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'Exhausted,' 'bad episode': Biden doubles down on debate explanations in ABC News exclusive
ABC News | DNC ^ | July 5, 2024 | ByAlexandra Hutzler

Posted on 07/05/2024 4:18:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Joe Biden, in his first television interview since his CNN debate with Donald Trump, brushed off the poor performance as a "bad episode" and said he alone was to blame for what transpired.

… “Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden.

"I don't think I did, no," the president said.

But did he know how badly it was going while he was on stage?

"Yeah, look. The whole way I prepared, nobody's fault, mine. Nobody's fault but mine. I-- I prepared what I usually would do sitting down as I did come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized-- partway through that, you know, all-- I get quoted the New York Times had me down, ten points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is, what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn't-- I mean, the way the debate ran, not-- my fault, nobody else's fault, no one else's fault."

"But it seemed like you were having trouble from the first question in, even before he spoke?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"Well, I just had a bad night," Biden said.

ABC News offered a similar interview opportunity to Trump but he declined.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; biden; bideninterview; bidensmentaldecline; dementia; dementiajoe; election2024; stephanopoulos; steponallofus
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1 posted on 07/05/2024 4:18:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing to see here, it was all an illusion.


2 posted on 07/05/2024 4:20:03 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of the American Politburo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s all good... Just a bad day... Look the other way and pretend ‘it’ didn’t happen.


3 posted on 07/05/2024 4:21:29 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Excuse Tour continues. I think they really want to say "You didn't see what you observed in the debate", but I think they initially went down that path and got ripped for it.
4 posted on 07/05/2024 4:22:10 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody’s fault but mine -

https://youtu.be/w_cYrx1TxMY?si=0TJUO2_JAwD_0xPa


5 posted on 07/05/2024 4:23:37 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...and makes out White House spokesperson and others as liars.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 4:23:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is a white house doctor. Got his name on Google. Can find no web presence on him, you’d think with all that is at stake, if he really thinks he is fine, they could trot his doctor out to answer questions. It would work faster than trying new appearances to convince people. Oh wait.... Never mind.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 4:23:50 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was sick I was overtrained I wasn’t on my game I was jet-lagged I was tired I had an allergy I identified with a potted plant I was mourning Beau I was thinking about my uncle that the cannibals ate what was the question again?


8 posted on 07/05/2024 4:24:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

RE:(did he watch the debate again) “I don’t think I did, no,” the President said.

Detectives pressing him in the interrogation room:
“Then take a look at these surveillance videos of you watching that debate rerun.”

Biden: “I want a lawyer.”


9 posted on 07/05/2024 4:24:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden
I don't think I did, no," the president said.


huh ? either he did or didn't.
10 posted on 07/05/2024 4:25:15 PM PDT by stylin19a (Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?)
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To: Billthedrill

Time for space alien abduction and an implant in his neck as the excuse. Missing time.


11 posted on 07/05/2024 4:25:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What size straight jacket?

This from FIVE MONTHS ago:

https://www.upsonbeacon.com/opinion/columnists/prison-or-insane-asylum-straight-jacket-or-prison-jumpsuit/article_4c2bbb9e-cabe-11ee-b1b6-47954b5e1bb2.html
12 posted on 07/05/2024 4:25:48 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: frank ballenger

beat me too it! nicely done


13 posted on 07/05/2024 4:26:21 PM PDT by stylin19a (Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Joe has my complete support.


14 posted on 07/05/2024 4:26:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It sounds like this interview is rambling around different topics, and will not alleviate Democrat concerns about him.


15 posted on 07/05/2024 4:26:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: stylin19a

Thanks.


16 posted on 07/05/2024 4:26:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

Yeah—”I don’t think I did” is an evasion highly indicative of lying.

That means he did.


17 posted on 07/05/2024 4:27:01 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: jerod

Yep..like inflation
.open borders and Afghanistan.


18 posted on 07/05/2024 4:27:06 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: CatOwner
Give it another few days and there will never even have been a debate.

How many know that hunter bidet has been convicted on three counts of illegal gun possession and is now a convicted felon awaiting sentencing. Any yet, he is sitting in on national security briefings. They have managed to keep that one tamped down haven't they? I have not even seen it discussed on FR other than in passing.

19 posted on 07/05/2024 4:27:14 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since he was so prepared for specifics, did Georgie ask him to name even one of the “28 lies” Trump told that Joe was counting?


20 posted on 07/05/2024 4:27:54 PM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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