Ep. 2003 - More Brutal Biden FLUBS…But He LIVES To Fight Another Day
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So let's try to think of worst case scenario for Democrats right now. Worst case scenario is not Joe Biden dropping out. If Joe Biden dropped out, they'd get Kamala Harris or somebody else, and then they'd have a fresh race against Donald Trump. And worst case scenario is not really Joe Biden staying in, because if he just stays in and

and everybody consolidates behind him, then he probably loses, but it doesn't have this massive down-ballot effect. The worst-case scenario for Democrats is not being sure. It is, in fact, the worst-case scenario because half the party, more than half the party, wants Joe Biden out.

Joe Biden and his family want him in. It's tearing the party apart. It's creating massive chaos inside the Democratic Party, and it is sinking Joe Biden's poll numbers and the rest of the Democratic Party. And what Joe Biden has done over the course of the last couple of weeks is make that situation so much worse.

So when you take a look at the polling data right now, the polling data is very consistent. It shows Donald Trump with a very consistent three to five point lead in the national polling data. That is according to RealClearPolitics. According to that RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump is leading in the following battleground states, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. He's within spitting distance in Virginia, New Hampshire and even Minnesota.

all of which is a disaster area for Joe Biden because the map is very, very broad for Donald Trump and it is extraordinarily narrow for Joe Biden.

However, the Democratic Party can't force the old man out and they can't force him out because despite the fact that he currently has a 32 percent approval rating, according to Pew Research, 32 percent, including a 27 percent approval rating among people aged 18 to 29, which is supposed to be his radical magical base. Despite that fact, every so often there will be a sort of outlier poll that shows a dead heat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

And that's enough for Joe Biden to believe that maybe he can pull this thing out after all. A brand new Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll released on Thursday found that Trump and Joe Biden are in a dead heat for the nation's popular vote. Those results almost mirror those of an ABC News Ipsos poll from April, in which registered voters favored Trump by two points, 46 to 44, with 8% going someplace else. The big problem for congressional Democrats is if they want to oust Joe Biden, they're going to need better data than that.

And what they really need to do is somehow convince Dr. Jill Biden, who is the driving force behind Joe Biden's logic, that there's no way that Joe Biden can win. But there's no way to convince him of that because Joe Biden keeps thinking that whatever poll shortcomings he is having right now are due to the fact that his own base is not supporting him properly. According to Politico today, the first family remains committed to the campaign with First Lady Jill Biden and the president's son Hunter, both telling confidants they still believe the president is the only candidate who can beat Trump.

According to two people familiar, the first lady has also expressed fear that bowing out would make the Atlanta debate a defining image of her husband's presidency and outcome she finds unacceptable. The people said Biden's sister Valerie also remains committed to the campaign, but has not ruled out advocating changes if the race becomes damaging to her brother's health and legacy. So in essence, all of the immediate family of Joe Biden is telling him to stay in. And Dr. Jill Biden, who has this bizarre image in her head that if Joe Biden steps down, that's going to be much worse for him than if he runs and loses.

she's the one in his ear.

Meanwhile, aides are bracing for a new wave of defections following Joe Biden's press conference that happened last night. But here's the thing. Joe Biden had his press conference last night. We'll get to in a minute. It wasn't as big a disaster area as many of the Biden critics had hoped. In fact, it was sort of best case scenario for Trump, because if you are Donald Trump and the Republican Party and you want chaos inside the Democratic Party to maintain, what you want is Joe Biden not to perform well. He's not capable of that anymore. What you want is for him to perform just not badly enough

that he sticks around. That is like best case scenario. He continues to divide the Democratic Party and be terrible, but not quite terrible enough that you can take the old man and throw him off a bridge. That is the best thing that could happen to the Trump campaign right now. And that happens to be precisely what is happening. The leaks around the Biden White House are getting worse and worse and worse. According to CNN yesterday,

Even before Biden made remarks at the George Clooney fundraiser, whispers of concern rippled through the audience at the Peacock Theater about the president who had just arrived from a long flight from Italy. He was less cogent than usual, said one attendee, who was surprised that during a smaller meeting with donors before the main event, Biden barely spoke. Instead, this person said he left virtually all of the talk to former President Barack Obama, which struck some guests as unusual for a loquacious politician like Biden.

