Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of his reelection campaign, what’s most surprising is how long Democrats were selling the lie of his physical and mental fitness. Hollywood and the media were on board right to the end. Now that everyone admits Joe is too feeble to run for reelection, America is faced with the prospect of having him as president until January. How is that possible? Miranda Devine writes in the NY Post:
We’re still stuck with Joe Biden as president for six months. He might have passed the political torch to VP Kamala Harris, but he still has control of the nuclear football. Or maybe Dr. Jill and Hunter do.
Either way, it’s a frightening message to send to the world: The US president is too cognitively impaired to run for re-election in November, but he’s staying on as commander-in-chief until January.You can bet that leaving the president in place, despite the obvious peril to America, was part of the deal Biden struck to go quietly as Nancy Pelosi and the Obamacans ratcheted up the pain.
Last week, when the president was digging in his heels in Rehoboth Beach amid damaging leaks from his own side that only got his Irish up, one insider told me: “This is not a contest. This is the president’s decision …
“Publicly pressuring him when they have no alternative [candidate challenging him] instead of trying to work something out with the leader they want to retire is backfiring.”
Of course, “working something out” for his own benefit has always been the point with Biden, whether it’s his donors providing grace-and-favor jobs at inflated prices for his wayward son and other family members, or Chinese President Xi Jinping blessing Hunter’s lucrative business venture after he flew into Beijing with Dad on Air Force Two.
Cue the farewell tour
Staying in the White House until Jan. 20 gives Biden plenty of time to orchestrate pardons for Hunter and his brother Jim and whomever else in the family is in legal trouble. Regardless of what he claimed before Hunter’s felony gun conviction, the pardon was always coming. No way does the family trust Cackling Kamala to do the deed.You can bet Air Force One and Camp David will be working overtime for as many dream holidays and bucket list wishes for as many extended family members as he can squeeze in. Perhaps another ancestral trip to Ireland, or to Rome for a last blessing from his favorite pope. It will be one long victory lap.
Six months is plenty of time to burnish Biden’s legacy with the help of the so-called historians who have been wearing a hole in the carpet of his office and the compliant media who have ignored his corruption and cognitive decline for four years.
Plenty of time to bask in the saccharine praise of his traitorous fellow Democrats.
It’s already rampant on MSNBC and X as sycophants trip over each other to wax lyrical about the greatest president who ever lived, a good and decent man, Honest Joe, who always put his country first.
“One of the most selfless things a president can do,” gushed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “He put his ego aside.”
I guess that’s one way of describing saving your own skin when there’s a gun to your head.
You know that financial incentives must have been part of Biden’s exit package as well. After all, for over 50 years, he and his extended family have lived high on the teat of his power and influence in Washington. That all comes to a screeching halt next January unless he engineers a golden parachute.
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