he's on a plane heading to Milwaukee to address the nation.  President Joe Biden gets COVID, despite being double vaxxed, and he is hiding away at his Deleware [sic] home.  This alone further exacerbates concerns that the 81-year-old president is not mentally or physically well enough to continue running in the 2024 race.  A bullet grazes Trump's ear, missing his head by nearly seconds, and he's golfing by 9 a.m. the next day.  Biden experiences "mild symptoms" of what can basically be categorized as a cold, and he's bedridden for the foreseeable future.  According to reports, the Biden campaign is getting ready to drop Biden from the race and replace him with Vice President Kamala Harris — and the media is already priming voters for this.  CNN on Thursday urged Biden to use his COVID diagnosis as an excuse to exit the race.

Biden tests positive for COVID in Las Vegas, hastily returns to Delaware vacation home after showing symptoms.  President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday and abruptly boarded Air Force One to return to his vacation home in Delaware to recuperate — after glad-handing while experiencing what his doctor described as respiratory symptoms and "general malaise."  The 81-year-old president told reporters "I feel good" as he emerged — without a mask to protect others — from the presidential limo and walked up the stairs of the jet at Harry Reid International Airport.  Biden canceled a speech to a Latino advocacy group in Sin City due to his diagnosis.  UnidosUS president Janet Murguía announced the president was ill on stage as attendees began to wonder why Biden was running 90 minutes late to speak.

The Editor says...
How many Covid shots has Biden had?  Name someone in the U.S. who lives in greater isolation than Biden.  How did he get Covid?  What would happen to you if you went on social media to lament that Covid hasn't killed him yet?  Compare that to the caustic reactions on the left to the shooting of Donald Trump.

Biden Sniffs 3-Year-Old Girl at Nevada Deli Market, Obsesses Over Her Age.  He just can't help himself.  After two disastrous speeches, Joe Biden made an unscheduled stop at Mario's Westside Market in Las Vegas, Nevada Tuesday evening.  Biden delivered remarks during the 115th NAACP National Convention and then participated in an economic summit with Rep. Steven Horsford earlier Tuesday.  81-year-old Biden walked into Mario's Westside Market and immediately went in for a sniff.

That Was Quick:  Biden Is Getting Nasty Again.  For one bright, shining moment Joe Biden made the case for toning down the rhetoric, turning down the political temperature, and unifying the country.  Of course, he didn't mean it, but at least you would have thought that he would recognize that getting nasty two days after an assassin shot Donald Trump, leaving one dead spectator and others grievously wounded.  But no, this is Joe Biden.  He is, at base, a nasty person who cannot NOT tell a lie and smear his opponents.  It is his nature, and the only thing holding him back now is his mental incapacity.  [Tweet with video clip]  Biden's position is that the problem with heated rhetoric is entirely on Republicans, and nothing he has ever said or done has been anything but loving and unifying.  All that talk of existential threat to democracy?  About MAGA extremists?  About this being the last election if Trump wins?  All totally normal, says Joe Biden.  It's Trump who is the nasty one.  [Tweet with video clip]

Here's What Sent Joe Biden Into a Total Rage During 'Awful' Call With House Dems.  President Joe Biden has been holding a series of calls with the various factions in the House Democratic Caucus, and they've not gone well.  The call with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus devolved into total mayhem last week.  On top of being late to the call, Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) called on Biden to step aside directly, leading to the call's abruptly ending.  No one could ask the president questions.  It was very much the controlled, guard-railed, and staged antics that have marked this presidency.  It's all a show, with no real action or governing.

Joe Biden Didn't Know His Secret Service Director Is a Woman.  Joe Biden's interview with NBC News' Lester Holt Monday night was kind of a disaster.  His failure to accept responsibility for his dangerous and violent rhetoric about Donald Trump was enraging, but the interview also became the latest example of his disturbing lack of mental fitness for the presidency.  He once again came off as tired and weak, but things got really disturbing when he referred to his female Secret Service director as a man.  "Do you have — are you — are you — you have confidence in the Secret Service?" Holt asked.  "Do you feel safe?" [...] "Is it acceptable that you have still not heard, at least publicly, from the Secret Service director?"  "Oh, I've heard from him," Biden said.  Heard from him?  Ummm... Does Joe Biden not know that the Director of the U.S. Secret Service is a woman, Kimberly Cheatle?

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Biden used the wrong pronoun!  He's gotta go!

The 'Through Line' from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump.  If Joe Biden merely padded his stats the way Donald Trump routinely does, he could be forgiven, but Biden's lies cut deep and leave scars.  It is too early to tell how much stock shooter Thomas Crooks put in those lies, but it would be naive to think that the anti-Trump mania that Biden helped foster did not influence this would-be assassin.  If so, Trump would not be the first victim of this mass psychosis.  That tragic place in history belongs to January 6 protestor, Ashli Babbitt.  Indeed, no major candidate has ever begun a presidential campaign with a more divisive and slanderous opening gambit than did Biden.

Four factions vying for control of America.  The Biden family is a massive business that produces nothing except corrupt political influence.  It is exemplified in Joe Biden's laughing boast that he successfully coerced the Ukrainian government to fire its prosecutor, who was exposing the crimes of Hunter Biden.  Hunter was a highly paid board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.  Hunter Biden has zero expertise in the energy industry and contributed nothing of value to Burisma.  Joe Biden threatened Ukraine by promising to withhold a billion dollars in U.S. aid unless its prosecutor was promptly dismissed from his job.  He was.

Biden Labels Trump 'Threat to Democracy' after Urging Americans to Tone Down Heated Rhetoric.  President Biden doubled down on his assertion that Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy" during an interview with NBC News on Monday, despite repeatedly calling on Americans to lower the temperature in U.S. politics in the wake of a failed assassination attempt against the former president.  In a 20-minute interview that aired unedited Monday evening, NBC anchor Lester Holt asked Biden whether he has done any "soul searching" about whether his own political rhetoric could incite people who are "not balanced."  "How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says?" Biden replied.  "Do you just not say anything because it might incite somebody?"  He went on to claim that he has not engaged in heated rhetoric, but he accused Trump of doing so.

Joe Biden Is a Terrible Liar About His Dangerous Rhetoric.  Less than a day after Joe Biden called on Americans to "lower the temperature," he denied his own dangerous and divisive rhetoric in an interview with Lester Holt on NBC News.  "You called your opponent an existential threat," Holt pointed out.  "On a call a week ago you said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.  There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that we're — "  "I didn't say crosshairs," Biden retorted.  "I said bull's eye.  I meant focus on him.  Focus on what he's doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate. [...]" [...] Sorry, Joe, but you've already lost the argument when you're trying to differentiate "bull's-eye" from "crosshairs."  Just stop wasting your time.  And, Holt, to his credit, didn't seem to accept Biden's argument, and pressed him on the issue of his rhetoric.

Biden Issued Veiled Threat One Week Before Trump Assassination Attempt in Stephanopoulos Interview.  [Scroll down]  Stephanopoulos said he has never seen a president of 36% approval get re-elected.  Biden denied he was polling at 36% approval and then issued a cryptic, veiled threat.  "Wouldn't a clear-eyed political calculus tell you it's going to be much tougher to win in 2024?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden referring to the abysmal polls.  Biden issued a veiled threat.  "Not when you're running against a pathological liar.  Not when he hadn't been challenged in a way that he's about to be challenged," Biden said with a sinister look on his face.  [Tweet]

On the Dementia Beat Since 2020.  In 2021 we were contacted by NewsGuard with a set of emailed questions about Power Line.  NewsGuard is a brick in the wall meant to protect us from "misinformation."  According to a 2019 New York Times story, NewsGuard has given its stamp of approval to outlets including the Times itself. [...] This was Question 3 submitted to us by NewsGuard deputy editor John Gregory:  ["]We've noticed that the site has repeatedly stated as fact in its article[s] that Joe Biden has dementia, both during the 2020 election cycle and since he became president.  Why does the site make this claim without providing credible evidence that he has dementia?["]

Can Joe Biden Be Pushed Out of the Race?  At this point, we've all seen it, heard it, and lived it: the public mental demise of the puppet president of the United States.  Joe Biden, the lifelong politician, professional liar, and poster boy for term limits, has served his purpose — quite well, I might add — as the far left's useful idiot.  In only four years, he has wrecked the economy, allowed millions of people to casually walk across our borders, and entered all but a full-on war with Russia.  But wait a minute: something odd is taking place in our media and from the left.  They are calling for Biden to step aside. [...] But remember:  Obama holds the leverage.  He knows firsthand all the shenanigans of the Biden crime family.  There is no love lost between these two, and any resistance to keeping their end of the deal, to step aside when told, is easily dealt with even if it gets a little messy.  They are not surprised; they know how to handle Joe, and they have a plan.

There's Little Point in Replacing Joe Biden on the Dem Presidential Ticket Now.  As far as the 2024 presidential election is concerned, it is something of an understatement to point out that the attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump has 1) sucked all the oxygen out of the room and 2) made the Joe Biden campaign effort irrelevant.  And on Sunday morning, only hours after the attempt on Donald Trump's life, some of the president's allies are pointing out that there is little point in any further attempt to replace Joe Biden at the head of the Democrat ticket. [...] And those who have been calling for President Biden to step away from the campaign, to let someone who has a greater chance of stopping the Trump Express, have little or no reason to keep calling for any such concession.  The game's as good as over unless something dramatic happens — something at least as dramatic as what happened yesterday in Pennsylvania.  They may as well let Joe Biden have his last hurrah.

What Biden Posted on X Hours Before Trump Shooting.  Twenty-four hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, the 2024 presidential election was in full swing.  Here's some of what President Joe Biden was posting on X in the hours before Trump was shot.  Biden seemingly likened Trump to a dictator in a post on his personal account less than 24 hours before the shots rang out at the former president's campaign rally about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh:  [Tweet]

The assassination attempt on Trump's life has made the American divide clearer than ever.  Those of us who believe Joe Biden is an illegitimate president have suffered through three and a half years of the worst administration in U.S. history; we actually read all the proof that has been provided by the numerous groups who did the work:  Peter Navarro's report, the work done by True the Vote, how Zuckerberg's illegal drop boxes were stuffed with fake ballots, etc.  There is no doubt that the 2020 election was stolen with fraudulent mail-in ballots and rigged by other means, despite what the media says.  No court ever actually looked at the evidence; our judiciary is corrupt as well; corrupt and frightened of the left.  Given that, and given Biden's sad decline into senility, conservatives do not wish Biden to be killed.  We want the elder abuse to end.  We want his regime to end.  His is the most authoritarian administration in U.S. history.  His obsession with transgenderism and the concomitant sexualization of very young children should be enough for most people to want him gone.

WSJ: Biden Can't Drop Out and Transfer $100 Million Before He's Officially the Nominee.  An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal has thrown cold water on the idea that President Joe Biden will drop out of the presidential race before formally becoming his party's nominee by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.  The reason:  he cannot hand over the $100 million in his campaign committee's accounts to Vice President Kamala Harris or any other candidate until he formally becomes the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.

Biden Says He's Following the Advice of His "Commander-in-Chief".  Joe Biden Thursday evening was nearly one hour late to his "Big Boy" press conference after he bungled the Ukraine Compact with Zelensky and called him "President Putin."  Old Joe botched the first question when he called Kamala Harris "Vice President Trump."  "I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn't think she was not qualified to be president," Biden said after a reporter asked him about Kamala Harris being at the top of the ticket.  He's cooked!

The Biden Crime Family's Fisker Adventure.  Joe Biden, who doesn't remember he was vice president or when, did learn and remember one thing:  how to profit from green corruption.  Electric vehicle mandates and wasted taxpayer handouts have been standard operating procedure for the Biden Administration, among them, to Fisker, an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer.  Fisker's products tended to run in the $100,000 dollar range.  Past tense because Fisker went bankrupt in July, taking some $529 million in taxpayer cash with them.  [Tweet]

Biden During Rare Press Conference: 'I've Been Given a List of People to Call On'.  President Joe Biden relied on a list supplied by his staff when calling on reporters during his first press conference in eight months.  His shocking announcement critically undermined his defense against accusations that staff run the White House, stage managing Biden and limiting his exposure to unscripted events and meetings.  "With that, I'll take your questions.  I've been given a list of people to call on here," Biden said at the end of his prepared remarks, which he mumbled through despite reading from a teleprompter.  Biden paused to check his list, reading out "Reuters, Jeff Mason."  While answering the first question, Biden committed another gaffe, referring to his Vice President, Kamala Harris, as "Vice President Trump."

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The questions and answers are scripted.  The "reporters" are pre-selected.  The "president" only says what he sees on the teleprompter.  He can't find the podium without seeing a picture of it first.  It's not a press conference, it's small-town theater.

Biden Doesn't Know Who's President, Can't Read His List, and KJP Tries to Shut the Presser Down.  Joe Biden's "big boy" press conference is in the books, and it did not go well.  As RedState reported, the president showed up with a pre-selected list of reporters to call on, a fact that he announced before taking questions.  During the first question, the president then called Donald Trump his vice president, confusing his political opponent with Kamala Harris.  From there, he's been rambling and filibustering, attempting to burn enough time so his staff can claim he held his own.  The truth is, this was a disaster.  [Tweet with video clip]  Yes, that's the President of the United States having no idea who the President of the United States is.  Who exactly is he referring to?  Jill Biden?  Hunter Biden?  A cabal of handlers?  Whose advice is he following?  Jill Biden may be the answer.  [Tweet with video clip]

Joe Biden's 'Big Boy' Press Conference Is a Disaster for the Democrats.  On Thursday evening, Joe Biden held what was widely dubbed his "big boy" press conference.  Originally scheduled for 5:30 p.m.  ET; it was delayed an hour before again being pushed to 7:00 and then 7:15.  It was a rough start, for sure.  Biden sounded hoarse at times, coughed quite a bit, and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth and nostrils.  But it was a campaign speech through and through — not the promised NATO press conference.  He repeated the same old stump speech lines that we've heard repeatedly and that haven't resonated with the public.  Of course, the speech was irrelevant.  The questions and answers are what matter and it didn't go very well.  For starters, his "big boy" press conference was made up of pre-approved reporters.  In response to the first question, which was about Kamala Harris's ability to serve if he doesn't, he said, "I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if she wasn't qualified to be president."

Biden held his "big boy" press conference last night and it went exactly how you'd expect.  Joe Biden is unfit to be president.  It's obvious to anyone with a set of eyes and ears.  Well, unless that person is a Democrat.  Biden held his much-anticipated "big boy" press conference last night and oh boy did it go how we all thought it might go.  In a nutshell, here's how it went.  [Tweet with video clip]

Sorry Democrats, There Is No Coming Back From This.  It is now clear that President Joe Biden's poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump has irreversibly damaged his campaign to the point that his chances of winning a second term have diminished considerably. [...][ This issue isn't going away.  Ever.  Even the media, which is typically firmly in Biden's corner, has been floating the idea of replacing him with a more suitable — and younger — candidate.  Thursday's press conference did little to assuage concerns about Biden's problems.  David Axelrod, former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, has come out strongly against President Biden.  He recently repudiated Biden's claim during the press conference that "no one" and "no poll" shows that he cannot defeat Trump in November.  [Tweet]

15 Lies Biden Told During His 'Big Boy' Press Conference.  [#1] Biden claimed that "overall prices fell last month."  That statement is false.  According to PBS News, "Wholesale prices in the United States rose by a larger-than-expected 2.6 percent last month from a year earlier."  [#2] Biden falsely claimed that he picked Donald Trump as his vice president.  "I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president [if I didn't] think she was not qualified to be president," the Delaware Democrat said.  Biden picked Kamala Harris, not Trump, to be his vice president. [...] [#4] Biden blamed his travel schedule as the cause for his poor debate performance against Trump.  "The next debate, I'm not going to be traveling 15 time zones a week before.  Anyway.  That's what it was about," the president said.  Contrary to his claim, Biden did not travel through 15 time zones a week before the debate.  The president returned from his overseas Europe trip on June 15 and spent the week before the debate prepping at Camp David.

Oh Boy, Democrats Are in Trouble After Joe Biden's NATO Presser.  President Joe Biden faced a pivotal moment as he held his first press conference after his disastrous debate performance on Thursday.  Biden spoke to reporters on the final day of a NATO summit the president was hosting in Washington as he faces mounting pressure to drop out of the 2024 race.  The presser got off to a bad start when Biden didn't take the stage until a whole hour after it was scheduled.  Democrats held their breath to see if Biden could successfully speak in front of cameras.  Following the debate, the 81-year-old president claimed he was having a "bad night;" however, his opening remarks at the press conference showed otherwise.  Within minutes of taking the stage, Biden referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Just moments later, Biden rambled and minced words despite reading directly from a teleprompter.  Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro called Biden a "total mess," while others pointed out the 81-year-old president was up past his bedtime.  [Tweets]

Biden introduces Ukraine's Zelensky as 'President Putin' in front of NATO leaders in latest brutal gaffe.  President Biden drew gasps Thursday evening [7/11/2024] when he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as "President Putin" — confusing him with the Russian tyrant whose forces have invaded Ukraine for the past two and a half years.  "And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination," Biden said.  "Ladies and gentlemen, President [Vladimir] Putin."  Many in the auditorium appeared to wince as the words left the president's lips.  One audience member shouted "Zelensky!" in an attempt to correct the 81-year-old Biden.

Biden roasted after accidentally calling Ukrainian leader 'President Putin:' 'Humiliating our entire country'.  [Tweet with video clip]  President Biden faced a wave of mockery online after he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "President Putin."  "And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination," Biden said at a NATO conference on Thursday in Washington, D.C.  "Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin."  Biden seemed to realize his embarrassing verbal stumble mentioning Russian President Vladimir Putin, and came back to the lectern to correct himself.

Can They Cheat a Dementia Sufferer Back into the White House?  We're learning something valuable.  Censorship works better than gaslighting, but even that fails.  Joe Biden's "cognitive decline" has been ongoing since at least 2019.  If you didn't understand why Biden ran his 2020 campaign from his Wilmington rec room, now you know.  COVID precaution was a convenient excuse.  Biden wasn't ever going to draw a crowd like Trump, so masking up and hanging out in front of his big screen was an easy dodge.  But it was his deteriorating brain that kept him off the campaign trail.  Dementia sufferers are easily confused and frustrated.  They don't handle crowds and noise well.  Biden's handlers — during the 2020 campaign and throughout his presidency — have been tasked with keeping venues small or ensuring that Biden is enough removed that he won't become agitated.  When he behaves bizarrely — babbling at podiums, turning to shake invisible hands, wandering off after his remarks — corporate media steps in to censor the fluffs. [...] The debate was a game-changing miscalculation.

At last.
House Oversight Subpoenas Top Biden Handlers To Find Out Who's Running The Country.  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed three top White House aides on Wednesday, and has demanded that they sit for depositions concerning President Joe Biden's health — and who's actually running the country.  As Axios reports, Oversight chair James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed First Lady Jill Biden's top aide Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, and senior adviser Ashley Williams, who the outlet described as "low-profile but very influential" inside the White House.  According to Wednesday letters, Comer cites Bernal and Tomasini's access to the first family's residence — which White House residence staff found 'unusual,' as 'political staffers often don't have such access.'

Catherine Herridge Reveals Case That Could Expose Biden Family's Overseas Bribery.  Tucker Carlson recently interviewed ousted CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge, his former colleague at Fox News, to dissect current media dynamics, focusing heavily on President Joe Biden's recent performances and the general state of journalism.  The discussion quickly turned to the controversial subject of Biden's cognitive abilities, which have been a topic of intense debate following his latest public appearances.  Herridge also delved into Hunter Biden's legal troubles, which she believes could have serious implications for the Biden family.  "I would think about the Hunter Biden case as having two buckets.  The first was the gun charges, and then the second is this tax case.  I've always felt the tax case is a much more serious case and has the greatest legal jeopardy for himself and members of his family."

Democracy Dies in Dementia?  In the wake of President Biden's subpar performance in the first and most important presidential debate on June 27th, top Democratic lawmakers, left-leaning newspapers, and major progressive donors are calling on him to step aside as his party's presidential candidate.  Given the way American politics works, and the difficulties involved in running an effective campaign without robust institutional/elite support, these leftist grandees may well get their wish:  Joe Biden, liberal stalwart, may be ground down by internal opposition and forced to accept (early? or late?) retirement.  The irony here is that all these leading voices of the Democratic Party establishment have been telling us for four long years that it is the people, not politicians and their hangers-on, who get to decide who runs this country, and the two parties that rule it at the people's behest.  Their main line of attack against Donald Trump and "ultra MAGA" Republicans has been that to question or undermine an election is a sort of civic sacrilege — it is, for believers in democracy, an abomination that disqualifies the relevant "election denier(s)" from running for office or earning the public's trust.

Who enabled Biden?  A case study.  The Wall Street Journal described a January White House meeting with congressional leaders on Ukraine policy in which Biden "spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting.  He read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out."  The next month, meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), the Wall Street Journal said, "Johnson worried that the president's memory had slipped about the details of his own policy."  White House and Democratic pushback was furious.  Biden is as sharp as ever, Democrats said.  The article was a hit piece based on Republicans who were playing partisan politics.  Among those pushing back was Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who had talked with the Wall Street Journal for the story but was not quoted in the published piece.

Jill Biden, abuser in chief.  There is one key reason why President Biden is stubbornly insisting — despite calls from some fellow Democrats to step aside — that he will not drop out of his race for reelection:  Jill Biden.  The first lady is clearly the driving force behind his stumbling, grumbling, bumbling, mumbling bid for a second term despite obvious signs that he is not up to the rigors of the world's toughest job for four more years.  Jill hungrily appears to want to cling to the White House more tenaciously than Mr. Biden.  She clearly loves the public spotlight and the perks of the office too much to let them go.  If she had not and had his and the country's best interests at heart, she would have convinced her husband months ago that it was time to pack it in and retire to a life of leisure in Delaware.  She sees him more intimately than anyone, and she knows better than anyone his capabilities and limitations.  Moreover, she is his most trusted adviser.

Biden White House demanded Marine Corps band compose 'Fanfare for the First Lady' entrance theme for Jill: report.  In 2022, the Washington Examiner's Becket Adams reported that the Marine Corps Band was instructed to compose an entrance theme for First Lady Jill Biden.  The song, Fanfare for the First Lady, was intended to be a counterpoint to the president's Hail to the Chief.  But of course, the president is the elected commander in chief, and the First Lady is more of an honorary post. [...] At the time, press secretary for the First Lady Michael LaRosa (yes, she has one of those too), said that the story was not accurate.  "The first lady does not have a song anybody has written for her specifically.  She has no 'Hail to the Chief' song.  She has no song.  She never asked anyone to create a song."  "The White House asked nobody, not one person, to compose an exclusive entry song, or any song, for the first lady," LaRosa added.  "None of that is accurate."  Yet, the song exists.

Time's Up:  Biden Won't Withdraw, He Can't Be Removed, and His Reelection Appears Sunk.  Two weeks.  We've had two weeks since Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance.  Normally, a debate sustains a news cycle for a few days.  But Biden's performance was so bad, his obvious mental decline so apparent, that the media just can't let it go.  To be fair, we on the right have not let it go since his basement campaign in 2020.  But the media has suddenly had their eyes opened and the veil lifted.  They see now what they were too un-curious to see before:  Biden is a man in decline.  The problem for the Democrats is that, when it comes to seeking another candidate, time is up. [...] The only chance they have is for Biden to step aside himself, doing so voluntarily and with grace.  It is an option that is clearly off the table, considering his letter to Congressional Democrats earlier this week.  But, as it stands, Biden is the only person who can remove Biden at this point.

Joe Biden Has Always Been a Liar.  Framed on a wall in my office is a copy of my first opinion column, published by The Dallas Morning News on Oct. 11, 1987.  Until then, I had been a wire-service reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., and, before that, a sports writer in Boston, but had never written opinion.  When given the chance by the Morning News, I jumped on a subject that had piqued my curiosity:  A senator for Delaware running for president had brazenly stolen a speech by a Welsh Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom and, when caught, paid the price by humiliatingly dropping out of the 1988 presidential race.  The Welsh politician was Neil Kinnock, and 27-year-old me simply used the brouhaha over the purloined speech as an excuse to praise him for daring to tell Labourites that "socialism had become old hat," as I put it.  Democrats should be stealing that speech, I wrote.

The ultimate October surprise.  The people who actually run the show — Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, etc. — badly want Joe to quit.  And they have the votes, if needed, at the convention to simply change the rules and free his delegates.  But, as Pelosi's twin sister likes to say, "these things must be done delicately."  They don't want a big scene or a huge mess in Chicago.  Jill and the rest of the Team Biden grifters won't go without a fight, or an enormous payoff.  I assume George Soros and Reid Hoffman have already been told they may be buying some Hunter Biden masterpiece paintings.  Enough money might do the trick.  The DNC has an important rules meeting coming up July 19.  That's probably the drop-dead date for Joe to leave the race without a fuss.  But if not, will Pelosi and the other big shots have the temerity to go public in a fight to push out Biden?  They are certainly ruthless enough.

Of Course Biden Won the Rigged Democrat Primaries.  Yes, Joe Biden won the 2024 Democrat primaries.  However, what he is — and most others are — failing to point out is that he won a largely rigged process. [...] In June of 2023, ABC News wrote a piece detailing how Democrats were going to keep Biden from primary debates.  Former CEO and co-founder of Twitter (now X) Jack Dorsey was quoted as saying, "Open the Democrat primaries and debates.  This isn't fair to anyone."  The same ABC News piece also noted, "When asked by Politico in August 2022 about how they might deal with a primary challenge, DNC executive director Sam Cornale put it bluntly:  'We're with Biden.  Period.'"  So as early as 2022, the DNC had made up its mind about Biden.  Just this week, NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd said that a "senior cabinet member" told him two years ago that they don't think Biden can continue as President.  Two years ago was 2022.  The DNC had to have had this information as well, or they sure should have.  Yet, they chose to go with Joe Biden.

The main reason Joe Biden should not be president.  For anyone who was willing to see it, it has been quite obvious that Joe Biden has been in a frail and declining mental and physical state for years now.  This was clear well prior to the 2020 election.  The Trump campaign ran an ad in August of 2020 that highlighted Biden's mental decline.  No doubt this is one of the reasons why the drive-by media refused to cover Biden's numerous health issues.  They sacrificed the truth because none of them wanted to be seen as aiding Trump, or even giving any credibility to his campaign.  In other words, they lied about Biden simply because they hated Trump.  And never forget: this is not merely about Donald Trump.  Trump was once a media darling.  They now hate him because he is a big obstacle — not the only obstacle — to the perverse leftist agenda.

DOCTOR Jill Biden Surprised By Reporter Asking Her Questions.  If Jill Biden is going to be out there campaigning for her mentally compromised husband, then she's going to have to learn how to take some heat.  Jill Biden is giving screeching speeches to the public as she campaigns for her elderly husband.  And she takes offense with reporters asking her questions.  Oh, hun, puddin', if you can't take the press asking you basic and honest questions, maybe you shouldn't say anything at all.  Instead, perhaps you should start looking into how to care for your husband and get him some help for his mental decline.

DOCTOR Jill Biden Has Always Been in Full Edith Wilson Mode.  [Scroll down]  The video in Stephen's post makes it clear that Mrs. Biden is NOT in the mood to entertain questions about her husband's future.  She's dismissive and rude and displays the contempt for the press that has been her husband's trademark for decades.  The Bidens do not like it when the press minions forget their places and challenge them.  They fancy themselves royalty, not public servants.

Revisiting the Hur Report in Light of Biden's Implosion.  Back in February, Special Counsel Robert Hur reported that Joe Biden was a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory", that Biden's "memory was significantly limited" and that he had "diminished faculties in advancing age."  The report also described that Biden could not remember what years he was vice president, nor when his son died.  Democrats and the media dismissed the report, claiming that Hur was something akin to a MAGA fanatic, which is demonstrably not true.  But as so often, the truth did not matter.  What mattered were false narratives that preserved Democrats' hold on power.  And so the problem seemingly went away.  But the cognitive decline observed by Hur, and all of us who were paying attention instead of listening to the media, is not something that can be hidden forever.  Unfortunately for Biden, the problem reemerged on the public stage at the worst possible time, during the first presidential debate.  Everyone could see for themselves that Biden was no longer with it.  He wasn't able to string together even simple sentences.  He mumbled and stumbled through every answer.

Biden Reportedly Skipped Secret Meeting With World Leader To Go To Bed Early.  President Joe Biden reportedly skipped out on a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022 to go to bed early, sources told The Wall Street Journal.  German officials reportedly planned for the president to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a June Group of Seven summit, though the foreign aides made the meeting early evening as they had become aware that Biden gets "fatigued" at night, sources told the WSJ. The president never showed up to the meeting and instead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in his place, telling the chancellor and his aides that Biden had gone to bed, officials told the outlet.

Biden didn't show up for an early evening meeting with the German chancellor because he had to go to bed: report.  President Joe Biden canceled an early evening meeting with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the last minute because he had to go to bed, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.  The newspaper reported that the event was an informal gathering in Germany amid the G7 summit in June 2022, and was meant to be a low-key meeting to discuss Ukraine.  Two unnamed people who were there told the Journal that Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Biden would not make an appearance because he had to rest.

The Democratic National Convention Could Be an Epic Political Massacre.  Joe Biden informed congressional Democrats in a letter on Monday that he has no intention of dropping out of the race.  Later, during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Biden defiantly dismissed those in the party who are calling on him to step aside and offered anyone to challenge him at the Democratic National Convention.  "The American public is not going to move away from me as the average voter," Biden told hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.  "And again, I'm here for two reasons:  One to rebuild the economy for hardworking middle-class people [to] give everybody a shot.  It's a straight shot.  Everybody gets a fair chance, number one."  "Number two:  Remember all this talk about how I don't have the black support?  Come on, give me a break," he added.  "Come with me.  Watch.  Watch!  I'm getting so frustrated but by the elites — now I'm not talking about you guys but about the elites — in the party."

Expect a 180 degree Reversal in Calls for Biden to Leave.  Unless Biden glitches so badly that the Cabinet agrees to dump him — another political disaster — Biden will almost certainly be on the ballot this November.  Co-Presidents Jill and Hunter Biden don't want him to go, and Joe is too stubborn to be pushed out of the race.  [Tweet with video clip]  This leaves Democrats in a pickle — as if they weren't in one already.  They have been almost unified in letting the public know that Biden isn't the right guy to represent their Party next November, but Biden is almost certain to be the guy at the top of the ticket.  As the calls for Biden to get out have risen to a fever pitch, Biden has been digging in and refused to budge.  The immovable object, it turns out, beats the irresistible force.  [Tweet with video clip]

White House admits Parkinson's expert has examined Biden — but says only for his annual physicals.  The White House admitted Monday [7/8/2024] that a Parkinson's expert who's visited the executive mansion eight times in as many months has evaluated President Biden — but said the exams only took place during the president's annual physicals.  The revelation was disclosed in a letter from Biden's personal physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor hours after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to explain the flurry of recent visits from the Parkinson's specialist, Dr. Kevin Cannard. "Dr. Cannard was the neurological specialist that examined President Biden for each of his annual physicals," O'Connor wrote in the letter.

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If you needed an annual physical, would you bypass your personal physician and bring in a Parkinson's expert?  Does the president need an "annual physical" once a month?

White House Clown Show Continues As They Announce Biden Will Hold a 'Big Boy' Press Conference.  The Biden administration is truly a continuous clown show.  In the face of concerns about his cognitive decline, Joe Biden refuses to take a cognitive test.  There are all kinds of leaks about the hoops people are jumping through behind the scenes just to help him operate day to day.  Then we have the question raised about visits to the White House by the Parkinson's expert, and the White House doesn't even think they have any obligation to be straight with us on that.  [Advertisement]  But it's Joe Biden, so they can always go lower.  Who really thought this was a good idea for White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security spokesperson John Kirby to announce that Biden would be doing a "Big Boy" press conference on Thursday?  [Tweet]

Problems with forcibly removing Biden.  [Scenario #2]  Biden's cabinet transfers his presidential power to the vice president due to incapacity, invoking the 25th Amendment.  This has the added benefit of hurdling barriers in states which permit a late ballot change for a live candidate only if the candidate is declared insane or mentally incompetent.  I doubt Parkinson's disease would qualify, so the Democrats would have to be willing to humiliate Biden with an appropriate diagnosis.  This transfer of power requires the declaration not only of the vice president but that of a majority of the cabinet members the president himself selected.  Even if that is attained, if Biden attests he is fit, it takes the votes of two-thirds of both Houses to override his reinstatement, not a certainty by any means.  Republicans — or a clever subset of them — could ensure Biden remains on the ticket by purposely voting to reinstate him, leaving Biden even more wounded after this ordeal and the Democrats who tried to oust him looking very silly.  Surprisingly, this possible strategy didn't seem to occur to the media of all persuasions covering this issue.

Joe Biden Is Not a Decent Man.  Even as they attempt to force him out, Democrats are still praising the sterling character of the president, especially in contrast to Trump.  But that's always been a lie. [...] We can dismiss the claim that his administration has been a great success, an astonishing disconnect with the reality of an inflation-ridden economy, open border, and a world in chaos on his watch, that is nonetheless ritually repeated regularly on the left-wing news channels.  But Democrat partisans actually think they are on firmer ground in affirming that he's a great guy — and therefore a stark contrast to Trump, whom they denounce as personally evil — even as they come to grips with the fact that he lacks the mental acuity to be the leader of the free world.  But the notion that "Scranton Joe" is a nice guy is as wrongheaded as the claim that he's mentally competent or a brilliant leader.  The one constant about Biden has been his essential meanness, which, when combined with his well-known predilection for telling tall tales about his own life, is a formula for slander of all those who are not materially contributing to his success.

Now They're Gaslighting Us About Biden's 'Accomplishments'.  Yesterday, we pointed out how the press and Democratic Party politicians and operatives have started calling President Joe Biden a "good man," despite all evidence to the contrary.  Now the media are trying to convince the public that Biden has been a great president who racked up big accomplishments, which is another insult to our intelligence.  "Objectively speaking, President Joe Biden has presided over some significant, even historic, accomplishments," is how the Atlantic put it.  The Atlantic writer could name only three.  Massive spending programs (all with borrowed money), mandating COVID vaccines (that were developed in record time thanks to Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed), and "the lowest unemployment rate in over 50 years" — a rate that has been steadily increasing all year.  This is the short list Biden sycophants usually trot out.  But it's the list of Biden's failures that is truly impressive.  Here's just a sampling: [...] Joe Biden is the worst president in American history and a man whose lifetime of accomplishments wouldn't fill up a Post-it note.

Where Are the Calls for 25th Amendment?  I tried looking up the number of times that Democrats and MSM figures called for Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against Donald Trump, but I couldn't find a reliable source.  What I did find was something I didn't recall: the Democrat House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on Pence to depose Trump in January 2021 — just days before Trump was scheduled to leave office.  It was widely discussed in the media then, and many, many times during his presidency.  [Screenshots]  It makes sense.  After all, within 20 minutes (no, I am not exaggerating in this case), The Washington Post wrote a story about the "campaign to impeach Donald Trump."  This was during his inaugural speech.  Impeach Trump for having been sworn in.  The Democrats wanted to impeach Trump simply for having won the election.  He hadn't done a single thing yet.

Democrats: Dogmatic Geniuses or Dogs Chasing Cars?  In February, I predicted that it can't be Biden on the Democrat ticket in November, while also suggesting that Democrats were already aware of that fact, and that they were likely already scheming to replace him this summer. [...] One explanation, which seems to me the likeliest, is that Democrats weren't prepared for the spotlight to ever be moved away from Trump. [...] Whether it was by design or as a reaction, the knives are certainly out for Joe Biden.

White House Still Lying About Parkinson's Expert Visits.  As recently as yesterday, reporters were unable to get Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to comment on the frequent visits of Parkinson's Disease expert Dr. Kevin Cannard to see Joe Biden.  But a vague attempt at an explanation showed up in the form of a letter from the President's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor later in the day.  He admitted that Dr. Cannard had come to see Biden eight times in as many months (!) but didn't delve into the specifics of the discussions.  All that was said was that Cannard had seen Biden as part of his annual physical exams.  This rather weak explanation raises many questions, but the one thing that seems obvious is that the White House is continuing to lie about what's going on with the President's health and cognitive capabilities in the midst of multiple national and global crises.

Third in line to presidency calls on Biden to 'seriously consider' the future.  Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., third in line to the presidency, said President Biden must "seriously consider" how to secure his legacy for the future as calls grow among Democrats for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race over concerns about his mental fitness.  Murray, who as president pro tempore is third in line to the presidency, said in a statement on Monday that Biden needs to be "more forceful and energetic" on the campaign trail to prove to voters that he is more fit for another term in the White House than former President Trump.  "President Biden has to lead the charge in making that case," Murray said.

