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biden
April 9, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

WATCH: Biden Appears to Forget His Own Name.

President Joe Biden, 81, appeared to forget his own name during a speech on the economy delivered at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Tuesday. “My dad used to say ‘A job… Joey… I give you my word as a tray… ‘” the President began, confusingly stumbling over his words. Abandoning the anecdote, Biden said: “A job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect.”

In a video of the speech, Biden briefly hesitates while attempting to quote his father’s words, appearing unclear how his father referred to him in the anecdote before settling on “Joey.” Incidents of the octogenarian Democrat displaying confusion and memory lapses in both public and private interactions have become increasingly common — fueling voter concerns that he is suffering from cognitive decline and too old to serve another term in office.

During an impromptu address in February responding to DOJ special counsel Robert Hur’s 345-page report on his mishandling of classified documents, Biden insisted he was mentally fit despite the report detailing evidence to the contrary. While taking questions at the end of his speech, the President described General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the President of Egypt, as “the President of Mexico” and implied the U.S.’ southern neighbor actually bordered Gaza.

The transcripts of DOJ special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with Biden reveal a damning picture of the President’s mental state. After their release in March, The National Pulse reported President Biden stated that he “did not know,” “could not recall,” or “did not remember” almost 150 times over five hours. Additionally, the transcripts confirmed that Biden struggled to remember when he served as Vice President and the date of his son Beau Biden’s death.

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President Joe Biden, 81, appeared to forget his own name during a speech on the economy delivered at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station on Tuesday. "My dad used to say 'A job... Joey... I give you my word as a tray... '" the President began, confusingly stumbling over his words. Abandoning the anecdote, Biden said: "A job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect." show more
March 12, 2024
William Upton
News
Politics

REVEALED: Biden Brought Up Beau’s Death First, Just 7 Mins Into Special Counsel Interview.

President Joe Biden brought up his son Beau Biden’s death just seven minutes into his interview with Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Robert Hur, according to the transcript of the five-hour meeting. After the special counsel’s report was released in February, the President lashed out at Hur — leading the American people to believe it was the special counsel who first broached the subject of Beau’s death.

The DOJ special counsel had been probing Biden on his activities at the end of his then-Vice Presidency and his decision to locate the Biden Cancer Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Biden was also asked about his decision to write a book in the last days of the Obama government, with the President explaining he wanted to “write a book about my son because he was a remarkable man” so that his family would “understand who he was and have some documentation of it.”

This directly contradicts Biden’s assertion at his February address on Hur’s report in which he insisted it was the special counsel who first broached the subject of his son’s death. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden growled at the time, adding: “Frankly when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

The President had claimed it was Hur who had directly asked the date of his son’s death. However, the interview transcript shows that Biden himself broached that subject as well. Hur noted in his report that Biden had become confused and could not remember the actual date or year in which Beau Biden had died of cancer.

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President Joe Biden brought up his son Beau Biden’s death just seven minutes into his interview with Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Robert Hur, according to the transcript of the five-hour meeting. After the special counsel’s report was released in February, the President lashed out at Hur — leading the American people to believe it was the special counsel who first broached the subject of Beau’s death. show more
March 12, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Politics

Transcript Reveals BIDEN LIED After Classified Docs Report — He *DID* Forget When Son Beau Died & Forgot He Was VP in 2009!

The transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur reveals that the angry response from the 46th President in response to the report’s publication contained yet another lie. Speaking immediately after its publication Biden screamed at the press corps in the White House: “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

But Hur didn’t ask, and Biden didn’t remember, despite claiming at the time: “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.”

But the official transcript of the interview between Hur and Biden not only reveals it was Biden who raised the subject, as he often does in public speeches, but also had to rely on several aides to remember when his son Beau passed away.

“And so I hadn’t, I hadn’t at this point … I hadn’t walked away from the idea that I may run for office again. But if I ran again, I’d be running for president,” Biden said, according to the transcript. “And, and so what was happening though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th–”

After two other individuals present at the interview reminded him that Beau died in 2015, Biden asked: “Was it 2015 he had died?”

