As if his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and refusal to acknowledge responsibility weren’t enough, we now learn that Joe Biden forced grieving military families to wait for hours on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base while he was taking a nap on Air Force One. .
We already knew that he kept checking his watch and talking about himself when he met the relatives of 13 soldiers killed by a suicide bomber during the chaotic evacuation of Kabul in August 2021.
But this new report adds an extra layer of insensitivity to the story.
Biden has long been known for being late for everything, long before his cognitive decline began. World leaders at the G20 summit last month, tired of waiting, took their group photo without him.
If anything said “lame duck,” it was their contemptuous disregard for the so-called leader of the free world.
But Biden, 82, has been a lame duck throughout his presidency. The inconsiderate three-hour delay of the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover is simply emblematic of his reign.
Now that he’s no longer powerful, his clumsy, stumbling, mumbling senility is suddenly newsworthy. Even though this newspaper systematically charted its decline in real time, only to be accused by the White House of ageism and “cheap knockoffs,” we are now supposed to be shocked by the “bombshell” that the White House was hiding its problems.
The worst scandal in White House history is the worst kept secret in Washington.
He let his office rot
Biden has held just nine Cabinet meetings in four years, compared to 25 for Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. White House aides secretly rescheduled national security briefings if Biden was having a “bad day.”
He has barely met Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the past two years, at a time when wars in Ukraine and Gaza were erupting and the military was suffering a series of embarrassing setbacks, from Afghanistan to the ill-fated pier of Gaza and friendly conflict. shooting down of a US Navy fighter plane in the Red Sea.
During recent trips to Africa and South America, Biden spoke a total of 15 words to the press following him.
He has been president in name only (PINO) since the day of his inauguration.
The Constitution has a built-in mechanism to deal with such a threat, the 25th Amendment.
But the problem is that it takes people of good character to activate it. The liars surrounding Biden, including his ambitious wife, are having too much fun abusing the powers of his presidency.
They justified their misdeeds by giving the president free rein on his “good days.” Considering that Biden at his peak was an incompetent braggart, disastrous consequences for America and the world were inevitable.
Yes, the media and Democrats were complicit in hiding Biden’s obvious cognitive decline. But we must not allow this latest approved narrative to be the mechanism by which he gets off the hook.
He was in no condition to run for president in 2020, but vanity, illusory self-confidence, and a greedy family propelled him into the spotlight, and a corrupt party rigged a money-spinning campaign. -ground to make him president.
He was clearly confused during the January 2020 election campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, perpetually late and having to read his speeches using a teleprompter.
But he had enough “good days” to know what he was doing when he walked into the Oval Office and gave the order to lift Trump-era border protections, abandon the air base of Bagram, defying the Supreme Court, fueling inflation, weakening the military, projecting weakness onto our adversaries, pressuring the DOJ to protect his wayward son and using the law to get away with it. take on his opponents politicians, while giving divisive speeches and attacking half the country.
It was pure Biden. The same man who played a pivotal role in his family’s influence-peddling operation as vice president was also calm enough to eyeball coup plotters Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama in July when he named the Kamala Harris is ineligible for his replacement. Today, in the same spirit of nastiness and malevolence, he and his wife give Harris a cold shoulder during public engagements.
A Loser’s Legacy
The electorate was deprived of the opportunity to reject Biden at the polls when he was replaced at the last minute by his hapless vice president. But his defeat was his defeat.
There is a growing trend to hold Harris and the rest of Biden’s gatekeepers to account for the failures of his presidency. How this can be achieved is never clearly explained. But he cannot hide behind his infirmity. He deserves most of the blame.
In an interview last week with the left-wing newspaper Meidas Touch, Biden responded as deludedly as ever when asked how he wanted to be remembered: “I kept my word – that when I said I was going to do something, I did it. »
Don’t fall for Tammany Joe’s latest scam.
