“The president recently told people that he still believes he could have beaten Trump in the November election, despite his rough debate performance in June and his low approval numbers that forced him to leave the race, according to the Washington Post, citing people familiar with the conversations.” skriver Fox News. Årsagen til denne illusion har man kunnet følge lige siden 2019/20, hvor Bidens kognitive forfald stod klart for alle at se. En af mange små videoer om mediernes løgne om hans tilstand krydsklippet med hans tilstand, en anden blot med citerbare klip fra partikammerater. Gutfeld morede sit publikum med udtryk, som at ‘Biden ældes i hundeår’ eller ‘som et skiveskåret æble efterladt i solen’.
En mere konkret grund til, at Biden tror på sine egne chancer efter at hans tilstand blev indiskutabel for medierne, kan man læse på Wall Street Journal, der har interviewet godt halvtreds medarbejdere fra Det Hvide Hus, tæt på præsidenten “Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president.” hedder det blandt andet
People close to the president said he relied on Mike Donilon, one of Biden’s core inner circle advisers. With a background in polling, Donilon could sift through the information and present it to the president.
Bates said that Biden stayed abreast of polling data.
But this summer, Democratic insiders became alarmed by the way Biden described his own polling, publicly characterizing the race as a tossup when polls released in the weeks after the disastrous June debate consistently showed Trump ahead. They worried he wasn’t getting an unvarnished look at his standing in the race.
Those fears intensified on July 11, when Biden’s top advisers met behind closed doors with Democratic senators, where the advisers laid out a road map for Biden’s victory. The message from the advisers was so disconnected from public polling—which showed Trump leading Biden nationally—that it left Democratic senators incredulous. It spurred Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to speak to Biden directly, according to people familiar with the matter, hoping to pierce what the senators saw as a wall erected by Donilon to shield Biden from bad information.
Wall Street Journal byder på et væld af anekdoter, som blot lægger til alt det vi kunne se, som da Biden gik rundt alene med mundbind, som han tog af, for at trykke folk på næven. Eller da han fra Det Hvide Hus tv-studie sagde “I’m happy to take questions if that’s what I’m supposed to do…” før forbindelsen blev afbrudt.
Eller da han sagde til talkshow værten Jimmy Kimmel “There is a lot of major things we’ve done, but what we haven’t done is that we haven’t been able to communicate in a way that is uhm… Make me say it in another way!” til hvilket Kimmel ufrivilligt morsomt svarede “Well see, that’s kind of perfect!”.
“Stay Alive, Joe Biden” lød Alex Wagners overskrift på The Atlantic. Dengang skrev Poul Høi
“Joe Biden har siden sit valg i november ikke sat en fod forkert, i upolitisk forstand, og siden angrebet på Kongressen har han fremstået som et symbol på samling”.
“Trump kaldte i valgkampen Biden for »senil«, og de republikanske ekkomedier buldrede på med anklager om demens, men der er ingen tegn på, at han hverken fysisk eller psykisk er ældre end sine 78 år, tværtimod”.
“Legacy media is a nonstop psy op” skrev Elon Musk og selv om han ikke referede til noget specifikt, må man give ham ret. Først måneder efter at Biden er blevet fjernet præsidentkandidat og først efter at hans efterfølger, vicepræsident Kamala Harris, tabte til tidligere præsident Donald John Trump, tør et ledende nyhedsmedie skrive en historie, om hvor galt det stod til. Der er grænser for, hvad man kan planke fra Wall Street Journal, men Daily Mail kan spæde til
In 2021, when Smith was chair of the House Armed Services Committee, he tried desperately to get in touch with Biden ahead of the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan to share his serious concerns about the plan. His attempts were rebuffed.
When 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghans were killed, Smith criticized Biden publicly and was reprimanded by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Biden finally called Smith to apologize which, despite his key role in Congress, was reportedly the only personal call Smith received in the president’s entire four-year term.
