The Bidens are back from the political dead.
Or trying their hardest, at least, to rewrite history. To become relevant again.
Out shuffled Old Joe, age 82, on Thursday’s episode of The View, this appearance heralded in large gold letters as his FIRST LIVE INTERVIEW since leaving the White House.
Or, more accurately, his first live interview since being betrayed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and George Clooney; pushed off the ticket and into endorsing Kamala Harris, resulting in one of the Democrats’ most humiliating losses since Reagan defeated Carter in 1980.
No matter. The ladies of The View — part of ABC News, which is run by Kamala’s best friend — lauded Joe as a conquering hero.
Indeed, this former leader, who appeared to recognize only two of his five enthusiastic hosts, needed guidance to find the single empty chair assigned to him, and was heavily coated in layers of flesh-toned makeup — handled this challenging question from co-host Sara Haines, right from the outset:
‘Mr. President… you had made the selfless and very difficult decision, I’m sure, to step aside.’
What?
Out shuffled Old Joe, age 82, on Thursday’s episode of The View, this appearance touted in large gold letters as his FIRST LIVE INTERVIEW since leaving the White House. Or, more correctly, his first live interview since being knifed in the back.
Haines — and her producers, and ABC News execs — have clearly memory-holed George Stephanopoulos, of ABC News, interviewing Biden in the wake of that disastrous TV debate, asking the president repeatedly if he really thought he could, and should, continue running?
To which Biden retorted that only ‘the Lord Almighty’ could convince him to do the right thing — and guess what?
‘The Lord Almighty’s not coming down,’ Joe said.
Okay. So the mainstream media, the Democratic Party and the Bidens themselves still refuse to take the memo.
They remain defiant in their beliefs that Joe Biden was an incredible president, that there were zero cover-ups about his declining faculties, and that he and Dr. Jill — the wife-slash-nursemaid who, of course, joined him for this interview — remain party leaders who should be heard and seen as much as possible.
The delusion is astounding.
Biden was essentially fired by his party and country. Top elected officials and operatives have been telling the media, for months now, that the Bidens need to slink off into oblivion.
Just week ago, former loyalists expressed anger and disgust that the Bidens still want to stump and fundraise.
One former senior Biden official put it best: ‘Their irresponsibility, family ego and selfishness put the Democratic Party in this position… the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today.’
Ineffective little circle. Brutal.
Yet here was Dr. Jill, bragging that she’d been busy flying to ‘LA, New York and DC’ as if she’s still a vested power broker.
Perhaps her delusion is somewhat understandable — after all, these two are reportedly on the verge of signing a $30 million joint book deal for their White House memoirs.
Any publisher willing to sign such a deal is a moron.
If this interview is anything to go by — and, really, it’s everything to go by — get ready for two tomes of epic self-regard, self-love and self-sacrifice, all bound up like some political fairytale that touts Biden as one of the greatest presidents of all time.
Throughout will doubtless be bitter jousts toward Barack and Michelle, and their joint post-presidential book deal for $65 million — six times what the Bidens are worth.
You just know that Dr. Jill is looking at Michelle not with pity — which is what she deserves — but envy.
Envy for the multiple book deals, the Netflix shows, the podcasts, the four lavish estates, and children who aren’t reprobates, drug addicts in trouble with the law or $15 million in debt, as Hunter Biden is.
Yes, Lady MacBiden — a nickname she says has been hurtful, but hey, if the shoe fits — surely sees dollar signs and brand deals in her near future.
Back to this interview, which is truly outer limits: Biden says Kamala lost because America is ‘sexist’, even though her campaign was ‘successful’ and ‘consistent’.
Sure.
The only thing Kamala consistently did successfully was spew garbage word salad, refuse to offer specifics, and go on The View, where she was asked by co-host Sunny Hostin if she would have done anything differently from President Biden.
Kamala: ‘There is not a thing that comes to mind’.
Those two idiots, in the span of a few seconds, handed Trump one of his most effective campaign ads. And speaking of Trump, Biden was asked, in this interview, what he thinks of his successor’s first 100 days.
Biden, ever on brand, said that like every former living president, the protocol is never to criticize a sitting president — and then proceeded to do just that.
‘I think he’s done a very poor job,’ said Biden — who ordered, against all best military advice, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 US service members their lives.
Said the president who worked just a few hours each day, who fell asleep in meetings and wandered off stages worldwide, whose cognitive decline and the resulting cover-up has been told in multiple news accounts and now a spate of books.
A president who was so unreachable, so shielded from the press and fellow politicians, that Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said his multiple requests to meet with Biden had been summarily denied.
‘If the Speaker of the House can’t meet with the president of the United States, that’s a problem,’ Johnson said in February 2024, four months before that debate. ‘I don’t know why they’re uncomfortable having the president sit across the table from me.’
Now we know. We all know.
But the Bidens, still, maintain that these are all lies. Lies told by a sympathetic mainstream media that had spent years covering up for Biden’s impairments, neglecting to report that a neurologist — a Parkinson’s expert — had been called to the White House eight times in eight months.
‘I did not create a cocoon around him,’ Jill said on The View.
The gall. Multiple sources maintain the contrary.
Dr. Jill also had the temerity to insist that all was well in the Biden White House, that everyone saw Joe working around the clock, day and night, all four years.
‘It was non-stop,’ she said, her husband nodding off next to her. ‘Being president is not, like, a job. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a life that you live… it’s constant. You never leave it’.
Well, Joe and Jill — really, Jill — the job has left you. And thank God for that.
