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An avalanche of revelations astir conscionable really bad erstwhile President Joe Biden’s information really was successful agency is upon us, and an early contender for astir shocking revelation is that his handlers really considered putting Grandpa Joe successful a wheelchair for his nationalist appearances.
This titillating tidbit comes to america from a soon-to-be-released book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" by CNN’s Jake Tapper, who for years nodded on for illustration a bobble caput doll to claims Biden was good and Axios’ Alex Thompson who is celebrated for doing nan bare minimum to reside concerns complete Biden’s fitness.
Not precisely Woodward and Bernstein, complete here.
Still, this morsel of news does raise an absorbing mobility astir really Democrats and their media friends approached nan 2024 race. Maybe they would person been amended disconnected pulling a reverse FDR, putting Biden successful a wheelchair, and saying, "this is still amended than Trump."
BIDEN AIDES ALLEGEDLY FRETTED THEN-PRESIDENT WOULD NEED WHEELCHAIR IF RE-ELECTED, NEW BOOK REVEALS
We each understand why nan Biden run decided to dishonesty astir him saying he each but jumps statement successful nan Oval Office while translating passages from Ovid erstwhile successful truth they weren’t judge he should moreover beryllium walking. Frailty is not thing astir group look for successful a commander-in-chief.
However, what nan Democrats and the media grounded to admit is that honesty will ever play amended pinch voters than evident lies.
The voters I talked to crossed nan state earlier and aft Biden dropped retired of nan title successful July knew afloat good he was successful decline. Even among Democrats, it was an unfastened secret; everyone knew.
Nobody bought nan idiotic delirium astir verified video footage being inexpensive fakes, and I mean nobody, astatine slightest successful nan existent world, if journalists who credulously reported it really do judge it past that’s moreover worse.
For nan 40% of voters who dislike Donald Trump for illustration suede hates rain, nan dishonesty made nary quality astatine all, they would person voted for nan mummified assemblage of President Woodrow Wilson complete Trump.
BIDEN'S TEAM HID THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS HEALTH ALL ALONG: WH PRESS SEC
But galore accepted nan lie, aliases claimed to for reasons akin to those stated by nan aged man successful Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138. Speaking of his overmuch younger lover, he wrote:
Therefore, I dishonesty pinch her and she pinch me,
And successful our faults by lies we flatter’d be.
The problem for Biden and nan Democrats successful 2024 was nan independent voters, who would not conscionable spell on pinch nan dishonesty that Biden was fine, but moreover truthful were unfastened to nan thought he was a amended action than Trump.
Behind each nan winks and nods and motorcycle rides and tales of feats of spot nan existent statement that Democrats were making, and it was still fundamentally existent when Vice President Kamala "I don’t do interviews" Harris took over, was that nan Party has a team. And that squad is amended than Trump.
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This action was connected nan array arsenic early arsenic February 2024 erstwhile Fox News’ Jessica Tarlov wrote in these pages, "There’s nary request to dress otherwise: Biden’s old. Just concede it. But there’s a immense acquisition spread erstwhile it comes to what he’s really delivered for nan American group and having that knowledge will thief america adjacent nan chasm being created by fears complete his competency."
Now, location is simply a wide scope of sentiment arsenic to conscionable what precisely Joe Biden "delivered for nan American people," but Tarlov is right, this is astatine slightest an statement that nan Biden management is preferable to Trump that doesn’t require blatant and transparent lying.
The only point worse than being lied to is knowing you are being lied to and that is precisely nan position that Biden’s squad put Democratic and independent voters successful until he exited nan title successful disgrace.
The bully news, pinch respect to both nan Democrats and nan wide media, is that this clip astir we are seeing consequences for evident lies. A value is being paid, which is nan only measurement thing ever changes.
The Democrats’ 2024 nonaccomplishment was humiliating and complete because they didn’t conscionable suffer connected nan issues, they besides sewage caught successful nan lie. So too, nan wide media tin outcry each nan clone mea culpas they want, but their ratings and relevance are still crumbling.
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Maybe nan saddest unfortunate of this dishonesty is Joe Biden himself, who was not allowed to extremity his agelong tenure successful nationalist work pinch dignity, but alternatively was tied to marionette strings making him creation arsenic if he’d recovered nan fountain of youth.
Sometimes it takes a while, but arsenic Shakespeare besides said, "in nan extremity nan truth will [win] out," possibly adjacent clip nan Democrats will study this lesson.
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