Medier, som Newsweek, forsøgte at bortforklare, hvorledes præsident Joe Biden forsvandt foran øjnene på alle i det Hvide Hus, dengang da tidligere præsident Barak Obama svingede forbi og mindede alle om glæden ved en stærkere illusion. Nu kan de også være mere ærlige med realiteterne, som at arbejds-tallene var sminkede. Og MSNBC bekræfter bare at Trump havde ret i at grænsen var opgivet. Jonathan Turley skriver
The belated interest in the story reflects not only the limits of modern journalism but the limits of the 25th Amendment. From the outset, there was concern over Biden’s acuity and stamina within the White House. It was hidden from the public. His cabinet members like DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and others quashed claims of any diminishment with first-hand testimonials about how sharp and impressive the President was in meetings. Vice President Kamala Harris echoed those claims.
The Vice President and the cabinet are essential to the removal process under the 25th Amendment. Section 4 allows the removal of a president. One option is what I have called the “mutiny option.” It requires a vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” and notify Congress that the vice president intends to take over. If Vice President Kamala Harris could get eight Cabinet officers to go along with a letter to Congress, her status as the “Acting President” would likely be short-lived. Joe Biden would only have to declare to Congress that “no inability exists.” Biden would then resume his powers. That would then trigger a congressional fight.
In reality, the Biden term shows how they can often be part of the cover-up.
The 25th Amendment also does not define incapacity and having “good days and bad days” is unlikely to suffice.
“Deploy the annoying Karens!” lød det på de dårlige dage. Insurrection Barbie skriver på X: “Biden only held 9 cabinet meetings in 4 years and during those meeting members of his cabinet had to submit written questions in advance so he could write out the answers in advance.“
Det er givetvis også resultatet af den interne konkurrence om hans svindende opmærksomhed, der gør, at en 3-dobbelt morderske er blandt dem, som præsidenten har besluttet sig for at benåde. Samme held der tilsmilede “Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan, who gained notoriety for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles in the Kids-for-Cash scandal” – en forbrydelse der er så grotesk som den lyder. Senator John Kennedy “a sample of the vile murderers and rapists who are celebrating in their cells this morning”
Chadrick Fulks and Brandon Basham broke out of prison and went on a 17-day, cross-country “criminal rampage.” They raped and murdered 19-year-old Samantha Burns and 44-year-old Alice Donovan. Biden granted Fulks and Basham clemency. 2/8
Marvin Gabrion violently raped 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman. Before Rachel could testify in Gabrion’s rape trial, he kidnapped Rachel and her 11-month-old baby, Shannon. He took them to a national forest, chained Rachel to cinderblocks, and drowned her in a lake.
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Rachel’s baby has never been found. Gabrion said he “killed the baby because there was nowhere else to put it.” Gabrion is suspected of numerous other murders. Biden granted Gabrion clemency.
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Men ikke alle er tilfredse, som de “Sorte Kvinder”, der påpeger at sorte mænd sidder fængslet i rå mængder for ikke voldelige forbrydelser.
De nedarvede medier propaganderede på vegne af Biden og alt, hvad han står for, som da Biden besøgte Ukraine og de alle mente det var heroisk. “This trip was cleared with Russia ahead of time” skriver X-profilen MAZE “Air raid sirens went off for no reason”. Da special undersøger Robert Hur konkluderede, at Bidens hjerne var for medtaget til at man kunne føre en meningsfuld retssag, blev han skoset af Demokraternes Adam Schiff.
Trump udtrykte en del indignation over at Obama havde ført Biden væk. “He was waving” sagde Trump medfølende om Biden “I don’t thing he knew who he waved at, but he was waving”. Som de siger, vi fortjener ham ikke.
De foretrak Biden netop fordi han var kognitivt i opløsning. “It has to be Joe Biden”, formulerede tidligere FBI direktør Comey det. Eller som General Mike Milley sagde til CBS 60 Minutes “He is just fine”.
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