CNN's Abby Phillips Defends Democrats and Media Lying About Joe Biden's Senility: Accurately Reporting on His Senility Would be "You Know, Kicking a Guy When He's Down"

Very strange that this consideration was never once applied to Trump when he was charged with a hundred fake crimes.

That video below. Before that, Ed Morrissey writes that Biden is now rated the second-worst president in US history per a Gallup poll, with only Nixon standing in his way of immortal infamy.

Many more Americans expect history to judge Joe Biden's presidency unfavorably rather than favorably. Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults believe Biden will be remembered as a "below average" (37%) or "poor" (17%) president, while 19% say he will be evaluated as "outstanding" (6%) or "above average" (13%). Another 26% think he will be regarded as "average."

Compared with nine recent presidents included in the new Gallup poll, Biden rates most similarly to Richard Nixon, who has a -42 net rating (12% outstanding or above average versus 54% below average or poor). Biden receives more "poor" reviews than Nixon does (37% vs. 30%), but Biden gets more outstanding or above-average ratings.

Those "high ratings" are just sunk cost fallacy and partisan cope. As partisan Democrats get over their always-hurt feelings, they'll stop making stupid claims about Biden being an "outstanding" president.

As the public saw what real Democrat governance looked like, they stopped being marks for leftwing media propaganda and re-evaluated Trump based on the facts rather than leftwing lies:

Trump's ratings have improved substantially from when he left office in January 2021 in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the peak in U.S. deaths from COVID-19. At that time, 29% of Americans thought history would judge Trump as an outstanding or above-average president, 10% as average, and 61% below average or poor.

The -32 net rating Trump had in 2021 has improved to -4. Since 2021, there has been a larger decrease in below-average or poor evaluations of Trump's first term (down 17 points) than an increase in outstanding or above-average ratings (up 11 points).

Literally everyone in DC and the media knew that Biden was senile -- and they all covered it up.

No wonder Abby Philips wants to make excuses about "not kicking a guy when he's down."

Woodward's new book, "War," quotes multiple people who alleged they witnessed Biden's senility firsthand at various fundraisers and other events. Among the claims were that Biden looked "frighteningly awful" and like a "senile grandfather" during some of these appearances.

Woodward quoted Liberties Journal President Bill Reichblum, who remarked on Biden's mental state at a fundraiser held at the home of prominent philanthropists Michael and Susie Gelman in June 2023.

According to Reichblum, Biden "never completed a sentence" at the event.

"He would start to talk about something, jump somewhere else. He told the same story three times in exactly the same way and it meandered so much," Reichblum was quoted saying. "Frankly, my impression was there were times it was as though we didn't exist. He was just rambling and talking as to what came into his head."

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Prior to the debate, many of Biden's allies in the Democratic Party media had defended his cognitive ability and disputed those who claimed he didn't have the mental acuity to run for office. Woodward's book detailed how several of Biden's top aides did not acknowledge his cognitive challenges until after the debate.

However, his book also revealed that other prominent Democrats and liberals recognized Biden's problems well before party leaders recommended he end his campaign.

Biden "could not wait to sit down and only took two pre-arranged questions," one witness -- a Democratic Party donor at a Silicon Valley fundraiser hosted by Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott in June 2023 -- was quoted saying in "War."

At the same fundraiser, witnesses alleged that Biden struggled to focus on giving his speech even while having notecards to guide him.

The author quoted one anonymous guest who described Biden, writing, "It was 'like your 87-year-old senile grandfather,' wandering around the room, saying to women guests, 'your eyes are so beautiful.'"

However, Woodward also quoted venture capitalist Steve Westly who called the president "energetic" and said he "wouldn't sit down for two hours" at a second event that same day.

Woodward's book also included the accounts of people who attended a Biden campaign fundraiser at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City that same month and noted Biden's struggles.

According to these attendees, Biden struggled to remember the word "veteran," and resorted to asking the audience for help in referring to a person who "served in the military."

Other witnesses described Biden talking with guests as "painful."

Woodward also quoted an anonymous Hollywood executive who at one point told the president directly, "You're f------ up your campaign. Every time you get out and walk, people think 'old.'"

Remember that the White House staff literally covered up Biden's slow, unsteady gate by surrounding him with bodies so that cameras couldn't film him walking.

The leftwing propaganda media that covered up the greatest deception in American presidential history since the cover-up of Woodrow Wilson's complete incapacitation has finally bothered to ask Biden if he could even have served another term.

Biden's answer: "Who the hell knows?"

1, that means "No," and 2, even taking him at his demented word, how could he have run not knowing if he was mentally capable of it or not?

He also claims he could have beaten Trump if they'd left him in the race, of course.

Trump still gets pounded for talking about crowd size, with "fact" checkers claiming this is a "lie," but Biden gets to claim he could have beaten Trump and the polls prove this and no one in corporate media points out the polls showed him losing 400 electoral votes and massively losing Congress.

Biden Acknowledges He Might Not Have Been Able to Serve Four More Years

President Biden insisted that he still could have beaten Donald J. Trump had he stayed in the race, but could not say he would have been vital enough to be president until age 86.

President Biden acknowledged in a new interview released on Wednesday that he might not have had the vitality to serve another four years in office, even as he insisted that he could have won re-election had he stayed in the race.

Mr. Biden, 82, who abandoned his bid for a second term in July under enormous pressure from Democrats panicked over his faltering debate performance against former President Donald J. Trump, maintained that he was still in good enough shape to run the country as he finishes his term.

"So far, so good," he told USA Today. "But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old?"

That was exactly the point many Democrats raised privately for months before the issue exploded into public view with the televised debate in June, when a frail-looking Mr. Biden struggled to finish sentences and at times appeared blank or confused.

Until then and even after the debate for a few weeks, Mr. Biden and his closest advisers argued that he was still vigorous enough to beat Mr. Trump despite polls showing widespread doubts about his capacity, including among Democrats. Even now, after his stand-in, Vice President Kamala Harris, lost to Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden said he would have prevailed.

"It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes," Mr. Biden said in the interview. But when the question turned to whether he would have been able to bear the extraordinary burdens that come with the presidency until age 86, Mr. Biden, already the oldest president in American history, conceded doubts that he rarely admits to. "I don't know," he said.

"When Trump was running again for re-election, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him," Mr. Biden said of the 2020 contest that he won. "But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton."

Mr. Biden added: "But I don't know. Who the hell knows?"

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