No More Lying or Stonewalling. Where is the President of the United States?
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Posted by Ed Folsom, July 23, 2024.
It’s Tuesday, July 23, 3023. Where is the President of the United States? Last Wednesday, after President Biden stiffly, haltingly shuffle-walked his way onto Air Force One in Las Vegas, the White House announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. On Sunday, a letter from President Biden’s doctor was made public, stating that Biden had taken 8 doses of PAXLOVID, that his vital signs were normal, that his oxygen saturation was excellent, and that his symptoms were “significantly improved.” The doctor also reported that Biden “continues to perform all of his presidential duties.”
About an hour after Biden’s doctor released the letter, at 1:46 p.m. on Sunday, Biden tweeted on the social media platform X that he was withdrawing from the presidential race. He “phoned it in,” so to speak. The last President who bowed-out from seeking a second term was Lyndon Baines Johnson, in 1968. President Johnson made his announcement in a televised address to the nation. Although President Biden’s doctor claims Biden is performing all presidential duties, and although the White House announced yesterday that Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms have “almost completely resolved,” Biden has still not appeared publicly to address the nation on his withdrawal from the presidential race. The President must not think it’s a big deal. Just move along. Nothing to see here.
It was a mere 26 days ago, on June 27, when President Biden turned in his disastrously feeble debate performance against former President Donald Trump. In the days before that debate, Biden’s campaign derided as “cheap fakes” video footage of Biden being led off the stage, in a stunned-looking condition, by former President Barack Obama at a California fundraiser, video of Biden wandering on a lawn at a recent G7 summit before being led back to the group of dignitaries by Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, and other similarly unflattering but all too frequent moments. Biden and his team lied to us.
Remember this past February when the report of special counsel Robert Hur recommended against prosecuting Biden for unlawfully possessing/retaining U.S. Government documents? Hur assessed that Biden would likely present himself to a jury as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Do you recall Vice President Kamala Harris and others on Team Biden attacking Hur’s assessment? Do you remember Harris declaring that Hur’s observation was “gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate,” also saying:
“So, the way that the President’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and, clearly, politically motivated — gratuitous.”
Harris knew that was not true. Team Biden knew what they were telling us was not true. They lied to us, over, and over, and over again.
Where is the President of the United States?
A mere 10 days ago, on Saturday, July 13, Biden’s Secret Service allowed former President Donald Trump to take the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump took the stage at 6:03 p.m. At 6:11 p.m., an attempted assassin shot Trump and 3 others from the roof of a nearby building, even though the Secret Service had been notified at 5:52 p.m. that a counter sniper had spotted a suspicious person using a range finder near the building from which the shooter ultimately fired his shots. In fact, Secret Service snipers spotted the same person on the roof of that building before the Secret Service allowed Trump to take the stage.
Before the shots rang out, multiple people on the ground near the building told police there was a guy on the roof with a gun. A police officer even managed to climb to the roof and verify it. But the Secret Service did not respond by removing Trump to safety. Yesterday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified that although the Secret Service has a practice of recording its radio communications during security details, there are no recordings of its communications at Butler, PA, that day.
In breaking news, as I write this, Cheatle has resigned her post under bipartisan pressure.
Where is the President of the United States?
No more lying. No more stonewalling.
Where is the President of the United States?
