Biden team now claims he was a successful President

As the American people have become more aware of the extent of President Biden’s age-related disabilities, those responsible for the cover-up have put forward a new defense strategy. They claim that there were no disasters or crises as a result of his condition. According to them, it was a remarkably successful presidency. They argue that such success could not have occurred if Biden were a totally dysfunctional president.

In what was dubbed a “reputational comeback tour”, Jill Biden said that critics “didn’t see how hard Joe worked every day.”  FOX News commentator Juan Williams has declared Biden to be “one of the best presidents of our time.”  Others have recently followed that narrative.

But if you unpack those claims, you’ll find them to be … empty.

First of all, those advancing that argument know it’s not possible to prove a negative. The fact that there was no proverbial “2 a.m. crisis call” does not mean Biden could have handled it – or maybe there was and he did not. I suspect that if there had been such a call, Jill Biden and senior staff would not have awakened the President – but would have handled it in his name.

Of course, that is all theoretical and speculative. The claim that things ran smoothly because Biden was capable is not a fact. It’s not even a good theory. Saying that nothing disastrous happened due to his condition and the cover-up is simply untrue.

If I were a Democrat, I would see a series of disasters for the party. First was the fact that he ran for a second term when he was unfit and in no shape to serve four more years. Biden’s wife and a cabal of advisors encouraged him to break his one-term commitment.

Their cover-up got him the nomination, but the situation became so untenable that he had to quit the race at the last minute – leaving Democrats with no choice but to back a losing replacement. The anti-Trump establishment may view the chaos from Biden’s entering and exiting the race as a huge disaster, since it could be fairly argued that it helped elect President Trump.

Then there’s the issue of the selection of a Vice President. Would a presidential candidate of sound mind have selected Kamala Harris? In hindsight, it was clearly a poor decision. But was the emphasis on selecting a “Black woman” as the primary qualifier Biden’s decision? Or was he unduly influenced by others due to his weakened condition—others with more radical left-wing views than old “Lunch Bucket Joe”?

Since Biden is now known to have not been of entirely sound mind throughout his presidency (the degree of which can be debated), many of “his” decisions can be questioned. Would a fully competent president have ordered the disastrous and deadly Afghanistan withdrawal? Would a fully competent president have so badly mishandled the border crisis? Was it really Biden or his “brain trust” that passed legislation that contributed to disastrous inflation? What mind was at work when Biden merely repeated losing talking points throughout the campaign?

Because of Biden’s disability, we can know several things. First, he himself was not capable of arriving at sound decisions through a cognitive process. But we also know that such individuals can be easily influenced—or even coerced—by those around them. In extreme cases, others can act in their name without their knowledge.

We know that Biden spent more time in controlled environments—“the bunker”—than out in public. We know he held fewer and shorter press conferences than any president in modern times. Despite the best efforts of the cover-up conspirators, we eventually saw a president with serious age-related physical and mental issues.

Because of all that, we do not know to what extent Biden controlled the presidential agenda. We do not know who ran the autopen. But we can reasonably conclude that Biden was not the ultimate decision-maker in the White House for many months- perhaps years. He was being handled—managed. We know that from those ubiquitous cheat sheets.

We’ve seen this before with two other incapacitated presidents—Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. Those around Biden essentially overthrew a president and established an unelected caretaker government – assuming control over the nation’s business and serving as personal caretakers for a failing Joe Biden.

While the conspirators and fellow travelers are not likely to be held legally accountable, one hopes they will endure the loathing and shunning of the public, their political party, and potential employers.

Yes, Biden’s condition—and the ultimately failed effort to fool all the people all the time—did produce disasters for the Democratic Party and the American people. We cannot know what a fully functioning Joe Biden might have done or achieved. We just know that we did not have a fully functioning Joe Biden throughout his presidency.

And one can have pity for Old Joe. In terms of his legacy, he was not a very accomplished president (cheerleaders notwithstanding). Now his legacy will forever be seen through the lens of his age-related competency and The Great Conspiracy to cover it up.

So, there ’tis.