by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
Once again, the elite media is trying to rewrite history in real time.
Not even 24 hours after a Democratic and public rebellion forced President Joe Biden to give up his desperate quest for a second term1, the spinning and gaslighting began.
Biden is an “American hero,” one New York Times opinion piece claimed yesterday. What he did is “utterly extraordinary,” another said. The New Yorker referred to his “act of selflessness.”
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Funny, no one called Richard Nixon selfless when he resigned rather than face impeachment in 1974. Or Lyndon B. Johnson a hero for quitting his reelection bid in 1968 after a national rebellion over Vietnam.
The media’s effort to whitewash the collapse of Biden’s campaign and pretend his allies and its own pressure did not make him quit is stunningly brazen. It must be confronted immediately.
Its consequences go far past how history will view Biden.
Most importantly, pretending Biden quit the race on his own gives a pass to Vice President Kamala Harris, his replacement as the Democratic nominee. It lets Harris avoid explaining how much she knew about efforts to hide Biden’s mental decline from the public, as well as her role – if any – in forcing him out.
Consider the bizarre timeline of the last two months.
On May 15, Biden’s campaign agreed to a debate with Donald Trump on CNN on June 27. The debate was set for almost 20 weeks before Election Day, months before presidential debates normally occur. In fact, it was scheduled early enough to happen before the conventions at which Trump and Biden would be officially nominated.
Almost no one had publicly suggested such an early debate, and Biden’s camp took credit for the timing. As the Washington Post reported:
“President Biden made his terms clear for two one-on-one debates, and Donald Trump accepted those terms,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.
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(You misspelled zero. And gaslight.)
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What made the early debate even more unusual is that Biden faced no public pressure from Democrats to hold it before the convention. As President, he towered over any and all potential opponents in his party. He had the Democratic nomination locked up.
Republicans had suggested for years that Biden’s mental fitness might be fading, pointing to his speaking lapses, vacant stares, near-falls, and unwillingness to face the media or public at unscripted events. In February, a federal prosecutor who had interviewed Biden at length in fall 2023 released a report calling him an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
But Democrats and the media brushed off these objections and blasted Biden’s skeptics as conspiracy theorists and ageists. He had faced no serious primary challengers and won more than 14 million primary votes.
In May, he was neck-and-neck with Trump, who was being tried in a Manhattan court for misclassifying business records. On some days, Trump seemed to have a slight edge; on others the race effectively seemed even.
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