Revealed: Biden's Staff Spends Most of Their Time Training Him to Walk.  Precisely how meticulously do Joe Biden's staffers plan his public appearances?  We have a better idea now that an "event template" that is sent to staffers has been leaked to Axios and other media outlets.  To put it mildly, the planning required just to get Biden onto a stage and behind a podium is ridiculous and resembles the type of instructions you would need to give to a kindergartener getting ready for a class play.  The instructions given to Biden include large photographs with minimal words, showing where he is when he receives them and where he needs to walk.  Some have suggested that these cue cards are just the work of "a meticulous staff," but this level of detail makes it clear that the recipient of the instructions literally needs help to navigate his way across an empty space of twenty or thirty feet.

Report: Biden Guided by Document Instructing Him to 'Walk to Podium' During Events.  White House staffers have reportedly created a document with photos and instructions for President Joe Biden to "walk" to the podium during events.  One template of the five-page document, which was obtained by Axios, shows a "large picture of the event space" on different pages, with words in "big text" that say, "View from podium" and "View from audience."  The document also reportedly shows two different photos with the words "Walk to podium," according to the outlet.  One person who had reportedly staffed an event for the president in the past year and a half told the outlet that the White House had "treated" a "simple fundraiser at a private residence" as if it "was a NATO summit."  "I staffed a simple fundraiser at a private residence, but they treated it like it was a NATO summit with his movements," the person told the outlet.

Biden says Philadelphia voters helped him win Delaware Senate seat.  President Biden mixed up the state he represented for nearly 40 years in the U.S. Senate career while talking to voters in Philadelphia.  "Even when I was running for Senate, each time I ran, quite frankly, not a joke, Philadelphia, in particular, got me across the line," he said during a campaign event.  He then doubled down on his statement.  "No, I'm not joking," he said as people cheered and applauded. "No, I mean it, seriously, organizationally, and in terms of fundraising — the whole deal."  Mr. Biden served as U.S. senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009 before becoming former President Obama's vice president.  While Mr. Biden's residence in Wilmington and other parts of northern Delaware are in the Philadelphia designated market-area region, the city would not have helped him win the Senate seat since only state residents can vote for senators.

The Editor says...
When a man tells you he's a criminal, believe him.

Did Politico Just Admit Biden Is Selling Access and Influence?  You know, after years of defending Biden for virtually everything, his terrible debate performance truly seems to have broken the dam, and given the media cover to report on what they never would have before, as it appears that they are actively trying to push him to drop out of the race.  Imagine my surprise Saturday morning when I came across an article from Politico that declared "White House visits are a cash cow for Biden."  [Tweet]  The report goes into extraordinary detail about how Joe Biden hosted donors at the White House and got huge donations afterward.  For example, shortly before Christmas last year, four billionaire Democratic donors visited the White House to meet with Biden privately.  During this private session, Biden discussed his second-term agenda and answered questions about his campaign and policies.  The day after the meeting, tech entrepreneur Mark Pincus donated the maximum allowed amount of $929,600 to Biden's fundraising committee, the Biden Victory Fund.  Within three weeks, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman contributed $923,000.  Former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson donated nearly half a million dollars two days before the meeting.

Bidengate and the Doom Loop.  The entire 2019-20 Biden candidacy and subsequent presidency were predicated on a rotten Faustian bargain.  A hale Joe Biden would feign his aw-shucks, Joe from Scranton schtick.  And an ossified working-class Joe's camouflage would get the hard left elected — especially thanks to the changes in balloting laws that often saw only 30 percent of the electorate voting on Election Day in key states.  In exchange, the two narcissistic Bidens would bask in the power and attention of the presidency.  From the start, Jill and the media would orchestrate deep cover for Joe's escalating dementia as well as the true intentions of the now-in-power radical Democratic Party with its neo-socialist agenda.  The former Obama acolytes would get their long-dreamed-of third presidential term.  And this time they would enact a truly radical agenda while their string puppet mumbled to everyone that he was just old, familiar Joe working for the middle class.

Biden Family Enter Negotiation Stage — Letter to Congress Frames Baseline for Exit Price.  The Biden family have entered the negotiation stage, as they face two simultaneous enemies aligned in common purpose.  Hunter Biden has been brought close into the fold, as the Intelligence Community obviously holds leverage over Dad's disposition through the entry vector of his son.  As this aspect unfolds, the Biden syndicate goes to the mattresses.  The threat metric against Hunter is why he is now part of the daily advisory group around the Office of the President.  Meanwhile, in a coded message, Joe Biden technically blamed the Obama network today when he called in to the NSNBC radio show and pointed fingers at the DNC elite.  Everyone knows the DNC is now under the full control of Team Obama.  If Biden feels the "Democrat Elite" are targeting him, he understands Barack Obama is behind the approvals to unleash internecine attacks against his administration.  Death by a thousand Obama cuts.  The Obama network operate inside and outside DC. Simultaneous to this assault against him, Biden is now also facing the Intelligence Community who have decided it's time for Joe to go.  Biden is now facing two enemies, the Obama network and the Intelligence Community (IC).

Joe Biden Goes on 'Morning Joe,' Appears to Read From a Script and Starts Screaming Incoherently.  The comeback tour continued for Joe Biden on Monday morning with a brief stint on MSNBC.  The president called into "Morning Joe," a show hosted by two of his biggest fans, in yet another attempt to soothe the souls of Democrats worried about his ability to win in November.  Notably, Biden did not appear on video, and if you pay attention to the pace of his speaking, it sure sounds like that was because he was reading from a script.  Even then, he still managed to faceplant throughout the "interview."  [Two tweets with video clips]  It wasn't long before the president got angry, as he's prone to do.  When pressed in even the slightest degree about his fitness for office, he lashed out multiple times, distorting the phone and calling Scarborough "pal" while screaming "watch!"  [Tweet with video clip]

Joe Biden Is A Good Man?  Please Don't Insult Our Intelligence.  The talking points must have gone out within minutes of the end of President Joe Biden's lame debate performance.  Among the first to tell us just how fine a man Biden was Barack Obama, who called his former vice president "someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life."  It is, of course, a lie.  Biden is not a good man, and the idea he's "fought for ordinary folks" for even a single day of his "public service" is risible.  Obama's tweet also claimed that Biden is the candidate "who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight."  From there, the gaslighting grew exponentially worse.

Hunter Biden's the real point person in Joe's White House — don't underestimate the first son.  Democrats trying to dislodge Joe Biden will first have to combat the proxy commander-in-chief, Hunter Biden — and that's more easily said than done.  With the Biden family digging in behind Joe staying put, any staffers or party grandees deputized to strong-arm Joe Biden out of being their candidate in November had better not underestimate the first son.  While the focus has been on four-time Vogue cover girl Jill Biden and her screeching assurances that Joe is hale and hearty and fit for another four years, the first son has flown under the radar.  But Hunter is glued to his father's side for a reason.  He was with him at Camp David to help prepare for the disastrous debate; was there for the vainglorious Annie Leibovitz family photo shoot post-debate; then flew back with the president to the White House, where he has been ensconced ever since.

Hunter Biden Now His Father's 'Gatekeeper,' and Democrats Have a Deadline for Joe Biden to Drop Out.  There's plenty of video evidence that Joe Biden is senile, struggling with a steep cognitive decline that has accelerated over the last couple of years.  You wouldn't need a second of it, though, to show how far gone he is in light of the president's latest move.  According to Axios, Hunter Biden is currently operating as a "gatekeeper" for his father.  That follows reports that the president's convicted felon son has also been attending high-level meetings while controlling the flow of information within the administration.  If elevating Hunter Biden to such a position of power is not proof that Joe Biden is completely gone mentally, I'm not sure what is.

A Drug Addict and His Former Babysitter Are Officially Joe Biden Gatekeepers.  Again, I refrain from too much speculation about the process of replacement, but I solidly affirm my 3-year-old prediction that Biden was always going to be replaced.  In this article, talking about the granular details of Joe Biden's current tenuous status, the following lead paragraph indicates to me that Joe will soon be gone.  If it is now accepted that Hunter Biden and Jill Biden are the official gatekeepers for the White House and the office of the presidency, then that indicates no other White House officials or advisors are trusted to take that role.  If this is true, that means all of the professional political networks, the concentric circles that surround the Office of the President, have collapsed.  That Occam's razor of the current status seems to be corroborated by the fact that not a single administration official is on the Sunday talk shows defending Joe Biden.  Let that sink in.

Sunday Smiles.  In story after story people are spilling the beans on each other and in doing so, spilling the beans about their own participation in the largest and most consequential hoax in our lifetimes.  Joe Biden isn't President of the United States.  If the stories are to be believed, a few Jill Biden advisors, Jill Biden herself, and HUNTER BIDEN are the committee that run our country.  Perhaps, perhaps not.  With everything being a hoax it's hard to sort out fact from fiction. [...] Reporters who joked that the president was half-dead are now complaining about having been duped.  Think about that for a moment.  They are joking about Biden's senescence while writing and broadcasting stories that it was a "Right-wing conspiracy" backed by "cheap fakes."  Now they are professing surprise.  Their fallback position is:  "I wasn't lying to you; I am simply stupid and incompetent."

Now they tell us.
A Parkinson's disease specialist has visited the White House residence medical clinic at least nine times since July 2023.  Dr. Kevin R. Cannard, a Parkinson's disease specialist, has visited the White House at least nine times in the last year, official White House visitor logs show.  The logs show Dr. Cannard traveled to the White House residence medical clinic each time.  He met either with the president's personal physician or the naval nurse who coordinates care for the president and other top officials, the logs show.  Dr. Cannard's spate of visits began on July 28, 2023 and continued at least through March 28, 2024.  The most recently released logs end on April 1, so it is not clear if Dr. Cannard has been to the White House more recently.  The logs do not note the purpose of Dr. Cannard's visits.

The Editor says...
Well, what MIGHT be "the purpose of Dr. Cannard's [multiple] visits?"  There is only one possibility:  Somebody in the White House has Parkinson's disease.  Hmmmm.  Who could it be?

The History of Democrats Hiding Presidential Disabilities.  According to journalist Carl Bernstein, several people "very close" to President Biden have related that the president has had 15-to-20 episodes of cognitive decline — similar to what happened during the presidential debate the other evening — during the past year and a half.  Bernstein told CNN that these Biden supporters said, "There have been numerous instances where the president has lost his train of thought, can't pick it up again."  The New York Post editorialized that Democrats and their "media enablers" have attempted to hide Biden's cognitive decline.  The Daily Mail reports that "current and former aides" to the president are saying that Biden's cognitive decline has been known for months.  National Review calls the "cover-up of Biden's mental decline" a scandal.

The Editor says...
Is that the same National Review that stood firmly against Trump in the 2020 campaign?  Seems like they played a leading role in the "cover-up of Biden's mental decline," which was well underway in 2020, which is one reason he stayed out of sight.

Report: Joe Biden May Be Hiding Another Illness From the Public.  For years now, honest voices on the right have called out Joe Biden's various "senior moments" and raised questions about his physical and cognitive health.  While the signs of dementia have been obvious for a while now, it was only after Biden's performance at the debate that voices on the left finally admitted that something is wrong with Joe Biden.  But has the White House been covering up more than just dementia?  Visitor logs obtained by the New York Post reveal that President Joe Biden's primary physician repeatedly consulted with a Parkinson's disease specialist at the White House.

Who's really in charge?  Clearly not Joe Biden.  [Scroll down]  Joe is "elected" and then hocus pocus, Jill is the actual president.  Santana would call it, "Black Magic Woman."  What about Joe's corrupt and formerly crack-addicted son Hunter?  NBC News reports, "Hunter Biden has joined White House meetings as he stays close to the president post-debate."  That should inspire confidence.  Does Hunter have security clearance?  Is he sitting in on the presidential daily brief?  Is Dr. Jill there?  President Biden is reportedly functional for only a six-hour window from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Who takes the proverbial 3:00 a.m. phone call?  Hunter?  Dr. Jill?  The confabulating White House press secretary?  Has this been the case for Biden's entire presidency?  Last week in Copenhagen, I was asked by a tour guide, "What's the matter with your president?"  The world knows Biden is a PINO — president in name only.  Who is in charge?  Who is making potentially world-altering decisions?  And why and for how long has this been covered up?  This is not your crazy uncle kept in his room when you have company.  This is the leader of the free world.  His policies and decisions can make or break countries and civilizations.  What did they know and when did they know it?

Donald Trump, Gunslinger.  [Scroll down]  There can be little doubt that our country is currently besieged by bad guys.  Real, honest-to-goodness outlaws whose corruption knows no bounds.  Who are determined to push their destructive agenda on America — DEI, CRT, abortion up to birth, the "trans" agenda, unfettered immigration, currency manipulation, profiteering from foreign wars — by any means necessary.  Who don't hesitate to take the law into their own hands in order to punish their perceived political enemies.  Who clearly will not be satisfied until the rest of us are forced into submission.  In the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance, people all over American — even Democrats — are now waking up to this reality.  They can see that they've been lied to.  They've been had.  Our government and media are full of bad actors so intent on consolidating their own power, they've allowed this husk of a man to masquerade as president for three-and-a-half years, while they pull his strings from behind the curtain.

Biden's Blackmail.  After the debacle that was Biden's performance in the June 27, 2024 debate, it became obvious to the Democrat Party hierarchy and their sycophants in the legacy media that what they already knew and were willingly obfuscating for five years could no longer be papered over.  Thus, during the upcoming weeks, the American people will be regaled with a torrent of leaks and innuendos about Biden's health issues.  The pressure to either force Biden to resign or renounce his candidacy is accelerating as the Democrats have become increasingly fearful of losing the presidency to their implacable foe, Donald Trump.  But how are they going to deal with Biden, Inc. (Joe, Jill, James Biden, and the newest permanent resident of the White House — Hunter Biden)?  By foisting Joe Biden on America, the Democrat's "best and brightest" granted a reprobate the ultimate upper hand in this election cycle:  the threat to use the president's unlimited power to grant pre-emptive pardons to himself and whomever he chooses.

Biden Doth Protest Too Much.  Biden and his aides have been gaslighting throughout his presidency and long before it.  Now there are the lies about Biden's performance in his disastrous debate.  His spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, said on Wednesday that Biden was jetlagged before the debate (despite eleven days since significant travel), that he had a cold (despite looking perfectly well during appearances the night of and the day after the debate), that he had "a bad night" (just one?), and that he was burdened with the duties of his job (isn't everyone?).  The fact is, as Carl Bernstein put it, Biden displayed signs of similar dysfunction dozens of times before the debate.  Biden did not suffer an off night on Tuesday — he has been "off" for years, making horrible decisions that have resulted in the deaths of American servicemen and endangered overseas forces and those of our allies while harming our economy at home.  Now comes the biggest lie of his presidency:  the assertion that he is not considering withdrawing from the presidential race.  Whether or not he actually withdraws or resigns, it is ludicrous to pretend that Biden has not contemplated doing so.

The Left Is Coming Undone.  [Scroll down]  Hillary said she was behind Joe all the way.  The campaign said Joe had a cold.  Jill scolded America and her Cabinet for believing there was a problem.  Then it changed.  Nancy Pelosi [has been] asking if this was an episode or a condition.  It was reported that Obama was fine with an open convention to pick the nominee.  Many other Democrats continue to say Joe may not be up to it after all, and he should step down.  Confusion reigns.  This has no easy fix — mainly because all their choices in this matter have negatives.  Each one carries deep, difficult problems.  If they get rid of Joe, Kamala is next in line.  Possibly the only Democrat who could do worse than Joe is his V.P.  Let's just say her cluelessness, her lack of speaking capacity, is as big a problem as Joe's.  The Trump campaign would easily pigeonhole her.  She is a disaster, as Tulsi Gabbard showed in her famous debate performance.  If they get rid of Kamala, they send a terrible message to their DIE-saturated base.  They cannot easily rid the ticket of the first female V.P. "of color."  Plus she is the only one who can legally control the current campaign money.  A mess, foisted upon themselves.  Their own stupidity and uncodified rules did this.

'Pro-Democracy' Democrats Tell 14.3 Million Dem Voters:  Drop Dead.  Biden secured his party's nomination in epic fashion:
  •   He scored 14,324,396 primary votes, or 87% of those cast.  In second place, "Uncommitted" took 703,897 votes, as 4.3% of primary participants expressed their displeasure with his policies on Gaza.  And Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., won 525,408 votes, 3.2% of total.
  •   Biden controls 3,894 delegates; 98.9% of those who will convene in Chicago in August are pledged to Biden.  Thirty-six are "Uncommitted," and Phillips wields four delegates.  Perhaps he will take them to dinner.
  •   Biden dominated 56 of 57 primaries, caucuses, and other contests.  True, Jason Palmer gained 20,926 votes and all three of American Samoa's delegates, but Biden pocketed every other state and territory.
Fully 14.3 million primary voters picked Biden for four more years, yet Democrats are plotting and planning in broad daylight to catapult him into the Chesapeake.

This Was The Moment This Black Woman Discovered Biden Hates Black People.  Not only did Biden shun the black girl, not once, but twice, and one of the old white hags that Biden favored cursed her for holding a sign.  Look at the evil in that woman's face.  It gets worse.  The black girl was pulled from the back row and placed up front where cameras could see her.  She was nothing more than a political stunt for Biden to gain appeal with black voters, and he ignored her.  [Video clip]

Democrats Got Their Dream Wish, Now They Have to Live With It.  There is a stunning number of ironies in the Trump-Biden rematch.  At the top of the list is Biden's belief that he is the only one who could beat Trump.  At a NATO conference on March 24, 2022 Biden quipped to a reporter "In the next election, I'd be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me."  Comedian Bill Maher Commented: "The whole rationale for Biden running has always been I'm the only guy who can beat Trump.  Now I think it's inverted.  He's the only guy who can lose to him."

Livid Jill Biden [is] "Lashing Out" at Those Who Want Dementia Joe to Step Aside.  Joe Biden's attempt to calm the waters following his debate debacle last week has gone horribly wrong with his poll numbers completely collapsing and Democrats abandoning his sinking ship daily.  Biden's interview with Clinton crony George Stephanopoulos did not fare much better either as he was confused and made multiple delusional remarks throughout.  However, despite countless calls from Democratic donors and elected officials for Biden to leave the race, he and his family remain defiant.  His chief enabler and handler, Jill Biden, has proved particularly intractable.

False pride.  Pride.  Everyone is so proud. [...] Hunter Biden is proud.  And therefore defiant.  And his dad, the president, claims he is "the smartest man I know."  And who would know better than Old Joe?  No wonder Hunter is proud.  Dr. Jill Biden is proud, too.  Of her husband.  She exclaimed to him (of his recent debate performance) "You answered every question ... !"  Well, sort of ... and not at all well, but, hey, ice cream and a gold star for the commander-in-chief.

Is Jill Biden Lady MacBeth?  Ex-husband Says She "Wants to Be President".  Some may want to praise Jill Biden for standing by husband Joe after his dementia-affected debate performance last week.  But in reality she's standing on him, say critics — in a quest to maintain her prestige and power. [...] Really, this situation is reminiscent of how Edith Wilson supposedly ran the country for a year and a half a century ago while her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, was gravely ill.  After all, some say that Joe now does whatever Jill says, and whoever controls his pen can determine what laws and executive orders are signed.  But the federal government was far smaller and the world far bigger in 1920 and, whatever Mrs. Wilson's motivations, Jill is a prestige (and perhaps power?) seeker.  Why, she reportedly wanted her Ed.D. (no she doesn't have a Ph.D.) — acquired with a dissertation as bad as Joe's debate performance — because she desired a "doctor" title before her name.  She insists on being called doctor, too.  And now her husband's and country's well-being are being subordinated to her disordered desires.

The White House Mummy.  The puppeteers of the still-living-in-Washington Mummy decided that one shameful performance by the disobedient ex-favorite was not enough.  The first episode — the debate with Donald Trump — did not put an end to it.  In the second episode, entitled "The Interview," the Clinton clan chose a functionary and part-time ABC journalist, Stephanopoulos, as the political executioner.  However, Stephanopoulos's interlocutor has long been living in the world of his own fantasies.  Therefore, he did not even understand that within 22 minutes, the remnants of his political capital were methodically destroyed. [...] So what was the result?  The White House Mummy received marching orders from an obsessive nurse named Jill, who for some reason haunts him day and night, stating that they must carry on with the race.  That is why Jill's husband declared on July 5, 2024 that he would "defeat Trump again in the 2020 election."  From a functional point of view, the White House Mummy is not only decrepit, but also mentally disabled.  What conclusions can be drawn from all this? [...]

What to do with Biden?  What to do with us?  A caucus of timidity about "what to do about Joe," along with the impossible Beltway "surprise" at his current condition, is just so like the swamp — they deny, deny, deny, and then partially deny some more in the face of ever-mounting, crushing confirmation.  This is government.  They are, falsely, dumbfounded by the truth when it rears its inescapable head.  Look, the Dems and Company are saying, "it's very complicated."  Well, yeah, they've made it that way — no excuses, please.  And, okay, so what is, as a priority, so very complicated about removing a president who is an immediate threat (really, has been since or before he took office — we've got the receipts) to our country's security?  "Bear with us for a bit!"  But that's just it — we Americans have been bearing with them until they are no longer bearable.  Yet here it is:  the Democrats — especially the Obamas — have always known about Biden.  The CIA has always known about Biden.  The DOJ has always known about Biden.  Defense has always been in the loop.  They have all known, for years, before and into his vice presidency, that Biden is on the take.  Because they all know him and/or of him, they all control him.  This is not all just down to Jill — who also knows about Biden.

The eyebrow-raising moments from Biden's ABC interview:  Doing the 'goodest' job he can.  President Biden dodged questions about taking a neurological test and dismissed concerns about his age and ability to serve a second term during his first post-debate interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Friday, which was meant to re-assure Americans concerned about his candidacy.  The president's comments failed to calm the storm over his debate performance.  Biden at one point suggested he was doing the "goodest job" he could, according to the ABC News transcript.  He also seemed somewhat unsure if he'd watched his own performance, saying, "I don't think I did, no."

Biden's Pants-On-Fire Lie That Nobody Noticed In His ABC News Interview.  Of the many falsehoods, exaggerations, and evasions President Joe Biden uttered in his ABC News interview that aired over the weekend, one went completely overlooked.  And it was his most brazen.  Biden might not have looked senile in his 20-minute sit-down talk with "journalist" George Stephanopoulos, but he didn't assuage anyone who doubts his ability to tell fact from fiction. [...] But one of his lies really caught our attention, both because we hadn't heard this one before, and because it was particularly outrageous.  "One thing I'm proudest of," he said, "is, remember when my economic plan was put forward, a lot of the mainstream economists said it's not going to work.  Well, guess what?  We now have 16 Nobel laureates, 16 of them in economics, saying Biden's next term would be — based on what he wants to do, an enormous success."  We've already noted in this space that 13 of those 16 economists predicted that Biden's "American Rescue Plan" would cut inflationary pressures, so their promise about his next four years should be considered equally worthless.

Joe Biden's First Post-Debate Interview Just Dug Him Into a Deeper Hole.  President Joe Biden gave his first post-debate television interview to reassure Americans he could handle another four years in office — but it turns out, it wasn't just one "bad night."  After a shaky debate performance against former President Donald Trump last week, Biden has faced an avalanche of pressure to drop out of the 2024 race, citing his cognitive decline.  Biden, who says he's staying in the race, has defied calls to drop out of the running, confident he will beat Trump.  The 81-year-old president agreed to a sit-down interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos because he said he would not let a 90-minute debate overshadow all of his so-called "accomplishments" from the past three years.  Stephanopoulos asked Biden if his disastrous debate performance was a "bad episode or the sign of a more serious condition?" Biden's excuse?  He was "exhausted."  However, the host pushed back, pointing out that Biden had spent the entire week prior vacationing at Camp David.

Biden Claims to Have 'Put NATO Together' but Was Just 6 Years Old When It Was Founded.  President Joe Biden's interview with George Stephanopoulos was better than his debate performance last Thursday, that much can be said.  That was due to the fact that almost anything that wasn't the debate last Thursday would be better than the debate last Thursday.  If those were the low expectations, that bar was cleared, scarcely.  Other than that, it was a disaster.  Take Biden's answer at the top of the interview when he was asked by George Stephanopoulos, ABC's lobber of softballs for the evening, if he knew how bad things were going during the debate.

ABC interview proves that Joe Biden is in complete senile denial.  George Stephanopoulos, former Bill Clinton adviser and the ultimate Democratic insider, held an intervention masquerading as an interview Friday night.  Rather than ask tough questions about President Biden's mental deficiencies and the message it sends to our allies and enemies, he begged in a dozen different ways:  Do you really think you can beat Donald Trump?  Are you fooling yourself about how sharp you are? [...] Stephanopoulos rightly pointed out that "exhaustion" was a weird excuse, considering he had more than a week of rest at Camp David (with 11 am work calls and afternoon naps).  No, I was sick, Biden claimed, bad cold.  "Bad night," he insisted, repeating a scripted talking point.  Just an episode.  He previously told a group of governors that the answer was simple:  No more nights.

The Diagnosis is In, and Joe's Not Going to Get Well.  [Quoting somebody else:] Mr. Biden has Parkinsonism, an umbrella term that refers to neurologic conditions that cause slowed movements, rigidity, and tremors.  By observation, he has a masked face, reduced blinking, stiff and slow gait, hunched posture, low volume voice, imbalance, freezing, mild cognitive disturbance, and difficulty turning.  I have seen one video of tremor.  All these diagnose Parkinsonism.  He would need further investigation by experts to determine which specific disease within the broad term he has, such as idiopathic Parkinson's disease or another specific disease. [...] [End quote] [...] Biden is publicly demonstrating a severe impairment from an irreversible disease.  Meds may make him look better in the moment, but they don't change the facts.  He's not running the executive branch because he's incapable of running it.  Whether a single person or a cabal is the "man behind the curtain" does not matter.  Joe's the perfect hand puppet for them because he doesn't even know he's being used.  Jill leads him by the hand, and he signs whatever is put in front of him.  I don't know which statute unlawful puppeteering violates, but America cannot allow it to continue.

An Hour-Late Biden Burns Wisconsin Down With His Senility, Gets Trolled by His Own Supporters.  The comeback tour is on after Joe Biden announced he's staying in the race, and it's going about as well as you'd expect.  By well, I mean it's an absolute catastrophe for his campaign.  On Friday, the president showed up in Wisconsin to hold a "rally."  The plan was simple.  Have Biden yell from a teleprompter for a few minutes while appearing somewhat lucid.  If he could pull that off, perhaps the White House would have the fodder necessary to push back on the current narrative about the president's senility.  So yeah, that didn't happen.  Biden was over an hour late for the event, only reinforcing the fact that he's struggling to make public appearances.  As to the crowd?  It didn't exactly scream enthusiasm either.  [Tweet with video clip]

The Kamala Harris Delusion.  Democrats find themselves at a crossroads that we haven't seen in presidential politics.  While there have been past instances of presidents suffering from physical or mental decline, it has never happened in the internet age where it's impossible to keep things under wraps, and to the extent that any cover-up of Joe Biden's mental and increasingly physical decline was succeeding, it all blew up in late June after the president showed the world who he was on the debate stage.  That's left Democrats scrambling for a solution.  Do they allow Biden to take them down with him, or do they make some kind of move to force him out?  It's impossible to answer that question without considering the alternative:  Kamala Harris.  As I've opined several times since this rolling disaster for the White House began, there is no viable scenario where Harris can be passed over were Biden to step aside.  A party that is built on diversity quotas can't plug in Gavin Newsom for the "first black female vice president."  It would tear the party apart, and I think there's been a realization of that over the past few days.

A Few Uncharitable Thoughts From Me About POTATUS Being Publicly Peeled.  [Scroll down]  [W]e saw Biden for what he was when he was running... well, being hidden... we see you all now, pretending that this is somehow a revelation from above and not something every last one of the Democratic party and the media has worked to conceal from the American people.  A collusive effort to perpetuate a fraud of competence on the American people with a vastly mentally compromised vessel, the likes of which I do not believe this country has ever experienced. [...] There is so much speculation about "Does he stay or does he go?"  If he goes — drops out of the campaign, says he'll sit out — he can't be incapable of running for reelection but capable of running the country.  If Biden pulls out, he and his gang of sporty thieves are GONE NOW.  He has to resign as president.  Who and what does that leave us?

Democrat Governors Say They Support Joe Biden Staying in Race After Meeting With Him at the White House.  Democrat governors from across the country met with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House today amid cries from many in the party and the media for Joe to step aside.  A few of them emerged from the meeting and spoke to the press, saying that they are standing by Joe Biden and support his decision to stay in the race.  They repeated the claim that Biden just had a 'bad night' at the debate.

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Apparently the governors met with Kamala Harris, and decided Joe Biden wasn't so bad.

Harriet Hagemen Eviscerates Joe Biden and the Pretending all Around Him.  Harriet Hageman is on my personal short list of people I hope President Trump is considering for vice president.  During a recent interview Hageman shows she is not going along with the pretending.  Every word about Joe Biden and the length of time the issues have been visible is correct and accurate.  "Who is running our country?"  [Video clip]

Americans Want to Know Who is Really in Charge in the White House.  In last Thursday's presidential debate, we saw the most decisive loss ever by an incumbent American president.  Biden's performance was so abysmal that it raises serious questions about how he can continue to function as president, especially in his role as commander-in-chief.  [Advertisement]  Donald Trump dominated the debate, making important new criticisms that Biden failed to answer — especially how the surge in illegal immigration during the Biden presidency is hurting social security.  Trump put Biden on the defensive, parried tough questions, and pointed out how many of Biden's statements were incoherent.  [Advertisement]  Biden could hardly have done worse.  He was incoherent, lost his train of thought and appeared confused.  He offered no believable defenses for his record as president.  The defenses he did provide made no sense.  [Advertisement]  The left-wing publication Slate gave this stark assessment of Biden's performance in the debate, claiming it "revealed that [he] is indeed an old man who appears to be in no condition to be running this country, even now — not to mention in another four years."  [Advertisement]  Many Americans had the same concern after the debate.

Just call him President Hunter Biden.  The recent presidential debate demonstrated how badly Joe Biden's mental deterioration has skidded.  Never particularly bright to start with, what little mental acuity he did have is now in steep decline, raising the question of who runs the country while he's gibbering unintelligible statements.  That used to be a parlor game, or a right-wing conspiracy theory, now it's a question that's for real.  The usual candidates mentioned are smarter leftists such as George or Alex Soros or Barack Obama.  But Biden doesn't listen to Obama very much and hasn't met with him in the wake of his debate disaster.  Many Obama operatives are long gone from Joe's cabinet.  What was last heard was that Obama couldn't get his phone calls through. [...] That leaves Jill Biden, who most certainly is issuing Joe his orders and insulating him from any exposure to outside naysayers.  But it's worse than just Jill — the reports are coming out that it's Hunter now taking on the role of White House gatekeeper, shielding Joe from any exposure to the outside world, and advising him on matters of state and appearance.  Hard-living Hunter, fresh from a felony conviction on a gun charge, is calling the shots now for the president of the United States.

Dementia Joe Is Easy To Defeat.  Beating Democrats' Election Machine Is Another Story.  President Joe Biden's abysmal debate performance may have been the worst since Richard Nixon sweat profusely and appeared grayish while debating John F. Kennedy.  Biden's campaign should be dead in the water after last Thursday.  But thanks to Democrats' efforts to alter and exploit our election system, winning elections isn't as simple as just being a coherent candidate. [...] The man with the nuclear codes is only really alert between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Axios reported, citing White House aides.  European leaders were also reportedly concerned about Biden's ability to lead, even before the debate.  But by breaking and bending election laws for years, Democrats have changed the landscape of American elections — and built in a safety net that helps them drag subpar candidates across the finish line.

Joe Biden, 81, describes himself as a black woman during radio interview.  Joe Biden described himself as a black woman during a radio interview flub, as calls mount for the 81 year-old president to drop his re-election bid.  The gaffe-prone president, 81, stumbled over his words during Thursday's interview with Philadelphia's WURD, seemingly mixing himself up with his Vice President Kamala Harris.  'By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman... to serve with a black president.  Proud to be involved of the first black woman on the Supreme Court.  There's so much that we can do because, look... we're the United States of America.'

Biden's Interview on Philadelphia Radio Was a Total Disaster.  Joe Biden is too old and slow to be president.  There is only one way to counter this since Biden can't de-age:  he must go out in public and do as many media hits as possible.  What about trip-ups?  Well, that's the problem.  If he hides, he reinforces that devastating poll showing that 72 percent think he's too old to be president.  If he goes out there and has another mental stumble, it could end his presidency.  Both paths can lead to election-killing endings for the Biden administration. [...] Yet, the kickoff to the Biden rehabilitation tour was a disaster.  It must kill these Biden staffers who know there's nothing they can do to quell the ongoing uprising against Joe Biden after his disastrous June 27 debate with Donald Trump.  The president's interview on Philadelphia radio was a mixture of sadness and his usual half-brain-dead self:  he described himself as a black woman:  "By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first Vice President, the first black woman, to serve with a black president."

Biden Tells Black-Owned Philly Radio Station That He's "Proud" to Be "The First Black Woman to Serve with a Black President".  Joe Biden sat down for a pre-recorded interview with black-owned Philly-based radio station WURD to discuss his campaign strategy after his disastrous debate.  Biden did two pre-recorded radio interviews following last week's debate — one with Wisconsin-based WAUK and the other with Philly-based WURD.  Both interviews aired on Thursday morning.  Biden's wires got crossed as he tried to boast about his VP Kamala Harris and his days serving as Obama's Vice President.

Biden invokes JFK in cringeworthy attempt to relate to minorities in rambling black radio interview.  President Biden told a black radio station in an interview released Thursday that he understood their struggle for representation — because he didn't think Catholics could be president before John F. Kennedy was elected more than six decades ago.  Biden, 81, told Pennsylvania radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders that he knew what his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court meant to "a young girl who is in school and having trouble."  "I looked at John Kennedy and said, 'Well, he — John — he got elected.  Why can't I get elected?'" the president said.  "People need things to look up to."  Seconds earlier, Biden made the bizarre and nonsensical claim that "I'm the first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid," a lapse that will do nothing to quell concerns over his advanced age, [...]

The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden.  President Joe Biden walked before a row of flags and took his place at a lectern stamped with the presidential seal.  A few feet in front of him, thin panes of teleprompter glass, programmed with prewritten remarks, were positioned to meet his stare as he spoke into a microphone that would carry his voice through a sound system.  His White House press secretary looked on.  So did several senior White House officials.  Anxiety clung to the humid summer air.  What the president was about to say might determine the future of his presidency and perhaps the Republic itself.  Yet this was not to be some grand pronouncement about war or peace or a shift in domestic policy.  He was not delivering an official address or even a rally speech.  He was not onstage in a stadium or auditorium or perched on a platform in a gilded government or hotel ballroom.  He was not speaking to a crowd of thousands or even hundreds.  There would be no video of his statement carried live to the world.  There would be no photos.  And there would be no published audio.  In a tent on the backyard patio of a private home in suburban New Jersey, the president was eye to eye with a small group of powerful Democrats and rich campaign donors, trying to reassure them that he was not about to drop dead or drop out of the presidential race.

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He needs a teleprompter for that?  The mere presence of a teleprompter should tell the big donors everything they needed to know.

The United States cannot afford a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. president.  [Scroll down]  My own view is that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment ought to be dusted off and applied to Joe Biden.  Section One: "In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President."  From Section Four:  "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."  If there is a dispute, Congress decides by a two-thirds vote of both Houses.  As a preliminary, the audio tape of Robert Hur's interview with Biden should be released worldwide the public can understand what Hur meant when he said this "elderly man with a poor memory" was unfit to stand trial (but he can continue as president of the United States?).

Replacing Biden Won't Wash Away His Stench.  Calls for President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race are widespread.  It goes without saying that they're all politically motivated.  The corporate media has not suddenly discovered that Biden is senile, as they claim.  They've known all along, but simply decided that the president's liabilities far outweigh his assets.  For months, it's been Donald Trump's race to lose — and Biden's disastrous debate performance ensured that a comeback would be all but impossible.  Replacing him might be the Democrats' last best hope, a true Hail Mary.  But even if they pull it off, it won't wash away the stench of Biden's administration and all those who covered for it.

