Top Biden Aide Jeff Zients: Biden Had More and More Verbal Stumbles and Losses of Memory and Found It Harder and Harder to Make Decisions
Kamala: I Would Have Picked Bootigieg as VP But I Didn't Want to Run With a Homo

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NEWS: Tons of details from Biden COS Jeff Zients' closed-door testimony readout w/ House Oversight Committee

"Toward the end of the Biden Administration, Hunter Biden was involved with the pardon discussions and attended a few meetings," person familiar tells @NRO
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Zients said Biden's decision-making slowed over admin. Decisions that once required 3 meetings eventually began to require a 4th..

Per source familiar, "Mr. Zients admitted that President Biden's speech stumbles increased as he aged. He also noted that the President's difficulty remembering dates and names worsened over time, including during the administration."

As Zients prepared to become COS, Jill Biden spoke with him about ensuring the President got more rest and was not overscheduled. Mr. Zients said they tried to adjust the schedule so President Biden could return to the residence earlier, giving him time alone or with family.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris' ghostwritten cash-in book of nonsense says she would have liked to have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate but she didn't have the guts or conviction.

Kamala Harris settled on Tim Walz to be her running mate last year because she felt Americans were too racist, antisemitic and homophobic to accept her preferred option -- Pete Buttigieg.

In an excerpt from the former vice president's forthcoming book, "107 Days," obtained by The Atlantic magazine, Harris describes Buttigieg as her "first choice" but later deemed the openly gay former transportation secretary "too big of a risk" for the ticket.

Buttigieg "would have been an ideal partner -- if I were a straight white man," Harris wrote.

So close to next Pride Month?

SO CLOSE TO NEXT PRIDE MONTH?!

"But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man," she continued. "Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let's just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk."

"And I think Pete also knew that -- to our mutual sadness."

What a courageous decisive leader.

Harris ultimately tapped Walz, the governor of Minnesota, for the role and together, the pair went on to lose the popular vote, Electoral College and every single swing state to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Hey Pete, you're too queer to be my running mate.

Here's the High-T UltraChad SnizzMaster and QuimBully I'm going with:

In her book, Harris explained that Buttigieg topped her list of eight potential running mates because "he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them."

LOL, sure. Just like Liz Cheney.

This strong and decisive leader is also criticizing the man she courageously and decisively chose to be her VP running mate.

But she and her staff liked Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota for his charm, and believed his background balanced hers. Throughout the book, she struggled to reconcile her personal affection for him with disappointment in moments she felt he stumbled. During a vice-presidential debate against JD Vance, whom she called a "shape-shifter," Mr. Walz began nodding along. Ms. Harris was aghast.

"You're not here to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate," she said to the television screen as she watched.

Another White Man who Failed to Position Kamala for Success.

She also makes up a fake reason for not picking Josh Shapiro, who was not picked because he's a Jew in a party that is now majority-antisemitic.

Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania seemed more interested in defining the role for himself than helping her win, and she recounted Mr. Shapiro questioning an aide about the pieces of art he could use to decorate the vice president's residence.

Oh my goodness, what a very serious and very plausible reason for rejecting him.

She also attacks Biden for harassing her as she was getting ready to debate Trump:

Minutes before she was to step onstage at a presidential debate in September 2024, she received a call from Mr. Biden. He relayed that his brother told him that she was bad-mouthing him, and that several "power brokers" in Philadelphia were threatening not to support her because of it.

Mr. Biden went on to insist that his own disastrous debate performance had not hurt him with voters, and that he had beaten Mr. Trump.

"I just couldn't understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself," Ms. Harris wrote. "Distracting me with worry about hostile power brokers in the biggest city of the most important swing state."

It turns out that Biden, the ghastly grinning corpse of an idiot who claims to have been an All-American Football Player who would have been starting quarterback for the Navy college of Annapolis if not for the fact that Roger Staubach already had the job and also, small problem, he never signed up for the Navy, has an ego on him.

There are several scenes like this, in which Mr. Biden's ego hurt her when Ms. Harris needed him the most. The day after she debated Mr. Trump, she watched as Mr. Biden donned a Trump hat during a visit to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (She watched the photo spread around the internet with the caption "Biden endorses Trump over Harris.")

She struggled to balance her loyalty with Mr. Biden against her belief that Mr. Trump posed a dire threat to the country. Throughout the book, she wrestled with the choices she made not to separate herself from Mr. Biden. She likened an appearance on "The View" to pulling "the pin on a hand grenade," suggesting that, in the moment, she did not grasp the level of animus the public had for an 81-year-old running for re-election.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Biden did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Thursday.

I will dutifully regurgitate these excerpts from "her" book, but I continue to say: these "revelations" are calculated to be the weakest possible gossip to interest the public and mislead them into thinking there's more potent stuff to be found in the book, while also being harmless enough that no one is actually too bothered by her cash-in.

If any of you guys buy this book I will feel greatly betrayed.

More: Corrupt old demon Joe Biden went to Ukraine to "protect the interests of Hunter."

While he was vice president, Joe Biden stepped onto taxpayer-funded Air Force 2, traveled to Ukraine, and conducted personal business with Ukraine's then-President Petro Poroshenko. He was there "to protect the interests of Hunter Biden," according to documents released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the FBI.

The new documents strengthen the information in previously released records. Last Congress, Grassley released FBI 1023 records -- statements from confidential sources -- alleging that when Biden was vice president, executives for Ukrainian gas company Burisma put his son Hunter Biden on the company's board of directors to "protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems," according to that "confidential human source."

Burisma wanted to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

"Regarding that investigation's impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, 'Don't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.' Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as 'poluchili,' which is Russian crime slang for being "forced or coerced to pay," according to the document declassified in 2023.

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