“It was May of 2015,” one aide replied.

In another exchange, Biden asked out loud, “Was I still vice president? I was, wasn’t I? Yeah.” The document he was looking at was dated 2009, and he had only been Vice President for four months at the time.

At another point, he said, “Well, if it was 2013 — when did I stop being vice president?”

Rachel Cotton, from the White House Counsel’s Office, was forced to remind him that he left office in 2017.

Hur is testifying before the House Committee on Oversight today, where he is expected to reiterate his findings over Biden, the classified documents he kept, and his failing memory.

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The transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur reveals that the angry response from the 46th President in response to the report’s publication contained yet another lie. Speaking immediately after its publication Biden screamed at the press corps in the White House: “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn't any of their damn business." show more
February 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics

Biden Insists He *Is* Fit for Prosecution, Before Claiming Mexico Borders Gaza.

Joe Biden reacted with fury after a 345-page Justice Department report on his mishandling of classified documents questioned his mental faculties, railing at special counsel Robert Hur and members of the press for questioning his memory. He then proceeded to confuse the presidents of Mexico and Egypt.

“My memory is fine,” Biden insisted, refusing to accept Hur’s assessment that his memory had shown “significant limitations” during an investigatory interview. Hur noted in his report that the 81-year-old Democrat “did not remember when he was vice president” and “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”

“How in the hell dare he raise that!” Biden said of the latter observation. Beau Biden died in 2015.

Fielding questions from the press, Biden shouted at reporters who pressed him on public concerns over his mental and physical fitness. Referring to Hur’s recommendation that he should not be charged because a jury, like the Justice Department, would see him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden seethed: “I’m well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing.”

Shortly afterward, however, he described General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the President of Egypt, as “the President of Mexico,” suggesting he should be given credit for persuading Mexico to “open up the gate to allow humanitarian material” into Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war.

This follows Joe Biden claiming he spoke to Francois Mitterand of France and Helmut Kohl of Germany about January 6th at a G7 meeting in 2021. Neither have governed their countries since the 1990s, and both have been dead for many years.

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Joe Biden reacted with fury after a 345-page Justice Department report on his mishandling of classified documents questioned his mental faculties, railing at special counsel Robert Hur and members of the press for questioning his memory. He then proceeded to confuse the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. show more

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September 14, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

‘My Son Was Dying’: Biden’s Rationale for Ignoring Ukraine Conflicts of Interest.

President Joe Biden said that he was never warned about potential conflicts of interest he had regarding Ukraine during an unearthed 2019 interview, claiming he was preoccupied with his dying son, Beau Biden. It is yet another example of Biden using the unfortunate death of his son Beau to excuse his and his family’s corruption.

In a heated exchange with NPR’s Rachel Martin, Biden was pressed about testimony by George Kent, a State Department Official who said he raised ethical concerns with the Vice President’s staff regarding Hunter Biden’s relationship with Ukrainian energy company Burisma but was informed that Biden had no bandwidth due to family matters.

Biden snapped back at Martin, stating that his staff had never told him of Kent’s concerns before adding, “Well, my son was dying, so I guess that’s why he said it, because my son was on his deathbed.”

Biden, who now faces an impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives, has on several occasions used his son Beau’s death to deflect his culpability in what appears to be the abuse of public office to enrich himself and his family through foreign business dealings.

White House spokesman Ian Sams recently claimed that the reason Joe Biden was on his son Hunter Biden’s business calls with foreign companies and individuals was because, “He was checking in with Hunter during a particularly hard time, I might add, a time where the family was going through Hunter’s brother, Beau’s illness.”

The corporate media echoed the claim as well. MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire dismissed the appearance of corruption during Biden’s tenure as Vice President arguing, “We should put this in context: This is a time when Beau Biden, the President’s other son, was ill and then dying and then passed away, so perhaps he was not as attentive to what he should have been here.”