I don't know who's running the country, but it's definitely not Joe Biden.  I wasn't surprised to see how badly President Joe Biden performed last week in his first debate showdown with former President Donald Trump. [...] Biden is not in a position to be running for another four years as president.  I don't see how he's capable of finishing out this term.  His debate fiasco led to immediate calls from Republicans for Vice President Kamala Harris and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, since it strains credulity to think Biden is actually running the country. [...] It's not a stretch to say that the first lady is pulling a lot of the strings that her husband can no longer pull.  And she doesn't want to give up that power.

Joe Biden Is Simply Not There.  American presidential debates in the modern era have a storied history — and an equally storied history of gaffes and fumbles that turned the course of a campaign. [...] None of them — not one — comes even close to the disaster endured by President Joe Biden on the evening of Thursday, June 27th.  Endured is perhaps the wrong word, as it suggests an outside phenomenon inflicted upon a victim.  Chosen is more apt, because the historically early debate was a positive choice made by the Biden campaign.  They proposed it, and challenger President Donald J. Trump accepted it.  They wanted it — and they got it.  What they got was what all of America saw that evening:  a doddering, soft-spoken, confused, and senescent man, unfit for the task at hand — to say nothing of the task of the presidency.  From the opening, the president was perplexed at best and belligerently baffled at worst, descending alternately into malapropism, non sequitur and incoherence.

Dems who demanded the 25th Amendment for Trump swallow their tongues on Biden.  Democrats who clamored to have then-President Donald Trump removed from office by invoking the 25th Amendment have remained noticeably silent on using the method on President Joe Biden.  Amid the fallout from Biden's epic debate failure last week in his face-off against Trump, Democrats have called for him to step aside as the nominee while others have staunchly defended him, insisting Americans ignore their own eyes.  But it seems there have not been calls from top Democrats to trigger the 25th Amendment as Republicans have floated the idea.  "Over the past 3 years, it has become painfully clear that our inaugurated President has slipped into a rapid decline," said Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) on Wednesday.

Stop Calling It The "Democratic" Party.  This morning, Jeh Johnson, the former Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, went on MSNBC to make the case for Joe Biden's stay in the race.  "A presidency is more than just one man... I would take Joe Biden at his worst day at age 86 so long as he has people around him like Avril Haines, Sam Power, Gina Raimondo supporting him, over Trump any day."  I'm sorry, but democracy doesn't work that way.  Americans elected Joe Biden, not Avril Haines, Sam Power, and Gina Raimondo.  Sure — all presidents rely on unelected advisors.  But at the end of the day we expect that the person the majority voted for will make the decisions.  That's clearly not the case with Biden.  As we saw in the debate, he's unable to speak clearly.  And that means he's unable to think clearly.  [Paywall.]

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[#1] Only one person can legally be the president.  There's only one name on the ballot (from each party) for that position.  The notion that the presidency is the collective output of a committee is false.  When Trump was president, you will recall that the easily-offended baby-killing socialists were fixated on one man as the object of their indignation, so they understand that there's only one POTUS.  [#2] The people who say they would prefer Biden over Trump "any day" are the people would would never vote for Trump under any circumstances.  It's not just a comparison of one man to another, it's absolutely rigid opposition to Trump, no matter what the other candidate(s) stand for.

How Biden's Mental Decline Went From 'Misinformation' to Fact in a Week.  On CNN today, Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, reports that people close to Joe Biden — people "who loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him" — say his disastrous debate performance wasn't a "one-off."  There have been, according to these insiders, "15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed."  Yeah, we know.  All of us saw the horror show in a bunch of videos you hacks kept telling us was "misinformation" a week ago.  Last month, for instance, the same network's Dem apparatchik Oliver Darcy attacked the "glaring problems" of a well-sourced Wall Street Journal piece detailing a litany of Biden's slips.  Not long before the first presidential debate, CNN ran another piece headlined, "Right-wing media outlets use deceptively cropped video to misleadingly claim Biden wandered off at G7 summit."

Who's Really Running the Country?  Who's running the country, anyway?  If Joe Biden's dementia keeps him on the sidelines for most of the day, somebody's pulling strings, making deals, and sending messages.  Who is that, exactly?  The answers are becoming more clear.  Everyone has now figured out that Barack Obama's fingerprints are all over the Biden Administration.  Indeed, his fondest wish has come true. [...] Former Obama White House staffers are in the Biden West Wing, such as adviser Anita Dunn and her husband Bob Bauer, who is Joe Biden's attorney.  Many more are outside the wire and no more than a phone call away.  Obama lives a short distance away in the swank Kalorama area of D.C. when he's not in his other mansions.  Ron Klain, who worked in both the Clinton and Obama Administrations, as Vice President Biden's Chief of Staff, came on board as CoS for President Biden, left in 2023 to rejoin his old law firm, and remains a Biden confidant.

Colonel Macgregor:  Biden's Cognitive Decline Makes It Obvious the US gov't Is in 'Unelected Hands'.  Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor has said that "the governing power" of the U.S. lies "in unelected hands" after the first presidential debate highlighting President Joe Biden's cognitive decline to the whole world.  In a video message published on the YouTube channel Our Country Our Choice, MacGregor expressed his concern for the U.S. after Biden's catastrophic showing in the first presidential debate on June 27.  [Video clip]

Really Think About What It Means That the US President Has Dementia.  It's very revealing how everybody's focusing on what Biden's dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.  If you were lucky enough to have missed the debate, Biden was so confused and zoned out that not only did CNN's audience overwhelmingly say Trump won while the word "dementia" was sent trending on Twitter, but it was also uniformly acknowledged to have been a horrifying catastrophe by Democratic Party operatives and liberal media pundits, who are now widely suggesting that the president should withdraw from the race.  But the conversation has almost entirely revolved around Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, with relatively little attention going to the fact that this person is the president right now.  Everyone's talking about whether Biden can assure American voters that he has what it takes to be president, and nobody seems all that concerned about the fact that he is already president and will remain so for half a year.

Biden's Talk With 'Key Ally' Has Everyone on High Alert.  The cacophony of criticism surrounding embattled President Joe Biden has reportedly reached the "Big Guy" himself, causing the commander-in-chief to voice concerns about a premature end to his political career to close allies, according to a report.  "President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week," The New York Times reported Wednesday morning.  Indeed, the stakes are incredibly high.  "The president, who the ally emphasized is still deeply in the fight for re-election, understands that his next few appearances heading into the holiday weekend — including an interview scheduled for Friday with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News and campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — must go well," the Times emphasized.

Journalists: Don't Blame Us, We Were Just Following Orders.  Democrat donors and elected officials aren't the only rats scrambling to get off a sinking ship.  Reporters are on the same ship and have lived there for quite a while.  They know they better jump while they still can.  But they've got a problem:  they have participated in the coverup just as much as the president's team.  [Tweet]  Last month, when the Wall Street Journal published the least surprising story in American history — that Joe Biden appears to have slowed down a teeny tiny, almost unnoticeable bit — the rest of the mainstream media jumped all over them and accused them of spreading propaganda.  Last Thursday's debate exposed the hoax.  What to do?  The "modified limited hangout" is their current answer:  admit to a small offense to hide the fact that they committed a much larger one.

Reports: Obama Told Joe That It's Over and He Can't Win.  I know he left Fox News amid controversy.  Still, what Bill O'Reilly told Glenn Beck does dovetail with other reports about the Biden family and close advisers discussing 2024 with the president in the aftermath of a brutal debate performance against Donald Trump.  The former president drove over Biden with a tank in what was probably the easiest debate for Trump in his short, meteoric political career.  The Camp David gathering ended with Joe being urged by his arguably psychopathic family to remain in the race:  Jill wants to cling to power like Lady Macbeth.  At the same time, Hunter needs daddy to stay in office to keep the government influencing scheme alive.  Remember, Hunter has mountains of legal bills to pay.  Yet, there were reportedly other voices that O'Reilly mentioned who were also in the 'just drop out' camp, one of which was former President Barack Obama.  Obama and former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain were brutal in their assessment of the president's standing in the race, saying that he had zero shot at winning and remaining in this contest is akin to assisting evil.

Joe Biden Just Destroyed Himself and the Media.  Last week, President Joe Biden gave the worst debate performance on the presidential stage in history.  Looking ancient, gazing glassy-eyed and slack-jawed out of frame, jabbering nonsensically — Donald Trump clocked him with the signally true observation, "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence, and I don't think he knows what he said either" — Biden not only exposed himself, he exposed his administration and his media lackeys as liars.  For years, the American public has believed, correctly, that Joe Biden is not up to the job.  The White House lied.  They said that he wasn't just up for the job — he was the most coherent and incisive president in modern history. [...] Then Joe Biden went out and demonstrated that he belongs in an old age home.  He confirmed what we all knew, live.  For 90 minutes.  In doing so, he put everyone around him in a terrible bind.  The media were forced to dissociate from Biden, declaring themselves shocked — shocked! — that Biden was sundowning.

Medicine Degrades When It Becomes Politicized.  [Scroll down]  Biden does not live in a world of a solitary episode of cognitive impairment.  He has taken up permanent residence in the Land of Cognitive Impairment.  So many episodes in so little time.  The history of his struggles with cognition is out there for all to see.  Given the multiple cognitive impairment events, if one applies the authors' analysis, Biden suffers from a cold medicine-secreting tumor of lasting duration.  Further adding to what I believe is intentional deception is the following:  ["]Biden's symptoms appeared consistent with someone suffering from temporary drug-induced cognitive impairment.  We now know he had a bad cold during the debate.["]  The authors could not be more in error.  Neither they nor we "know" that Biden had any cold whatsoever.  Let alone "a bad cold."  We are told he had one.  We do not "know."  They do not "know."

Biden Didn't JUST Need a Teleprompter for Private Remarks.  These Other Details Are Wild.  Joe Biden reportedly required a teleprompter to deliver a few brief remarks at an East Hampton fundraiser over the weekend, raising further questions about his fitness.  Supporters at the event were alarmed Biden needed a teleprompter to deliver his remarks, with one attendee saying, "If you believe the stakes of the race are what they are... you can't be like, 'No, you all didn't see what you just saw.'"  Following Biden's disastrous debate performance last Thursday, some Democrat lawmakers — along with the corporate media — have been openly critical of the White House's handling of the 81-year-old incumbent.  The lack of access granted to Biden by his inner circle has especially been a point of contention.

Brutal Leaked Internal Polling for Biden Shows Just How Badly the Debate Damaged Him.  Right now the Democrats are in a panic about Joe Biden and whether they should make him step aside.  Unfortunately, whatever they do, he's still occupying the office and that's a dangerous thing.  Democrats are responsible for putting us all in this situation, along with the media that refused to be honest about Biden's condition.  One of the reasons they are freaking out so much is how brutal the internal polling is.  The post-debate public polls have been bad, but this is even worse, with him sliding not only in every battleground state but states that aren't even supposed to be battlegrounds now going toward former President Donald Trump.

What is wrong with Biden — Jill Biden, that is?  In 2020, Jill Biden was 68 and she and Joe were the very wealthy owners of several lavish homes and who knows how many other sources of affluence.  By appearances, I'm guessing that Jill is also quite healthy.  That is why it stretches the imagination to seriously believe that either she or her husband — who was then pushing a doddering 78 — wanted to spend the next four years of their lives glad-handing foreign potentates, fielding the conflicting and contentious demands of the American electorate, or generally weathering the ferocious slings and arrows aimed relentlessly at the highest office in the land.  For Joe Biden, this would be a lot of been-there/done-that, so what was his race for the presidency really about?  Even more curious, what was in it for Jill?

Littered With Lies.  The day after Joe Biden turned in the horrific debate performance that many of us knew was coming, and after countless Democrat apparatchiks finally had to admit what many of us have long known — that Joe Biden is unfit to serve as U.S. President — Biden got out on the campaign trail and declared, ["]Folks, I don't walk as easy as I used to.  I don't speak as smoothly as I used to.  I don't debate as well as I used to.  But I know what I do know.  I know how to tell the truth.  I know right from wrong.["]  Prior to this, immediately after the debate, and just after treating her husband like a five-year-old who had just finished his tee-ball game, Jill Biden led the faithful in declaring Donald Trump a liar. [...] Even more absurd is the Democrat Party touting their candidate — Joe Biden, or whoever it turns out to be — as an agent of truth.  When it comes to the most important moral issues of our time, few entities have been on the wrong side of the truth more often than has the Democrat Party and their apologists.

An Oddly Orange Joe Biden Responds to Trump Immunity Decision, Raises More Questions About His Fitness.  Joe Biden shuffled out to a White House podium on Monday and did nothing to assuage the questions surrounding his fitness for the office.  Addressing the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, which delivered Donald Trump a partial victory, the current president misrepresented the U.S. Constitution and attempted to change the narrative surrounding his failing campaign.  [Advertisement]  He was also... oddly orange.  [Tweet with video clip]  After Biden faceplanted on the national stage, showing ample evidence of his senility at last Thursday's debate, his handlers decided to smear him in bronzer to make him look less pale.  I'm not kidding.  I'm not being hyperbolic.  It's not editing on the video itself.  From multiple sources, you can see the dude is orange in all the video clips.

Gullibility 101.  We watch Washington D.C. like we'd watch a ship steaming way too fast toward a crowd on the pier.  Our nation's capital is so filled with corruption, ladder-climbing, and plain stupidity that it's embarrassing to watch.  This is America?!?  Yet the Democrats we know personally are not guilty of those sins.  Many are smart, hard-working, kind, educated people and yet they voted for the wasted shell in the oval office — a man who is not only suffering from dementia, but has never been very bright, or very good.  A lot of these lovely people appear to be planning to vote for him again.  How can that be?  How can even a third of our compatriots think Biden is okay?  I believe it to be one of the most startling paradoxes of our time.

We can't go on together with suspicious minds.  We saw with our eyes and heard with our ears that the president of the U.S. cannot put together two sentences.  He can't even answer a question about abortion, and threw a wrench in the party's platform by saying that he opposes late-term abortion.  Good luck with that one in Chicago.  I can't wait for the "abortion is an unconditional right" crowd to explain that one.  So here we are.  And it will be very hard to go on with suspicious minds as Elvis sang.  As I told a friend, if what he saw on Thursday night shocked him, then he needs to switch channels.  And we kept saying here, the world leaders who sat with him saw what we saw too.  This is no longer a partisan issue.  The 46th president of the U.S. can no longer be trusted with the nuclear codes.  And U.S. voters deserve to know who has been running the country for the last few years.

Who Is Running This Show.  For many in America, the Thursday night debate was an eye-opening event. [...] Panic has set in as these now-enlightened souls wonder if this old man can possibly beat Donald Trump again and save Democracy.  These people, who the administration and news media have hoodwinked for three-plus years, are missing the point.  The real question after seeing Joe shuffle onto the stage and mumble through every incoherent answer he uttered is who is running the White House, and can Joe Biden hobble to the finish line and safely end the term for this gang who could not shoot right? [...] By the 13-minute mark of the debate, it was clear Joe Biden was not fit to run, nor had he been running this country since 2021.  The Democrats are screwed, but so are the American people.  The bad guys of the world know that we do not have a President who can protect us, and we are not safe.  America is being held hostage by an octogenarian who won't give up the keys.

The Debate Debacle Changes Nothing.  Joe Biden is not going anywhere.  The fact is that Joe Biden is the nominee, and he will remain the nominee.  By the next morning, the rallying and rationalization were in full effect.  Obama tweeted about how it's all going to be OK. So did many others after the deathwatch that was the immediate post-debate analysis on the communist channels.  And they believe their revised spin.  It's remarkable how easily you can convince yourself of what you want to be convinced of.  Denial is not just a river in Egypt; it's now the official Democrat campaign strategy.  What choice do they have?  The Geezer Golem is not going anywhere.  Here's the thing — Joe Biden doesn't think he did badly.  Joe Biden thinks he did great.  The people around him are all telling him he did great, starting with his harridan wife.  This echo chamber of idiocy reinforces his determination that he is a visionary megamind whose presence blesses the benighted American people.  He thinks he's a genius.  In fact, Joe Biden is an idiot and has always been an idiot.  And it's all downhill on the IQ Bell Curve from here.

Former WH Photographer Spills the Beans, Details How Biden Aides Hide His Decline From the Public.  The dam is crumbling.  On Saturday, we brought you the story about how some officials admitted anonymously that Joe Biden is "dependably engaged" during the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — before or after that, not so much.  It's called "sundowning," and it's not what you look for in a commander-in-chief.  Now a new report Sunday describes more tactics used by the Biden inner circle to shield the declining president from the scrutiny of the press or even the White House staff.  The most [scathing] of the allegations comes this time not from secret sources but from former White House deputy director of photography Chandler West, who posted a post-debate Instagram story that was sharply critical of his former boss.

Report: Joe Biden's Close Aides Hid Him from Others Inside the White House.  Some White House aides were shocked at President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance on Thursday because his close aides have effectively shielded him from them since the beginning of the presidency, according to a report.  The Axios report said, "Biden's behavior stunned many in the White House in part because Biden's closest aides — often led by Jill Biden's top aide, Anthony Bernal, and deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini — took steps early in his term to essentially rope off the president."

Surprise, Surprise.  Since his hiding-in-the-basement campaign in 2020 "Joe Biden's" Party of Chaos has pretended that he is fit and alert for the job and now all of sudden they pretend to be shocked to see how far gone in the head he really is.  The [liars] of the mainstream news media were especially rocked, not by the truth of the situation per se, but at being unmasked as the contemptible, confabulating tools that they've become.  The New York Times wheeled around on a dime from their servile lionizing of the presidential hologram they helped create to its editorial board abjectly yelling for him to drop out and get gone.  They were joined instantly by a long list of other opinion-shapers, campaign donors, political celebs, and Beltway players.  Right after the debate, First lady Dr. Jill led a cheerleading session before a roomful of partisans that went beyond cringeworthy into uncharted territory of mortification. ("You were great, Joe!  You answered all the questions!").  By the time the entourage moved to a pre-planned event at a nearby Atlanta Waffle House, "JB" had gone full-on zombie.  If all that was intended to be reassuring, the effect was the opposite.

How TDS Destroyed the Democrats.  [Scroll down]  So, Biden "won," if you want to call it winning, and Trump knew he had been defrauded.  He filed many lawsuits, but judges wanted him to identify the specific fraudulent ballots.  That was almost impossible because the standards needed to identify those phony ballots had been eliminated months before the election took place.  At that point, Joe Biden was in the driver's seat.  To be a successful president, all he needed to do was maintain the policies Trump had in place, and show people that he was nicer than the mean billionaire bully.  However, that did not happen, thanks to TDS.  The hatred of Trump was so great that Biden felt the need to prove his disdain by dismantling any program associated with Trump — even programs that were obviously important and working.  As we all know, the results were disastrous, and this led to even more Dem insanity.

Who Should Get To 'Finish The Job'? The Answer Was Clear Before The Debate.  Aside from repeatedly calling Donald Trump a liar, the only message President Joe Biden managed to convey during last week's debate was that Trump left him a terrible mess to clean up.  The first words out of his mouth in the debate were:  "You have to take a look at what I was left when I became president, what Mr. Trump left me.  We had an economy that was in freefall."  And his closing remarks began: "We've made significant progress from the debacle that was left by President Trump in his — in his last term."  It's clear why Biden's debate prep team wanted those to be the first thing he said — before he wandered off into a maze of half-completed sentences.  The Biden administration has seen the polls.  It knows that the public doesn't view things this way.

Democratic Party Cover-Up [has been] Exposed After Biden Debacle.  For five years, honest political commentators have been pointing out the obvious decline of Joe Biden.  Physically, he has fallen off his bike, on stage, and the stairs of Air Force One numerous times.  These incidents became so much of a concern that Biden started using the "baby stairs" to enter Air Force One to limit the potential for an accident.  President Biden no longer walks with confidence but shuffles his feet.  He started using special shoes to help him stay upright.  However, after the debate on Thursday night, his wife had to make sure he did not fall, so she assisted him as he gingerly descended a few stairs from the CNN stage.  Yet, whatever physical decline he has suffered is minimal compared to the massive mental deterioration that has occurred.  Comparing his performance in the 2012 vice presidential debate to the debate on Thursday night shows that Biden is a shell of his former self.  He was always a blowhard and a liar, but the Biden of 2024 cannot clearly communicate any message.

Does Joe Biden Really Think People Will Believe His New Claim?  President Joe Biden is back to lying to the American people.  During a fundraiser in New Jersey on Saturday, Biden claimed that he won over more undecided voters than former President Donald Trump post his disastrous debate performance.  Biden insisted that the malfunctions he suffered during the 90-minute gaffe-filled debate actually impressed undecided voters rather than deter them from voting for him.  Insert laugh track here.  "Research during the debate shows us converting more undecided voters than Trump did, in large part because of his conduct on Jan. 6," Biden told the crowd.  "People remember the bad things during his presidency."  The 81-year-old's bad debate night prompted the country, including Democrats, to call on Biden to drop out of the race, citing his old age and mental acuity.  First Lady Jill Biden also tried to fool the crowd into thinking her husband was having just one bad night despite him having countless public malfunctions in the past.

Democratic Amnesia.  Let's do some historical searching.  It was primary season, 2020.  Mayor Pete and Bernie Sanders dominated the early Democratic primaries.  Sanders had momentum, he had his "Bernie Bros" and however extreme his positions, he spoke with conviction and force.  Nobody ever accused Bernie Sanders of suffering from dementia, however extreme his positions are.  The Democrats had a problem.  Bernie Sanders might be their nominee.  He might lose to Trump, but more importantly, he is now unpalatable to donors and the movers and shakers in the party hierarchy.  Bernie frightened them more than Trump.  So Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and others magically got all of the middling candidates — Klobuchar, the fake Indian, Mayor Pete, etc. — to drop out and support Biden.  Joe never looked back, winning the Palmetto State and everything to follow.  Joe Biden becoming the nominee and later president was not a natural, electoral-driven process.  It was a backroom deal to keep FrankenSanders from the party's leadership.

Who's Behind This Show?  Most now know Joe Biden has serious dementia problems.  Many thought this was already true during the last election.  They kept him in the basement, he never did much, never campaigned much, never gave many press conferences, and even they were scripted.  Since he has been installed to the presidency, he rarely makes appearances, doesn't really take unscripted questions, and has been set up to be hidden most of the time.  Things have hit a tipping point with this debate. [...] Joe is not capable of running the country.  That's a fact.  The bigger question:  Who is it that will actually now make the decisions?  More important, who has been running this country these years while pretending Joe was President?  This is a hard point to get beyond:  These people, whoever they are, all knew.  Not only did they know, they also pretended Joe was normal. [...] This is the issue:  What kind of people would want to pull this travesty off?  Answer:  Very sick people, people awash in evil, people who value power over all, people who willingly lie and cheat to maintain their power.  People who think their moral status is so high they are willing to go into the gutter and use a man with dementia so they can clandestinely run this country.

The Lies We Have Lived Through.  After last Thursday's debate, Biden himself laid to rest the Democratic lie that he was robust and in control of his faculties.  In truth, he demonstrated to the nation that he is a sad, failing octogenarian who could not perform any job in America other than apparently the easy task of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief in charge of our nuclear codes. [...] As president, his mental decline progressed geometrically, in the sense that every three months, Biden became far, far worse than during the prior 90 days.  His handlers long ago had determined that masking his feebleness at the expense of the security and safety of the nation was a small price to pay to retain power.  What followed was the most comprehensive deceit in presidential history, analogous to insisting that frail and dying FDR in 1944 was just fine as the November election approached or that Woodrow Wilson was expertly running the country as he lay bedridden and near comatose.

Jill Biden's delusional if she believes she can save her husband [amd/or] the country after debate debacle.  In the aftermath of Joe Biden's debate debacle, there is one constant:  Dr. Jill's delusional self-belief that she can save the day.  Under the thrall of her Rasputin-like adviser Anthony Bernal, the first lady is acting as if she is the candidate — at the expense of her husband and the country.  She is the keeper of Biden delusions.  "Joe, you did such a great job," she shrieked after commandeering the microphone at the debate after-party in Atlanta, as her downcast husband stood on stage gaping at her uncomprehendingly.  "You answered every question!" she gushed in a gratingly patronizing tone, like a nursery schoolteacher who hates kids.  The whole world knew he did a terrible job.  Even Joe knew.

Now We Know Who's Really in Charge at the White House.  For quite a while now, some of us have been trying to figure out who is actually running the country at the moment.  It obviously hasn't been Joe Biden, a fact that should have been made clear during Thursday night's debate for those of you who still had some remaining questions.  Some have assumed that it might be a coalition of Jeff Zients and Ron Klain, along with a few other liberal policy wonks.  Others have suggested that Barack Obama is still handling things from the background, a possibility that can't be entirely ruled out.  We may have gotten a better clue yesterday, however, after the Biden clan retreated once again to Camp David for a scheduled celebrity photo shoot and some private discussions. [...] Obediently, the President emerged from the meeting and announced that he would be staying the course, despite acknowledging that he didn't have "the best debate."  (Which is akin to saying that the Titanic ran into a few problems on her maiden voyage.)  So it seems safe to say that we know who is calling the shots at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue these days.  It's Jill Biden.

Biden, Age, and Elder Abuse.  Elder abuse plagues 1 of 6 people 60 years of age and older, according to the World Health Organization.  It's nice to see the WHO looking at real public health issues rather than pushing a "pandemic treaty" that would de facto make them king of the world.  The WHO definition of elder abuse includes "single or repeated acts causing harm or distress to an older person."  This includes "psychological and emotional abuse and serious loss of dignity and respect."  Anyone watching the Joe Biden presidency, especially recently, culminating in his embarrassing performance in the June 27 debate against Donald Trump cannot conclude that this was anything other than elder abuse.  [Photo]  The debate began with Biden's stilted walk to the podium followed by half a minute of gibberish concluding with the inscrutable comment, "We beat Medicare."  It only got worse, with Biden staring at the empty room devoid of audience, mouth agape, looking lost and pitiful.  What is remarkable is that this was Joe Biden at his best.

Biden's Failing Brain Exposes Deep State Treachery.  [Scroll down]  You knew that Biden lost his marbles long ago, but the propaganda press has been telling the world that he's just fine for years. [...] Just as reporters in the first half of the twentieth century lied to the American people about FDR's reliance upon a wheelchair, reporters in the first quarter of the twenty-first century have lied to the American people about Biden's debilitating dementia.  On June 27, the lid on journalists' barrel of Biden-protecting lies shot right off.  Not even halfway through Biden's debate disaster, his communications people were spreading a new lie — that he was suffering from a cold — to explain away his enfeebled and bewildered presence on stage. [...] but the guy had been hiding away at Camp David for over a week!  When you first tell the public that you are unable to perform your presidential duties and prepare for a debate at the same time and then tell them that your weeklong debate camp destroyed your immune system, you aren't in a position to inspire sympathy.

Two Worlds.  [World #1]  In Reality, after the shameful elder abuse on display last Thursday night, Democrat leadership from Hell to breakfast realizes that the scam and sham of Biden as competent, run since before the 2020 Selection, has just been told that Emperor Poopypants has no clothes.  They can't dissemble, hide and slide, nor bluff, bluster, and [lie] all the way to Election Day 2024 pretending Biden isn't a profoundly impaired cognitive retard who can't be left unsupervised with anything as little as pointy items or matches.  He can't have the nuclear codes, he can't manage the Executive Branch, he can't even manage everyday Executive Branch decisions, and he simply must be removed, if he won't go peaceably.  The Congress may begin blanket-vetoing or halting movement on all bills in perpetuity until he's removed, on the perfectly reasonable grounds they can't send legislation for signature to a mental cripple.

Sunday Smiles.  One of the more interesting bits of spin — actually, the ONLY bit of spin from the Democrats that is actually working — coming out of the debate was that whatever you think of Joe Biden's performance, Trump spewed nothing but one lie after another.  The Democrats keep saying it.  The media repeats it endlessly.  Joe may have pudding for brains, but Trump is dangerous and lies constantly.  On its face, the claim is ridiculous.  Joe Biden pushed so many hoaxes during the debate that it was laughable.  Snopes just put the final nail in the coffin of the "fine people" hoax just a few days ago, and Biden trotted it out again.  It was pathetic.  When Biden's mouth is open one of two different things come out:  incoherent rambling or some version of a hoax.  But the biggest liars who were exposed last night were the mainstream media and all the people who have been telling us that Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, doing handstands while solving the dark matter conundrum and curing cancer every day.  We have been treated to endless claims that videos and rumors of Biden's decline are all lies — cheap fakes — and now everybody can see that they have been fed a hoax.

President Biden's debate disaster reveals a campaign built on lies.  It was like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, or worthy of Marie Antionette's "let them eat cake!" contempt for the common folk that precipitated the French Revolution.  In Minute One of the presidential debate Thursday night, the Democratic party and the entire class of mainstream media sycophants and pundits were exposed as conspirators in a "Big Lie" — the gaslighting of the American public that President Biden was not only mentally fit but better and wiser than ever for a second term when they knew that was false.  The burning question is what drove this self-delusion and the betrayal of the public.  Was it lobotomized groupthink?  Craven careerism and self-dealing that made them believe they could hold on to power and run the country like some sort of collective-ventriloquist?

Joe and Jill are goners who won't go.  Joe Biden just delivered the worst televised debate performance in history.  It started in his opening remarks when he hurriedly regurgitated a canned speech like a nervous 11th grader in speech class, it continued into the early stages when he repeatedly suffered brain freezes in describing, for example, how he "beat Medicare," and finally ended mercifully with a forgettable conclusion.  Even — especially — Democrats were stunned by his awkward, rambling incoherency and open-mouthed, vacant stares into space.  If this were a fight, a TKO would have been called in the first round.

The Curtain of Pretending Has Fallen — Democrats Apoplectic at Horrible Biden Debate Performance.  Across the broad political spectrum of leftists and professional Democrats, the apoplexy is consistent.  Everyone is freaking out about how terrible Joe Biden did in the debate against President Trump.  Biden was incoherent, stumbling, disjointed and generally showing all of the signs of cognitive decline the media have previously denied witnessing.  However, even the most political spin-masters on the Democrat side of the spectrum will not spin this one.  The curtain of denial and pretending has fallen.  The emperor is naked; the crowd admits.

Illegitimate President.  I wrote this article in November 2020, before the Basement Dummy took office.  I stand by every word.  He was a dementia patient before taking office, and that is exactly what Obama and his handlers wanted.  Look what that illegal stolen election has wrought.  The regime media was always in on it.  They all knew Biden was a senile Trojan Horse to usher in the downfall of our nation.  They will start WW3 to keep power.  Just watch.

Biden Isn't Even a 'Sundowner.' It's Much Worse.  Sure, there's talk about how to replace Biden, but that ship sailed months ago.  Democrats are now stuck with an impossible situation because not even that little rally in North Carolina the following day, where Biden was livelier, can repair the damage that's been done.  In the aftermath, the Biden White House is leaking like a sieve, with aides chirping that the president is only functional during a six-hour window[.]

Bombshell Report:  Biden Only Fully Functional From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m..  Joe Biden is only fully functional from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to a report by Axios published Saturday in the wake of Biden's disastrous not-ready-for-primetime debate with President Trump Thursday night.  The report states White House staff know there are 'two Bidens':  One who is fully engaged for about six hours a day and the one Americans (and the world) saw staring into space and struggling to articulate lucid, complete thoughts during the debate Thursday night.  Biden's poor performance at the debate helps explain why he has claimed executive privilege to prevent the public from hearing the audio recordings of his October 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents investigation.  According to a transcript released by Hur, among many miscues, Biden could not remember when he served as vice president or when his son Beau passed away.  Hur said he decided not charge Biden for illegally possessing classified documents from his time as senator and vice president because a jury would likely see Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," — a polite way of saying the president of the United States was mentally incompetent to stand trial.

Biden, 81, has difficulty functioning outside of 6-hour window as aides attempt to spin prez's horrid debate performance: alarming report.  Octogenarian President Biden has difficulty functioning outside a six-hour window of daylight, according to an alarming new report.  The 81-year-old commander in chief is prone to absent-minded gaffes and fatigue outside of the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or while traveling abroad, White House aides told Axios in a bizarre attempt to spin his disastrous debate performance.  During the 90-minute trainwreck of a presidential debate — which kicked off five hours after the president's peak performance window, at 9 p.m. — Biden often appeared vacant or slack-jawed, and on several occasions froze mid-thought, misspoke, or struggled to form coherent sentences.

The Media's Campaign Against Joe Biden Just Got More Intense.  The media campaign to pressure Joe Biden into dropping out of the 2024 race reached a new level when another publication urged the aging octogenarian to call it quits.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's editorial board published their piece saying that the Delaware liberal should step aside "for the good of the nation":  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  [Excerpt]  The publication rightly called the 90-minute debate with Donald Trump "excruciating," adding the president "failed to convey a competent and coherent vision for the future of America.  He failed to outline the most fundamental aspects of his platform.  He failed to take credit for the significant accomplishments of his 3½ years in office."  There have been no significant accomplishments under Biden, but you already know that.  Of course, they say Trump should have been disqualified due to his 2020 antics but insinuate that the Democratic Party has a deep pool of talented leaders to take on this task.  Where? [...] Democrats are stuck with Biden.  The media might not like it, but it's past the point of no return.  Jill Biden is also the point of the lance in that discussion; she doesn't want to surrender.

Grifters to the bitter end.
Team Biden Threatens to Keep Cash if He's Replaced.  [Scroll down]  Donors looking to get Biden to drop out have emphasized that the money raised needs to transfer over to the new candidate.  Team Biden however is warning that it's not going to happen.  Any new candidate will start with "zero dollars."  Officially the Biden campaign is sitting on under $60 million unspent.  And not for long since the burn rate is huge.  So the threat isn't much of a threat.  In a race likely to run into the billions, threatening to abscond with millions is a weak argument.

21 Facts That Joe Biden Doesn't Want You To Know.  It takes a lot of gumption to go on television and repeatedly lie to more than 300 million Americans.  I honestly don't know how Joe Biden does it.  I suppose that after you have been lying for your entire career, lying comes as naturally as breathing does.  Sadly, there are still millions of Americans that are falling for his lies after all this time.  Biden would like for us all to believe that the economy is "booming", that the southern border is under control, that our communities are safe, and that Ukraine is going to win their war against Russia.  Our entire society is literally crumbling all around us, and Biden and his minions have brought us to the brink of global war.  I am entirely convinced that he has been the worst president in U.S. history, and that is really saying something.  Ultimately, Joe Biden is just another slimy politician that is trying to save his job.  I get that.  But come on man, how can anyone actually believe the nonsense that he is shoveling?

The Debate is Over and So Is Joe!  Before Thursday's CNN debate even started, as Donald Trump deboarded from his plane, it was evident that Melania Trump did not come along to support her man.  Jill Biden, however, did come to support her man ... quite literally when she rushed on stage after the debate to help guide him off the platform, taking secure hold of his arm, leading him in the right direction, and then steadying him as he feebly felt out his first step down on the path that will end his career as president.  From the first moment of the debate as the current president entered, trouble became evident.  Biden strutted onto the platform in his pretend-I'm-strong brisk gate and, turning slightly to the side, beaming as he waved to a crowd that wasn't there in what has become classic Biden style.  "Folks, how are you?" said the current president to a room that CNN had said would have no audience, not even family or staff, present.  No one but the production team.  Biden's main achievement during the debate was that he managed to stand the entire time without falling over ... or falling asleep.

Joe Biden is not fit to be President.  Joe Biden's presidency ended last night.  He is a lost old man.  I was listening on the radio — not watching — so I was attuned to how he sounded, especially when he gave that pathetic stammering response that ended with the bizarre words, "We beat Medicare."  We don't need to shame him with more details.  But it is clear he shouldn't be President now, and he certainly can't be President through January 2029, when he will be 86.  To reelect him is to cause a Constitutional crisis.  He needs to step down as the nominee so that the Democrats can decide who will represent them.

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What is the 25th Amendment for, if not this?

Now What?  [Scroll down]  The path ahead is far from clear.  Here are some things we know, and some questions about what we don't.  Biden will likely decide whether he is the nominee.  A party whose leading lights were unwilling to challenge an 81-year-old incumbent with underwater approval ratings likely won't throw open its convention seven weeks from now against that incumbent's will.  If Biden wants to be the nominee, he presumably will be the nominee.

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That's right, Biden will decide.  Jill, not Joe.

Joe Biden, advanced dementia patient, enduring symbol of sclerotic late-stage liberal democracy.  Joe Biden, sitting President of the United States, in his historic debate with former President Donald J. Trump, on the national debt of the United States:  ["]For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America — I mean, billionaires in America.  And what's happening?  They're in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes.  If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they'd raised $500 million — billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period.  We'd be able to right wipe out his debt.  We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do — childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the — with — with — with the Covid.  Excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with — look, if — ... — we finally beat Medicare.["] [...] Nobody can any longer deny that the United States is in the hands of a senile figurehead suffering from serious dementia.  Biden remains in office for reasons of convenience and political patronage; who is actually steering the executive branch is anybody's guess.

