The Great Biden Distraction

[Markk]

Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden’s Cognitive Health

After Smith asked Clinton if he had ever had “a moment with [Biden]” where he felt that he was “unfit to run for president,” Clinton responded, “No. I thought he was a good president.”

“The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?” Clinton continued, referring to Biden’s age. “We’d had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking ‘he can’t do this anymore.’”

Clinton added: “He was always on top of his briefs.”

Smith then pressed Clinton, asking again if he ever witnessed any cognitive decline in Biden, prompting Clinton to firmly reply “no.”

Sharing that he saw Biden “not very long ago,” Clinton said that he “thought he was in good shape.”

Do you believe that?

[canpakes]

1. Your oligarch comment makes no sense. You seemingly don't have any interest in actual history, for narrative sake I guess. There is a job for you with the Raytheon communication corps. Your love of war is disturbing. Take a look at the history and perhaps venture beyond the creche created for you and entertain that your team may be lying to you.

Yes, my love of war is disturbing, so much so in fact that I forced Putin to invade another country. He is helpless before me and your random oligarchs, and must do my bidding. Pity him; pray that Trump (a humble man of little means, definitely not oligarchish in any way) will ride in to save Putin from the mean Ukrainians and be gifted a hotel deal adjacent to Red Square for his assistance. Justice for Russia!

2. Here again, the Ukrainians were pushing to subdue the ethnic Russians in the east. They, the ethnic Russians, didn't like the US backed coup and were rebelling. The US backed and European backed Ukrainians were putting down a rebellion and provoking the Russians. It isn't that tough to realize, except the narrative police may be upset if you don't follow their bs.

Yes! Ethic Russians in Ukraine should be able to hand significant portions of Ukraine to Putin. It’s inconceivable that a nation would dare resist such an idea, or dare to defend itself from columns of tanks and thousands of foreign soldiers pouring across its border and marching towards a capitol city hundreds of kilometers from where those ethnic Russians were forced to live in Ukraine. Failure to accept this reasoning will be punishable by being called a warmonger, for not preferring to allow invasion of one’s country by outsiders. How dare anyone disagree?

[Gunnar]

Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden’s Cognitive Health

Do you believe that?

More than almost anything that comes out of Trump's mouth!

[Jersey Girl]

Do with this what you will, folks. Just throwing a little fresh meat on the floor.

Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone

President Trump reposted another user’s false claim that the former president had been “executed” in 2020 and replaced by a robotic clone.

President Trump has long had a penchant for sharing debunked or baseless theories online.
Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Zolan Kanno-Youngs
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Reporting from Washington

June 1, 2025

President Trump shared an outlandish conspiracy theory on social media on Saturday night saying former President Joseph R. Biden had been “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robotic clone, the latest example of the president amplifying dark, false material to his millions of followers.

Mr. Trump reposted a fringe rant that another user had made on the president’s social media platform, Truth Social, just after 10 p.m. on Saturday. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the post about Mr. Biden, whom Mr. Trump has targeted for criticism almost daily since the start of his second term.

The president has blamed Mr. Biden for all manner of societal ills and assailed his mental acuity, including with the specious theory that Mr. Biden’s aides used an autopen to enact policies and issue pardons without Mr. Biden’s knowledge. (Mr. Trump has acknowledged that his administration uses the autopen system on occasion.)

Mr. Trump has long had a penchant for sharing debunked or baseless theories online, but his embrace of conspiracies is not limited to social media. He has also elevated false claims inside the White House and surrounded himself with cabinet officials promoting such theories.

Last month, while sitting next to the president of South Africa in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump claimed that white South African farmers were victims of mass killings and displayed an image intended to back up his assertion; the image was actually of the conflict in eastern Congo. Mr. Trump has falsely asserted that white South Africans are victims of genocide, even though police statistics do not show that white people in the nation are any more vulnerable than other groups.

Mr. Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with false or misleading statements — according to one tally, he made 30,573 of them, or 21 a day on average — and he repeatedly shared conspiracy theories in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

A New York Times analysis of thousands of Mr. Trump’s social media posts and reposts over a six-month period in 2024 found that at least 330 of them described both a false, secretive plot against Mr. Trump or the American people and a specific entity supposedly responsible for it. They included suggestions that the F.B.I. had ordered his assassination and accusations that government officials had orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Trump’s repost of the robot conspiracy theory came a day after Mr. Biden told reporters that he was feeling good after beginning treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Mr. Trump has suggested that Mr. Biden’s diagnosis last month was not new and had been concealed from the public.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/p ... heory.html

[Markk]

Do you believe that?

More than almost anything that comes out of Trump's mouth!

So then Tapper and the left wing media is lying in your opinion?

[huckelberry]

More than almost anything that comes out of Trump's mouth!

So then Tapper and the left wing media is lying in your opinion?

It is clear that Biden has age related limitations. The extent and seriousness of that is not simple to determine. Different people see it differently. If I made an estimate based upon his debate performance I judge he thinks well but when tired loses some verbal fluency. Somehow not everybody sees the same.

[Markk]

So then Tapper and the left wing media is lying in your opinion?

It is clear that Biden has age related limitations. The extent and seriousness of that is not simple to determine. Different people see it differently. If I made an estimate based upon his debate performance I judge he thinks well but when tired loses some verbal fluency. Somehow not everybody sees the same.

Agree. It could be full blown dementia, or just the start. I think we need to know. If it was the former, and he did not understand what he was signing, or publicly stating, that is a huge deal and needs to be dealt with so it never happens again. Trump is not a spring chicken, I am okay with tests each year.

If people were signing documents and making decisions, knowing Biden was not aware of, then that could be treason.

[Kishkumen]

Why do we NEED to know about Biden’s cognitive decline? His presidency was more successful than Trump’s, more successful than G. W. Bush’s, so what are you looking to achieve? Trump has never been qualified or competent, but that didn’t stop you from voting for him, Markk.

[canpakes]

… so what are you looking to achieve?

Distraction from the poor performance, abuse of the law, and full-blown corrupt actions of Trump and his Administration.

Markk will need to keep trying to resurrect this subject often, given the crap that TACO is engaged with every other day.

[ajax18]

So then Tapper and the left wing media is lying in your opinion?

It is clear that Biden has age related limitations. The extent and seriousness of that is not simple to determine. Different people see it differently. If I made an estimate based upon his debate performance I judge he thinks well but when tired loses some verbal fluency. Somehow not everybody sees the same.

Because people only see what they want to see, that's how. Granted I can't expect people to see something that was hidden from them. But if any Democrat who now sees Tapper's book as news wanted to know 6 years ago, they need only to have taken their fingers out of their ears and turned the channel. Vicious ad hominem attacks by Tapper himself at the time, still didn't do a good enough job hiding any of this to the point that I'd accept any Democrat's claim who comes to me with the excuse, "Oh we couldn't have known Biden was this bad."