Biden's Former Top Aide Ron Klain Testifies, Sticking to the Party Line That Biden Was Not "Politically Viable" But Still Was Totally Competent to Remain President
Hunter Biden: Hot Damn, Crack Is My Jam!!!

This is the line Nancy Pelosi created to push Biden out of the race while keeping him in office. (Because Biden never, ever would have agreed to step down as president.)

The Democrats kept insisting that he wasn't "viable" as a candidate, while denying he was incapacitated to serve as president.

But why was he not "viable"? Because, of course, the country had seen that he was not mentally fit to continue on as president.

But they don't concede that part. They just say "The polls showed him losing, despite being the most successful president of the modern era."

Well if he's the most successful president of the modern era -- spoiler, he was not -- then why are the polls showing he can't win?

Because, of course, the country had seen that he was not mentally fit to continue on as president.

But they keep pretending these two questions -- about his political viability and about his mental fitness -- are entirely unrelated.

Because only by separating the two questions could they get the stubborn senile Biden to back out of the race.

This is the blatant lie that Ron Klain stuck to.

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden wasn't seen as "politically viable" by either his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, or by ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during his final year in office, a source told The Post.

Klain -- a member of a purported "Politburo" that made high-level decisions as Biden grew less clear-headed during his term -- made the stunning claims to the House Oversight Committee in response to accusations that senior aides shielded the 46th president's physical and mental infirmity.

In the sitdown, Klain denied that Biden, now 82, lacked the cognitive acuity to govern or that he was too old to run for re-election in 2024, according to a source familiar with his remarks.

But the longtime adviser admitted his boss was "less energetic," had a poorer memory and frequently mixed up names -- a problem that worsened with time, the source added.

Sullivan confided to Klain that Biden was also "less effective" in 2024 than in 2022, the source said.

Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for Sullivan, told The Post Thursday night that "Jake did not have a conversation with Ron about Joe Biden running for president before the [June 27] debate."

Elsewhere in his interview, Klain divulged that he'd donated $5,000 for then-first son Hunter Biden's legal defense fund at the behest of attorney Abbe Lowell, who repped the younger Biden.

"Evidence emerges on a daily basis that would suggest Joe Biden wasn't mentally fit to be president," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters, citing claims that the former chief executive was put on "mind-altering" sleeping pills before his debate flop against former President Donald Trump.

Klain told the Oversight panel he was not aware Biden was taking Ambien ahead of the performance, a claim Hunter Biden made in a Monday interview with YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan.

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Former Biden White House aides weren't surprised that Klain would be answering questions -- noting that he's had a rocky relationship with his former boss over his willingness to be quoted in tell-all books like Chris Whipple's tome "Uncharted."

"Ron Klain taking the opportunity to speak is so classic -- always yapping," said one former official.

Ed Morrissey quotes passages from Uncharted which certainly suggest that Biden was mentally unfit (which then made him "politically unviable.")

And those passages are based on Klain's admissions.

From the Free Beacon:

Klain, the White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023, was "startled" by Biden's declining mental and physical state when he went back to work for the octogenarian president in June 2024, according to excerpts from Chris Whipple's upcoming book Uncharted published in the Guardian.

Klain had "never seen [Biden] so exhausted and out of it," Whipple writes. "Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool." ...

Klain had to cut short the two mock debates he had organized for Biden.

"The first was scheduled to last 90 minutes but Klain called it off after 45. The president's voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject," Whipple writes. Less than 30 minutes into the second mock debate, Biden went off to bed, saying he was "just too tired to continue," according to Whipple.

Morrissey points out that Hunter Biden's new "Ambien Defense" -- of course the drug addict fabricates a drug-related defense -- makes no sense. Taking an Ambien the night before would not continue affecting Biden at 9pm the following night. And besides, Biden was also flailing, failing, and floundering in his debate prep.

This was not a one-night thing.

Speaking of Hunter Biden -- I said he was running for office, but I thought he'd be running for a House seat.

David Strom may be trolling me but he figures that Biden, Inc. is going to need a bigger office to continue grifting from. You can't support a big Crime Family on the minor ducats you can collect as a congresscrackhead.

Strom says Hunter's taking over Beau's mission -- running for president.

Again, boy, I sure hope he's trolling.

Or do I?

Hunter for President. He's done it once; he can do it again. If you liked Joe Biden's presidency, elect the man who helped run the autopen.

I am only half joking, folks. Hunter Biden might be running for President of the United States. He's already mused about what he would do as president, and he is on a tour of the podcasts to defend the Joe Biden administration.

He could be running for president.

Update: I heard about this, but didn't listen: Hunter Biden extols the virtues of smoking crack and I'm not kidding.

"Safer than alcohol," he proclaims. It's not "dirty," he insists, but is in fact cleaner than cocaine because "all of the impurities have been cooked off."

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