Don't Let The Elite Get Away With Gaslighting That They Didn't Know About Biden's Senility.  Biden's disastrous debate performance last week made it impossible to deny his senility, yet the Western elite is gaslighting they were supposedly oblivious to this until now. [...] The elite shouldn't be allowed to get away with their latest gaslighting and should be exposed for one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.  The country is being ruled by a shadowy network of transnational and domestic elites that are united by their radical liberal-globalist ideology.  Biden was chosen as the Democrats' candidate in 2020 precisely because he was already senile and therefore completely controllable.  That party, which functions as the public face of the above-mentioned elite network, wanted someone who'd do whatever they demanded on the home and foreign policy fronts.  In particular, they sought to turn America into a liberal-globalist hellhole while ramping up NATO's containment of Russia in Ukraine, but the second policy backfired after the special operation began.

Biden Cannot be Replaced on Ballot in Three Swing States, Except for Death or 25th Amendment.  The Democratic Party is facing a potential crisis.  Following Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, concerns about his fitness to serve have intensified.  The debate has left the party in a state of panic, with whispers of Biden stepping down becoming louder.  It has always been the plan from the start, which is why they scheduled the debate for this year unusually early. [...] However, there is another potential complication.  Biden could stubbornly refuse to step down and continue his campaign until Election Day.  If Biden refuses to step down, it would put the Democratic Party in a difficult position.  They would have to contend not only with a stubborn incumbent but also with potential backlash from leftists if Kamala Harris is passed over for the nomination.

Colonel Macgregor:  Biden's cognitive decline makes it obvious the US gov't is in 'unelected hands'.  Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor has said that "the governing power" of the U.S. lies "in unelected hands" after the first presidential debate highlighting President Joe Biden's cognitive decline to the whole world.  In a video message published on the YouTube channel Our Country Our Choice, MacGregor expressed his concern for the U.S. after Biden's catastrophic showing in the first presidential debate on June 27.  [Video clip]  "President Biden is not fit to discharge the immense duties of the presidency," the army veteran stated.  "The alarming evidence of his cognitive decline was on display for all to witness.  Yet his enablers and political allies continue to exploit the president to substitute their destructive agenda for the interests of the American people."

All of a Sudden, A Crisis Is Revealed.  The first official presidential debate of 2024 was held on June 27, and the reactions are fascinating. [...] While the Right has been talking about this issue for years, this is the first time that most such voices of the Left have done anything but deny the fact of Biden's incapacity. [...] Biden, senileThey weren't embarrassed when he lost focus in public meetings honoring veterans or mourning military losses, wandering off in the middle of the event, leaving the honorees and attendees insulted.  Why?  They weren't embarrassed when he gave speeches, recounting the life stories of others as if they were his own, as a fabulist imagining histories that could easily be fact-checked and disproven in real time, again and again.  Why?  They weren't embarrassed when he sniffed the hair of a prime minister or literally bumped heads with a pope.  They weren't embarrassed when he had "bathroom malfunctions" on stage in the middle of speeches and meetings with foreign heads of state. [...] But most importantly, they weren't embarrassed when mountains of undeniable evidence proved his criminality — and the criminality of his family — in a pay-for-play pattern that has been going on for decades.

Now for the sitdown:  Obama, Klain and Biden meet to discuss replacement, Kamala becomes Fredo -report.  Like mafiosos, or the old gray men of the Kremlin trying to figure out how to get rid of Leonid Brezhnev or Konstantin Chernenko, Democrat power players have called in Joe Biden for a sitdown. [...] For those of us who have been wondering who pulls the puppet strings, now we have the answer — Obama, and former chief of staff Ron Klain, who's got 'political operative' written all over him.  Since the meeting is supposedly going on around now, one can just imagine how that may go — with Biden bitter and resentful at Godfather Obama's smooth manner, knack for words, two terms, and continued popularity, while Biden himself has none of those gifts.  Now he's being told by Obama to step down because disaster is going to be what he gets if he doesn't.  Klain the consigliere will be there to suggest muscle.  Jill Biden, happy to play the role of Mrs. Wilson, and fond of the perks and travel she gets as first lady, will fight back hard.  Joe will stare off into space, losing his train of thought.

I've been watching Joe Biden for 40+ years.  I never let go of my view that he's 1) of below average intelligence, and 2) a loathsome human being lacking in character or basic morality.  He's a serial liar and always has been.  [Tweet]

DOCTOR Jill Biden Is The Puppeteer.  She is every bit as despicable as her husband and DOCTOR Jill Biden is the one who is the puppeteer behind Joe Biden.  If Joe Biden makes it to November as the Democrat nominee for President of the United States it will be Jill who has done it.  Jill will hold on to the Oval Office drapes and they will have to drag her out of the White House.  Last night, she helped Joe down the small stairs at the debate, praised him as a good boy at a debate watch party and took him to Waffle House.

It's Clear Ice Queen Jill Biden Does Not Have an Ounce of Compassion for Her Husband.  Jill Biden cemented her place in history as the worst wife in presidential history Thursday night.  Her behavior following one of the most tragic scenes in presidential debate history has all the markings of elder abuse. [...] By now, you've surely either watched the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, or you've seen a plethora of clips showing in no uncertain terms that the president is barely functioning cognitively.  And you've also seen media personalities on the left stopping just short of setting their hair on fire with sheer panic over the fact that the leader of the free world would barely be capable of tying his own shoes at this point.  Dr. Jill Biden, as she is wont to be called, has thus far escaped significant scrutiny.  Despite the fact that she is shamelessly abusing this man before America's eyes.  Last night's presidential debate clocked in at just over 1 hour, 40 minutes.  Significant because it actually ran longer than the time President Biden had been training throughout the week simply to stand.

The Real Reason Biden Isn't Going Anywhere.  You've heard this enough already, but it bears repeating:  Joe Biden's debate performance on Thursday evening was so bad that the liberal media didn't even attempt to push the Biden campaign's "Biden had a cold" excuse to spin his performance. [...] Biden's performance was so bad that even his biggest supporters wouldn't (and couldn't) spin it as a "win."  And, believe it or not, Jill Biden made it worse when the debate was over.  Once the debate had officially concluded and Trump left the stage, Joe Biden remained at his podium, waiting until his wife Dr. Jill came to help him.  The footage speaks for itself.  [Video clip]  This moment underscored just how devastating the situation had become for Democrats.  After botching the debate, he struggled to walk down just two steps without assistance, a truly alarming sight.  His performance was even worse than anyone anticipated — despite his weeklong prep at Camp David.  And then there was the post-debate rally.  [Video clip]  As you can see, Biden, already way past his bedtime, just stood there.  This wasn't his moment; it was her moment.  She treated her husband like a toddler.  If you've ever needed proof that Jill Biden is the reason Joe decided to seek a second term and why he won't drop out, this is it.  She's calling the shots, there's no doubt about it.  So while many in the party are now worried and want Biden to drop out, the real struggle will be convincing Jill Biden.

We just witnessed the end of Joe Biden's presidency.  Whenever CNN put him up on the split screen, he had a thousand-yard stare.  He didn't look old.  He looked ancient.  He looked empty.  But at least he wasn't speaking.  Because when it was his time to answer, Biden was incoherent.  He said he "beat Medicare."  Asked about abortion, he randomly started talking about migrant crime.  "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence," former President Donald Trump noted at one point, "and I don't think he knows what he said, either."  At one point, Biden just froze.  The administration can't say it's a "cheap fake" — everyone saw it happen.

Needless to say, the drugs didn't work.  [Tweet with video clip]

Lyin' Biden's Biggest Debate Lies Debunked.  President Joe Biden's poor performance at the first presidential debate Thursday night perfectly encapsulated how he earned himself the nickname "Pinnochio-in-chief."  Filled with falsehoods and flat-out lies, Biden's responses ranged from lying about his economic record to denying that American troops had died abroad during his presidency. [For example,] Biden lied about being the only U.S. president in the past decade who had no American troops die "anywhere in the world."  "Truth is:  I'm the only president this century that doesn't have any — this decade — that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like [Trump] did," Biden said.  FACT-CHECK:  False.  On Biden's watch, 13 U.S. service members were killed during America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Among the fallen who tragically died in a suicide bombing at Kabul's international airport:  11 Marines, a Navy hospital corpsman, and an Army special operations soldier.

The bizarre debate performance of Joe Biden.  The recent debate featuring Joe Biden was nothing short of perplexing.  Throughout the evening, Biden repeatedly lost his train of thought, a disconcerting display for someone in his position.  However, what was truly baffling was the juxtaposition of these moments with episodes where he rattled off statistics like a genius. [...] At times, Biden's performance bordered on the surreal.  He stared off into the distance, as if he were reading from a teleprompter invisible to the audience, articulating long strings of statistics and facts with impressive clarity.  Yet, just moments later, he would appear like a deer in the headlights, dazed and disoriented, struggling to recall basic points.  This stark contrast raises serious questions about what was really happening during the debate.  One can't help but wonder if Biden was receiving some form of assistance through a hidden hearing aid or another device.  The idea of intermittent signals might explain why he seemed so articulate one moment and utterly confused the next.  When the supposed signal cut out, he fumbled, lost his place, and appeared clueless.  This erratic switching between moments of brilliance and confusion was mind-boggling and concerning for a leader.

Was it just Biden who imploded or did the whole Democrat party implode, too?  I'll start with a few comments about the debate.  It's now known around the world that Biden was barely sentient.  From the thin whispery voice to the pressed speech to the dilated, staring eyes to the slack-jawed expression to the stumbling and stuttering to the endless flow of lies, it was the worst thing ever seen on an American — or any — debate stage.  Having Jill gently guide him down the stairs after the debate ended just emphasized that Joe Biden is gone:  [Tweet with video clip]  There is "no there there."  This Trump ad says it all:  [Tweet with video clip]  Having watched Joe's implosion, many people nicer than I am are expressing compassion for him because he's clearly a sick, old man.  As I said, I'm not that nice.  I feel that this public humiliation — equivalent to a schoolyard bully having his pants pulled down — is a fitting end to the career of a singularly nasty, corrupt bully who has managed to drag America into the gutter over the last three-and-a-half years.

Debate Disaster:  Dems And Media Defrauded America on Biden.  Make Them Pay..  It's now clear:  Democrats have lied for four years about the President's cognitive status.  From the moment that Joe Biden shuffled onto the stage in last night's debate to the time he had to be helped off of it by his wife, the president confirmed every suspicion about his age and cognitive decline. [...] This was not just a debate loss for Biden.  It was an utter humiliation, arguably elder abuse perpetrated on those around him who spent a full week at Camp David attempting to make Biden look competent.  Either it did not do any good at all, or — worse yet — it might indicate that Biden is in fact much, much worse when not given over a week of R&R to handle the job.  For most of the last four years, Democrats and the media have insisted that Americans disbelieve what their own eyes and experience made plain as day.  Elected Democrat officials such as governors and members of the House and Senate kept vouching for Biden's youth and vitality.  The White House press office kept claiming that no one over the age of 40 could keep up with him.  Protection Racket Media talking heads regurgitated these claims and cast those questioning Biden's capacity as either conspiracy theorists or heartless partisans.  Remember how the media called doddering Biden clips "cheap fakes" to discredit critics?  Now there's no hiding the fact that Biden is incompetent now, not just for the next four years.

Four More Years.  I'm angry at everyone in the White House who knew what shape Biden was actually in, probably for many months now and just flat out lied about it.  It's so clear now that they lied to all of us.  There's no way that the performance we saw last night on stage just snuck up on anyone.  His team spent a week prepping him for last night.  They must have seen indications every single day that he was not up to it, but they just kept lying and hoping by some miracle he could pull it off for 90 minutes the way he did during the State of the Union.  But obviously that bet didn't work out.  Instead of an old guy shouting out a rehearsed speech, we got an old guy who was barely able to form coherent sentences.

If Joe Shouldn't Be the Candidate, He Should Leave Office Now.  The reality that Joe Biden isn't just past his sell-by date but an actual danger to the world as president is settling in.  Democrats are in active discussions about how to replace him and whether he will accede to their wishes, but that brings up the obvious question:  if Joe performed so badly that he must be replaced as a candidate, doesn't that mean he is actively a danger to the well-being of America and the world?  Obviously, the answer is "Yes."  Joe fell apart last night, and he was only facing his American opponent for president armed with nothing but insults. [...] Unfortunately for both the country and the Democrats, that means that Kamala Harris would become the 47th President of the United States.  We are in a sad state indeed when that cackling fool is a better option than the current president, but there we are.  The Democrats obviously have this possibility in mind when considering what to do.

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That's the risk you Democrats took when you put Kamala Harris in the position of vice-president just because she was a black female.  The Democrats have made their bed; let them lie in it.  Let Harris become president tomorrow at noon.  Let everyone in the country see that she's just as incompetent as Biden without being senile!  She's even less of a threat to China, Russia, and Mexico than Biden, and almost certainly has a much smaller team of advisors and cheerleaders.  A big dose of Harris would be an effective inoculation against any more incompetent affirmative-action nominees for the next few decades.

A Dangerous Time for America.  Everybody is rightly focused on the political train wreck that is the Biden campaign.  Like any trainwreck or other disaster, we are equally horrified and fascinated.  It's impossible to turn away. [...] A senile old man has been "running" the country, representing us to the rest of the world, making decisions on foreign policy, conducting war, failing to get peace, and all these people have been lying to us.  They are not just lying; they have been using the powers at their disposal to destroy anybody who stands up and tells the truth.  They accuse us to cover their own tracks.  [Tweet]  We obviously need to pound this fact into the heads of every American who routinely takes the word of these liars.  We need to destroy every last vestige of credibility the mainstream media retains.  They have been perpetrating a hoax for years.  But even THAT isn't the biggest issue.  Put yourself in Xi Jinping's head.  Or the Ayatollahs'.  Or any adversary of the United States.  What did you see?

Panicked Dems Scramble For Biden Replacement After 'Disaster' Debate Performance.  It took all of thirty minutes for Democrats to begin pontificating about replacing President Joe Biden on the ballot in November during Thursday night's presidential debate.  Months before they were expected to, Biden and former President Donald Trump met under unique circumstances.  CNN's Dana Bash and Jake Tapper moderated the faceoff in a studio, with no live audience, commercial breaks and mic cuts.  Though Biden stayed out of the public eye for a week in order to prep, the 81-year-old's age was on full display as he failed to provoke a rather controlled former Trump.  "Every Democrat I know is texting that this is bad," Obama campaign alumnus Ravi Gupta tweeted just 15 minutes into the debate.  "Just say it publicly and begin the hard work of creating space in the convention for a selection process.  I'll vote for a corpse over Trump, but this is a suicide mission," Gupta continued.  [Tweet]

Joe Biden's biggest lies from last night.  Since the media won't do a fact check on Joe Biden, I will do it for them.  Here is a small sample:  The border patrol endorsed him — in fact, the exact opposite was true, with the Border Patrol Union fact-checking him in the moment, making sure that lie was killed, and quickly:  [Tweet]  Border crossings now are lower than under Trump.  Terrorists aren't coming in — except the terrorists who were caught plotting an ISIS-style attack earlier this month, the terrorists doing a dry-run at the U.S. Marine base, and all the other instances that are too numerous to list.  He beat Medicare — huh?  Like Trump said, Biden "beat it to death."  [Tweet with video clip]  No military members have died under his watch.  Does Afghanistan ring a bell?  The Tower 22 drone attack?  Navy SEALs going after emboldened and financed Houthis?  Billionaires pay an 8% tax rate; that is purely a made up number based on unrealized gains.  Trump's tax cuts cost trillions — data revenue from the federal government itself shows that is a lie.  Trump handed off a disastrous economy — it was roaring by the time Biden took office, and again, the numbers reflect this.  Trump caused the inflation.  Check the data, or ask any average household when life was more affordable.  Biden held Iran to account.  On abortion, Biden said Democrats don't support late-term.  That is a blatant lie, as they continually pass legislation for abortions at any stage in the states they control. [...] Somehow Yahoo didn't catch any false claims from Biden, but here are the ones they described from Trump, so numerous that it was Biden who couldn't "keep up" with his opponent's lies: [...]

The debate was orchestrated sabotage of Biden by the Democrat party.  Joe Biden spent a week at Camp David with sixteen premier "advisers" — that would be doctors and strategists.  They obviously put him through his paces, so much so that his voice was nearly gone.  Bad planning on their part.  But we can all be sure that by the end of the week, all those doctors and strategists knew that Biden was mentally gone, toast.  They all knew he would perform badly against Trump and they still put him out there.  The only conclusion one can come to is that they did it on purpose.  They want to replace him and they knew his debate performance would cinch the deal.  Everyone would see how seriously Biden's cognitive abilities have deteriorated.  They set him up to fail, and fail he did.  Now, the question is, can they get him to step down voluntarily?  Not likely; pseudo-doctor Jill will resist to the bitter end.  What will the party do about Kamala Harris, the least qualified person to ever hold the office of vice president?

Troubling Post-Debate Moment With Joe and Jill Biden and Another Handler Has People Talking.  Well, the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign season is officially over, and pretty much all anyone can talk about in the aftermath of it is how President Joe Biden looked and sounded, which — incredibly — was even worse than he normally looks and sounds on any given day. [...] Because there was no studio audience, we didn't get any shots while the debate was going on of any family members, friends, or others who were there in support of the candidates.  But as soon the debate was over and as soon as she got the opportunity, the First Lady — who is often seen pushing the purported leader of the free world and directing him on where he needs to go, rushed onto the stage.  Video clips show her briefly hugging him and then immediately trying to guide a frozen-looking Joe Biden away from the podium and toward two steps.  She grabs either his hand or arm, and they move forward, with Biden shuffling slowly, eventually gingerly stepping down.  [Tweet with video clip]

Biden doubles down on 'fine people' narrative during debate despite Snopes fact-check.  President Joe Biden on Thursday claimed that former President Donald Trump had referred to Nazis and radical demonstrators at the 2017 Charlottesville rally as "fine people," repeating a longstanding narrative just days after left-leaning fact-checker Snopes debunked the claim.  "I said I wasn't going to run again until I saw what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.  People coming out of the woods carrying swastikas on torture and and singing the same antisemitic bile they sang when back in Germany," Biden said.  "They asked [Trump], they said, 'What?  What do you think of those people'... He said, 'I think there's fine people on both sides.'"  Trump explicitly stated in his remarks that neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be "condemned totally."  "Jake, both of you know that story has been totally when you see the sentence, it said 100% exoneration on that," Trump said.  "So he just keeps it going... He didn't run because of Charlottesville.  He ran because it was his last chance."

Attack On Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was a CIA Operation.  Congress just released a report confirming that the effort to discredit the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was a CIA operation.  The report reveals the Biden official who triggered the operation and active CIA contractors involved in the operation.  [Video clip]

Adderall, Botox and a B12 shot in the butt:  Why Trump's claim that Biden will be 'pumped up' on drugs for debate isn't so far-fetched.  Former President Donald Trump has claimed that President Biden will be "pumped up" on drugs to enhance his performance at Thursday's debate, including getting a "big fat shot in the [bottom]."  His assertions have been dismissed by some segments of the media as campaign bluster — but private doctors to the rich and famous tell The [New York] Post that VIPs often use drug cocktails and other treatments to give themselves an edge before they take the spotlight for a big event.  These can include everything from a peptides infusion for a boost in brain function and Botox to avoid a sweaty brow to Adderall for enhanced focus — and yes, sometimes even a shot in the [large muscle below the waist].

Why Does Joe Need 16 Debate Coaches?  The first Presidential debate is scheduled for this Thursday, and the two candidates could not be more different, even in their debate prep.  Trump is old school.  He is Red Auerbach.  He is campaigning daily and holding rallies at night.  Trump is aware of the events of the world and has his answers down pat for any question.  Biden is the new school, baby.  He is in seclusion at Camp David, working hard with his 16 debate coaches to grasp current events.  He is also practicing how to mask the least successful presidency in history.  The Dems are getting more anxious as we get closer to show time.  The legacy media is bracing for a Biden loss, and Obama and Hilary are making noise about a replacement for Biden should he bomb on Thursday night.  Biden has to stay away from policy discussion and stick to insulting Trump.  Trump has to stay away from personal attacks and stick to policies.

What to Expect from the Presidential 'Debate'.  Dementia Joe might look like a wandering nursing home patient most of the time, but his [...] staff always make sure he's ready for primetime television.  He disappears for a week, and when he reappears for the State of the Union or to deliver some divisive speech about MAGA Nazis, it's as if he's a brand new man.  Some might point out that Biden's constantly shifting hairline, earlobes, and facial features suggest that the White House has some kind of Joe Clone reserved for those special occasions requiring intelligible speech.  Others would argue that his increased agitation and delusional paranoia suggest that he's hopped-up full of amphetamines and cocaine.  One thing's for sure:  when Jill Biden brings out her doctored husband... I mean, when Doctor Jill Biden delivers her husband to the debate, the high-energy man before us will not resemble the confused Alzheimer's patient who usually pretends to be president of the United States.

The straight line between TV's low performance standards and Joe Biden.  [Scroll down]  Part of Trump's charm is that he'll talk for 90 minutes without teleprompters, mouthpieces, and electronic corrections.  He is utterly real and very good at being real.  Trump is the political equivalent of an exquisitely polished vaudeville act, while Biden is a barely sentient fossil, even as we're still expected to applaud like trained monkeys to acknowledge the fact that he's still capable of a shadow of his former act.

Schweizer: Biden Protecting Those People Who Sent Him Money, Rather than Protecting the American People.  On Sunday's [6/23/2024] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Life, Liberty & Levin," Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer [...] argued President Joe Biden's decisionmaking has been impacted by corrupt influences abroad.  According to Schweizer, the financial interests of the elder Biden and his family members have influenced him to protect those who give him money.  [Advertisement]  "So Peter, I want you to discuss this with us and the American people.  I'm going to ask you bluntly:  Is Joe Biden a crook?" host Mark Levin asked.  [Advertisement]  "Yes, I think there's no question about it, Mark.  Look, here's what we know — these are all facts," Schweizer replied.  "They're not in dispute.  The Biden family has received tens of millions of dollars from foreign actors that they have lived off of for the last several years.  That money started flowing when?  When Joe Biden became vice president of the United States.  This money, the vast majority of it came from individuals in China, Ukraine, and Russia.  The vast majority of whom have ties to foreign intelligence services and foreign criminal networks."  [Advertisement]

Biden's Goldilocks/Ponce de Leon cocktail.  President Biden has retired to Camp David this week to prepare for Thursday's debate with Donald Trump. [...] You can bet the ranch that his doctors are frantically attempting to find the magic bullet — the precise dosages of medications that will jack him up to normal or near-normal degrees of consciousness without appearing overly wired, provide him with a competitive edginess without appearing overly combative or angry, and give him the ability to move his limbs and lips without appearing frenetic. [...] If the doctors are successful, if Biden remains upright and adequately animated, speaks in entire words and sentences, and doesn't challenge Trump to a fistfight out back, they will have pulled off a modern-day medical miracle.  It's entirely possible that Biden, with the considerable help of the sycophantic moderators, will appear normal, even presidential, and hold his own in the debate with an obviously superior debater in Trump. [...] No drug test will be given to inform the public how this occurred.

Why Did Joe Biden Remortgage His Properties 35 Times?  Joe and Jill Biden have tapped two Delaware properties for $4.2 million in cash since 1975. According to a report, the Bidens refinanced the mortgages on the two homes at least 35 times over the past four decades, negotiating a new mortgage or line of credit about every 17 months.  The number of refinancing deals sheds further light on the Biden family's business practices and cash flows — and raises questions regarding whether the powerful Delaware Democrats benefited from banks bending their lending rules.  Typically, mortgage lenders have a "seasoning" requirement, which limits a borrower's ability to refinance their mortgage every six months.  The Biden family, however, appears to have been able to waive this waiting period on at least a handful of occasions over the years.  Additionally, lenders typically only allow borrowers to renegotiate only 80 to 90 percent of their home value as part of a cash-out-refinance.  This should mean the amount of money the Bidens could pull from their properties after each subsequent refinancing was drastically limited unless they accessed other income to reduce the loan's principle.

Hunter Biden's DC Law License Suspended After Jury Finds Him Guilty on Felony Gun Charges.  Hunter Biden's law license in DC was suspended after a jury convicted him on felony gun charges.  Jurors earlier this month returned a verdict in Hunter Biden's criminal gun trial after three hours of deliberations.  Guilty of all three felonies!  Hunter Biden is facing 25 years in prison.

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Why does Hunter Biden need a law license?  What legal business is he in?  Which one of his clients cares about following the law?

Biden's Handlers Seem Oddly Confident He'll Be 'Energized' at the Debate, but They're Playing With Fire.  With Thursday's presidential debate looming, the Biden campaign has settled on a strategy:  Attempt to exceed expectations.  Oddly enough, that doesn't have anything to do with policy.  Instead, the president's handlers are setting the stage for an "energized" Biden who can put down all the talk about his ongoing struggle with senility.  More oddly, they seem rather confident he can pull it off.  [Advertisement]  They're playing with fire, though.  [Tweet with video clip]  I do not doubt that there's a plan in place to load Biden up with more amphetamines than a Los Angeles drug dealer.  We allegedly saw what that looked like during the most recent State of the Union.  Admittedly, I'm not able to drug test Biden to be sure, but you could tell he was on something.  He started his speech at the speed of light, barking lines like a cracked-out chihuahua.  Certainly, he was "energized," but there are downsides to that approach.

Biden:  Bruised, Battered and Abused.  Enumerating the countless times Biden fails to be able to put a sentence together, slurs his words, or spews angry mish-mash while shouting unintelligibly behind a microphone is pointless.  As the world uncomfortably watches this spectacle, his handlers ignore the polity of our nation of laws.  We have long had in place clear laws against allowing undo control over a person in a compromised state; that includes pushing an individual with clearly diminished faculties onto a stage and propping him behind a podium only to embarrass himself by struggling, stumbling, and stuttering.  It is called elder abuse.

A Door Closes, A Window Opens.  Now that the gunplay and colorful flash-mobbery of Juneteenth has concluded, it's on to next week's big debate between the two major party candidates — if debate is even the right description for what is more like a joint press conference conducted by one candidate's PR firm.  What does the reality-starved public think it will see?  Probably anything but a fair fight.  It's hard to imagine what possessed "Joe Biden" to decide this was a good idea for him (unless he wasn't the decider).  Since we're in an era of archetypal psychodrama, the event looks more like a ritual sacrifice.  His recent public performances have been, shall we say, less than reassuring in both utterance and physical poise.  He comes off as Captain Queeg meets Mr. Magoo.  So, you have to wonder if some ancient tropism-of-the-mind steers him to certain destruction, egged on by those of his own faction who will benefit from his exit.

The media is trying to suppress proof of Biden's dementia.  Everyone — everyone — sees that Joe's age decline is rapidly speeding up.  Not a single day goes by when he doesn't slur his speech in prepared remarks, wander away in Normandy requiring the Italian Prime Minister to redirect back to the group of G7 world leaders, freeze up like a statue of Mitch McConnell while everyone around him is dancing, or require the aid of former President Obama to guide him off the stage as he seems enthralled, or bewildered, by all the pretty lights and clapping but it's time to get back to the nursing home.  It's tragic.  It's embarrassing.  And it's terrifying he is the "leader" of the most powerful nation on earth.  However, every bit as despicable is that the media is beginning nuclear-level gaslighting to say that what we are all seeing, we are not really seeing.  Just like the Planned Parenthood videos where every hour was loaded online for people to see, and the viral clips were several minutes long, the abortion industry leader stated that they were "deceptively edited" and out of context.  A contemptible lie, but of course one the media immediately parroted like the dutiful stooges they are.

Debate Questions That The Moderators Should (But Won't) Ask Biden.  First, Mr. President, during the 2020 debate, President Trump pointed to the information found on your son's laptop and claimed it incriminated both you and Hunter.  He called you corrupt.  You answered that President Trump's assertions were "a bunch of garbage" and referenced an open letter from some 51 retired intelligence officers who said that the laptop should not be taken seriously and had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."  Subsequently, the Wall Street Journal and others have reported that not only was the laptop genuine, but that your own campaign adviser at the time, now Secretary Blinken, orchestrated creating and publicizing that false letter.  Now that we know Mr. Trump's claims were not a bunch of garbage, how would you amend your response from 2020, and will you commit to providing all banking, email, and phone records requested by the House Oversight Committee?

A Terrifying Combo:  Biden and the Nuclear Football.  Not Biden's age, as such, but his cognitive decline renders him disabled.  His aiders and abettors discharge most of the duties of the office, with he serving as a useful idiot.  He's just a clueless figurehead.  But there is one thing the malevolent minions cannot usurp from his duties: he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons.  Outside of the White House, that authority can be initiated by the Presidential Emergency Satchel, colloquially called the Nuclear Football.  Is there anything — anything — more terrifying than a bumbling Biden in control of such a thing?  The possessed Dem demon with dementia is always within reach of the Football.  Under military supervision, it follows him everywhere.  It is one thing to be comfortably secluded with top advisors in the White House Situation Room, or the National Military Command Center, or equivalent, but entirely another to grapple with the Football while flummoxed on the road.  And that seems to be Biden's constant mental state.  Speedy decisions, at least rational ones, are well beyond his capacity.

New Evidence of Biden Quid-Pro-Quo in Ukraine.  A new batch of emails released by journalist John Solomon provides the most compelling evidence to date that Joe Biden abused his position as Vice President to protect a Ukrainian oligarch who was under investigation for corruption and bribery.  The oligarch, Nikolay Zlochevsky, is the owner of Burisma, the firm that paid Hunter Biden $1 million a year for a no-show job.  The emails, whose origin remains unclear but which may have been obtained via the House Oversight committee, also show Zlochevsky planned to use Hunter to set up a $120 million venture in Liechtenstein.  However, while the Liechtenstein story has been the focus of attention, the real story buried in the new email batch has nothing to do with Liechtenstein.  That story centers around an email from Hunter's business partner, Devon Archer, that shows that Burisma unambiguously demanded that the corruption investigations into Zlochevsky be shut down.  While a previous email with a similar message had been recovered from Hunter's abandoned laptop, the language used in the new email is even more blunt in conveying that Burisma was demanding direct intervention from US authorities to end the Ukrainian prosecutor general's investigation into Burisma.  Within a few weeks of the email, Joe Biden ordered the president of Ukraine to dismiss his prosecutor general.

When China Wired Money to Joe's House.  When Hunter Biden got wire transfers from China, they went to Joe Biden's address.  In the summer of 2019, while Joe Biden was running for president, the money was rolling into Delaware from Communist China.  This was the same Wilmington house where classified documents were lying around while Hunter Biden was living while allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes:  some of them apparently foreign nationals.  On paperwork, Hunter appeared to claim ownership of the house and in 2010, he had begun paying for the upkeep of the house and his veep dad's bills.  By the time Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, was sending a $250,000 wire payment to Joe Biden's address, the former vice president and future president had already met with the Chinese investment exec doing business with his family and had written recommendation letters for his kids.  The $250,000 Chinese wire was described as a "loan".  But how was Hunter, by then approaching rock bottom, going to pay it off?  Where was the money coming from?

The White House lashes out frantically at those saying something is wrong with Biden.  Biden ain't the man he used to be.  His opponents point out that he is a frozen, slurring, falling mess.  His supporters insist that behind the apparent decrepitude lies a man of infinite wisdom and deep humanity.  This fight has been going on for a while, but it's heated up with a new batch of videos showing Biden wandering away from G7 photo ops and standing frozen at events.  Here are the most recent controversial videos, which have not been cut, speeded up, or slowed down, although the third zooms in on what's happening on stage.  In the first video, as the cluster of G7 leaders applauds someone who just parachuted in, Biden gets distracted and wanders off to give a thumbs-up to someone off-camera.  (It's not to the paratrooper kneeling at his feet because Biden's thumbs up is clearly intended for someone at a greater distance.)  [Tweet with video clip]  In the second video, Biden is at a Juneteenth event and, while everyone around him dances, he stands stock still:  [Tweet with video clip]  And lastly, here's footage of Biden at a fundraiser, again seemingly frozen:  [Tweet with video clip]

FBI knew in 2016 Hunter's team plotted $120 million Ukrainian deal while Joe was VP.  The FBI learned as far back as 2016 that Hunter Biden and his partners had plotted to set up a new venture in tax-friendly Liechtenstein that would be capitalized by a whopping $120 million investment from the controversial owner of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, according to documents obtained by Just the News that have been kept from the American public for eight years.  The mega-deal was not referenced inside Hunter Biden's now infamous laptop or during the 2019 impeachment proceedings involving Ukraine, but was instead chronicled in a trove of 3.39 million documents the FBI seized from Hunter Biden and his business partners during an investigation of securities fraud nearly a decade ago.  The cache of documents was recently turned over by former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer to the House Oversight Committee as part of its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden's conduct.

Secret Service Destroys Video of Biden's Dog Commander Biting Incident.  In a controversial move, the Secret Service has reportedly destroyed surveillance footage of an incident involving President Joe Biden's dog, Commander, biting a Secret Service agent.  This revelation has sparked outrage and raised serious questions about transparency and accountability within the Biden administration.  [Advertisement]  Commander, a two-year-old German Shepherd, was involved in at least 24 biting incidents involving Secret Service personnel, according to newly released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.  These incidents reportedly occurred over a period from October 2022 to July 2023, primarily at the White House and other Biden family properties.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  The destruction of the video footage has led to allegations of a cover-up.  Critics argue that this action obstructs a full and transparent investigation into the behavior of the President's pet and the handling of the situation by the Secret Service.

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The writer sheepishly states, "The destruction of the video footage has led to allegations of a cover-up."  No, the destruction of the video footage IS a cover-up.  Say what you mean.  If the footage was destroyed, something is being covered up, because it is an embarrassment to the Biden puppeteers, whoever they are.  Speaking of Secret Service cover-ups, who did they decide was the owner of the bag of cocaine at the White House in July, 2023?  Because the answer can't possibly be the only obvious one.  Blame that on the dog, too.

Three signs that Biden's campaign is broken at its core, incoherent, and fraudulent.  Biden's campaign seems to be giving up on promoting Biden and is, instead, focused on attacking Trump and his voters.  This is because, no matter how much money Biden manages to raise and no matter the media's efforts on his part, nothing can hide the fact that his campaign is broken, incoherent, and fundamentally fraudulent.  First, the Biden campaign is broken because he has no accomplishments.  His nearly four years in office have been one disaster after another, and the comparisons with Trump's economy, border control / illegal aliens, and foreign policy vastly favor Trump.  That reality was driven home today with the AP story that Biden is about to spend $50 million dollars on pre-debate ad buys.  The ads will bypass Biden's record to focus on the three constitutionally obscene cases brought against Trump in NY: [...]

Biden Launches $50M Anti-Trump Ad Blitz to Highlight Trump's Conviction.  Joe Biden's campaign launched a $50 million television ad blitz on June 17, 2024, to hit Donald Trump over his 34-count felony business fraud conviction, which many of Trump's supporters describe as witchhunts.  The 81-year-old's ad campaign was created to highlight Trump's conviction by a Manhattan jury on May 30, 2024, attacking Trump by calling him "a convicted criminal who's only out for himself," the New York Post reported.  "In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is.  Meanwhile, Joe Biden's been working, lowering healthcare costs and making big corporations pay their fair share.  This election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for himself and a president who is fighting for your family," the narrator says in the 30-second ad titled "Character Matters."

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Yes, character matters.  Leaving a packet of cocaine in the White House matters.  Ten percent for the Big Guy matters.  Laundering money through Ukraine matters.  Lying about an abandoned laptop matters.  Stealing the 2020 presidential election matters.  Putting a brain-dead puppet in the White House who will sign any bill they put on his desk really matters.  Not knowing who the puppet masters are matters a lot, because nobody voted for them.

