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Questions Swirl Surrounding Biden’s Dropout

Questions Swirl Surrounding Biden’s Dropout

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It’s been a wild ten days. Trump was almost killed, we experienced a major cyber outage, the head of the secret service resigned, and Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. The way this last incident unfolded has left many furrowing their brows in confusion. Let’s examine the timeline of events.

On Wednesday, July 17, the media reported that President Biden tested positive for COVID—this after he had stated in an interview the same day that a substantial medical issue would likely convince him to drop out of the race.

Not long after, unverified rumors began to swirl that Joe Biden had experienced some kind of medical emergency during a trip to Las Vegas and had to be evacuated to John Hopkins. Charlie Kirk posted a lead to this effect on Twitter/X on July 22, which The Dossier has attempted to verify. According to The Dossier, “Several law enforcement officers on duty that day were informed over the radio that the president was dealing with an unspecified medical emergency.” Obviously, these reports remain unconfirmed at this point, but they certainly are raising eyebrows.

Then, on July 21, Biden’s Twitter/X account posted a picture of a letter announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race. Bizarrely, the letter lacked the White House letterhead and presidential seal. Some have even pointed out oddities in the signature that is purportedly Biden’s. In a Tweet from thirty minutes later, Biden apparently endorsed his vice president Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden has not been seen in public since he landed in Delaware after the Las Vegas trip and slowly edged himself into a vehicle on the 17th, though his social media account now claims that he’ll speak to the nation tomorrow.

A number of Republicans have been demanding greater transparency from the Biden administration about all this. Where is Biden? Why didn’t he make his pivotal announcement about surrendering the nomination in person at a press conference instead of over social media? Representatives Thomas Massie and Mike Collins have gone so far as to call this a “coup”—presumably by Democrat agents who want desperately to get Biden out. In an interview with journalist Matt Taibi, Walter Kirn proposed that Democrat elites such as Nancy Pelosi wanted to remove Biden from the race due to his obvious decline, physically and politically, but he was resisting. Politico ran a story to the same effect, saying, “Senior Biden aides were bracing for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who’d worked behind the scenes to encourage others in the party toward the kind of collective action that might finally push the president to end his campaign, to go public this week and possibly even disclose Democratic polling clarifying Biden’s dire political straits.” Whether literally or figuratively, it seems Biden was left with no choice.

The president is scheduled to arrive at the White House today at 2:30 and then to address the nation on Wednesday night. From the perspective of many Americans of various political stripes, Biden’s reemergence can’t come too soon. Fears about his condition and questions about who’s really running our country during the president’s disappearance need to be allayed, and quickly.

Making assertions about Biden’s actual state of health and degree of freedom in the decision to step down is not my main concern here. We don’t really know at this point. Kirn points out that this is a very difficult moment for us to orient ourselves since the pipelines of information are compromised: controlled media outlets on the one hand versus wildly speculative social media accounts on the other. Neither one can be counted on.

What I do wish to highlight, however, is the remarkably unstable political situation we’re now enduring, however you slice it and whatever explanation you offer for Biden’s surrender. Even assuming Biden’s press conference goes as planned tomorrow, it still will not fully satisfy questions about the curious manner in which all this has unfolded. The current administration is not inspiring calm and confidence. We need transparency from our leadership and a press that can be trusted to witness to the truth. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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    Bob Harper
    July 24, 2024, 5:31 pm

    Transparency is about the last thing we can expect; it would be best for the country and the populace, but there are those for whom real transparency might prove…………embarrassing.

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    Kalikiano Kalei
    July 24, 2024, 8:46 pm

    Given the recent past pattern of actions by progressive radical Democrats and their less radical political fellow-travelers, it seems apparent to me that President Biden's administration has been consistently manipulated by 'other players'…namely Barrack Obama and his 'influencers' in an effort to remain the overwhelming prime-mover in American politics. It's also fairly obvious (to me) that Obama is the key mastermind behind all these obfuscative machinations, advancing his own nefarious agenda to retain power, yet conveniently remaining cloaked in the comforting shadow of public anonymity.

    Think 'Wizard of Oz', hidden behind the green velour drapes of the Emerald City's palace, in that epic L. Frank Baum children's story, pulling levers and pushing buttons. Think also of Japanese puppeteers, cloaked in black apparel, manipulating small effigies of public figures (like Biden) in an American Bunraku (Ningyō jōruri, or 人形浄瑠璃) drama.

    My perception is that all the profuse and elaborate rationalisations for the events you cite here, Walker, that we are witnessing via 'mainstream' media, are an epic, collective display of massive , pervasive Democratic gaslighting that transcends belief!

    In Kamala Harris's case, forget totally about 'Cherchez la femme'…and rather 'Cherchez la Obama!'

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