Posted on 07/23/2024 6:51:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden's decision to drop out surprised many. His defiance for weeks seemed unshakeable, and even top campaign officials were reportedly unaware that a decision had be made until the final minutes before his letter was posted to X/Twitter.
The question on everyone's mind is, of course, how did it happen? Did Biden have an epiphany? Did he look at polling data before bravely and selflessly deciding to call it quits?
Not. Even. Close.
Sources have informed the New York Post that top Democratic Party operatives threatened to forcibly remove Joe Biden from office if he didn't voluntarily drop out of the race.
The well-orchestrated “palace coup” to stop the faltering president seeking re-election has been in place for weeks, but stubborn Biden fought against it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family told The Post Monday.
The insider also made clear the anger, paranoia and frustration Biden displayed as the party elite circled around him and piled on the pressure.
Part of the “elaborate” strategy to remove Biden from the race – as he announced in a shock letter posted on X Sunday – was allowing him to debate Republican candidate Donald Trump last month on live TV in Atlanta.
During the car crash 90-minute debate, Biden appeared confused, slack-jawed and at one point he froze up, with his shocking performance turning the tide against him.
“That debate was a set-up to convince Democrats that he couldn’t run for president,” the family source said Monday.
As calls for him to bow out mounted, Biden insisted he would continue, but party bigwigs threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution.
The amendment allows for the vice president and members of the cabinet to declare he is unfit ... [emphasis added]
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
NOTE:
Despite Biden’s immediate endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate, there are still some holdouts who haven’t endorsed Harris as Biden’s successor, potentially setting the stage for a bitter convention battle. The Democratic National Convention is now less than a month away, and there are only four months until Election Day.
If Democratic Party operatives were willing to blackmail Joe Biden by invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, that speaks volumes about how they perceive his ability to continue serving as president. They wouldn’t threaten to do so if they didn’t believe such a move would be seen as legitimate by the public. Biden’s team clearly knew it would succeed as well and relented, and staying on as president was Biden’s consolation prize.
I don’t believe anything The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate says.
I wouldn’t read too much into the hold out thing.
The fact is Trump was and is going to win, handing this over to Kamala is just handing her a race the Democrats were already going to lose.
It will be interesting who will leave their cushy government job to join Harris and tank their political careers in the process with a guaranteed loss in November against Trump.
Hmmmmm! Almost sounds like powerful democommies were near an insurrection but settled on a coup. And it worked.
The “family source” is now making excuses for Biden’s own failures.
I bet it was really more Jill and probably Hunter that was defiant.
Once jill and hunter were assured the gravy train would keep rolling at least until January, they capitulated.
Now that I believe.
This is awesome..
“The insider also made clear the anger, paranoia and frustration Biden displayed as the party elite circled around him and piled on the pressure.”
Is it REALLY “paranoia” when they actually do Cicle Around, Pile on and FORCE YOU to resign?
This is pretty much what many of us believed was going on. They knew how bad he was and yet he remains President until January I suppose.
LOL!
“Trump was and is going to win”
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/michigan/
Trump 43.8%
Biden 41.4%
Kennedy 7.4%
The DNC is run by “party bosses” like we see in NJ. Harris had a responsibility by the Constitution with the 25th and refused because she only cares about herself. She knew the knives were out for FJB.
Their gravy train isn't the monthly payout of Joe's $400K+ salary or other related benefits. It's access to Joe's offshore accounts where the big money has been stashed.
They took him off his meds and hit him in the head with a ping pong ball..which killed him?
No need for the 25th, since it is ineffectual anyway, and Biden will probably be dead any minute.
Couldn’t have asked for a better scenario for a jack weed like him to exit the stage.
What a time for Joe to go gutless. Call their bluff.
You always find an excuse for the Demonrats Wuli.
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