Biden's Chief Gaslighter Says Those Videos Of Joe Freezing And Wandering Aimlessly Are Fakes.  White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says videos of Biden freezing and appearing confused are "cheap fakes video."  Don't believe your own eyes, folks.  Pierre said right-wingers who are sharing these videos have a "credibility problem."  "I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are.  They are cheap fakes video."  "They're done in bad faiths.  And some of your news organizations have, have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation."  [Video clip]

Biden's Continued Presidential Campaign is Inhumane.  It can sometimes be lost when we speak of the Biden "glitches" that these are all-too-obviously signs of advancing dementia, and his family and the media continuing to insist that it be on display for the whole world to see is not just detrimental to the United States, but it's utterly inhumane.  The latest is his wandering off at the G7 summit in Italy.  As several world leaders stood below, a parachuter with a large "G7 Italia 2024" flag descended to their location.  While the others were cheering, Biden gawked at the fluttering parachute and seemed to reach upward as if he meant to wrangle it.  He then looked leftward, disinterested in what the others were applauding, and began to wander several feet away from the group.  Giorgia Meloni, Italy's new Prime Minister, had to move toward him, grab his right arm, and call him over for a photo.  As the others struck confident poses, Biden very slowly put on his trademark aviators and stood there looking exactly like what he is — a senile old puppet who must be led around by handlers and who is marvelously out-of-place among those powerful world officials.

The Lights Aren't Even On.  We've all heard the saying, "The lights are on, but nobody's home."  I suspect most of us could readily come up with a list of people to whom that applies, including in politics — maybe especially in politics.  [Advertisement]  Watching our commander in chief on the world stage over the past week has made it abundantly clear that the same cannot be said of him.  In Joe Biden's case, it seems that the lights aren't even on anymore.  [Tweet]  I don't say that to be cruel — although it can be easy to wander into bash-the-president territory.  That's pretty much been an American pastime all along — by design.  I say it because it's both self-evident and seriously disconcerting.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna States DC Dems Discuss Replacing Joe Biden Before General Election.  We consistently hear people say something akin to "they can't replace Joe Biden."  It's a little odd, because I'm really not sure where that level of understanding DC comes from.  Replacing Joe Biden on the ballot before or after the November 2024 election is as simple as one typed sentence from his doctor saying he is not capable of fulfilling another term.  Not complicated.  Very simple.  Can happen at any time.  The DNC corporation appoints a replacement, the leftists rally sympathy around him, and Biden is escorted away for a life of indulgences and free stuff.

Joe Biden Appears to Freeze, Obama Escorts Him Off Stage During Star-Studded Fundraiser.  President Joe Biden appeared to freeze while on stage during a star-studded fundraiser on Saturday night and was seen being led off the stage by former President Barack Obama.  Biden and Obama attended the Los Angeles fundraiser, along with celebrities such as George Clooney, Julia Roberts, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Black, and Jason Bateman, among many others.  Before the fundraiser, it was reported that the Biden campaign had raised more than $28 million.

Hunter Biden is his father's son.  For the entirety of his pre-Presidential career, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was never one of Washington's A-listers.  He was always an afterthought, sometimes a joke.  His biggest political achievement was lucking into the Senate at 29 from a toll-booth state and staying until retirement age.  He won a grand total of six elections along the way, building a national political career with fewer than one million votes in all six races combined.  Truly skilled professional politicians — Obama, Clinton, Dubya — usually reach the White House by their late forties or early fifties.  (Reagan and Trump were much older, but for them politics was a second career.)  When Biden tried for the brass ring in the 1988 Presidential race, at 45, his lies and exaggerations made him a laughingstock.  He was forced to drop out before the Iowa caucuses.

Did Joe Biden's ghostwriter commit the crime that's been wrongfully used against J6ers?  It is a serious crime to interfere with a federal investigation, and it seems that Mike Zwonitzer, Joe Biden's ghostwriter, has admitted on the record that he did so.  However, to no one's surprise, AG Merrick Garland's "Justice" Department seems uninterested in this possible crime.  The big irony is that Zwonitzer's apparent wrongdoing seems to have violated 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which is the same statute that the Garland DOJ has been abusing to put January 6 defendants in prison.

This Is Why Democrats Are Panicking About Joe Biden.  A new Suffolk poll of black voters in two crucial swing states has come out and to say the news is devastating for Joe Biden is an understatement.  We've talked about how Joe Biden has been losing significant support from black voters since 2020, and this new poll continues to show the same trend.  [Advertisement]  In Pennsylvania, Biden gets 56% of the black vote, with Donald Trump getting 11%.  Third party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein collectively get 16%.  In Michigan, another must-win state for Joe Biden, he captures only 55% of the black vote, compared to Donald Trump's 15% with another 15% going to the third party candidates.  [Tweet]

Do the Plotters of the '51 Intel Experts' Coup Deserve Prison?  [Scroll down]  They had known since December 2019 that this [Hunter Biden laptop] story might drop.  That was when Mac Isaac alerted the FBI to a laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his computer repair shop in Delaware.  Fearing that the story might break at any time, operatives within the FBI reached out to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms well before the 2020 election and warned them of a potential Russian pre-election "hack and dump" operation.  If done with ill intent, these operatives deserve prison time as well.  On the day the Post story broke, representatives from the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force met with Facebook execs.  As would later be confirmed at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, the FBI knew that the laptop was, in fact, Hunter Biden's.

Sick Of and Done With.  They're kidding, right?  That "Joe Biden" is capable of being president?  Not just for another four-year term, but right here and now? [...] Lately, even the news media has begun to report "Joe Biden's" senile mishaps.  On Thursday at an outdoor photo op during the G7 meet-up in Italy, the ol' dawg just wandered off from the assembled pack of world leaders until Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni went and reeled him back in.  Earlier in the week at a Juneteenth party, they rolled him out on the White House lawn like a cigar-store Indian where he stood utterly frozen while all around him boogalooed and clapped to the music of jubilee.  Do you think that folks are starting to notice?  Even many [...] Democrat Party regulars who have been just fine with the controlled demolition of our country under this human door-stop of a president are murmuring ominously that the scam has become too obvious.

Summer Surprise:  The Looming Biden Replacement.  In February, I predicted that it can't be Joe Biden representing the Democratic Party in November, and that he would be replaced sometime in the summer before the Democratic National Convention. [...] But here we are, several months later, still pretending that Biden will be on the ticket in November.  And the old man isn't getting any better, folks.  The glitches are getting worse, whether he's wandering away from world leaders at the G-7 or rambling more incoherently than ever.  Such recent displays led Steve Forbes to recently suggest that "the continued, painfully obvious mental decline of our commander-in-chief has revived widespread public speculation of his withdrawing."  And though they stopped for a while, even Democrats are noticing and making similar comments again.

No one is above the law?  Biden would be sued over dog attacks if he were anyone else, says Turley.  Legal scholar Jonathan Turley made the case Friday that "any other family" would face a lawsuit or two or three or more if their dogs were as aggressive and dangerous as that of the Bidens.  "The latest account shows that President Biden was personally handling his dogs during incidents of biting secret service," he posted on X Friday.  "If this were any other family, there would be a strict liability tort action against the Bidens."  [Tweet]

8 ways the Biden administration is working to increase gasoline prices.  The Biden administration claims that draining the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve shows its commitment to low gas prices.  In fact, this is yet another cynical ploy to disguise that its real goal is raise gas prices.  [Tweet]  Biden's claim that he released 1 billion barrels of gasoline to "lower prices at the pump" is his latest attempt to convince Americans he's trying to lower gasoline prices.  But in fact, he's doing his utmost to raise prices, because this is necessary for his anti-fossil-fuel goals.  From Day 1, President Biden has openly supported the destruction of the fossil fuel industry, from his 2019 campaign promise of "I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel" to his 2021 executive order declaring that America will be "net zero emissions economy-wide" by 2050.  Biden's "net zero" plans require gasoline to be illegal or unaffordably expensive.

Dems inflicting elder abuse.  Joe Biden is a deteriorating elder who seems more dead than alive at this point.  He certainly has earned the moniker Grim Reaper-in-Chief.  While the abuse he hurls upon his aides may be deserved, our country doesn't deserve his shrieking tirades and gratuitous putdowns. [...] Many elders remain vigorous, but Joe Biden is empirically not one of them.  But while he is abusing us, Jill is abusing him.  She'd rather be immersed in White House perks and jet-setting trips over the globe than do the honorable thing: advising the lowlife idiot to bow out of the presidential race.  What a selfish, elderly-abusing person she really is.  She may think she's propping-up hubby, but she's actually humiliating him by enabling him to exhibit infantile conduct in public.

Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani over laptop.  Now that the federal government itself has used Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop information as evidence in court, affirming its authenticity, there probably are only a handful of diehards who still portray it as Russian disinformation.  Even Biden now has dropped a lawsuit he had filed against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former lawyer, accusing them of manipulating data on the unit.  That piece of electronics was a key to Joe Biden's election victory in 2020.  When it was uncovered by the New York Post, which reported on the scandalous information it contained about Biden family operations, including overseas business schemes, the FBI warned publications against using it.

Joe Biden Is Definitely Senile and Dangerous.  The mental acuity of the joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit arose in February, when special counsel Robert Hur released his report concerning Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.  Hur's investigation found that Biden had, on numerous occasions, illegally mishandled classified documents.  Furthermore, "during his [Biden's] interview with Hur, the special counsel wrote that the president was confused about the timeline of events and was unable to ascertain questions about his time as vice president."  It continued in March, with Brit Hume saying, "I was saying back when it was not at all fashionable to say it, that he [Biden] is senile.  And now I think he is palpably senile and the country sees it." [...] The New York Post editorial board wrote in June, "Between his constant verbal fumbles, endless wander-offs and bouts of confused aggression, all in public, it's beyond clear to everyone with eyes and ears that Biden's been on a steep downslope for months, if not years."

The Bidens are a dysfunctional family of grifters.  Hunter Biden was found guilty of a serious crime, the least serious crime he has committed in his life of depravity and debauchery.  He was his father's bagman, sent around the world to sell American influence in Joe's name for large amounts of money.  The Bidens are a family of grifters.  They thought they were so clever.  They went to great lengths to cover their illegal tracks by setting up countless LLCs and assorted bank accounts.  The family has lived far beyond the means of a senatorial or vice-presidential salary for decades.  For fifty years, Joe Biden has been a thug, a plagiarist, a criminal.  He is a pathological liar, as even the New York Times has noted.  He was a known racist for years, too; Robert Byrd of KKK infamy was his mentor.  Like most criminals, Joe is not very bright.  Now, as the world watches him descend into the well-known signs of dementia, the left continues to pretend he is qualified to run for a second term when he is clearly not.  Joe is over, done.  He belongs in a care home.  The Biden family is obviously profoundly dysfunctional, rife with adultery, drug addiction, promiscuity, alcoholism, and criminality.

WATCH: A Dazed and Confused Biden Lands in Italy, and It's Scary.  Joe Biden is in Italy for the G7 summit, and a big piece of the agenda is, of course, finding new and exciting ways to send even more aid to Ukraine because why not, right?  [Advertisement]  Well, I think Ol' Joe will need a regular dose of whatever drug he was given for his State of the Union address because based on his arrival, it's going to be a long trip for his handlers.  As has become standard operating procedure for Biden, he deplaned Air Force One on the short stairs, but what was particularly noteworthy about his arrival was how dazed and confused he appeared as he shuffled down the stairs.  [Tweet with video clip]  Yeah, that's awkward.  Between the slow shuffle and the blank stare, it doesn't seem like he knew where he was.  And it gets worse.  [Tweet with video clip]  It's like he's a walking corpse who needs to be directed where to go.

When Republicans whine about Trump's 'character'.  Paul Ryan says he won't vote for Trump because of his character.  That means he and other NeverTrumps are glad to accept Biden for another four years because their vote could defeat Trump, which is their goal.  I have never heard Ryan talk about Biden's character. [...] So I would ask Ryan to explain how the following things that Biden has done, or said, show that he has good character:  He took his son around the World collecting kickbacks for the Biden family.  He lied to the public continuously that he never had any involvement with his son's business dealings.  He intentionally lied to the public that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.  He continually lies about his personal biography.

Joe's Distemper Is Showing.  It's been said that in the end, fate gives us all the face that we've earned.  That maxim seems to have been tailor-made for Joe Biden; can there be a more revealing portal to the man's core than the unpleasant countenance he now imposes on the public?  As his faculties erode on the national stage, what remains of him, what is still somewhat coherent and translatable, is his essential meanness.  It's a feature that's always been present, lurking just below the surface of the smiling bonhomie, characterizing his manner and method through most of his political career.  Now, as the manufactured good nature recedes, in order to make his words impactful, to give them direction and effect, they need to be propelled by a considerable charge of anger.  He puts across his teleprompter-fed points by raising the decibel level to uncomfortable heights.  The bitter, geriatric junkyard dog visage he now sports during his public utterances calls to mind his former White House roomie — the dreaded Secret Service nemesis and eventual D.C. exile, Commander the German Shepherd.

'Hunter's Conviction Blows Up Trump's Claim of Two-Tiered Justice System' — No, It Doesn't!  Allegations against the Bidens include illegal influence peddling and failing to register as a foreign agent.  Last year, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said: "I want to go back to where we were in January when we started this investigation.  This was the narrative: the President's son's laptop was Russian disinformation; Hunter Biden was a legitimate business guy, just like Jared Kushner; No Biden ever took money from China — that's what Joe Biden said; No money ever changed hands while Joe Biden was Vice President; Joe knew nothing about his son's dealings; And Joe never met with or spoke with any of the foreign nationals who had wired the family money."  The only reasons Hunter stood trial, and now faces prosecution for tax charges, are because A) IRS whistleblowers came forward and alleged Hunter benefited from special treatment, and B) the sweetheart deal the Justice Department negotiated with Hunter's defense lawyers blew up when the presiding judge refused to go along with it.

Biden Close to Total Collapse.  Like the degenerate ruling class he personifies, Biden is well past his expiration date:  [Two tweets with video clips]  The fraud required to keep this sick joke in power will be so massive, Democrats may have to impose martial law to prevent "extremists" from threatening Our Democracy by contesting the election results.

Hunter's Laptop Helped Secure a Conviction.  Its Suppression May Have Swung an Election.  Prosecutors in the gun case against Hunter Biden attested to the authenticity of a laptop he left at a repair shop in 2019, and a jury convicted Biden on Tuesday in part based on that evidence, even though at least two polls suggested that constant denials that the laptop was his from Democrats, social media, and legacy media helped President Joe Biden get elected in 2020.  "This is not a point the news media wanted to acknowledge during trial coverage," Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog, told The Daily Signal. "It was the shame of the liberal media since the FBI had the laptop all along."  Graham was referring to the fact that the FBI was in possession of Hunter Biden's laptop and knew it was his when the story of its existence broke in 2020.  Had a sizable number of Joe Biden's supporters been aware of the authenticity of the laptop that suggested the elder Biden financially benefited from foreign dealings that his son was involved in, a late 2020 Media Research Center/Polling Company survey shows that then-incumbent President Donald Trump would have won the election with 289 electoral votes.

Biden Has Trouble Immediately Upon Landing in Italy.  As we reported, Joe Biden traveled to Italy Wednesday for the G7.  White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn't confirm exactly how many family members were on the trip with him and who they were. [...] Finnegan Biden was seen on video boarding the plane.  The White House has now confirmed that all of Hunter Biden's adult children are traveling with him:  Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy.  Peter Neal, Naomi's husband, is also on the trip.  The Daily Mail also mentioned speculation about Naomi being pregnant.  So what are they doing on the trip?  What do they have to do with the G7?  Is this a family vacation on the taxpayer dime?

Biden's 'Floating' Scandal Exposed, As Soldiers Blow the Whistle on Joe's Scheme.  President Biden has spent at least $320 million of your tax dollars to build a floating pier outside Gaza.  He did this, it seems, to win back progressives who are siding with Palestinians over the Israel-Hamas war.  But this pier has been a disaster from day one.  It broke after just eight days, and even after it was repaired, the UN stopped bringing supplies through it.  [Advertisement]  The Pentagon under Biden initially said there wouldn't be any issues with having 1,000 U.S. troops near Gaza.  However, recent reports are uncovering the risks involved in this mission.  This is a concerning situation for our American soldiers, who are facing constant danger.  Let's explore the true motivation behind why Biden is exposing them to these risks.

The Martyring Of Hunter Biden Is A Distraction.  First, let's dispel the myth that Hunter Biden's conviction on gun charges proves that Joe Biden's Department of Justice dispenses justice fairly. [...] Hunter is exceptionally lucky he's only facing tax and gun charges.  Though, perhaps, lucky is the wrong word.  It wasn't luck, after all, that AG Merrick Garland did basically everything within his power to keep Hunter out of a courtroom.  After the Trump DOJ dragged its feet, Garland made sure to try and wait out the statute of limitations on Hunter's most serious potential crimes.  On many, he did.  It wasn't luck that Garland named Delaware's David Weiss, whose office was filled with Biden allies, as special counsel.  It wasn't luck that the Secret Service showed up to help Hunter with his gun problem.  It wasn't luck that the feds cooked up an astonishing customized immunity deal for Hunter, which would not only give him a pass on any felony gun and tax charges, but also on a slew of unrelated, far more serious, potential offenses, including failure to register as a foreign agent, bribery, and corruption.  Do you think anyone else gets this kind of consideration from the DOJ?

Nice try, FJB: Sacrificing Hunter won't work.  Never underestimate Biden's ability to win a general election.  He's beaten Republicans 10 consecutive times, beginning in 1972, when as a complete unknown he knocked off an incumbent senators in a year in which Nixon took 49 states including Delaware.  FJB would sacrifice anything or anybody to win.  You don't go from graduating 79th in a class of 87 at Syracuse University College of Law to the presidency by playing nice.  He lies.  He plagiarizes.  His sniffs children like they were pies.  Bye, bye, Hunter.  Daddy's got to make his justice system look legitimate.  Politico loyally promoted the DNC line: "Hunter Biden verdict throws 'sand in the gears' of GOP's attacks on legal system."  The attack is not on the legal system.  The attack is on those who abuse the system.

Hunter Biden Convicted of 3 Felony Gun Crimes, Jury Deliberated for Three Hoursu.  We all knew this was going to happen, almost this exact way.  December, 2022 — "Monaco will coordinate the timing of the arrest and indictment of Hunter Biden to coincide with the arrest and indictment of President Trump.  This will provide the narrative of blind justice the DOJ will attempt to leverage to stop national reaction."  And, that's exactly what Lisa Monaco and Main Justice did.  Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony gun charges, and will likely receive a very limited sentence (probation or similar) with no jail/prison time.  The major crimes of bribery, money laundering, public corruption, Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations, are all being ignored.  The Biden crime syndicate is being protected.

Hunter's Conviction Is A Fig Leaf To Cover The Biden Family's More Serious Crimes.  Hunter Biden was found guilty Tuesday on three federal gun charges, but his conviction is no victory for the rule of law.  The trial sidestepped the most serious allegations against Biden — and their implications for his president father — while teeing up talking points for Biden supporters to insist the justice system is fair after the left brazenly weaponized the justice system to target former President Donald Trump.  President Joe Biden's son was found guilty of lying on application paperwork while addicted to drugs to obtain a firearm and unlawfully possessing said firearm.  Leftists like MSNBC's Andrew Weissmann, desperate to absolve themselves of accountability for cheering on the weaponization of the justice system against Trump, have already begun using Hunter's conviction to declare the justice system works just fine since Hunter was also found guilty.  But as Federalist CEO Sean Davis aptly noted shortly before Hunter's conviction, "any verdict in the gun trial is functionally irrelevant because the corrupt Biden [administration] has already proven that the entire justice system is rigged."

Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes!  Here is another way to tell that Democrats are panicking:  They feel obliged to deal, somehow, with the fact that Joe Biden is senile.  The Washington Post headlines:  "How Republicans used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period."  ["]President Biden, who at 81 is a couple of decades younger than many of the veterans he honored during Thursday's D-Day commemoration in Normandy...["]  Well then, he is practically youthful! [...] But the Post says nothing about Biden's Juneteenth brain freeze, his multiple incidents of falling down, his frequent descents into incoherence, his need to be led around to show him where to stand, his inability to read a teleprompter, and so on.  Many dozens of episodes of obvious senility have been preserved on video, and many millions of Americans have seen them.

The real reason for the Hunter trial.  Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted, "The Hunter Biden trial is a smokescreen.  It's designed to make the prosecution of Trump appear nonpartisan, yet the outcome of the Hunter trial doesn't matter because Joe Biden can & will pardon him.  The trial's timing is no coincidence: right after the Trump conviction, but set to finish before Joe Biden leaves the White House." [...] The trial is not about Hunter's illegal purchase of a gun.  The trial exists only so Democrats can say, see, no one is above the law not even the president's son — when in fact, Hunter and all the Bidens are above the law.  When was Hunter court-martialed by the Navy for his cocaine abuse?  His father has used his position in DC to shield Hunter — as well as Ashley and the rest — from ever being held responsible for their criminality.  And so the crimes piled up.  Ramaswamy does get right that this is a sham trial is designed to legitimize the latest legal farce in New York.  Judge Merchan went out of his way to commit every conceivable judicial error to reverse the outcome on appeal.  I mean, who tells a criminal jury that they don't have to be unanimous in convicting a defendant?

Biden Family Shady Business Deals Appear To Be Coming More In Focus.  President Biden has maintained efforts to distance himself from his family's business affairs throughout his presidential campaign and tenure, yet a recent report sheds light on the extent to which individuals in the president's inner circle have been engaged in Biden family enterprises.  According to a report from Politico, Biden has shared a personal bookkeeper with his son, Hunter Biden, a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim Biden, and the former head of then-Vice President Biden's Secret Service detail aided Jim Biden in probing a potential Chinese business partner.  Despite assertions from the Bidens regarding the observance of strict "firewalls" concerning business discussions within the family, the Politico report delineates the significant involvement of individuals in the president's circle in matters concerning Hunter and Jim Biden's ventures.

The Bidens Are a Horrible Bunch of People.  [Scroll down]  Curiously, Joe (who is magically filthy rich after a lifetime in "public service") doesn't appear to have helped Hunter pay the millions in child support he owes Kathleen, but he did dish him a lot of cash for things like a $50,000 "loan" for the truck when he already owned 2 other vehicles.  That $50,000 cash "loan" is alleged to have happened when Hunter was a full-blown junkie because everyone knows good parents give their strung-out kids sweaty wads of cash all the time since getting them help is for suckers.  You'd think they wanted Hunter dead, but for that, you'd have to believe there was a loan.  There's only the claim of a loan made after the discovery of a $50,000 check from Hunter to Joe the same day he received a half-million-dollar payment from a Chinese "investor."  It's just a coincidence, I'm sure, that it works out to "10% for the Big Guy."  The whole family is disgusting, beyond disgusting.  But what do you expect from a kid-sniffing, credibly accused rapist who has the exclusive means to exonerate himself by releasing his Senate personnel records now sealed under his orders but won't?  People with nothing to hide would not hide things long after death.

Politico reports on the Biden family syndicate, and it's crickets all around.  Did you know that Politico committed an act of journalism yesterday, reporting honestly on the Biden family syndicate?  This was such a rare act that you'd think its reporting would stand out, especially given that it's read by absolutely everyone in the Acela corridor.  You'd think CNN would be 24/7 with Brady Bunch-style pundits pundit-ing on the story because it's an incredibly [bad] bill of horribles for the sitting president.  But nooooooo...  Everyone on that progressive train is undoubtedly aware of it, but they ain't talkin' 'bout it.  Nope.  No way.  No how.  It ain't good for the regime.  It ain't good for the narrative. [...] Imagine if this entire article were about the Trump family and not the Biden family, and you'd have an all-out conflagration of a D.C. scandal on your hands.

Will the Democrats Survive this Year's Election?  Americans and the western world in general are losing their enthusiasm for government-centered solutions to the various problems that we are facing. [...] This slide in their popularity is not going unnoticed among the movers and shakers in the Democrat fold.  But most of what they can do is to just dump Biden — which is pretty much impossible to do without it being really, really ugly.  Let alone it's already pretty late in the game.  Had there been an active spoiler campaigning all along to unseat Biden, such as in 1980 when Ted Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter, this scenario would have been more realistic.  They have also been trying to destroy Trump by putting their Department of Justice toadies to work in tying him up with legal challenges.  How's that working out?

If you vote for Joe Biden ...  If you vote for the current president who is trying to destroy a former president for far lesser offenses than he himself has committed, you are a hypocrite.  If you vote for the man who is currently attempting to imprison his political opponent, perhaps for life, for the sin of standing in the way of his continued power, you are an ignorant fool.  If you vote for the man who has labeled nearly half of your countrymen "domestic terrorists," you are a cad of the highest order.  If you vote for the man who is clearly beholden to at least one — likely more than one — of America's enemies, each with totalitarian governments, you cannot claim to be a patriot or defender of democracy.  If you vote for the man who clearly — and in so many ways — favors illegal immigrants over American citizens, and those who break the law over those who abide by it, you are voting for chaos, pain, and societal destruction.

Time to Jettison the Animals.  The most astounding part of America's "Joe Biden" three-plus-years thrill ride is that the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes was able to pretend until just a few days ago that this political phantasm could run for re-election.  Now, regime insiders are forced to confess that they can't hide it anymore.  They spilled the beans as "unnamed sources" this week in a huge Wall Street Journal article.  The president is going necrotic in full view of the whole world.  His mind is gone.  He looks ridiculous when he shuffles in front of the cameras.  He utters obvious absurdities and lies.  His wife has to lead him around like a dog on a leash.  Everyone can see it.  He's got to go.  ASAP. [...] The one coherent thought in his failing mind is that he has pardon power as long as he is president.  It's not so much Hunter and that silly-[...] gun case in Wilmington, which he'll surely wriggle out of.  It's more about the brothers Jim and Frank and all the spouses and offspring who received wire transfers of Chinese money, Ukraine money, Russian money, Kazak money, Romanian money....

The Biden deep fakery of Merrick Garland.  Following an investigation by special counsel Robert Hur, Americans learned Joe Biden, who Hur characterized as a sympathetic, elderly man with a poor memory, is so mentally impaired he cannot be prosecuted for serial violations of classified document law spanning decades.  He is, however, qualified to be President of the United States.  That Biden violated even the Espionage Act by knowingly providing classified information to a ghost writer isn't sufficient cause for prosecution.  Not so for Donald Trump who kept some such materials exclusively at Mar-A-Lago under continuous guard by the Secret Service. [...] Biden kept documents in multiple, unsecured places, including in an open box in his garage.  A transcript of Biden's hours-long interview (available here) with Hur has been released.  The DOJ has recently admitted in a court filing that the transcript has been edited, though they pinky swear that editing is absolutely minimal, removing things Joe said like "uh," "um," and "I, I, I.'  Trust the DOJ.

Quotations from Chairman Joe.  It's a shame that commercial publishers have lost their appetite for mocking Democratic presidents.  President Biden provides a steady stream of new material every day, much of it related to the sunset of his mind in the foggy ruins of time.  Biden sat for an interview with Time at the White House on May 28.  The transcript makes for painful reading.

Biden to be Replaced come August.  Has Biden finally caved in to close the border after he opened it up on his first day in office?  This seems like admitting he made a mistake which has hurt so many people in this country. [...] Mr. Biden is using the same kind of tools that President Trump used to secure the border that the Democrats called him a racist over.  On the first day of office, Biden opened the border to anyone from Asia, Africa, and South America.  His policies have angered Mexico and other countries where people have been migrating to get their free handouts with Biden T-shirts.  Five million illegal immigrants have poured into the country without background checks.  Some countries emptied their prisons and sent them to Biden's Land.

The Broken Chain of Command.  [Scroll down]  The United States is in a different situation than ever before, too.  Who has the nuclear football?  Is it, as suggested in a few media reports, some Marine at the side of Joe Biden?  Who would actually give the order to initiate a strike or counterstrike?  Joe?  The man who can't find his way off of a stage without getting lost?  Some Marine standing by, with the suitcase open, waiting for a nod from the man letting ice cream drip down his knuckles?  Is it Austin who wore the clown-inspired facemask while reviewing the troops during Covid?  Doesn't that violate the civilian-rule over the military?  We are talking about the end of the world, or at least, the end of the United States and the fact that we, the people, don't have any idea who is actually in charge of our massive nuclear arsenal is a serious consideration. [...] Not to worry, that's all been taken into account, the protocols for ensuring it's the right decision have been hammered out.  Really?  But then, who is giving that order?  Is it an unelected Susan Rice?  An unelected Barack Obama?  The military itself does not have the authority to make that decision and the doubt that Joe can make it is what the 25th Amendment is for.  Does one trust Kamala?

America's Corrupt Political Class Should Be Prosecuted, Not Trump.  It's also worth noting that federal law enforcement explored charging Hunter Biden with sex-trafficking crimes for working with sex traffickers and bringing prostitutes across state lines.  Yet none of these charges were brought.  Instead, his father's own Department of Justice ultimately tried to arrange maybe the most extraordinary immunity deal ever to sweep any potentially serious sex crimes under the rug, as well as deliberately letting the statute of limitations on his tax crimes expire, while persecuting IRS whistleblowers who called them out for ignoring it.  (Hunter's money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent are also mysteriously being ignored.)

Biden Does Weird Stuff Again During D-Day Memorial in France.  Even the media who notice how dementia seems to be increasing in Joe Biden pretend not to understand the full scale of the problem.  As the Daily Mail describes the awkward moments, they couch their explanation amid soft sentences intended to obfuscate the reality that Biden is impaired and getting worse.  He may not have lost all his marbles, but the hole in the bag is big enough for most to have dropped.  After Biden had his episode and Jill tried to give him directions by covering her mouth, eventually they both just left the stage and French President Macron carried on by himself.  [Video clip]

It's time for Biden to leave.  Where is Dandy Don Meredith when we need him?  Someone should be singing, "Turn out the lights, the party's over," because Joe Biden's presidency must end.  His appearance at the D-Day commemoration at Normandy was certainly the final proof that he cannot continue no matter how hard his staff tries to hold him up.  The American press gave Biden a pass, but the Brits were under no pressure from a vengeful deep state to toe any line.  The Mirror reported, "Joe Biden sparks concern as onlookers fear he 'pooped his pants' after he 'can't figure out' how to sit down.  "The President made a few noticeable gaffes while meeting with the French leader for a D-Day event on Thursday morning."  The Express reported, "Joe Biden pulled away from D-Day event by wife Jill as viewers ask: 'What's going on?'"  Taking him away to the limo because he could not make it through the ceremony was reminiscent of the time Hillary showed up so hung over that she could not make it through the commemoration of 9/11 in 2016.  [GIF illustration]

The 'Laptop from Hell' fiasco is a symptom of the Right's impotence.  I'm sure most people reading this remember the "Laptop from Hell," not to mention why the media completely blackballed the laptop story.  However, just in case you were living under a rock in 2020, let me remind you:  the "Laptop from Hell" refers to a laptop owned by First Son Hunter Biden containing evidence of (to put it mildly) gobsmacking amounts of corruption and actual foreign influence over then-Vice President Biden, which was laundered almost exclusively through dealings with his son Hunter.  It was also the mother of all October surprises and should have been enough to put Joe Biden himself away, even with the headwinds of 2020.  The contents of the laptop and the payments from Ukrainian, Chinese, and Russian officials far outweighed any 'unreported campaign influence' a hush money payment made.  Instead, it barely made a blip.  Why?  Because 51 "intelligence officials" publicly claimed that the laptop was a "Russian disinformation" operation, at which point the government rushed to bully social media companies into de-platforming anyone who mentioned it.  This included the one press outlet with the courage to do a story on it — the New York Post — whose story was totally overlooked as a result.  The laptop became the story, not the payments.  And if you want to know the really corrupt part?  The guy who was responsible for shutting down the Laptop from Hell with this phony "intelligence" argument is now Joe Biden's Secretary of State, Tony Blinken.

Hunter Biden told Congress he didn't work on visas for Burisma boss, but emails suggest otherwise.  Hunter Biden told Congress earlier this year during his impeachment deposition that he would never have assisted his Ukrainian business partners in resolving their travel visa issues.  But evidence newly obtained by Congress directly conflicts with that testimony.  In one email, in fact, Hunter Biden asserts he is working with someone to get visa issues resolved for Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of the Burisma Holding energy firm that hired the future first son on its board.  "Me [sic] contact has said that he will take care of it--- BUT I have not gotten confirmation yet that he has done so with 100% certainty," Hunter Biden wrote Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi in a February 2015 email that was seized by the FBI during a criminal investigation a decade ago and recently obtained by Just the News.

The Hunter Biden trial has got me thinking.  Both China Joe and Doctor Jill have spoken of their great and enduring love for their son, and their admiration for how he has so courageously fought addiction.  (The implication seems to be that they're referring to his drug addiction, not his sex addiction, but who knows?)  They speak of addiction as if it's something that strikes a person from out of nowhere, at random, like a wildcat hiding in a tree that pounces upon an unsuspecting hiker.  But that's not how drug addiction works, and "victims" of such addiction are not innocent passersby who are randomly targeted; they become addicts as a result of specific actions and behaviors they have committed under their own free will.  This also seems to have gone unnoticed amidst all the caterwauling of sympathy for Hunter Biden and praise for how he has been so very brave in dealing with his addiction.

Biden's Wrong.  It's 'Reckless, Dangerous, And Irresponsible' Not To Challenge Unjust Verdicts.  President Joe Biden is wrong on just about everything consequential.  It's actually quite remarkable.  Biden doesn't seem to be able to land on the correct position on any important topic even by sheer happenstance.  That's my view.  It's also apparently the view of a substantial majority of Americans, since Biden polls well underwater on every major issue. [...] Biden's latest consequential error came in his comments about the verdict in The People of the State of New York v.  Donald J. Trump case and Trump's (and much of the public's) reaction to that verdict.  Biden fumed that it is "reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible for anyone to say that this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict."  In fact, the opposite is true.  It is necessary, healthy, and responsible (in the quintessential sense of American responsibility) for people to speak out when they do not agree with the government's exercise of prosecutorial power.

Beware the cornered rat!  Since 2016 the Democrats have increasingly been behaving like trapped cornered rats.  The party is very corrupt, and is very exposed to prosecution for many illegal acts in the past decade.  Biden and his son Hunter especially face many legal issues for taking bribes from China and the Ukraine in exchange for aiding those foreign governments — against the interests of the U.S.  It appears their political support is waning, and that their hold on power following the November election is becoming increasingly impossible.  Not only do all the trends say that Trump will win, but that the Republicans will gain solid control of both houses of Congress.  Beware the cornered rat.  It can become very very deadly in its desperation to survive.  Right now I consider the Democratic Party under Joe Biden and its partisan supporters in the coastal states and urban centers to be extremely dangerous people, unwilling under any condition to accept defeat.

Time To Fight Dirty.  [Scroll down]  And when I say we need to fight dirty, let me clarify what I am not saying.  I am not saying that we should persecute innocent people, like the Left does.  I am saying that we need to go full-throttle, no-holds-barred lawfare against those who do break the law and smugly get away with it. [...] Hunter Biden's laptop was discovered to have incontestable evidence on it that "the big guy," while vice president, had used his government position to leverage favor for his wayward son in Burisma and other overseas adventures.  The now-infamous letter signed by over fifty former intelligence officials intentionally misled its readers with the baseless assurance that the laptop story was Russian disinformation.  Attorney General Merrick Garland is not pressing charges.  Biden got away with it.

Why Joe Biden's Hur Interview Recording Was Hidden.  You may recall that President Joe Biden previously sat down for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding the investigation into the many classified documents that Biden improperly removed from the White House over the years.  A transcript of that interview was grudgingly produced later, informing the public that charges would not be filed against Biden because he was supposedly unlikely to be convicted, being an "elderly man with a poor memory." Something didn't seem right and the House sought the original audio recording of the interview, but the White House refused to allow it to be made public, with Biden making the stunning assertion of executive privilege based on "privacy" concerns to keep it hidden.  Now, thanks to some digging by Judicial Watch, we may (possibly) know why that was done.  According to a release from the Justice Department on Friday night, the transcript was altered with various words removed and significant "clean-up" work having been done to it.

Desperate, Lying Biden May Abuse AI To Pull The Ultimate Race Hoax.  All of the Biden whoppers are delivered by a man whose cognitive faculties may well be in severe decline, but also one who has spent his entire adult life as a sociopathic liar, who takes delight in the mental conquest of lying just as he does the physical conquest of sexual predation.  It is patently clear that 99% of what comes out of Biden's mouth, and those of his surrogates is an abject, gaslighting falsehood.  Many in the voting public have now woken up to this fact, which is why we've seen so many red-pilled ex-Biden backers suddenly flipping their support to Trump in protest of all — or even some — of the above.  Taking a page from Adolf Hitler, Democrats already primed people for the so-called Big Lie, deflecting from the fact that they were in the process of committing it by, appropriately enough, projecting it preemptively onto Republicans[.]  Regrettably, we may now be on the cusp of what history will record as the "Biggest Lie," if and when the truth ever comes to light — something so shamefully bald-faced, so transparently manipulative, that most will think, "They wouldn't dare lie about that."  But indeed, Biden has proven nothing if not that he will lie about anything.

