As we learn more about the Biden 'cover up' -- which was really more of a conspiracy of lies by power-hungry partisans about something that was plainly untrue to anyone paying even loose attention -- the worse it looks. The people around the former president understood that he wasn't capable of consistently executing the duties of the office. Rather than being transparent about this, urging him to step down, or pursing the 25th Amendment, they collectively lied about his capacity and condition -- insisting, in fact, that he could serve another full term, into the year 2029. In order to maintain their grip on political power, and to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again, they engaged in an unconstitutional presidency-by-committee. A cabal of unelected aides ran the executive branch, replacing or filling in gaps for a quasi-incapacitated president who was sliding into senility.
They denied all of this along the way, savaging anyone who noticed the president's obvious decline as merchants of 'cheap fakes' and misinformation. They habitually placed the perceived interests of their political tribe over the interests of the country. Another layer of detail about a scandal of historic magnitude:
Democrats justified shielding truth about Biden as to not help Donald Trump win in 2024: Alex Thompson
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 25, 2025
READ: https://t.co/5mPicy6xDl pic.twitter.com/lqb6Wu5nfn
That is a direct violation of Article II, and we ought to have congressional hearings about it. https://t.co/gdMfhngBzo
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 25, 2025
"In response to that reporting, the White House said false. They denied it. They denied it. They denied it. And I was hearing otherwise. So, I had stopped believing their denials for a while. But in terms of who was running the White House, it's a small group of people that have been around. Some people within the administration called them the Politburo. That's the term we used in the book."
It's not just 'undemocratic,' as Thompson says in the first clip. Nullifying party elections when the results are deemed problematic or untenable is undemocratic, and Democrats are doing that, too. But shoving an unfit president into the basement and letting his unelected staff run the country goes beyond 'undemocratic;' it's a constitutional crisis. A real one. I spoke about this on Fox & Friends:
🚨 @townhallcom's @guybenson, "in private... in secret, a small group of unelected people running the executive branch. That is not allowed under the Constituiton and that is a genuine, serious scandal."pic.twitter.com/E3UV3sp0yC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2025
Yup:
They lost a *character* argument to Donald Trump and they absolutely deserved to. https://t.co/Qod5O1kB67
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 28, 2025
During the exchange above, host Lawrence Jones asked about the potential political fallout from all of this, moving forward. My reply:
On @foxandfriends, @LawrenceBJones3 asked me whether the Biden decline/unconstitutional presidency-by-committee scandal will hurt Democrats in upcoming elections. My answer? It should, but it depends: pic.twitter.com/IFO8rfi4bT
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 28, 2025
Politics isn't always fair. I'm sure Democrats adamantly believe that the events of January 6, 2021 should have prevented or disqualified Trump from ever being entrusted with the presidency again. Voters disagreed, especially with inflation hammering their families and businesses year after year, and amid a damaging border crisis and international unrest. That's why I answered that what happens in 2026 and 2028 will depend on the state of the country and how people perceive their lives heading into those elections. In a 'fair' political environment, the political party that perpetrated this affront to the constitution, in which an elected president was effectively sidelined and replaced by unelected staffers, would be punished by an outraged electorate for multiple cycles. In reality, that may or may not happen. People's openness to accepting or overlooking scandalous political conduct often hinge on whether they feel like their own immediate concerns supersede other controversies, no matter now serious.
On that score, here are a few data points about the country's mood right now. These are snapshots that are far less relevant to how voters are feeling a year from now -- and Democrats may fare better than their polling in elections with lower turnout -- but the American electorate does not appear to regard the Trump administration and the Republican majorities as an intolerable hellscape, as Democrats and journalists do:
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 28, 2025
Which political party do you trust more on each of the following issues?
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) May 26, 2025
🔴 Immigration: R+16
🔴 Crime: R+16
🔴 Economy: R+8 (was R+1 in April)
🔴 Gun laws: R+7
🔴 Inflation: R+6 (was D+4)
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🔵 Gender Identity: D+5
🔵 Education: D+8
🔵 Health Care: D+10
🔵 Abortion: D+12
🔵… pic.twitter.com/V1FBl4FCnF
New - Trump job approval poll (Hispanic voters)
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) May 26, 2025
🟢 Approve 60%
🟤 Disapprove 40%
Insider advantage #A - LV - 5/19
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