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President Joe Biden said that he was never warned about potential conflicts of interest he had regarding Ukraine during an unearthed 2019 interview, claiming he was preoccupied with his dying son, Beau Biden. It is yet another example of Biden using the unfortunate death of his son Beau to excuse his and his family's corruption. show more
September 13, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Biden Spox Says Joe Was on Hunter’s Business Calls Because Beau Biden Was Sick.

White House spokesman Ian Sams is claiming that the reason President Joe Biden was on his son Hunter Biden’s business calls, and in his meetings, is because the Biden’s are a “close-knit family” and the then-Vice President’s other son, Beau, was battling brain cancer. The move represents yet another occasion of the Bidens using Beau’s death for political ends.

“He calls his son every day to check in. He calls his other family members to check in to see how they’re doing… they’re a tight knit family,” claimed Sams in an interview with CNN, adding, “He was checking in with Hunter during a particularly hard time, I might add, a time where the family was going through Hunter’s brother, Beau’s illness.”

Sams comments came in response to the impeachment inquiry against President Biden announced by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday. The White House spokesman argued that Republicans were “baselessly” targeting Biden and “…[g]oing after him without any evidence just to try to score political points… .” Sams went on to deny that Biden’s Department of Justice afforded Hunter Biden any special treatment relating to its investigation of him and the subsequent failed ‘sweetheart’ plea deal that was thrown out by a federal judge.

President Biden’s problems in Congress are only mounting, however. Prior to the impeachment inquiry announcement, the House Oversight Committee revealed that while serving as Vice President, Biden used several pseudonyms to communicate with his son Hunter regarding business arrangements. The Committee is currently demanding the National Archives hand over un-redacted copies of those communications and documents.

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White House spokesman Ian Sams is claiming that the reason President Joe Biden was on his son Hunter Biden's business calls, and in his meetings, is because the Biden's are a "close-knit family" and the then-Vice President's other son, Beau, was battling brain cancer. The move represents yet another occasion of the Bidens using Beau's death for political ends. show more
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August 1, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

WATCH: MSNBC Uses Beau Biden’s Death to Excuse Hunter, Joe’s Influence Peddling.

MSNBC is using the death of Beau Biden, Joe Biden’s eldest son, to excuse the President’s participation in his son Hunter’s business dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and other foreigners. The far-left cable network suggests the senior Biden wasn’t thinking straight because he was “sad” about the death of his firstborn child. Biden himself has used Beau’s death a number of times, even going so far as to suggest he was killed in Iraq. In reality, though sad, Beau died from a glioblastoma.

“As far as Hunter Biden goes, there’s no doubt, I mean, it’s pretty clear, even those close to the Biden family suggest that some of his behavior was pretty unseemly – that doesn’t make it illegal,” said MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire.

Lemire, who also works for POLITICO, added: “…we don’t know the role that then-Vice President Biden may have played [in Hunter’s business]”. He then conceded: “…maybe he’s guilty of turning a blind eye to some of his son’s behavior.”

“We should put this in context: This is a time when Beau Biden, the President’s other son, was ill and then dying and then passed away, so perhaps he was not as attentive to what he should have been here,” he added.

Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson was wheeled out to echo this sentiment: “You could certainly argue that at some point, if Hunter Biden put President Biden on the speakerphone like 20 times, you could certainly ask whether at some point President Biden might have said ‘Hey, quit putting me on speakerphone, you know, are you having a business meeting, like, what is that about?’ – but the context is that this was a sort of very fraught and sad time for the Biden family, and we know how important family is to the President.”

Whether this is a truly accurate description of President Biden is an open question, however, given his history of pointedly refusing to acknowledge the existence of his seventh grandchild , Hunter’s stripper lovechild, Navy, who was denied the right to bear the Biden surname in a lengthy court battle.

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MSNBC is using the death of Beau Biden, Joe Biden's eldest son, to excuse the President's participation in his son Hunter's business dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and other foreigners. The far-left cable network suggests the senior Biden wasn't thinking straight because he was "sad" about the death of his firstborn child. Biden himself has used Beau's death a number of times, even going so far as to suggest he was killed in Iraq. In reality, though sad, Beau died from a glioblastoma. show more