Biden declares it's 'dangerous' for anyone to say Trump trial was 'rigged'.  On Friday, Joe Biden addressed the guilty verdict reached the day prior in the falsified business records case against Trump, declaring that it's "dangerous" for people to say that it was a rigged trial.  [Advertisement]  "It's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict," Biden said.  [Video clip]  [Advertisement]  "The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed."

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There is little or no room on this website for statements by Joe Biden.  Everything in Biden's statement was a lie.  Surely somebody else writes all of his public statements; but even so, he willingly repeats the lies and puts his name on them.

House GOP chairman accuses Hunter Biden of lying to Congress, citing new whistleblower evidence.  The chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday formally accused Hunter Biden of lying to Congress, releasing fresh evidence from two IRS whistleblowers that conflicts with the testimony President Joe Biden's son gave to lawmakers a few months ago.  "Hunter Biden's deposition is key to understanding the attempts to conceal how the family made millions from selling access," Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said in a statement.  "Yet, new documents provided by the whistleblowers show that Hunter Biden repeatedly lied to Congress in his February deposition to distance his involvement in what should be considered a clear scheme to enrich the Biden family."  The allegation could set up a potential criminal referral from Congress to the Justice Department seeking a fresh prosecution of Hunter Biden, who already faces two trials this summer on gun and tax evasion charges.

Six Week Trial And Nobody Knows The Crime.  The Hush Money Trial of Donald Trump in New York is a stain on the American Justice system that had been the envy of the world.  The justice system is another entity that President Joe Biden destroyed.  Who could have predicted that Joe Biden, the guy from Scranton, could have successfully put a wrecking ball to so much of America?  Joe Biden has been a loser and liar his entire political life.  He had to withdraw from two previous presidential bids for plagiarism and has suffered through three-plus years of lies in the White House. [...] Biden announced he would have a statement for the press at the conclusion of the trial.  Biden is sadly salivating at the possibility of referring to his opponent as "Convicted Felon Donald Trump." [...] Joe Biden is shallow, devious, opportunistic, and a thief.  He may also be guilty of treason, which will be the coup de grace of his legacy, and he can take Hunter down with him.

Biden received sensitive data, briefings from security advisers via his private pseudonym email.  While he was vice president, Joe Biden received sensitive communications via his private email accounts created under a fictitious identity, including foreign policy discussions with his national security adviser, schedules of meetings with Cabinet secretaries and a summary of at least one intelligence briefing to President Barack Obama, according to new emails obtained by Just the News.  The new memos were released by the National Archives over the Memorial Day holiday weekend under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of Just the News that sought emails that Biden received or transmitted as vice president using his robinware456@gmail.com account.  While none of the newly released emails had classification markings on them, several included sensitive information transmitted over an insecure Google email account that could be of value to foreign powers and hostile spy agencies.  The latest batch involved communications mostly from 2012.

Convention? What Convention?  Dems Kill Biden Escape Hatch.  So much for all those Chicago Switcheroo scenarios!  Political analysts will have to set aside months of speculation about a convention surprise, thanks to the DNC's inability to research state deadlines for ballot access — and Ohio Democrats' desire for foreign money in ballot-issue campaigns.  [Advertisement]  As Jazz noted earlier, the dream is over.  Rather than wait for the convention to nominate Joe Biden as their presidential nominee, the DNC will hold a "virtual roll call" to nominate Biden in time for Ohio's August 7 ballot deadline: [...] Apparently, no one at the DNC bothered to look at ballot-access deadlines in all 50 states, or at least in Ohio.  Given how important the Buckeye State is to both parties in presidential elections, that seems to be a significant error.

Did Joe Biden Just Commit Another Crime to Protect Hunter?  The Biden family is neck-deep in corruption, and yet, time after time, it becomes increasingly clear that they feel they can get away with it.  Even as Hunter Biden faces criminal gun and tax charges, and Joe Biden is the subject of an impeachment inquiry, they just can't help themselves.  Perhaps they figure that since the media is on their side, they don't have to worry about honest coverage blowing their cover.  And they are mostly right.  The mainstream media has been insisting for months now that House Republicans have turned up no evidence of corruption by Joe Biden, which is patently false. [...] According to a White House poll report, Joe Biden made a rather curious visit to his son Beau Biden's widow, Hallie Biden, Sunday night. [...] But, why did this happen on Sunday night of all nights?  Could be it be that mere days earlier it was reported that Special Counsel David Weiss is planning to called Hallie Biden as a witness in Hunter Biden's gun trial?

They lie because they get away with it.  On Monday, we honored the million men who died defending our great nation and protecting our God-given rights.  Sadly, the current resident in the White House decided to honor instead a drug addict and armed robber who died in police custody.  His staff perpetuated the lie that George Floyd was murdered by a policeman — a lie upheld by a kangaroo court in Minnesota.  That's the power of the Big Lie.

If You Stand With Joe Biden, You Are Standing With An Actual White-Supremacist.  Isn't that a lovely picture of Angie Brennan and the imposter-figurehead-President Joe Biden.  But does Little Miss Angie know she is standing with a White-Supremacist?  For example, Biden believes that White people like him should get to decide who is a "real Black" and who is not.  Remember this from 2020:  [Video clip]  And this was NOT a "one-off."  Just recently, Biden told graduates at Morehouse College essentially that they had just wasted four years because America is pervasively and incurably racist ... the clear implication being that these graduates will amount to nothing without Great White Father Biden in the White House.  A variation on 2020's "you ain't Black."

Hunter Biden's laptop was denied, disparaged, censored — now it's evidence of a crime.  The evolution of Hunter Biden laptop denial over the last three and a half years has been mind-boggling.  You need a chart to keep up.  First the laptop was a non-story (thanks, NPR).  Then it was "hacked material" (thanks, Twitter).  Then it was "Russian disinformation" (thanks, CIA).  Then it was a "Russian plant" (thanks, Joe Biden).  Then it was "stolen" by Russians.  (Hunter weighed in with crystal clarity:  "I have no idea ... There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me.  It could be that I was hacked.  It could be that it was Russian intelligence.  It could be that it was stolen from me.")  Then it was "hacked by Rudy Giuliani" (thanks, Kevin "Sugar Brother" Morris).  And now it is the backbone of the prosecution case against the first son in the felony gun trial he faces in Delaware in a little over a week.

Biden Reminds West Point Graduates of their Political Duty to Interfere in Election if Leftist Vision of Democracy is Threatened.  Many political followers have likely tracked the Obama-era emphasis about changing the intents, purposes and mission of the U.S. military.  During the Obama administration the ideologues who traveled with the Lightbringer, looked at the Pentagon through the prism of domestic affairs; essentially, how can the Dept of Defense be shifted to support the anticolonial effort?  With standards changed to accommodate women in combat, the U.S. military had been increasingly shifting toward political correctness and gender inclusion since the late 1980's.  However, it was Obama Inc who pushed wokeism to be the primary effort of military leadership.  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is a Marxist tool for domestic manipulation of military and social engineering.  By the time we see the issues behind Defense Secretary James Mattis, Joint Chief's Chairman Mark Milley, and the attitude of Alexander Vindman et al, it was already too late.

New Documents Prove FBI Knew of Biden Ties to the CCP.  Federal agents knew from 2013 that Hunter Biden used access to his father on Air Force 2 to set up business ventures with Chinese communists.  We now have proof of what many believed.  The FBI knew and let Joe Biden become president.  Easier to blackmail?  James Comer finally got the documents from Devon Archer's lawyers.  During the 2016 election, Hunter Biden used that access on an official government trip to Beijing on Air Force Two to connect Chinese business partners with Vice President Joe Biden.  According to almost 3.4 million pages of documents, Hunter's father met with these people.  The documents were recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.

Feds secretly knew for years Joe Biden met with son's Chinese partners on official trip.  Federal agents gathered evidence during the 2016 election that Hunter Biden had used access to his father on an official government trip to Beijing aboard Air Force Two to connect prospective Chinese business partners with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a massive cache of documents recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.  "They got to meet Dad.  All very good.  Talk later," Hunter Biden wrote in a December 2013 email confirming how he connected his Chinese associates with his father in a Beijing hotel after the vice president had met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.  The younger Biden also bragged in his emails that his father was so enamored with China's communist leader that "I think they are in love with each other," the emails showed.  "They all most kissed on departure," Hunter Biden wrote in one of the emails seized by federal agents.

The democrats pretend.  [Scroll down]  Will [Joe Biden] debate Trump in June?  Highly doubtful.  He agreed to debate in a pinch, or rather his handlers did, knowing that they could and most probably will come up with an excuse to cancel.  Biden is so clearly not up to debating Trump, without drugs and/or an earpiece.  If he can't get through a short speech that is displayed on a teleprompter, how can he respond to debate questions, even if he is given those questions ahead of time which we all know he would be.  Jake Tapper is one of those pretending Biden is capable, but even he and Dana Bash will not be able to help poor Joe appear sentient.  His brain is gone, over and done.  His wretched wife, if she had an ounce of actual feeling for the man, would never have let him agree to run again.  She so badly wants to be Edith Wilson redux.  She is a craven narcissist who has sullied the office of First Lady.

Dementia Joe Circles Back to Racism.  Anyone who's ever dealt with an Alzheimer's (or dementia) parent or grandparent knows the routine — they only talk about five or six topics before they return to the first. [...] If white supremacy is Joe's Topic #2, what could possibly be #1?  Drum roll, please... the topic that Biden always "circles back" to is racism.  Biden starts with racism, goes to topic #2 (white supremacy) and #3, then back to racism.  The man is obsessed with racism and returns to it over and over again.  He's been doing this for years.  In 2011, Biden told a black audience that Republicans are "gonna put y'all back in chains."  In 2020, he told blacks, if you don't know who to vote for "you 'ain't black."  As a candidate, Biden made skin color (not competence) the primary qualification for his vice president.  As president, skin color (not competence) is Joe's primary consideration for Supreme Court appointments.  His focus on skin color must be belittling and condescending to all blacks, especially those who are qualified and competent.

Uncovering the Mysterious Disappearance of Hunter Biden's Handgun:  The Shadowy Tale of a Mexican Grocery Store.  [Advertisement]  Amidst the ongoing controversies surrounding the Biden family, a new and bizarre story has emerged involving Hunter Biden's missing handgun.  The weapon, a .38 revolver, was allegedly purchased at a Mexican grocery store under questionable circumstances.  The incident has sparked speculations and raised questions about the legality and potential consequences of such actions.  [Advertisement]  The mystery began when a report surfaced claiming that Hunter Biden's gun was illegally thrown out by Hallie Biden, his brother Beau's widow.  This revelation sparked outrage and fueled suspicions about the true intentions behind the purchase of the firearm.  How did Hunter obtain the gun?  Was it a legal purchase?  And why did Hallie dispose of it in such a shady manner?  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  According to sources, Hunter Biden, known for his troubled past and legal troubles, bought the gun at a questionable Mexican grocery store, bypassing the necessary background checks and paperwork.  This revelation has shed light on the ease of acquiring firearms in the United States and raised concerns about the potential dangers of unregulated gun sales.

If the Dems ditch Biden, what then?  [Scroll down]  Cutting to the chase, fear of Trump rather than love of Biden is what the Dems actually have in their toolbox.  Since Trump isn't all that scary, they have to invent reasons to be afraid of him.  All we can do is watch them try.  That being said, it's likely to get pretty gross.  Rather than typically pragmatic Republicans, Democrats are gluttons for power at any price.  Their motto should be "the end justifies the means."  Kind of reminiscent of Vladimir Lenin.  If they had any sense of shame, Trump would not now be on trial.  So don't take Biden's defeat for granted.  Desperate desires can lead to desperate methods.

Jill Biden ludicrously claims Trump would 'destroy' public education if elected.  First lady and fake "doctor" Jill Biden ludicrously claimed Saturday that former President Donald Trump will destroy the public education system if reelected to office.  Speaking at the United Federation of Teachers' annual spring conference, she argued instead that her husband, President Joe Biden, is the one who'll bless public education.  "I always believed that Joe would be the best education president," she said, according to the New York Post.

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Some future president should disband the Department of Education, which does nothing but spend money, with no improvements to show for it.  But that's a long way from dismantling public education.  Public schools existed long before the Department of Education.

Biden Didn't Report His Free Vacations at Billionaire's Homes.  A Soros-funded site, ProPublica, has investigated Justice Clarence Thomas endlessly for nothing.  One of those nothings was his stay with billionaire friends, which he didn't report.  He didn't have to report them, but that doesn't matter to the leftists.  Joe Biden is not reporting his free vacations at billionaire's homes, and ProPublica is totally uninterested.  ProPublica even won a Pulitzer for reporting legal non-disclosures meant to embarrass Originalist justices [as opposed to activist justices].  Democrats do that.  They give each other awards.

What has Biden accomplished in his presidency?  Devastation.  Biden and his sycophants in the media sing his praises on a daily basis, pretending he has been an effective president.  In fact, all he has accomplished is desecration on every level. [...] Biden long ago sold out his country for money.  He has long been the most corrupt member of Congress and has always used his position to enrich himself and his family.  He has never worked to the benefit of his constituents or the American people.  When all the truth is revealed, we will all know that Biden and his family are a criminal enterprise the rivals the Mafia for depth of corruption.

Biden Adviser [explains] Why 'No Crowd' Debate Demand Was Non-Negotiable for Biden.  Though it was pretty obvious why Biden didn't want a studio audience present, an unnamed Biden adviser admitted in an interview that the "no crowd" demand was absolutely non-negotiable, because a crowd full of voters were people who Trump could feed off of, and whose reactions in the process could potentially derail Biden's debate agenda. [...] Relatedly, a one-on-one without a lively audience but which includes liberal media moderators could also make things quiet/controlled enough that Biden would better be able to hear his handlers through an earpiece.  Just sayin'.  In any event, as we noted before, these demands are not those of a campaign that really believes Biden "won" the 2020 debates against Trump.  In reality, it's a strong signal that they — and Biden — are terrified, and want to manage every single detail as tightly as they do any other event Biden attends.

Rep. Comer Found New Biden Family Accounts Linked to China.  Rep. James Comer, who is conducting the investigation into Joe Biden and his family, updated Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.  He has found new Biden family bank accounts that were used to launder money from China. [...] "I mean, I don't think you would find very many people that have a billion dollar net worth that have as many different bank accounts as this Biden family had.  Many of these were shell companies, as you and I have discussed, Maria, companies that's sole purpose was to launder the money that the Bidens were receiving from China, from Romania, from Russia, and never one time through the course of this entire investigation, even during the depositions with Hunter Biden and the transcribed interview with Jim Biden were they able to answer exactly what the family did to receive this money."

I smell a rat.  Joe Biden suddenly anxious to debate Donald J. Trump seemingly out of the clear blue doesn't smell right.  His Fraudulency (H/T John Nolte) can't put two sentences together much less navigate an intelligent debate with a seven-year old.  Clearly we know ol' Joe didn't call for this.  He's happy sitting in his basement or on the beach, eating ice cream and falling off his bike at every opportunity.  We all know he doesn't want this.  Who set him up and why?  I preface the following suggestions on the fact that the Left has already demonstrated how elaborately sinister they can be with the election theft of 2020, the staging of January 6 with pipe bombs as "plan B," and the endless lawfare attempts to incarcerate the former (and hopefully future) President with made-up crimes they're not even attempting to hide anymore behind a veil of legitimacy.  No conspiracy theory is off the table any more, therefore we must all proceed ever so cautiously.  We cannot assume everything is as it seems.

Joe Biden is carrying debt of up to $815,000, financial records show.  President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are carrying a personal debt of up to $815,000, their financial records show, and no one is buying the president's books.  Most of the couple's debt is the mortgage on their Delaware home and an equity loan on that home.  Additionally their debt consists of a term loan of about $15,000 and a loan against a mutual fund for about $50,000.  In total, the Bidens reported assets between roughly $1 million and $2.6 million and liabilities between roughly $350,000 and $850,000, according to an Office of Government Ethics form that lists ranges rather than precise figures.

The Biden Reelection Strategy.  Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval.  Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected.  [Advertisement]  His age advances by the hour.  His voice falters, his memory fades, and his gait is reduced to short steps, with his arms, winglike and in tandem, offering balance.  [Advertisement]  Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old.  It is America's irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than President, which apparently allows for a 3-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the country.  [Advertisement]  So how does Biden become renominated and reelected, as polls show he is behind in almost every critical swing state on nearly every issue?  [Advertisement]  Answer:  not by campaigning, not by championing his record, and especially not by doubling down on his neo-socialist and now unpopular agendas.  Instead, his campaign is focused on four other strategies to beat Donald Trump.

Presidential Debates Start Next Month Which Means They're Setting Biden Up.  With Democrats doing well in fundraising, there is no viable reason for an incumbent president to want an early summer debate.  There are usually three fall debates to maximize viewership, but both Biden and Trump are exceptional cases.  For Trump, the dates work to fit around the lawfare being waged against him.  This makes sense even as the trials themselves do not.  But for Biden, the reason to propose such an early debate is ominous.  If they're able to pump him full of enough stimulants to make him appear lucid for an hour or two, then there's a chance he could actually continue to be the Democrat nominee.  But in the likely event that he bombs from his severe lack of mental acuity, Democrats will have the predicate to replace him and the time to get their new candidate on most ballots.

The Biden Lies the Liberal Media Want You to Forget.  As the 2024 election approaches, the left-wing corporate media have lost all interest in President Biden's frequent lies about his life and career.  In the past, these journalists have paid brief attention to the one of President's latest tall tales, but rarely have they ever bothered to revisit them when the moment has passed.  No matter how frequently Biden may lie, the media refuse to see a pattern.  As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham has noted, prominent Biden fact-checkers spend a great deal of time disputing negative claims about Biden, yet they show little interest in fact-checking the man himself.  Thanks to this favoritism, the President has gotten away with telling a host of utterly false or unproven stories about his own life.  Some of these stories are less than a month old, while others have popped up multiple times throughout Biden's decades-long political career.

The Ravings of a Kindly Old Man with a Poor Memory.  Joe Biden, long before he was, ahem, installed as president, pilfered and retained highly classified information in three different locations, one a presumably dust-and-spider-infested garage.  But Robert Hur, the kind of federal prosecutor we should all be so lucky as to encounter, found that Crusty Joe was much too likable and fried to ever prosecute or convict.  So no charges for poor, old, senile, and likely incontinent, Sleepy Joe.  And that's my defense for anyone triggered by my forthcoming political and social ramblings. [...] Should a guy who can barely walk, talk, read a teleprompter, or control his bowels, be steering the vaunted ship of state?  Of course not.

How America came to hate FJB.  Biden was the most unknown president since William Howard Taft to the American people.  Most people knew two things about Biden:  1) he was Obama's VP and 2) he wasn't Donald Trump.  Three years ago, Americans saw No. 2 as a good thing. [...] His haphazard surrender of Afghanistan did him in.  The public saw that he left behind billions of dollars worth of military equipment in a manner reminiscent of Vietnam, a war that helped catapult him into the Senate as a peacenik.  The difference in 2021 was Americans didn't much care about Afghanistan because no one was drafted to fight it, the protests were few, and the feeling was that we had won.  Ditching Afghanistan did him in.  College football crowds began chanting [F] Joe Biden.  This shocked me because college students are supposed to be socialist tools who just repeat whatever their pinko professors say.  The media tried to ignore the chants but when the chants hit NASCAR, the media had to notice.  Instead of telling the truth, they lied.  The lie backfired.

Fake Fact-Checkers Snopes Is Forced To Reverse Their False Claim About Ashely Biden's Diary.  Snopes reverses their 'Fact Check' after Ashley Biden confirmed her diary was real in a letter to Judge Laura Taylor Swain.  Old Twitter would have used Snopes to ban us all for "misinformation."  Ashley Biden appeared to suggest that her father was a pedophile by writing in her diary that he would have "probably inappropriate" showers with her.  In a letter Judge Swain, Ashley confirmed the diary was real and whined that people were using it to attack her father.

Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?  Joe Biden's personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent.  He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states.  And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers.  In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what he always was and represented.  Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was always sort of a buffoon.  He is by nature a grandstander who handsomely profited from his office while posing as good ole Joe from Scranton. [...] He is a fabulist who believes that the more animated he misleads and slurs ("semi-fascists" "fat", "lying dog-faced pony soldier", "chumps", "dregs of society", etc), the more likely he is to get away with it.  He is a confessed plagiarist.  And he has also invented much of his biography, from would be star, college-scholarship athlete and brilliant law student to semi-truck driver and jailed civil rights activist.  His uncle, we are instructed, was eaten by cannibals.  Joe assures us that he was the first in his family to go to college.

The Biden Anti-American Legacy.  Never before has an American president been so physically unstable that he needs an accompanying entourage wherever he walks.  That shakiness is a visual metaphor of Biden's presidency.  He represents a departure from previous presidents in being the only president who leaves voters doubting whether he is actually in charge and wondering why a frail 81-year-old, broadly despised man is being pushed to run again, even as most don't believe he's capable of completing that term if elected.  Biden came in as the anti-Trump antidote who was supposed to unify us and bring the adults back into the room.  Biden faces an international and domestic dumpster fire as he flip-flops from issue to issue.

Democrat Voter Triage.  Four years ago, when Biden "won" the shadiest election in modern history, I expected four or eight years of nonsense and a lot of bad laws that would have to be repealed.  Sort of a repeat of the Carter years.  Boy howdy, was that ever an overoptimistic assessment.  Carter should be thanking his lucky stars that Biden has handily bumped him out of the unenviable spot of "worst president ever."  Which is actually a difficult accomplishment, when you think about it.  I won't bother to list all of the aspects of his job which Biden has managed to bumble.  Once you get past abandoning Americans and equipment in Afghanistan, allowing two wars to start, tanking the economy, ignoring the border laws, and using the Justice Department as his personal pack of thugs, it starts to get depressing.  And we're not even halfway down the rap sheet.

The core of the Biden crimes and the Suspicious Activity Reports.  Several small volumes have been written about the Biden Laptop and the scandals therein, and rightfully so.  What these exposés omitted were the hundreds of documented crimes (both felonies and misdemeanors) and the necessary information to thoroughly expose and prosecute them.  The Bidens' nepotism, although egregious, was not easily actionable under U.S. law.  These omissions have served as a classic limited hangout for the family, who benefited from the milquetoast research put forward by most of the press.  Nearly everyone who has written about these matters has buried the lede by missing — like ships passing in the dead of night — a statute that was written with Hunter and his ilk in mind:  the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).  The FARA requires those acting as an agent for a "foreign principal" to register with the DOJ. [...] Because the bar to comply with the FARA is so low, the penalties for violating the statute are relatively steep, including fines and up to five years in prison.  Hunter and his business partners flagrantly violated this law for nearly a decade.

Biden abandons Israel to appease student rioters and help Hamas survive.  Let's distill the real significance of Biden's decision:  First, this action proves that Biden has never really wanted Hamas destroyed.  Though he has appeared to support Israel from the beginning of this war, he has also been somewhat two-faced about that support.  Throughout the war, beginning almost immediately after October 7th, he has continually applied pressure on Israel to slow or even stop its effort, while in the background he has continued to funnel money and aid to Hamas.  Now he is made blatantly obvious his alliance with Israel is only skin deep.  As far as he is concerned it is perfectly okay to have a new Nazi regime established next door to Israel, flinging rockets and mobs of terrorists into its territory to kill Jews, even as that new Nazi regime indoctrinates more Arabs to its cause.  Second, by this decision Biden is meekly appeasing the student pro-Hamas rioters on college campuses.  They want Hamas saved and Israel destroyed, and have been protesting violently in order to influence Biden and the Democrats to apply pressure on Israel to stop its offensive.  Biden has now bowed to that pressure.

Joe Biden Just Committed an Impeachable Offense, and Donald Trump Might Have Something to Say About It.  Joe Biden has committed his umpteenth impeachable offense.  According to reports, the Biden administration has halted multiple arms shipments to Israel.  That decision comes amid a domestic political crisis for the president in which he is desperately seeking to appease Hamas-supporting Democrats who have taken to the streets.  The shipments are Boeing-made precision bombs and follow a ruse by Hamas to claim they had accepted a "ceasefire" just as Israel began its assault on Rafah.  [Tweet]  In other words, Biden just committed an impeachable offense.  Congress appropriated that aid to Israel.  He doesn't get to delay it in an attempt to smooth over his political misfortunes at home.  How do I know that?  Because that's the standard Democrats set with their first impeachment of Donald Trump.  The former president was impeached and given a trial in the Senate in early 2020 based on the idea that he had held up an aid package to Ukraine in an attempt to benefit politically (in this case, investigating Biden family corruption in the country).  There is no tangible difference between that and what Biden is doing with this aid to Israel.

Biden's double game on Hamas should fool no one.  When President Joe Biden wants to say the right things about Israel and antisemitism, he knows how to do it.  Much like his comments immediately after the Oct. 7 massacres, his speech at a Holocaust commemoration held in the U.S. Capitol on May 7 struck all the right notes. [...] Yet, the president said, "people are already forgetting.  They are already forgetting.  That Hamas unleashed this terror.  It was Hamas that brutalized Israelis.  It was Hamas who took and continues to hold hostages.  I have not forgotten nor have you.  And we will not forget."  While his words earned the applause they garnered, that last statement isn't true.  That's because his policies — as distinct from some of his speeches that were, like those at the Holocaust ceremony, largely aimed at Jewish voters — contradict that promise.  Although he initially endorsed the Israeli goal of eliminating Hamas and seemed to implicitly commit to that again in his speech, the entire thrust of Biden's current Middle East policy is quite the opposite.  He is doing everything he can, including threats of cutting off certain military weapons, diplomatic maneuvers at the United Nations and duplicitous efforts to push through an agreement with the terrorist group, to save Hamas from defeat just when Israel put it on the ropes.

Biden Shows Even Reading Is a Problem Now.  Joe Biden had the United States Military Academy's Black Knights to the White House on Monday to present the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to them for winning the competition among military academies.  The Army team actually won it back in December after beating Navy, but it's taken Joe Biden this long to get around to recognizing them and presenting the trophy. [...] Then the cadets had to deal with Joe Biden, who looked ancient and spoke for only about five minutes.  You can see here how even straight reading off the teleprompter leaves Joe confused about what he's supposed to be saying.

Unrepresentative Government.  There used to be rituals common to all political campaigns, but you don't see them much anymore.  This included multiple events taking place every day, announced in advance, and open to the media and the public. [...] Biden's recent visit to Tampa got me thinking about this.  There were news stories announcing his visit in advance, but it was impossible to find out where it was.  The media did not even acknowledge its own silence, taking it for granted that members of the public should not get to hear the president speak.  When Biden arrived at the local community college campus — a location announced at the last possible movement — he met with hand-picked local party functionaries, and he gave a rather extreme speech that praised abortion as if it were the Eighth Sacrament.  Wherever he goes, Biden almost never mixes with regular people.

Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet?  Could it be that the average non-leftist citizen now feels both powerless and terrified to object to any of these injustices?  They see the brutal treatment meted out to President Trump, his associates, and his legal team, on the one hand, versus the reverence for a president whose family has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign sources and for violent protesters who have magically escaped jail time, or of crack-using, tax-dodging Biden family members.  Consider the brazenness and audacity of this administration, including its DOJ, over the last several years.  Their targeted victims have purposely included some of the most credentialed, accomplished, prominent, well-connected, and well-heeled Americans, people such as cabinet members, generals, journalists, and even attorneys of those same victims.  Other victims have been ordinary folk, such as people's friends, family members, parents opposing sexualized curricula at their kids' schools, or peaceful men and women holding up signs near an abortion clinic.

Biden DHS shuts down 'experts' panel featuring signatories of infamous Hunter laptop letter.  The Biden administration agreed Friday to shut down a panel of "experts" that included multiple signatories of a letter that dismissed a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden as Russian disinformation.  The Department of Homeland Security agreed to "wind down" the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group in 30 days following litigation from America First Legal, according to court documents.  The experts in the group included former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who signed an October 2020 letter that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from the laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Report: Biden Unable to Handle His Job, Hands Things Over to Kamala.  We have all asked people to lend a hand when doing a job before.  It's human nature to ask for help.  That being said, if you ask someone for help you don't completely abandon the job.  That seems to be what Joe Biden has been doing.  The Biden presidency has been so predictable.  Governing by executive order, refusing to speak to the press, a border crisis, and handing over power to Kamala Harris.  Everyone who was paying attention could see the cognitive decline of Joe Biden.  Even those who hate him have felt at least a small amount of sympathy for the man who is clearly suffering from the effects of old age, and is being controlled by his allies, and possibly even his wife, in the Democrats' quest for power.  As his administration continues to shield Biden from the press, reports have come out of the White House that Kamala Harris is taking over many of the duties we typically see the president in charge of.

Joe Biden is far from 'decent' despite what the media and celebrities may claim.  Joe Biden is the least popular president of the past 70 years, according to a new Gallup poll.  But you wouldn't know it if you were at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday night.  The glittering event is supposed to be a roast of the president.  Instead, it was a flattering suck-up to Biden amid jabs at Donald Trump.  "Saturday Night Live" comedian Colin Jost, best known as Scarlett Johansson's second husband, is a Staten Island boy who reads The [New York] Post, so you'd think he'd have a clue.  But he ended his performance with a gushing tribute to Biden's "decency."

DA Finally Reveals Underlying Crime Trump Allegedly Committed, and the Bidens Should be Nervous.  Prosecutors in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office have finally revealed the underlying crime they allege Donald Trump was committing when he allegedly falsified business records.  According to Fox News, "New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass on Tuesday said the other crime was a violation of a New York law called 'conspiracy to promote or prevent election.'" [...] If this silly legal fairy tale somehow results in a conviction, all of the people involved in "catch-and-kill" related to the 2020 election, including the 51 former intelligence officials who lied about the origins of the Hunter Biden laptop story, those who arranged for the New York Post's story to be censored, and people who conspired to deplatform those who said anything negative about Joe Biden, better watch out.

Biden should be more concerned than anyone about the precedent the Trump trials are setting.  With news about the White House's collusion with prosecutors in the slew of trials thrown at President Trump as he campaigns for re-election, it's natural to think that Joe Biden and his mentor, Barack Obama, are mainly interested in knocking him out of the race before anyone can get a chance to vote for him.  Obama, after all, got his start in politics by doing just that.  No one can say that Obama doesn't know the Chicago Way.  But while this activity is natural for Obama, Joe Biden looks more like a sitting duck, an unwitting boob, a goose, slowly being fattened for the Christmas dinner.

Is Biden's IRS Meddling In The IG Investigation Of Hunter Biden Whistleblowers?  "The IRS needs to get into gear immediately and provide answers about the scope and status of the alleged investigatory process" into the Hunter Biden whistleblowers, Sen. Chuck Grassley told The Federalist.  Grassley's comment comes after he received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service commissioner stating that the IRS is not investigating the whistleblowers and that any investigation would be handled by the inspector general's office to ensure independence.  The IRS commissioner's claim is far from comforting, however, given that a recent court filing indicates the chief counsel office of the IRS is kept apprised of the IG's apparent probe of the whistleblowers.  Last month, Special Counsel David Weiss responded to a motion Hunter Biden filed seeking dismissal of the criminal tax charges pending against the president's son in California.  In his motion, Hunter argued the IRS's supposed "outrageous conduct" violated his due process rights and justified dismissal of the indictment.  That "outrageous conduct," according to Hunter's motion, consisted of the government "not taking action to curtail the misconduct or prevent the unauthorized disclosure of confidential grand jury and taxpayer return information," by IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.

Joe Biden Shakes Hands with Air After Incoherent Speech in Tampa.  Joe Biden on Tuesday arrived in Tampa, Florida to attack the 6-week abortion ban during remarks at Hillsborough Community College's Dale Mabry campus.  Florida is Trump country!  No one cares that Joe Biden is in Tampa.  He can't even fill a small venue.  [Tweet]  Biden is hoping to shore up the Gen Z vote in Florida by attacking the state's 6-week abortion ban that goes into effect May 1.  After finishing his slur-filled speech, Biden turned to his right and shook hands with air.

Biden Pushes Debunked Claim Trump Told Americans to Inject Themselves With Bleach, Here's the Truth.  Four years ago, the media birthed one of the biggest fictions that it pushed during the COVID-19 pandemic: that Donald Trump told Americans to inject themselves with bleach.  He did no such thing, but the desperate Biden campaign wants you to think so.  [Tweet with video clip]  The false claim originated from the White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing on April 23, 2020.  During the briefing, Trump and others discussed possible COVID-19 treatments, including UV light treatments. [...] As you can see, Trump wasn't talking about bleach.  He was talking about what is known as blood irradiation therapy — which can be done intravenously.  The clip that the Biden campaign shared is absurdly out of context.

He's obviously not the real president.
Democrats are using an infirm 81-year-old Joe Biden to defraud the electorate.  [Scroll down]  It's not just Biden's sepulchral presentation, but his administration's increasingly unpopular policies covering the economy, the border, foreign affairs and a raft of fringe social engineering projects, such as Friday's rewriting of Title IX, which effectively abolishes the distinction between women and men.  The nation was not exactly crying out for this Orwellian policy, but it's part of the curious tapestry of bespoke pandering that constitutes Biden's re-election platform.  Pretending you've stopped inflation, pretending you need Congress to shut the border, pretending that your uncle was eaten by cannibals:  These are not vote-winners for Biden.  Whether he's walking "like a toothpick," as Donald Trump describes the president's stiff gait, falling over, garbling teleprompter scripts, or breaking into sudden angry yelling, in the normal political calculus, such a candidate should be heading for a car crash.  Even worse, the backup plan is Kamala Harris, [...] With Harris, what you see is what you get:  a complete phony spouting condescending claptrap.

You don't have to be very bright to understand that lying, swearing, graft, and abortion are wrong.
Biden 'doesn't understand the Catholic faith,' bishop says: 'I'm not angry at him, he's just stupid'.  A Catholic bishop in Michigan weighed in on the discrepancy between President Biden's policies and his professed Catholic faith earlier this month, suggesting "forgiveness" for the president's "stupidity."  Bishop Robert Gruss of the Diocese of Saginaw mentioned Biden during "Forgiveness as the Heart of Christianity," a lecture given on Apr. 5 at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption.  In the discussion, Gruss urged congregants to let go of unproductive anger and resentment towards others — citing his own experience growing up with an alcoholic father and a letter he wrote in adulthood forgiving him for the trauma of his youth.

Senile Joe Tries to Order a Milkshake, Gets Lost, Wanders Away from Handlers.  A visibly confused Joe Biden struggled to order a milkshake at a Philadelphia convenience store Thursday.  His handlers attempted to guide the aging president through the process, but he eventually gave up and wandered away.  [Three tweets with video clips]

This Is How Joe Biden Was Greeted In His Hometown Of Scranton, Pennsylvania.  Joe Biden is greeted in his hometown of Scranton, PA.  [Video clip]

Biden Tried To Recreate Trump's Chick-fil-A Moment But No One [Cared].  Biden takes a page from Trump's book and orders a milkshake at a Wawa in Philadelphia, a week after Trump ordered milkshakes at a Chick-fil-A.  Spot the difference... Biden started ordering a milkshake and then got distracted with a box.  It was later revealed that his entire visit to the Wawa was staged.  Workers were caught on camera scripting his visit and even preparing for the cashiers "tip."  The visit looked much different than Trump's visit to Chick-fil-A where he was greeted by tons of excited [and genuine] supporters.  [Video clip]

The Difference Between Trump's Bodega Visit and Biden's Gas Station 'Photo-Op' Is Truly Remarkable.  Support for the two 2024 election candidates looks very different, and it's good news for those who want the United States back to the way it was before Democrats assumed office.  After spending hours in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump was met with an abundance of support while visiting a local New York City bodega.  "Trump, Trump, Trump," "Four more years," and "We love Trump," could be heard from the streets of the city as the 2024 hopeful addressed the crowd.  The crowd filled with dozens of supporters began singing the National Anthem as the former president approached them.  The energy was abundant, lively, and full of hope as Trump promised to Make America Great Again.  Nothing compares to his presence — however hard President Joe Biden tries.  [Tweet]

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Trump's event featured a large and genuinely supportive crowd.  Biden's event was a scripted copycat astroturfed farce, and an abject failure.

Joe Biden Struggles with Takeout Box at Carefully Choreographed Visit to Wawa in Philly.  Joe Biden on Thursday continued campaigning in Pennsylvania and made a stop in Philadelphia.  This is Biden's last day in Pennsylvania this week before he returns to the White House.  After a gaffe-filled speech to a paltry crowd in deep blue Philly, Biden made a trip to Wawa.  Every moment of Biden's visit to Wawa was highly choreographed and scripted.

