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The Real Biden Scandal: Running for a Second Term
Commentary ^ | 20 Jan 2025 | Seth Mandel

Posted on 01/21/2025 12:05:56 PM PST by Rummyfan

There is one last thing that must be said about the effort to cover up Joe Biden’s mental infirmity, not to give the man one last shove out the door but to call attention to what remains an ongoing scandal in American politics. And that is: They were running him for another term.

To understand the outrageousness of this scheme, let’s briefly review what we’ve learned about how key administration officials managed the president’s decline.

From this weekend’s “now it can be told”-themed piece in the New York Times:

“They rearranged meetings to make sure Mr. Biden was in a better mood — a strategy one person close to him described as how aides should handle any president. At times, they delayed sharing information with him, including negative polling data, as they debated the best way to frame it. They surrounded him with aides when he walked from the White House to the waiting presidential helicopter on the South Lawn so that news cameras could not capture his awkward bearing.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: coverup; dementia; fjb

1 posted on 01/21/2025 12:05:56 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Incompetent senile mean old grifter.

WE all knew.


2 posted on 01/21/2025 12:08:06 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump should call Traitor General Milley back into service and bust him to private.)
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3 posted on 01/21/2025 12:12:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Rummyfan

Suppose that in an alternate universe, Biden had declined to debate Trump in 2024 - the excuse being that Trump was a “hater” and a “racist”. The mainstream media would have fully supported that decision.

Then Biden just stayed put in his basement. No press conferences or anything like that. With his name recognition and media support, could a severely incapacitated Biden have won in 2024?

Oh, yes.


4 posted on 01/21/2025 12:13:59 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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Biden was merely a puppet.

His staff were the controlling strings.

Obama controlled the strings


5 posted on 01/21/2025 12:16:31 PM PST by elpadre
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To: Leaning Right
Suppose that in an alternate universe, Biden had declined to debate Trump in 2024 - the excuse being that Trump was a “hater” and a “racist”. The mainstream media would have fully supported that decision. Then Biden just stayed put in his basement. No press conferences or anything like that. With his name recognition and media support, could a severely incapacitated Biden have won in 2024? Oh, yes.

Sounds like an episode of the old "Twilight Zone" series.

"Witness one nation, under God, held hostage by cabal covering for and pulling the strings of an enfeebled, barely coherent Head of State..."

Regards,

6 posted on 01/21/2025 12:20:51 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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“A similarly-timed article in the Guardian relayed an anecdote from political scientist Larry Sabato. A Democratic senator called Sabato in early 2024 and said, “You do realize, off the record, that Joe Biden is not going to be our nominee?” Sabato, stunned...”

Sabato is not much of a “political scientist” if he really thought that Biden would run in 2024.


7 posted on 01/21/2025 12:31:43 PM PST by BobL
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ALWAYS REMEMBER - for Democrats it’s the CAUSE that counts, and getting to that point simply doesn’t matter (such as killing/maiming a million Ukrainians, for the, now-failed, ‘cause’ of taking down Putin).


8 posted on 01/21/2025 12:36:02 PM PST by BobL
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They lied about his condition for four years and especially at the end. We on the outside suspected it, and there is no way in hell that anyone in Washington who had any dealings with him didn’t know it. This was one of the most insidious aspects of his disastrous and destructive administration, and I am surprised it wasn’t an issue in the campaign. You want a “threat to democracy”? How about an executive branch run by people in the shadows who never received one single vote?


9 posted on 01/21/2025 1:42:42 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: elpadre
Obama controlled the strings

Yeah, Obama's third term.

10 posted on 01/21/2025 2:58:51 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz; elpadre

Bammy’s “Front Man”, PinocchiJoe.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 3:07:33 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Rummyfan

Putting a senile old man on the Presidential ticket, then adding an idiot to the ticket the first time, while having to commit massive voter fraud to allow them to win, was the real scandal.


12 posted on 01/21/2025 4:30:55 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Rummyfan

I disagree. Biden running for a second term pretty much guaranteed Trump would be our next prez.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 5:24:34 PM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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