How about this old tried-and-true? That's not him, it's a double. He was executed in (insert year here)". That covers all bases nicely.
Sadly, they substituted the “physically dead” with the “brain dead”.
But, yah, there is some sense of “Campaign Trail” Biden was offt and the pliable idiot was flown in on an unmarked CIA jet.
Yet ... no one recalls, do they?
Proof Of Live for Max Yearick please!