Biden Claims He Prevented Israel from Invading Haifa — an Israeli City.  President Joe Biden appeared to confuse the Israeli port city of Haifa with the Palestinian town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip during an interview on Wednesday in his home town Scranton, Pennsylvania.  In video circulated by the Republican National Committee — but evidently cut from the version of the interview that eventually aired on TV stations — Biden claimed credit for having pressured Israel not to launch an attack on its own city[.]

"Are You Ready to Choose Freedom Over Democracy?  Because That's America!" — Joe Biden Falls Apart in Philadelphia.  Joe Biden on Thursday continued campaigning in Pennsylvania and made a stop in Philadelphia.  This is Biden's last day in Pennsylvania this week before he returns to the White House.  So far, Biden's stops in Scranton and Pittsburgh have been total disasters.  A protestor was removed from Biden's Philly event.  Notice how small the room is.  Biden can't even fill a small venue in deep blue Philadelphia.

Joe Biden says things, and then there's reality.  Joe Biden is out in Pennsylvania saying that Trump got rich the old-fashioned way:  he inherited it.  At least that is an honest way to get rich.  Trump inherited money, and he took a massive amount of risk and created a huge number of jobs.  Biden, on the other hand, got rich the same way a lot of politicians get rich.  He used his powerful position in government and took his son around the world on government-paid transportation, collecting kickbacks from a number of adversaries, including Russia, Ukraine, and China.  The only thing the Biden family had to sell was access to Joe.  They did not take risks.  They did not develop anything.  They did not have a service or product to sell.  They did not create jobs.  They created shell companies to launder the money through.  That is not an honest way to get rich, but a lot of corrupt politicians have achieved wealth the same way.  Biden also claims that Trump doesn't pay taxes.  He pays a huge amount of taxes — whether it is real estate taxes, payroll taxes, or income taxes when the tax code shows he owes them.

Joe Biden Is a Sniveling, Unabashed Coward.  Joe Biden is a coward in every sense of the word.  Cowardice emanates from him like rotting garbage.  Cowardice overflows his speeches like a drain backing up from a clogged sewer line.  Cowardice infects everything he touches.  The well from which he extracts his cowardice is truly bottomless.  To witness it, in its shameless, reeking putrescence, is utterly cringeworthy.  There is nothing beneath the man.  There is nothing he won't say or do to retain power. [...] Over the years, Biden's media quislings have laughably associated many virtuous adjectives with him in efforts to fortify his reputation.  Decent.  Moderate.  Accomplished.  Steady.  Lucid.  It is telling that nobody, not even the most ludicrous of leftist outlets, has ever called him brave.  That's with good reason.  And anybody still quietly harboring that delusion before this past weekend just got the red pill they needed.  His betrayal of Israel should cement for any fence-sitters what the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians already knew full well: that Biden has all the spine of a common garden worm.

Joe Biden doesn't feel our pain, he mocks it.  And you know what that means.  Inflation and crime, more than any others, are the political issues that voters feel in their gut rather than consider in their mind.  For President Joe Biden, this is a massive problem because not only are Americans deeply worried about both, they blame the sitting president.  According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls, 56% of Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of crime, compared to a mere 38% who approve.  On inflation, it's even worse, with the president 26 points underwater.  Taxes, foreign policy, even something as emotionally fraught as abortion are ideas that most people grapple with intellectually, weighing concepts and compromises, deciding whose approach they prefer.

The Deep State's Accelerating Attacks On Trump Show A Consciousness Of Guilt.  Joe Biden has proven to be a puppet of the Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian oligarchs — a true Manchurian Candidate.  Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's princeling, raked in millions of dollars at arm's length from Uncle Joe for the Biden crime family from adversaries for no credible business reason.  Why?  The purpose was to gain access to Joe Biden for favorable policy decisions and actions, i.e., going soft on China and Russia, releasing funds to the Iranian Mullahs whose proxies attack Israel, selective prosecution of political enemies, and allowing a two-tiered justice system.  It's become clear in the past three years that a whole cadre of domestic and foreign adversaries all engaged in or aided and abetted in a coup to unseat a duly elected President and to prevent his reelection. [...] Facts show that the Biden and Clinton families are criminal enterprises as defined in the RICO Act.  The families conspired with others, both foreign adversaries and domestic operatives, for their personal gain or benefit to undermine and even sabotage the best interest of the American people and America's national security interests, including using election fraud.

The American public is exhausted by Biden.  During all this time, thanks to the utterly craven, stupid media, we have been, daily, reassured not to believe our own eyes regarding the actions and sentiments of the worst U.S. president in our history, but rather to believe the lies which rapidly provide cover for all and any of Biden's outrageous decisions.  In point:  the spending of our hard-earned money via taxes, 'entitlements' such as Medicare, and a slew of progressive support garbage that has never worked but has driven our minority populations into the ditch.  Biden has flooded the country with illegals, cartels, and deadly drugs, all of these entrants are receiving his mercenary 'kindness' via flights, hotel stays, credit cards, I.D.s, and more.  Why is illegal immigration another Biden mercenary activity?  Because he is buying their votes so he can continue (he thinks) riding the putrid wave of greatest privilege in the elite swamp.

Biden Held a Rally in His Pennsylvania Hometown and Barely Anyone Showed Up.  Joe Biden traveled to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday but did not get the reception he might have hoped for.  Photos of Biden's event appeared to show just a few dozen people in attendance for a campaign speech in which he unveiled plans to increase taxes on the super-rich.  Meanwhile, images from Trump's rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend showed thousands of people in attendance who had come to see the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.  [Tweet]  According to CNN, which often operates as an unofficial mouthpiece of the White House, Biden was seeking to push his own version of "economic populism."

Gaming the 2024 Campaign.  First, on the negative side of the ledger, Biden suffers continual mental and physical decline, which is accelerating exponentially.  His work week is now more off than on.  Aides pray that he can get through a teleprompter without complete incoherence.  His speech is so slurred, his syntax so bizarre that he seems to speak a language that is mostly indecipherable. [...] The odds are 50/50 whether Biden will even make it over the next five months to the August Democratic Convention.  And, assuming that he does, can he rein in efforts to push him off the ticket?  Second, the Biden family is corrupt.  Hunter still faces spring- and summer-long felony exposure in connection with his Biden-family brand of tax cheating.  Joe knows that his own documents, first-hand witnesses, bank statements, Hunter's emails, and testimonies from Hunter's associates reveal that the otherwise talentless but high-living Biden extended family was surviving only by the sale of Senator, Vice President, and future President Joe Biden's name — and his known willingness to pay fast and loose with legal and ethical constraints.

"Don't" Is Not A Foreign Policy.  The ground shook in Tehran as Ali Khamenei, the 84 year old supreme leader of Iran, shook in his boots as he listened to President Joe Biden give his terse warning to Iran about attacking Israel.  Biden looked into the camera, mustered all of his intestinal fortitude, and barked a single word that he thought would instill fear in the rogue country, "Don't."  Without another sound, he turned and shuffled away from the podium.  He had spoken.  It was feckless, but why should we expect more from this man who has disappointed us daily during his presidency?  I can imagine Biden had a similar effect on Benjamin Netanyahu as he listened to the American President, and it just adds to the confusing message of support that Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been delivering since the October 7 attack last year.  One day, Biden is pledging unwavering military support for our greatest ally in the Middle East, and the next day, he is condemning Israel's strategy and tactics.  Since World War II, American support for the sovereignty and safety of Israel has been unconditional except for two Presidencies, Obama and Biden.

Don't, Don't, Don't.  Biden and Barack Obama came out of the same school of weak appeasement and coddling Iran, and weakness invites attack.  Add to that not just the policy and response to Iran's aggressions have been weak, but Biden himself is the personification of weakness.  That's led to where we are now, with the box Biden has painted himself into, with bad actors getting out of hand and the Biden team trying to figure out what to do.  Let's follow along with Joe Biden's bold pronouncements in the face of aggression, with a little help from Maze.  [Tweet with video clip]

Biden Insisted on Vacation in Face of Threat From Iran, Now He's Rushing Back.  Something Is Up.  Joe Biden left for his beach house in Delaware on Friday, despite the threat of a potential attack on Israel by Iran hanging out in the wind. [...] It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it wasn't a good idea to go on vacation.  What about the danger to the American troops in the region?  What about the hostages being held by Hamas?  But Biden didn'tt want anything to stand in the way of his vacation, and whatever they do for him when he's in Delaware.

Bad News for Hunter Biden As Judge Denies Motions to Dismiss Delaware Gun Case.  First Son Hunter Biden struck out in Delaware District Court on Friday as Judge Maryellen Noreika denied his motions to dismiss the criminal gun charges against him.  The disappointing (for Hunter) ruling came just two weeks after a California District Court denied his motions to dismiss tax evasion charges against him.  While the California case is set for trial on June 20, 2024, the Delaware case currently is set to begin trial on June 3, 2024, with a pre-trial conference now set for May 24, 2024.  In orders issued Friday afternoon (which may be viewed below), Noreika denied Biden's motions to dismiss on the basis of claimed immunity pursuant to the pretrial diversion agreement, selective and vindictive prosecution, and that Special Counsel David Weiss was appointed in violation of Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations.

Biden, It Was YOU!  It was not President Trump who refused to enforce our immigration laws.  It was YOU!  It was not President Trump who opened our southern border to 10 million illegals from around the globe.  By erasing President Trump's executive order, worked out with Mexico, to house illegals there, Biden made himself responsible for the entry of drug cartels, criminals, gang members, rapists, and terrorists from enemy countries into our collective home.  It was YOU!  It was not President Trump who secretly and illegally flew 325,000 illegals from across the globe to cities across the U.S. at taxpayers' expense.  It was YOU!  It was not President Trump who allowed CCP-affiliated military-aged men to enter our collective home illegally.  It was YOU!  It was not President Trump who erased our energy independence by shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and making us once again energy dependent on foreign sources.  It was YOU!

Of Course, DNC Has Quietly Been Paying Biden's Legal Fees.  If you've heard any of the talking points coming out of the Biden camp in the last few weeks, you've probably heard the one about Trump's legal bills.  But it turns out that even as the Biden campaign and the DNC were making that case, the DNC was also paying Biden's legal bills.  Here's Biden's campaign finance chairman Rufus Gifford appearing on MSNBC Sunday.  "Every single dime that you give the Biden-Harris election campaign, we spend talking to voters," he said.  He added, "We are not spending money on legal bills."  This ciip of Gifford saying all of that was posted on YouTube by the DNC along with links so people could make donations.

Biden's $1.5 million in legal fees in classified documents probe were covered by campaign donations.  President Joe Biden used campaign donations to pay his legal bills related to the investigation of his handling of classified documents, a stunning new report revealed on Friday.  Biden and his allies have blasted rival Donald Trump for using donors' money to pay for his massive legal bills.  But Biden is doing the same thing, Axios reported, revealing the Democratic National Committee paid more than $1.5 million to lawyers or firms representing Biden during special counsel Robert Hur probe of the president's handling of classified documents.

Joe Biden's Former Stenographer Publishes Book on Why He Should be in Prison.  Mike McCormick, who served as Joe Biden's stenographer traveling with him around the world including to Ukraine, recently published a book revealing what he saw, which included criminal activity in regards to the Burisma kickback scheme.  "The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden" lays out probably the most comprehensive account ever written about the scheme.  McCorrmick became aware of the criminal nature of the activity after poring over the emails on Hunter Biden's laptop, which allowed him to put it all together.  "When I worked for him, I thought Joe was harmless — egotistical, buffoonish, and unpresidential, but harmless," he said.  "Now I think of him as an evil criminal who should be impeached and imprisoned."  McCormick served as Biden's stenographer when he was vice president from 2011 to 2017, transcribing every speech and interview.  He said he personally witnessed Biden negotiate the Burisma kickback scheme — U.S. funding to Ukrainian energy, primarily Burisma, in exchange for putting Hunter Biden on Burisma's board of directors — on a trip to Poland in 2014.

Joe Biden: "I Used Teach the Second Amendment in Law School...".  Joe Biden sat down for a one-on-one softball interview with Democrat-friendly Univision.  Biden attacked the Second Amendment during his interview and told Univision host Enrique Acevedo that he used to teach law school.  "I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school ... From the very beginning, there were limitations.  You couldn't own a cannon!" Biden said.  Of course, the Univision host did not push back on Joe Biden's lies.

Biden Just Betrayed Every American (Except Islamic Extremists).  Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously said that Joe Biden "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."  But even Gates should be shocked by the words that came out of Joe Biden's mouth today.  "What I'm calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country," the president said, as unbelievable as it may seem.  Nothing was said about hostages being released (Hamas has already admitted over the last few days that at least some of the hostages are dead).  There was no call for Hamas to surrender or even stop rocket attacks and acts of terrorism.  War only ends because it is so difficult for one side and its populace to continue the war.  And Biden wants to keep dragging it out; allow Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of Israel, to regroup and re-arm; and set the stage for more events like October 7, God forbid.  Hey, Joe, what about the hostages still being held by Hamas who are American citizens?

Liar!  All the necessary laws are already on the books.
Biden: I'm 'Examining' if I Can Shut Down Border Unilaterally, 'Trying to Work Through that'.  During an interview with Univision that took place last Wednesday and aired on Tuesday, [...] Interviewer Enrique Acevedo asked, "Have you made a final decision on taking executive [action], in terms of what you want to do at the border, that includes the power to shut down the border, as it was suggested?"  Biden answered, "We're examining whether or not I have that power.  I would have that power under the legislation when the border has over... 5,000 people a day trying to cross the border, because you can't manage it, slow it up.  There's no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation.  And some have suggested I should just go ahead and try it, and if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court, but we're trying to work through that right now."

The time to start asking this question was about two years ago, when the answer was already obvious.
Is Barack Obama serving a third term by running a 'shadow government' in Biden's White House?  Former U.S. president Barack Obama once famously said that he would serve a third term as long as he didn't have to do all the legwork.  "If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats ... and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I'd be fine with that," Obama remarked to liberal comedian Stephen Colbert in November 2020.  Sounds familiar, doesn't it?  According to multiple media outlets, Obama has been making his presence increasingly felt in the cognitively impaired Joe Biden White House.  Reports published by Deep State-owned CNN, the New York Times, and The Washington Post have all touted the former president's intensifying involvement in the administration's efforts, a not-so-subtle sign as to who is really in charge.

More about Obama's third term.

This Is Who Joe Biden Is Appeasing in Michigan As He Abandons Support for Israel.  President Biden has lost the plot in the Israel-Hamas war.  His alleged moral clarity in full support of Israel has been interrupted by a panic over losing votes in Dearborn, Michigan.  The level of antisemitism in America is alarming.  The fact that the president is now more worried about his re-election in November than he is about the survival of Israel and Jews is shocking.  There is history here, though.  Biden was Barack Obama's vice president and Obama's contempt for Israel, especially Prime Minister Netanyahu, was well known.  Some Obama bros even worked against Netanyahu in an election in Israel.  Joe Biden likes to say he's been friends with Netanyahu for decades.  With friends like Biden, Netanyahu doesn't need any more.

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Barack H. Obama is no friend of Israel, and we are living in Barack H. Obama's third term.  I'll wait here while you connect the dots.

When China Wired Money to Joe's House.  In the summer of 2019, while Joe Biden was running for president, the money was rolling into Delaware from Communist China.  This was the same Wilmington house where classified documents were lying around while Hunter Biden was living while allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes: some of them apparently foreign nationals.  On paperwork, Hunter appeared to claim ownership of the house and in 2010, he had begun paying for the upkeep of the house and his veep dad's bills.  By the time Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, was sending a $250,000 wire payment to Joe Biden's address, the former vice president and future president had already met with the Chinese investment exec doing business with his family and had written recommendation letters for his kids.  The $250,000 Chinese wire was described as a "loan".  But how was Hunter, by then approaching rock bottom, going to pay it off?  Where was the money coming from?

Justice Department Refuses to Hand over Audio of Joe Biden's Special-Counsel Interview.  The Justice Department is refusing to provide House Republicans the audio recording of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.  The DOJ wrote a letter Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.) and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) explaining its decision not to turn over the audio recordings.  "Indeed, by the Committees' own measure, the Department has met your stated informational needs.  The Department has produced the two classified documents you requested, the transcripts of the Special Counsel Office interviews of the President and of Mark Zwonitzer that you requested, and the correspondence regarding the Special Counsel's report that you requested," wrote Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte, according to a copy of the letter obtained by National Review.

Joe Biden's Narcissism Devolves Into Sociopathy at Baltimore Bridge Collapse Site.  Joe Biden made a short trip to Baltimore on Friday [and ...] visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, which occurred after a container ship lost power and hit one of the support structures.  As the president's public appearances go, his latest was typical.  Biden slurred his words and got confused multiple times, both things that seem to occur every time he gives a speech.  If he ever figures out how to exit a stage, it'll be the first time in a long time.  There was one moment that caught my eye, though, because it exposed something deeper than the president's general senility and lack of timing.  [Tweet with video clip] [...] This was not just a harmless infrastructure failure.  Six people died after the bridge collapsed, with some bodies being found in vehicles submerged at the bottom of the bay after an extensive search.  Biden was at the site of a deadly tragedy.  What kind of person shows up in that setting and starts giving a bad comedy routine?  Further, what kind of person then makes up a story in an attempt to make themselves the center of attention?

And So Sayeth the Donald.  President Biden's grating SOTU address, complete with an Obama-esque public flogging of the Supreme Court, leaves little doubt that he and the Democrats consider the abortion issue to be their get out of jail card, their virtual reprieve from the governor, sparing them the political execution their dismal handling of the nation's affairs has justly earned.  It didn't occur to Mr. Biden's speechwriter/handlers in crafting this discordant national harangue that of all the people to threaten with the "political power of women," members of the Supreme Court are the least appropriate officials to address in this manner.  It's their clear duty to keep their eyes firmly planted on the Constitution and ignore prevailing political winds and passions of the kind to which Mr. Biden mindlessly alluded.

DOJ Seeks Prison Time for Woman Who Found Ashley Biden's Diary that Revealed Old Joe's Perverted Acts with His Daughter.  As previously reported, Ashley Biden, Joe Biden's youngest daughter, left her diary under a mattress at the Palm Beach rehab home following a stay at a treatment facility.  Two individuals who found Ashley Biden's diary at a halfway house later sold the diary to James O'Keefe and Project Veritas.  In a January 2019 entry, Ashley Biden recalled how she used to shower with her father, Joe Biden, and suggested it may have contributed to a sex addiction.  The diary describes Ashley and her father Joe Biden taking showers together at an inappropriate age.

Biden Starts Yapping at the Teleprompter Guy During Confused and Embarrassing Speech.  Another day, another confused and embarrassing performance from the current White House resident.  Greek Independence Day was the occasion on Thursday, with Joe Biden hosting a reception in the East Room.  Why Greek Independence Day is an event worthy of a White House reception wasn't immediately clear, and neither was anything the president said.  Right on cue, Biden did his faux Forrest Gump routine where he inserts himself into every aspect of every culture.  It's fitting that just two days before this speech, the president repeated a tall tale about being raised by the Puerto Rican community.  Biden has also made similar claims regarding the Jewish and Black communities.  There's almost no ethnicity he won't appropriate in some manner.

This would be a step in the right direction, and much quicker than impeachment.
Archbishop Viganò: Biden must be recognized as excommunicated after 'Trans Day of Visibility' declaration.  The unprecedented and scandalous proclamation of March 31 as "Transgender Visibility Day" by self-styled U.S. President Joe Biden — who dares to declare himself a Catholic — constitutes a most serious offense to God and to millions of Catholics and Christians in America and around the world, before which it is impossible not to react with due firmness.  I urge American citizens and their representatives in government to recognize the total unworthiness of Joe Biden to hold an institutional position, which it is well known that he used fraudulent and manipulative action to achieve in the 2020 presidential election.  I ask my brethren in the episcopate and priests to recognize that Joe Biden has incurred latæ sententiæ excommunication, and as such must be expelled from the churches and not admitted to Communion.

Texts from Hunter Biden's business partner to Tony Bobulinski suggests president [Biden] was part of deal with Chinese government-linked oil giant CEFC.  Emails show Hunter Biden's ex-business partner and impeachment witness Tony Bobulinski offered information to Democrat lawmakers on Joe Biden's links to his son's shady business dealings as early as 2020.  Records also show the businessman offered to turn over his business cell phones to forensic analysts — countering claims from Democrats that he isn't willing to back up his story with evidence.  The emails between Bobulinski and Democrat lawmaker Ro Khanna come from a short documentary released by Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, with behind-the-scenes footage of Bobulinski during a congressional hearing last month.

Who Will Vote for a Walking Corpse?  Social media was briefly abuzz last month about Presidentish Joe Biden's boat-anchor shoes, the ones meant to help keep him from falling.  But the shoes aren't what really weigh him down — it's voter expectations that he won't survive a second term.  Before we get to that, a little more on the shoes because I honestly can't get enough of that story.  After Biden was first spotted sporting his snowboard-sized kicks, the RNC tweeted, "Biden's handlers are forcing him to wear a new pair of 'lifestyle sneakers' because he trips so much," which of course, lefties denied.  "Inside Edition" protested that Biden's Hoka Transport shoes are just "lifestyle sneakers" while also admitting that the "wide sole" is "no doubt great for stability."  I don't have a photo I can post of the Transports, but not only are the soles wide enough to save both Jack and Rose from drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, they don't even have regular laces.  Biden's Transports are laced with those pull strings that my kids' shoes had before they learned to tie their own.  Is that common on shoes for grownups?  I have no idea.  But the fact remains that in his Hokas, Biden is basically a living, breathing Weeble.

Biden Bizarrely Denies Declaring Easter Sunday 'Transgender Day of Visibility'.  President Joe Biden reportedly denied declaring Easter Sunday the "Transgender Day of Visibility," despite issuing a very clear proclamation on Good Friday, which stated in part, "I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility."  RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Melanchthon Wegmann detailed the Q&A of Biden's denial on Monday.  According to Wegmann, Biden said, "I didn't do that" and claimed that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who criticized Biden for making the proclamation, is "thoroughly uninformed": [...]

Black Gold.  In 2019, while campaigning in New Hampshire, Joe Biden promised to "end fossil fuel." Not only has he failed to keep his promise, oil consumption has reached a new all-time high.  For this we should all be thankful.  When a climate activist challenged him on that September day about his connections to the co-founder of a liquified natural gas company, Biden, as he has done throughout his career of "public service," became Joe the Clown.  Calling her "kiddo," he told her to look into his eyes, then said "I guarantee you.  We're going to end fossil fuel."  The ever-fawning-for-Democrats media called it an "intimate moment."  But it was nothing more than a typical "Biden moment" on the campaign trail.

Joe Catholic strikes again.  Honestly this is obscene and disrespectful to people who celebrate Easter Sunday for a different reason.  Joe Catholic is either a fraud, a man signing whatever they put in front of him or maybe both.  Imagine a president signing a proclamation honoring Ho Chi Minh on Memorial Day, or one honoring Jim Crow on Martin Luther King Day or one honoring King George II on July 4th.  The insanity goes on in large part because they know at the White House that the press won't ask the president about it.  They never do and KJP may hang up on them if they do.

Biden Turns the Transgender High Holy Day Into a 'Look at Me' Moment.  By now, we're all aware that the White House managed to commit the most sacrilegious act imaginable — or at least made the biggest possible slap in the faces of Christians — by emphasizing "Transgender Day of Visibility" over Easter.  While the holiday honoring our secular state religion of transgenderism is fixed on March 31, it could have and rightly should have taken a backseat to the moveable feast that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.  Instead, Joe Biden, his handlers, and the rest of his administration chose to double down on honoring a tiny minority of transgender Americans over the millions of Christians who celebrate Easter Sunday.  The White House statement on Easter was only 94 words, while the proclamation of "Transgender Day of Visibility" clocked in at a whopping 635 words.  On the president's X/Twitter account, the "Transgender Day of Visibility" tweet was twice as long (45 words) as the Easter tweet (20 words).

Joe Biden Tells 'Trans Americans' They Are 'Made in the Image of God'.  President Joe Biden's secular deputies kidnapped Christian theology to champion transgenderism on the holiest weekend for Christianity.  On Sunday afternoon, Biden's X account tweeted:  "Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans:  I see you.  You are made in the image of God, and you're worthy of respect and dignity."

The Social Justice War To Replace Christianity.  You might think that on Christianity's most holy day, a president running for reelection in a majority Christian nation would go out of his way to avoid antagonizing Christians.  You'd be wrong.  The Biden Administration has declared today, Easter Sunday, as a "Transgender Day of Visibility." [...] Transexist dogma demands that you agree that 2+2=5.  To note the biological reality that human beings with XX chromosomes are female, and XY chromosomes are male, and that no amount of cosmetic surgery can ever change that, is commit a heresy against the new church of social justice.  Transesxist dogma is so unpopular that they're even rejecting it in New York City, but the Biden Administration still insists on forcing it down America's throats.  Even in an election year.  Even on Easter Sunday.  The brazenness of dedicating Easter Sunday to transexual activism should convince you that the hard left is actively hostile to Christianity.  They view it as a competing source of moral legitimacy that thwarts their will-to-power desire of a complete transformation of American society.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.  For those of you who celebrate this sacred day, Happy Easter.  For those who don't, most Americans appreciate that it is the holiest day of the year for you and treat it with civilized respect.  To the President who claims he is a Catholic in good standing, it's just another day to poke his fingers in your eyes.  Yes, the White House is hosting the traditional easter egg rolling event, but it has banned all religious symbols at the event, and in a proclamation dated, "in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four" announced that this day, March 31, is "Transgender Day of Visibility."  (Can you honestly say transgenders have been invisible in this Administration or generally in our country these days?)  It strikes me that it is so deliberately offensive to Christians it's puzzling.

Not to mention the lying and swearing...
Cardinal Says Joe Biden is a "Nominal" Catholic, Should be Excommunicated for Supporting Abortion.  In a new interview, a Catholic Cardinal who headed up one of the top Vatican offices says Joe Biden is "nominal" Catholic and should be excommunicated for supporting abortion.  Cardinal Gerhard Müller, who previously lead the Vatican's highest doctrine office, called abortion "infanticide" and saying those politicians who actively support abortion like Biden should be "excommunicated."  "The word 'abortion' is too much a soft word.  The reality is killing, murder of a living person," said Gerhard Cardinal Müller.  "There's no right to kill another person.  It's absolutely against the Fifth Commandment."

The Democrat party is a Potemkin village.  Nothing has revealed the shallow, empty façade of the Democrat party like the rather obscene fundraiser held Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall.  Joe Biden's campaign is going so badly that Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were resurrected from the shadows to bolster Biden's sinking polling numbers.  Whoever is running the campaign apparently thinks people are so stupid that getting those two former presidents on board will fool voters into thinking Biden is not the failed, demented, callous man he is.

The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry.  House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry.  The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President's past statements on his family's well-documented influence peddling operation.  President Biden is not expected to testify.  However, the media should be interested in his answering the questions presented by the Committee.  It is now clear that the President lied during his campaign and during his presidency on his lack of knowledge of his son's business activities as well as his denial of any money gained from China.  Yet, the White House responded, again, with mockery — a sense of impunity that only exists due to an enabling media.

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Remember, anything you say can and will be used against you.  Years from now.  Out of context.  In a meme.

The Most Destructive Americans of the Last 70 years.  [Scroll down]  But wait... since this was written how can you omit Joe Biden?  Although he doesn't know what he is responsible for, his being manipulated as president has done more 'outright' harm to this country that any other person[,] because it is a blatant spit in your face to America as a sovereign nation.  He has destroyed energy independence, allowed millions across our southern border, sanctioned (or blessed) transgenderism, and mandated an experimental vaccine that has killed thousands, caused loss of livelihoods, and put our military in jeopardy in many ways.

Being non compos mentis, Biden is unfit to vote.  Non compos mentis translates to, "of unsound mind."  In some respects, we have an unsound electoral system:  an idiot can run for our highest public office, but be unfit to vote for himself.  Joe Biden is de facto unfit to vote.  After Special Counsel Robert K. Hur's report in the Joe Biden classified documents case, it should be easy to establish that Biden is also de jure unfit to vote.  Thirty nine states have laws that permit judges to disenfranchise people with varying stages of mental disorder, like idiocy.  Since Biden is the village idiot in Wilmington, Delaware, let's look at their law that restricts the voting rights of people with mental disabilities:

Biden Losing Minorities.  [Scroll down]  No less acute is Joe's mental health.  If you look, for example, at the pre-election debate between Trump and Biden in 2020, you can see that the latter at that time was almost able to express himself sensibly and explain his thoughts.  If you look at him now, you can only see an old person who cannot do or say anything without prompting from his assistants.  The president either "doesn't want to answer questions," or "technically shouldn't be here," or "oh, what I'm doing here" (just look at his hands at this point).  Biden is not mentally healthy, no matter how much he claims otherwise.  This is also evidenced by the large number of vacation weekends that he has taken since the beginning of his term (resting 40% of days — something an ordinary man cannot dream of), and the small number of public appearances, and the quality of his performances in these rare moments.

Jill Biden Compares Florida to Nazi Germany.  Oh, so now were back to the nazi references?  The communist left, including baby sitter and husband cheater Jill Biden can't seem to agree on one insult.  Can't stick with "MAGA extremists", "Nazis" or "Russian owned" slurs they've used since 2015.  Now, "Doctor" Jill Biden is comparing Florida to Nazi Germany or something.  Of course she made these cracks in of all places, California at a fundraiser.

Biden Gets Heckled in Raleigh and Folds Like a Cheap Camera.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were in North Carolina on Tuesday, hoping to get some votes from a vital swing state by talking about healthcare.  So far, the polls indicate that North Carolina is trending in favor of former President Donald Trump, not to mention all the other swing states.  [Tweet]  So Biden is trying to figure out some approach to overcome his own incoherence and failed policies and convince Americans to vote for him.  On Tuesday, he tried to pitch Obamacare as a rationale.  Of course, he left out all the falsehoods that Obama/Biden told us when they sold it: that you can keep your plan and keep your doctor.  Oh, and your premiums will go down.  But as he was talking about Obamacare, he was interrupted by anti-Israel activists.  You can hear one of the activists yell out, "What about the healthcare in Gaza?" as Biden looks around in confusion.  [Tweet with video clip]

It Sure Looks Likes Joe Biden Lied to the Special Counsel About His Political Origin Story.  Did Joe Biden lie to then-Special Counsel Robert Hur about a long-proclaimed political origin story?  According to a new report, it sure looks like it.  In October of 2023, while being questioned by Hur about his illegal taking and storing of classified documents, the president decided to explain the one time he's "ever lied."  Biden claimed that, as a young lawyer, he once defended a construction company against a worker [...].  As the tale goes, the president was so great at his job that he wrote a "memo" that got the case thrown out.  He then supposedly felt so guilty that he turned to a life of public service, not for the power, fame, and fortune but to help the little guy.  One can't help but laugh at Biden's proclamation that the above incident is the only time he's ever lied in his entire life.  The president's career has been marked by the repetition of numerous falsehoods, to the point where there are too many to count.  So what's the problem with this specific story?  Per the Free Beacon's investigation, it "almost certainly" isn't true. [...] Biden has been telling that story for decades, and there's ample evidence he's been lying this entire time.  The president appears to have inserted himself into a case his law firm lost while he was still in law school.

The Jimmy Carter-ization of Kamala Harris.  Joe Biden's presidency is plagued by inflation, stagflation, and a Middle Eastern war, along with an Eastern European war and African decay.  In addition, America suffers from an open border, drug problems, and accelerating crime that has turned entire cities, such as New York, into slums.  Oh, and as in the 1970s, he loses wars.  (By the way, we abandoned Vietnam before Carter's presidency, but Biden was one of the Democrat architects behind that abandonment.) [...] Today's embarrassed laughter comes from a president who repeatedly falls down the stairs, shakes hands with invisible people, must be told to get out of the rain, needs giant Easter Bunnies to escort him on the White House grounds, and compulsively sniffs children.  Although, on second thought, none of that's very funny, is it?

The Untouchables:  Bidens, Burisma and the Intelligence Community.  Mike Benz is the founder and CEO of the Foundation For Freedom Online, which "Through educational reports, legal assistance, and public policy analysis concerning developing threats to digital liberties" seeks to "provide nonpartisan insights and assistance to all peoples taking a stand for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the free exchange of ideas online."  Prior to FFO, Benz was "a former State Department official with responsibilities in formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters."  Benz's voice is an important one that communicates clearly about a vast amount of analysis and findings that he confirms with a deep and thorough inside perspective overlaid by technical expertise and diplomatic acumen.  Specifically, Benz has made several recent videos in addition to appearances made with Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and other conservative media figures.

Democrats lost one precious thing at Hunter influence peddling hearing.  This week, Democrats appear to have finally drained away what remained of themselves and their party.  For years, Democratic members and the media have demanded any evidence of the direct involvement or knowledge of President Joe Biden of the influence-peddling operation of his son, Hunter, and his brothers, James and Frank.  In the hearing, witnesses testified under oath about specific meetings with Joe Biden discussing these foreign dealings and the family business interests.  Bank records were introduced showing the transfers of millions going to Hunter and various Biden family members.

Desperate Biden Falsely Claims Trump 'Told Us to Inject Ourselves With Bleach'.  Joe Biden has released a new campaign video with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.  Though the video claims to have been recorded live, it hilariously features an insane number of jump cuts, suggesting it actually took multiple takes throughout the recording process to get Biden's performance on the mark.  But, that aside, the video made it quite clear that Joe Biden is so desperate, that he's trying to rehash long-debunked accusations against Trump in the hopes of trying to turn his faltering campaign around.  "This is the guy who doesn't care about science and reason," Biden claims in the video. "Remember, during the pandemic, Donald Trump told us to inject ourselves with bleach.  He said there's nothing to worry about if you do that."

House Oversight Committee Witnesses Makes Clear:  The Bidens Lied.  The House Oversight Committee Hearing on "Influence Peddling:  Examining Joe Biden's Abuse of Public Office" from Wednesday was dominated by key moments, especially when it comes to witness Tony Bobulinski.  In his opening statement, Bobulinski testified that Hunter Biden perjured himself.  He also mentioned repeatedly throughout the hearing how the Bidens lied.  It wasn't just Hunter who perjured himself, Bobulinski said, but so did President Joe Biden's brother, Jim Biden, when it comes to involvement with Chinese-linked company CEFC.  Bobulinski said he had "met with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Jim Biden at the Beverly Hilton in May 2017," which Hunter acknowledged but Jim denied took place.  With passion, Bobulinski emphasized that "Hunter Biden, in his own transcribed interview, confirmed that that meeting took place," adding "Hunter confirmed his uncle perjured himself in front of this Committee."

Trump's Third Act has begun.  The Democrats planned to cripple Trump financially so he couldn't spend as much on the campaign.  Trump turned Leticia James into his best fundraiser.  Lots of interesting developments lately on the topic of the 2020 election.  The Simulation wants at least one of those fresh allegations to be a Kraken.  Trump's legal maneuvering is likely to keep him eligible for the election.  You can fantasize about a heroic Democrat such as Newsom swooping in and replacing Biden, but it's looking less likely every day.  If it had always been the plan, it would have happened by now.  Looks like Biden has to stay on the job to keep the Biden Crime Family out of jail.  The predictable Democrat Summer Hoax will add some excitement, but it will be forgotten and debunked by November.

CIA blocked Hunter Biden's 'sugar brother' Kevin Morris from being interviewed by federal investigators, whistleblower claims.  The CIA ordered tax investigators not to interview the 'sugar brother' who bailed out Hunter Biden with millions of dollars, a whistleblower has claimed.  Kevin Morris loaned the president's son at least $5 million, bought his artwork, and made payments to Hunter's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, as well as Lunden Roberts, the mother of his illegitimate four-year-old daughter.  But federal officials investigating the first son's tax affairs were summoned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and told them that Morris was off-limits to them.

Joe Biden Gives Rambling Incoherent Speech to a Few Rows of People in Arizona.  Joe Biden, the most popular president in US history who got 81 million votes in 2020, gave a rambling incoherent speech to a few rows of people at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona.  Just look at the setup for the most popular president ever who supposedly won Arizona in 2020:  [Tweet]  Biden on Wednesday announced an $8.5 billion investment with Intel for a major CHIPS and Science Act award.  The truth is DEI — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — killed the CHIPS Act.

Tony Bobulinski Accuses Hunter Biden of Committing Perjury, and He Has Receipts.  During an impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday, Tony Bobulinski testified regarding his previous business dealings with members of the Biden family.  During the hearing, he accused Hunter Biden of committing perjury during his previous testimony, and he called Joe Biden "a serial liar."  "You are presented with two narratives in this investigation," Bobulinski said in his opening statement, which was received by PJ Media.  "A false one being pushed by Joe Biden, a serial liar and fabulist now under this impeachment investigation for public corruption; his brother Jim Biden, a 75-year-old man who cannot keep his lies straight, including under oath; and his son Hunter Biden, a chronic drug addict facing two indictments with twelve counts."  Bobulinski continued, "You also have before you the truth, confirmed by multiple Biden family business partners over many years and backed up by mountains of irrefutable evidence, including text messages, emails, documents and recordings."  He then accused Hunter Biden of lying throughout his testimony to Congress last month and committing "egregious" perjury, and he came with receipts.

Former Biden Business Partner Accuses Hunter, Jim of Lying under Oath about Chinese Dealings.  In his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski publicly accused the first son and his uncle, Jim Biden, of lying under oath about the nature of their business dealings with Chinese conglomerate CEFC.  Bobulinski is testifying on Wednesday about the Biden family's foreign business dealings, the subject of the House GOP's impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.  He testified behind closed doors last month and vividly recalled meeting Hunter, Joe, and James Biden in May 2017 to discuss a proposed joint venture with CEFC.  Bobulinski cited three examples of alleged perjury from Hunter Biden's sworn testimony last month, accusing Hunter of lying about: the timeline of his business relationship with CEFC, his father's interactions with his business associates, and the threatening text he sent a Chinese businessman in which he demanded payment and said he was sitting next to his father.

Hunter Biden's Business Partner Attacks Democrats Raskin and Goldman for Lying on Behalf of Biden Crime Family.  Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski blasted Representatives Jamie Raskin and Don Goldman today in his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee.  Bobulinski accused Raskin and Goldman of lying to the American public in order to protect the Biden crime family.  The House Oversight Committee is holding its second hearing today as part of its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

The public humiliation of Joe Biden.  Anyone who's ever known someone with senile dementia, can see that Joe Biden's elevator no longer goes to the top floor.  At age 81, with a history of multiple brain aneurysms and surgeries, poor Joe's literally unravelling before our eyes.  Look at him at his campaign stops.  He can barely walk and needs sneaker soles the size of pickleball paddles to stay upright.  He can no longer safely navigate the main steps to Air Force One, his handlers instead using a much shorter set of stairs typically reserved for his staff and low-level functionaries.  His mouth hangs open, his pale blue eyes have that heartbreaking look of sheer panic, and he has no idea what to do with his hands, other than to mindlessly extend them in the hope that someone, anyone, will proffer a handshake.  He now frequently gets lost, wandering around event stages and unsure where to stand or exit.  He often turns in circles, waiting anxiously for someone to guide him.  In a pinch, the Easter Bunny will do.  Most days, his voice is shot.  He whispers, coughs, mumbles, and swallows his words.  He can no longer speak extemporaneously, much less handle a hostile interviewer or a debate.

Even More Dirt on the Bidens [has been] Dredged Up.  We all know Hunter Biden did some shady stuff beyond hookers and crack, even if you don't think his father Joe was involved.  Hate to burst the mainstream media news bubble you live in but more evidence mounts against the guy practically daily through House Republicans' impeachment inquiry.  That mainstream media bubble keeping you in the dark probably didn't tell you that a strategy memo dredged up by the inquiry showed Hunter Biden was involved in an unsuccessful attempt by CEFC China Energy to buy Westinghouse, an America-based but Japanese-owned (by Toshiba) manufacturer of nuclear reactors.  CEFC, which was in pretty deep with Chinese intelligence and was where Joe became Mr. "10% for the Big Guy," sought to buy Westinghouse through intermediaries such as Hunter associate James Gilliar's European Energy and Infrastructure Group because that's not suspicious at all.

The Mystery of Biden's New Boat Anchor Shoes Has Been Solved, and It's Worse Than Speculated.  [Scroll down]  The President of the United States has to wear giant-soled tennis shoes just to walk across the grass to board a helicopter.  He's wearing them with suits, not workout clothes.  During Inside Edition's report, they mention that the shoes are designed for "maximum stability."  That's true, which speaks to just how bad things have gotten for Biden.  If he were wearing them when he walked around his Delaware property, no one would bat an eye.  The fact that he's having to wear these things in formal situations hits differently, though.  The country is now at the place where it's current president can't walk properly without special shoes.  What's next?  A cane?

Biden's cyber-mess flying under the radar.  The [State of the Union] speech itself was a clinic in Beltway gaslighting, with Biden making a number of questionable to outright dishonest claims related to job growth, inflation, and so many other issues of concern to Americans.  On job growth, Biden's claim to have created "15 million new jobs" in three years fails to acknowledge the fact that about 12 million of those jobs can and should be classified as post-COVID "Return-to-Work" jobs that were actually created by his predecessor, President Donald Trump.  On the topic of inflation, Biden actually told the joint session of Congress that the United States had achieved the "lowest in the world."  But in reality, the United States is experiencing higher inflation than a number of industrialized nations and new reports show that the rate has actually ticked upward.  Despite all the misleading chest-pounding during the address, one major issue that President Biden mostly stayed away from was America's crumbling cybersecurity infrastructure.

Jill Biden Is an Absolute Disgrace.  Jill, who insists on being call "Dr. Jill" because that's what people lacking real accomplishments do, stands idly by as her husband is abused by handlers because she loves the trappings of the White House.  An argument could be made that she's simply too stupid to notice what's happening, and that is possible, but it's unlikely.  She sees him up close, and has for years.  Joe has always been stupid, but the senility is new.  It would be harder to miss than all of his groping, grabbing, nibbling, sniffing, rubbing and sexually assaulting over the years, all of which (except the last one) were regularly done in public.  Jill didn't care.  Jill doesn't care.

Hunter Biden witness may be self-serving but his China cover-up info is accurate.  Fugitive Gal Luft, the "missing witness" from the Biden corruption investigation, has made fresh allegations about the president's family's China connections in an exclusive 50-page expose obtained by The [New York] Post.  The former Israel Defense Force lieutenant colonel, who worked with the same Chinese energy company, CEFC, that paid Hunter and Jim Biden more than $8 million, skipped bail in Cyprus last year after being charged with attempted gun-running, acting as a foreign agent for China and lying to the FBI.  While his attacks on federal prosecutors clearly are self-serving, his disclosures so far have proven accurate, and his ongoing conversations with former employees of CEFC while on the run have produced new information about how influential Americans on both sides of the aisle in Washington were recruited to serve China's imperialist Belt and Road Initiative.  Hunter Biden, "the true sheikh of Washington," as one of his partners dubbed him, wasn't the only VIP cultivated by CEFC's enigmatic billionaire chairman Ye Jianming, who sprinkled expensive diamonds around Washington like candy.

The Biden Transcripts:  Confusion, Evasion, and Outright Lies.  The transcripts of President Biden's interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur have been released in anticipation of Hur's testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee.  The interviews cover two days:  October 8, 2023 and the October 9, 2023.  And already, the media has seized upon a line of attack against Hur: that Biden wasn't confused about the year of his son's death, that Biden was lucid and clear and that Hur misrepresented Biden's statements and his state of mind.  But that isn't the truth.  The transcripts, in fact, show Biden struggling with basic facts.  The year his son Beau died.  The year he left office.  The year Trump was elected.  Here's a short excerpt illustrating all these issues: [...] In a span of two pages of transcripts, Biden finds himself forgetting key dates and needing the assistance of his lawyers to make it through the interview.  But that's not the only example.

Hunter Biden's federal gun trial set for June 3: President's son faces up to 25 years in prison.  A federal judge ruled that Hunter Biden will face a trial on federal gun charges on June 3 in Delaware.  The president's son, 54, has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges related to him lying about his drug use when purchasing a gun in 2018. He faces up to 25 years in prison if he is convicted after the trial that could last up to nine days.  His gun trial on June 3 comes immediately for a separate trial in a case brought by Special Counsel David Weiss on nine tax charges set for June 20 in California.

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Hunter Biden will never go to prison, for one reason or another.  Joe Biden certainly won't.  Neither will Hillary Clinton.  Neither will Anthony Fauci.

Special Counsel confirms president wanted to keep documents for 'pride and money'.  Former special counsel Robert Hur revealed in Capitol Hill testimony that Biden 'willfully' retained classified materials as a private citizen and gave them to Mark Zwonitzer — the ghost writer of his $8 million book — who later tried to destroy them.  Hur arrived on Capitol Hill to offer insight into his devastating classified documents report that painted Biden as 'elderly' and 'forgetful' and with 'diminished faculties,' but did not recommend charges for the president.  He pushed back on Democrats who claimed his report cleared Biden of any wrongdoing, saying it 'did not exonerate' the president.

Hur Transcript Released:  Things Just Got a Lot Worse for Joe Biden.  Last month, the Hur report found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but determined that he was essentially too senile to stand trial.  According to the report, Biden struggled to remember details, and he couldn't remember when his son Beau died.  Joe Biden angrily defended his memory in his unplanned address and attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Beau during his interview during the investigation, which managed to make things worse for him. [...] Joe Biden didn't even remember what year Donald Trump was elected president.  Two people then jumped in to correct Biden by saying it was 2016.

Democrats Are Seething After Robert Hur's Testimony, and the Highlights Are Brutal for Joe Biden.  Congressional testimonies often don't live up to the hype, but Robert Hur's trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday was everything Republicans were hoping it would be.  The now-former special counsel was in charge of investigating Joe Biden's theft and mishandling of classified documents, some of which were found unsecured in his garage.  That led to a report from Hur that was lambasted by Democrats for supposedly overstepping its bounds.  What was the issue?  It included ample evidence of the current president's senility, including significant memory loss.  But if Democrats were hoping to beat back some of the narratives produced by Hur's accurate portrayal of the facts, they quickly found out he wasn't there to play along with their gambit.

Turley: Democrats 'Bordered on Delusional' While Questioning Special Counsel Hur.  Special Counsel Robert Hur's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on his report about Joe Biden's willful retention of classified documents and other sensitive material lived up to the "pre-game" hype that many expected.  While Republicans continued to stress the two-tiered justice system in the case of Biden's classified documents vs. those of Donald Trump, Democrats continually tried to put words in Hur's mouth that neither he nor his report said.  So how bad were the Democrats?  George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley said the Democrats' questioning of Hur "seemed almost to border on the delusional."

'I did not exonerate him': Robert Hur sets Dem rep straight on conclusion of report.  Special counsel Robert Hur corrected Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal at a Tuesday hearing when she said his report exonerated President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents.  Hur issued his report in February on Biden's handling of classified documents, deciding not to pursue charges against the president because he would be unlikely to get a conviction.  Jayapal asserted Hur's report exonerated Biden, but the special counsel disputed her statement.  [Video clip]  "This lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden," Jayapal said.  "For every document you discussed in your report, you found insufficient evidence that the president violated any laws about possession or retention of classified materials."  "[Exoneration] is not a word that I used in the report," Hur asserted.  "And that's not part of my task as a prosecutor."  Jayapal talked over Hur as he elaborated on his answer.  "You exonerated him," she said.  "I did not exonerate him," Hur responded.  "That word does not appear in the report, congresswoman."

Byron Donalds Explains the Most Convincing Pieces of Evidence Showing Biden Family Influence-Peddling.  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo to explain the most serious evidence against the Biden Crime Family and their attempts to profit off Joe Biden's name and official position.  [Transcript]  He also spoke about the two-tiered justice system in today's America, where Biden got a free pass despite having piles of classified documents in his garage and other locations:  [Tweet]

An Aging Puppet.  While not all dementia or Alzheimer's patients show increased aggression or angry behavior, many of them do.  They may curse, hurl insults, or yell at you.  Short of losing their sanity, the caregiver becomes a kind of expert diplomat, taking note of triggers that might warn of the coming combative behavior.  Sometimes there are no clues, just rage. [...] We also watched in disbelief as the executive branch attacked the judicial branch, with President Biden "having an invective against the Supreme Court justices" sitting directly in front of him in the chamber.  I've never seen anything like it; it was like watching someone sucker-punch the Constitution.  Meanwhile, the mainstream media was declaring that the president "delivered perhaps the best speech of his life last night; he may have also changed the race itself."  I agree he changed the race all right, but not the way they're thinking.

The White House Tried to Remove Mentions of Biden's Poor Memory from the Hur Report.  Special Counsel Robert Hur is expected to testify before congress tomorrow, the first time he will have spoken publicly since the release of his report.  In anticipation of that moment, the Washington Post published a lengthy story about tensions between the White House and the Justice Department.  The gist of the article is simple.  The White House is angry about the Hur report's discussion of Joe Biden's poor memory and also about the ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden.  Naturally all of these complaints come from unnamed White House sources.  It doesn't matter, because they are offering the same tired talking points you've heard many times before.  What I found far more interesting was the list of ways in which the White House had tried and failed to change the report before it was made public.  When the White House first got the finished reported they asked Hur to remove references to Biden's memory.  Hur refused:  [...]

The State of the President.  It was inevitable that the corporate media would applaud President Biden's State of the Union address if he had the vitality to stand upright for two hours and the vision to read a teleprompter.  For ordinary voters who aren't paid to praise him, Biden's performance last Thursday night probably confirmed many of their fears about leaving him in office for another term.  This, for example, is how he described the current state of our domestic politics:  "Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today."  If your uncle said that during a family dinner everyone would agree that another trip to rehab was in order.  Biden's speech was full of similarly crazy claims.  Predictably, he brought up the fabled Jan. 6 riot and claimed, "Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy."  Never mind that no one involved was ever charged with insurrection.  Ignore the polls showing that most Americans saw the event simply as "a protest that went too far."

They won't replace Biden.  The good news is that after his SOTU, it appears Biden is solidly on the ticket for 2024.  Breitbart reports that "President Joe Biden's reelection campaign raised a record-breaking $10 million in the day following his State of the Union speech on Thursday, his team told NBC News."  Many have posited that due to his unpopularity and failing in the polls, he would likely be replaced this year by Newsom, Whitmer, or even Michelle Obama.  If that happened, we'd have more to worry about against a candidate that might just be electable by even moderate Democrat standards.  However, with this kind of "record-breaking" fundraising just based on his SOTU performance, those prospects are getting dimmer.

Special Counsel Dave Weiss Hits Back at Hunter Biden, Accuses Him of Lying to the Court.  Special Counsel Dave Weiss accused Hunter Biden of lying to the Court in a reply to his motion to dismiss his charges in California.  The Justice Department in December filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden.  Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California:  Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.  The new indictment was handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart over the summer.

Joe Biden Marks Ramadan with Sympathies for Muslims and Their 'Immense Pain'.  President Joe Biden marked the beginning of Ramadan by issuing a statement recognizing the "moment of immense pain" for many Muslim Americans while affirming his efforts to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza.  Biden, who says he is pushing to establish a truce in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, wrote in the statement Sunday evening:  ["]Tonight — as the new crescent moon marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — Jill and I extend our best wishes and prayers to Muslims across our country and around the world.  The sacred month is a time for reflection and renewal.  This year, it comes at a moment of immense pain.  The war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people.["]

Obama's Biden Conundrum.  By March 20, 2024, Donald Trump will have amassed sufficient Republican delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.  On the same date, Joe Biden will have accumulated the delegates required to secure the Democrat nomination.  Thirty-three weeks before the election, the nominating process will theoretically be concluded.  However, Joe Biden will be the oldest presidential nominee in American history (he will be 82 in November) and suffering from noticeably accelerating mental and physical disabilities.  If over the next seven months he were to die, or have a debilitating stroke or, in a far more likely scenario, is forced by the party hierarchy (i.e., Barack Obama) to drop out of the race due to his age, escalating infirmities and persistent unpopularity, the process to replace him is relatively straightforward.  The only considerations will be when Biden exits the race and the timeframe necessary to print ballots.  However, choosing someone to replace him is a potential minefield only Barack Obama can navigate.

Does a Bellicose Biden want War?  Joe opened his remarks firing shots across Putin's bow and the bows of homegrown deplorables — you know, the rabble of rural Whites who dare own bibles and guns, and Christian "nationalists," who share the founders' awful conviction that our rights derive from God, not man.  Flippin' insurrectionists, man!  Biden's rhetoric was part — but only part — gamesmanship.  His handlers need to rev-up chunks of the party's base, including spouseless females, while luring back menopausal suburban women.  After eight years of hysterics and hate, rank-in-file hysterics and haters are a tad exhausted.  They aren't showing enough intensity about old Joe's reelection bid.  So, time to fearmonger and rattle sabers.  For the establishment — which Democrat, Inc., is a subsidiary — enemies are foreign and domestic, Putin and flyover denizens.  Put those together and Joe sounded like elites hanker for more than war.  They hanker for Armageddon — if all else fails.

Special Counsel Robert Hur Is No Longer a DOJ Employee, Will Testify Before Congress As a Private Citizen.  There are multiple reports Monday night that Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, is no longer a Department of Justice employee and will be testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing as a private citizen.  The Independent, known as a reliable lefty rag, published a story based on anonymous sources claiming that Hur "arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March," specifically so he would not be "bound by the ethical guidelines which govern the behaviour of federal prosecutors" when testifying.  According to the story, Hur has also "surrounded himself with Republican partisans and notorious figures linked to former president Donald Trump" in preparation for the testimony.

Transcript from documents probe contradicts Biden's account of exchange with Hur over son's death.  A transcript of President Joe Biden's interview with the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified information contradicts the president's characterization of an exchange about the death of his son, Beau Biden, from brain cancer.  "There's even a reference that I don't remember when my son died," a visibly irate Biden told reporters hours after special counsel Robert Hur's report was made public last month.  "How [...] dare he raise that?  Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself:  It wasn't any of their [...] business."  But according to an ABC News review of the transcript, it was Biden, not Hur, who first invoked his son's death — and the president indeed struggled to recall the exact year it occurred.

The moral failure of Biden's State of the Union address.  In an age in which partisanship is greater than ever, opinions about the quality of the annual report by the president to the Congress — mandated by the U.S. Constitution — depends entirely on whether the listener shares the party affiliation of the person who lives in the White House.  That means that Democrats regarded President Joe Biden's State of the Union address as feisty, truthful and showed that he was not too old to serve and exactly what the country needed to hear.  Republicans thought of it as angry, divisive, full of lies and wondered whether the 81-year-old had relied on some artificial help to get through the evening while speaking at a speed that was oddly faster than his usual pace.

Why would anyone vote for Biden?  Let's look at some of the damage he has done since he took the oath of office on January 20, 2021.  He dismantled the border security policies that President Trump put in place and ended the border wall construction.  We now have about 9 million more illegal aliens disseminated across our country.  We haven't even begun to feel the existential pain of that invasion.  Under Trump's leadership, in 2018, the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.  On Biden's first day in office, he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, eliminating 11,000 well-paying jobs, and handed energy supremacy to our foreign enemies. [...] If Biden were the CEO of a major company and had drastically reduced the establishment's position in the corporate world, not only would he not have the audacity to expect re-election, but he'd certainly be given the boot before he could do any more harm.

Need More Proof Biden Was Drugged for the State of the Union?  A great deal hinged on Joe Biden's performance during Thursday evening's State of the Union address.  The White House knew more than anything that Biden had to dispel concerns regarding his age and cognitive decline. [...] One expert says that Biden's performance featured the telltale signs of being medicated.  Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist specializing in elderly dementia patients, pointed out that Biden's increased speed and volume during the address, contrary to his usual slow and stumbling demeanor, could be indicative of stimulant usage, potentially Adderall or another amphetamine.  "[Adderall]'s given to focus someone's attention so if you give it to someone who is not focused and give it to them ahead of a big event like the State of the Union, it will improve their focus," Lieberman told the Washington Times.  "But it's treating the symptoms rather than boosting the brain and it's addictive so it's dangerous."  As compelling and convincing as Lieberman's theory is, there's actually more evidence Biden was not his usual self during the State of the Union.

The Fate of the Union.  The Kid from Scranton's most memorably mendacious line got front-loaded, so as not to be lost on the watching millions already nauseated by "JB's" pre-speech triumphal journey from the entrance down the aisle through the mob of his elected admirers clamoring for selfies:  "Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today," the president squawked.  True dat.  The part he left out was that said assault emanates entirely from the very government he pretends to head.

Joe Biden and the war on truth.  I had been told that Joe Biden, the president of the United States, would be delivering the 2024 State of the Union Address on Thursday, March 7.  As it happened, he didn't.  Instead, he indulged in a surreal, medically enhanced species of primal scream therapy.  This was laced with liberal dollops of what Freudians call "projection," accusing his political opponents of stifling democracy when everyone outside the orbit of the state propaganda machine knows that the surveillance apparatus over which Biden presides — ex officio, at least — is a self-perpetuating machine for extinguishing democracy and its prime nutrient, frank commitment to the truth.  It was a truly bizarre performance in which the angry, semi-coherent maunderings of an angry old man again and again collided with the irrefragable wall of mundane, historical fact.  The collision was dissonant.  The compliant, poodle media obviously got the memo that the speech was to be described as "fiery."  I hope that the PR genius who came up with that adjective as a synonym for "partisan incontinent hectoring" gets a bonus.  He deserves one.  But the rest of the world was appalled by the spectacle.

An AI-generated speech shouted at the teleprompter by an angry old man on amphetamines.  This week was the ridiculous annual spectacle where the president is supposed to tell us the state of our so-called union, as if we don't already know.  That's a particularly appropriate topic for the current president who was elected on the promise that he would be a "uniter, not divider" who would bring normalcy and decency back to the office. [...] Given that, forget about the state of the union.  Consider the state of the presidency.  When the main mission of the most important speech of the president's long career is to show he's not asleep, his state is not good.  He did accomplish that limited mission of showing he wasn't asleep.  The guy shouted at the teleprompter for over an hour.  He wasn't just sleep-talking, and it wasn't just the meds doing the talking.  No, he was sincerely angry at that teleprompter.  And very clearly woke.  High as a kite, but woke.  Highly woke, and wickedly, wokedly high.  His anger at the teleprompter was a natural consequence of the years of miscommunications between the two.  The teleprompter tells him to say something, and he often says something quite different.

Joe Biden's Upper Wears Off, Leading to an Absolutely Disastrous Appearance in PA.  Many have speculated that Joe Biden was hopped up on something during Thursday's State of the Union.  Whatever stimulation he received before taking the podium, it wasn't enough to stop him from calling Laken Riley by the wrong name and proclaiming that women have "electrical power," among other flubs.  Somehow, things managed to get much worse on Friday.  After an ill-advised impromptu presser on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews, the president traveled to Pennsylvania for a campaign rally.  Let's just say the upper wore off, leading to perhaps his most senile speech yet.  [Tweet with video clip]  Watching that, all I can do is let out a long, slow sigh.  This guy is the President of the United States, and he doesn't even know what office he's running for.

Was Biden Drugged for the State of the Union?  One Expert Thinks So.  Joe Biden's fiery but mostly peaceful State of the Union address prompted many to suggest that he had been drugged before the speech to ensure an energetic performance.  I don't doubt that many wags made those comments in jest, but it may actually be the truth.  A psychiatrist who specializes in elderly dementia patients told the Washington Times that Biden displayed behaviors indicative of stimulant usage to conceal cognitive decline during his State of the Union address on Thursday.  While Democrats were rushing to claim that his performance proved that he was physically and mentally capable of handling the presidency, Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, Calif., noted that Biden's speed and volume during the speech could have been a sign that he was on Adderall or another amphetamine.  "If you look at how Joe Biden usually is — slow and stumbling — compared to how he was during the State of the Union — fiery and angry — these are signs that are typical for someone taking Adderall or any amphetamine," Lieberman told the paper.

Biden's SOTU address was, quite simply, horrible.  Joe Biden's State of the Union ("SOTU") was unlike anything I've seen before, and I started watching these speeches in the mid-1980s.  No president has ever been so maniacally wired, periodically incoherent, or viciously angry.  That was style.  The substance was worse.  Biden opened by calling Trump a Nazi, shifted to Ukraine, promised to stamp out "insurrections," and attacked Republicans — and then ended by calling for non-partisanship and comity.  Throughout it all, he lied and then lied some more.  This was a Dark Brandon campaign speech, not an SOTU.  If you didn't watch Biden's SOTU, count yourself lucky.  It was a deeply disturbing experience. [...] Joe Biden was an angry Grandpa Simpson, with the volume cranked up and the speed out of control.  This was the kind of guy who, in a rage, would readily push the red button.  That alone was unnerving, demonstrating that we have a maniac in office — and, worse, his rage is against the American people.  Biden didn't open by speaking to Americans about our wonderful country.  He began by saying that America is facing a dystopian moment because Donald Trump is effectively Hitler, a point he returned to in an ad-lib during the speech.

Why Can't Joe Biden Understand the Difference Between Leadership and Anger and Yelling?  During more than three years of his presidency, Joe Biden has become known as much for his bursts of anger and yelling as for his serial lying and concocting mumbling words that make zero sense. [...] There's a strong possibility that Biden can't help it.  Or that he now thinks his anger and yelling demonstrate leadership.  They don't.  While I'm neither excusing nor justifying Biden's SOTU behavior, I'm suggesting that he convincingly demonstrated on Thursday that he suffers from dementia.

Biden Lied 30 Times During The State Of The Union.  President Biden has been known to tell some pretty outrageous lies throughout his political career.  So, it came as no surprise when Ol' Sleepy Joe spewed out more than a few whoppers during his State of the Union address on Thursday.  From foreign policy to the economy, there was almost no subject in which the president didn't lie to the American people.  In case you missed his dumpster fire speech, here's the definitive list of Biden's biggest SOTU falsehoods.

Response to Biden's State of the Union Address:  His Worst Speech Ever?  Biden, who was almost a half hour late, forgot to allow the Speaker of the House to introduce him, as is customary. [...] Had he been reminded (instructed?) to allow the speaker to introduce him?  If not, why not?  Or did he simply forget?  It was an inauspicious beginning to a dreadful speech. [...] How was Biden supposed to show that he was not the failing old man, slurring his words, and falling upstairs that people have seen on television now for months on end?  To put it otherwise, what do you do to look normal when you're not normal?  You compensate.  But in doing so, there is a danger that you overcompensate.  And that's just what Biden did last night.  Biden was strident for almost the entire speech, with an occasional whisper (as is his custom). He sounded like an angry old man, yelling at people he didn't like, telling them to get off his lawn or keep their dirty hands off his 1967 Chevrolet Corvette.  It's okay, when giving a speech, to raise your voice occasionally, to make a point, or to scold those who are evil.  But to shout for an entire speech is not just weird; it has precisely the opposite effect of the one that Biden's team must have intended.  Biden came across, not as a strong, determined leader, but as a grumpy old man.  And that, sadly, is perhaps what Joe Biden has become.

Tucker Carlson Reacts to Joe Biden Shouting Incoherent Gibberish at the State of the Union.  There really isn't much you can say about what was witnessed last night in the People's House.  Joe Biden shouting at America for an hour while muttering something about snickers bars, snack food and the need to send billions of dollars to Ukraine was essentially the gist.  Following one of the most incoherent teleprompter reads in the history of presidential politics, one can only imagine how Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were briefed on what took place in Washington DC at 9:00pm.  Suffice to say, no sleep was lost amid the global community of leaders who smile as the USA influence collapses.  What was even more goofy, was the pretending amid the corporate media that Joe Biden said stuff that was discernable and/or potentially fitting the office of the executive.  The various news agencies each described the color of the emperor's new coat as if it actually existed.

This was a terrible speech terribly delivered.  It's a good thing no drug test was required before the address.  Biden sounded hopped up.  He spoke too fast.  He slurred his words.  He was frequently difficult to understand.  He shouted a variety of clichés and shibboleths as though we might otherwise miss their depth and meaning.  The disparity between the shibboleths and the shouting was almost funny.  Biden sounded like a 45 rpm record playing at 78.  It was an old record — it had scratches at several places that caused it to skip the groove.

Biden's Handlers Really Overshot His SOTU Uppers Dosage.  [Scroll down]  Biden's chronic slurring doesn't become any more intelligible with amplification.  While it's true that absurdism is integral to my brand of political opinion writing, I never wander far from the truth.  Some people may think I'm talking about "uppers" simply because I like to be merciless when writing about Joe Biden.  I would remind everyone that I am an entertainer from the 1980s, so I have more than a passing familiarity with what people on high-end stimulants look and act like.  POTUS was straight-up wired last night.  Squinting, angry, and loud Teleprompter Biden will no doubt be met with rave reviews from the usual suspects for this SOTU speech.  An old man yelling might not have the appeal out in the hinterlands that they think it will, however.  Older people who are losing it upstairs get angry and yell a lot, too, after all.  This is a limited-use strategy for Biden's puppet masters, of course.  He's probably going to be napping until Easter.

Joe Biden's State of the Union Was the Most Unhinged and Angry in History.  In completely unsurprising fashion, Joe Biden arrived 20 minutes late for his own State of the Union on Thursday.  Once he finally took the podium, it became clear that he shouldn't have shown up at all.  Perhaps it was a screw-up on the dosage by his drug cocktail team, but Biden spent the first half hour of the speech screaming uncontrollably, while intermittently coughing and slurring his words.  It was surreal and by far, the most unhinged and angriest State of the Union in history.  There will no doubt be headlines proclaiming otherwise, and they will be false.  [Tweet with video clip]  There were also plenty of instances of the president's senility showing through.  In the early part of the speech, Biden brought up January 6th and proceeded to completely flub two of his big zingers.  [Two tweets with video clips]  The president then threatened the Supreme Court, albeit in the most mentally deficient way possible, shouting that "women are not without electrical power."  [Tweet with video clip]

Biden took a recovering economy and intentionally wrecked it.
Biden Falsely Says He Inherited An Economy on Brink of Collapse.  Claim:  Biden claimed that the U.S. economy was on the brink of disaster when he took office.  "I inherited an economy that was on the brink.  Now our economy is the envy of the world!" Biden said.  Verdict:  False.  President Biden inherited an economy that was strongly rebounding from the pandemic.  In the fourth quarter of 2020, the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3 percent.  In the prior quarter, it had grown at an annual rate of 33.1 percent, as the economy whipsawed from lockdown to reopening.  As Biden took office, in the first quarter of 2021, the economy was growing at a 5.2 percent annual rate.  (Until the Department of Commerce revised its calculations last fall, this was reported as an annual rate of 6.3 percent.)

Biden makes it clear whose side he's on.
Biden to announce US military-led mission to build port on Gaza coast to boost aid.  President Biden will announce during his State of the Union address Thursday that he's directing the U.S. military to lead the construction of a port along the coast of Gaza on the Mediterranean Sea to boost the amount of aid getting to Palestinian civilians.  "We know the aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere near enough and nowhere near fast enough.  The president will make clear again this evening that we all need to do more, and the United States is doing more," a senior administration official said on a call with reporters.  The port would be able to receive large ships that can bring in food, water, medicine and other supplies into Gaza, which has been under fire for months as Israeli forces carry out shellings and military operations in response to Hamas's attacks last October.

DOJ Freaked Out After Matt Gaetz Brought Up Hunter's Laptop During Hearing.  Employees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent an email in March 2022 regarding Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's line of questioning to the assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI's) cyber division about Hunter Biden's laptop, according to documents uploaded by the DOJ.  During the March 2022 hearing, Gaetz entered Hunter Biden's laptop into the Congressional record and pressed the FBI on the location of Hunter Biden's laptop, to which he did not get an answer.  Gaetz also asked if the Biden family had been compromised and if anyone at the FBI knew where the laptop was located.

Biden's biggest SOTU obstacles.  The obstacle course facing President Biden this week during Thursday's belated State of the Union address presents a formidable challenge.  It may prove difficult for the 81-year-old president to navigate.  Expectations could not be lower.  Biden faces the usual challenges of exaggerating his paltry policy wins, justifying his substantial missteps and attacking his political opponents.  But those questions may be overshadowed by more basic ones.  Can he make it from start to finish gaffe-free?  Will we be able to understand his words?  Will this be one of the shortest addresses ever?  Will he even be able to find his way off the stage?

The Editor says...
Will he arrive 45 minutes late?  Will he trip and fall on his way into the room?  Will he drift onto an anecdotal rabbit trail?  Will he recount an episode in his life that obviously didn't happen?  Will he be able to read the teleprompter with his eyes fully dilated?  Will he divulge something he's not supposed to mention?  Or will he stop in mid-sentence to stare into space; and if that happens, how many seconds will elapse before somebody intervenes?

Confused-looking Biden says he'll 'get in trouble' for answering reporters' questions.  A confused-looking President Biden once again admitted he'd get in "trouble" for taking questions at a press briefing Tuesday — just hours after his press secretary staunchly defended his mental acuity.  The 81-year-old commander-in-chief started uttering the familiar yet bewildering refrain before he even lifted the microphone off the table at the launch of a task force aimed at lowering costs for American families.  "I have a lot of questions.  I better not start the questions.  I'll get in trouble," Biden mumbled, garnering a few laughs from the audience.  He delivered a ragged exhale into the mic before placing it back down and stared blankly ahead with his mouth agape, ignoring some of the reporters' last-ditch attempts to squeeze in a final question as they were leaving.

The Editor says...
Not only is this man hopelessly senile, he doesn't understand who he is.  He doesn't understand that he is in charge, otherwise he wouldn't say such things.  On the other hand, maybe he understands that somebody else is in charge, and it's someone whose scolding castigation Mr. Biden genuinely dreads.

Is the Establishment Trying to Push Biden Out?  There's much evidence to support the argument that Obama's people are working hard to push Biden out of the race.  That's because Obama's people are doing their best to push Biden out of the race.  David Axelrod has been sounding the alarm about Biden's electoral prospects for months, and he hasn't been alone in the effort. [...] It's not that Trump has suddenly gotten popular with voters; the fact is that voters doubt that Biden is up to being President.  In other words, this election is about Joe Biden, when the Biden camp wants all the focus to be on Donald Trump.  That is one of many reasons that all these legal attacks are coming in 2024, not 2021.  They want people focused on all things Trump.  That strategy is failing miserably, as is typical in Biden's strategies.

Obama's Third Term — Going For Four.  The United States of America has become the laughingstock of the world, with Joe Biden playing the role of our "president" in this macabre stage production put on by the Luciferian Globalists.  Indeed, one foreign news agency recently ran a headline referring to Biden as "President Mumblebub."  He's taken a lot of criticism for his actions — and inactions — as the so-called "leader" of the free world.  Since he took office, we've seen record-breaking deficit spending, a collapse of our nation's infrastructure, the destruction of our major cities, record homelessness and drug use, the abandonment of our national borders — not to mention the highly-orchestrated and brilliantly-executed invasion of our nation by foreign enemies.  Over the past three years, we've also endured the "transgendering' of our military, the weaponization of our so-called "justice system," the persecution of political opponents, and unbridled government tyranny. Some say Biden is incompetent, and I would have to agree.  The fact that Biden is suffering from dementia is obvious, as he garbles his words when speaking, cannot remember how or when his son, Beau, died, cannot remember the names of countries or world leaders, and shakes hands with the air as he wanders around the stage after speaking, until one of his handlers gathers him up and leads him away.

Hunter Biden's Chinese legal 'client' threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million.  Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese firm CEFC to act as attorney for its employee, Dr. Patrick Ho, but now Ho is threatening to sue the first son within seven days unless he gets the money back — because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him.  Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter last week requesting that their attorney-client agreement be terminated immediately and threatening legal action unless he receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter and reimbursement for the unused funds, as laid out in the 2017 contract.  Ho's letter, sent by Hong Kong law firm Huen & Partners to Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington, DC, set a deadline of seven days for the repayment of any remaining funds.  "Patrick says he paid him, and that Hunter never did anything for him," a friend of Ho's told The [New York] Post, "and that according to the contract, the money should be reimbursed."

Biden Business Associate Jason Galanis Says Hunter Used Joe To Get Deals 'Across The Finish Line'.  Former Biden family business associate Jason Galanis told lawmakers last month that Joe Biden was used repeatedly to get deals "across the finish line."  On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released the transcript of lawmakers' interview with Jason Galanis, who was a colleague of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer between 2012 and 2015.  Their goal, Galanis said, "was to make billions, not millions."  Access to Vice President Biden, according to House testimony, was one of their primary products sold to foreign businessmen.  "Our business included the acquisition of an 85-year-old Wall Street firm, Burnham and Company, the $1.5 billion surviving division of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, and, combining that with other businesses in insurance and wealth management we owned and acquired," Galanis explained. "Burnham was the focal point for integrating a, quote, Biden family office into a large-scale financial company with international influence."  Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, Galanis said, relied on Biden, then vice president, to grow their business.