But significantly worse than that, back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage managed with lists of talking points, names of questioners and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides. Ahead of closed door cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides.

You understand what that means? That means they haven't had a regular cabinet meeting for years inside the White House. You know, one where everybody sort of comes in and informs the president and they have an interesting conversation about what's going on in the world. Nope. Instead, they're submitting pre-written talking points to White House aides

So they can then translate that into Dr. Seuss rhymes for the old man. So apparently at the cabinet meetings, they are literally submitting pre-written talking points at the cabinet meetings, which is unbelievably stupid. But you know what else is stupid? Not getting life insurance. You need to get life insurance. It is a smart thing to do. I hope Joe Biden has life insurance. That dude's looking kind of peaking. Getting life insurance will give you peace of mind knowing that if something were to happen to you, your family could cover their expenses while getting back on their feet. Policy genius is the country's at

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The entire display is kind of an act, one of the sources told CNN. They would come and say, hey, the president's going to call on you 25 minutes in and ask this question. What are the bullet points you'll respond with? By the way, this just demonstrates everyone in the cabinet has been lying. They've all been lying. They're like, in the meetings, Joe Biden is so sharp and he's really with it. They scripted the cabinet meetings. That's unthinkable.

Have you ever had a meeting at your company that was prescripted, like full scale prescripted, where you and your aides, the people who work at your company, you tell them like 25 minutes in, I need you to ask this question. I'm going to answer you such and such. That has never once happened at our company. In fact, there are no functioning companies that works like that. I've never even heard of a cabinet meeting working like that at the White House.

It's even worse than that. A second source who echoed that same description said when Biden attends cabinet meetings, they're not freewheeling and pretty well orchestrated. The meetings themselves are infrequent. With one cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden's condition because they so rarely see him. In fact, the last full cabinet meeting took place October 2nd, 2023.

And now note that date, October 2nd, 2023. Did anything happen shortly thereafter that might have necessitated like a full cabinet meeting? Can you think of anything like October 2nd, 2023? Like say five days later, say like October 7th, 2023. He has not had a full cabinet meeting since before October 7th. That's how bad things are. And it gets even worse than that.

You'll recall that just a couple of days ago, Joe Biden did an interview on Milwaukee radio. This would be the interview where he infamously suggested that he was the first black vice president to the first black president. As we'll see in just a few minutes, he has some real trouble in labeling who exactly was vice president when and who the vice president is now. Because everything is going fine in Joe Biden's brain. It's all fine up there. But in that interview, we then learned that the Biden White House had effectively prescripted all the questions

with the host. They told them what questions to ask, but it gets even worse than that. Civic Media, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a Wisconsin-based progressive talk radio network, said Thursday it had agreed to make two edits to an interview with Joe Biden at the request of his campaign before the broadcast aired. A decision the station said fell short of journalistic interview standards. The station said it stood by its popular host, Earl Ingram.

But apparently, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired. Civic media management immediately decided to cut them. What exactly did they cut? Well, there's one statement where Joe Biden said, quote, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined and in major positions, cabinet positions.

Okay, that sounds a little, little weird. Also, they cut out a comment that he made in which he suggested that Donald Trump had called for the hanging of the Central Park Five. So we now have the White House calling up journalistic outlets and literally cutting things out of interviews before they air. Solid stuff here from this pre-scripted, pathetic White House. So all of this leading up to last night.

was building. It was really building. Article after article after article talking about the build inside the Democratic camp against Joe Biden, the massive problem they were having. The New York Times reported yesterday afternoon, quote, Biden advisors weigh how to convince him to end his campaign. President Biden found himself increasingly isolated on Thursday as a small group of his longtime aides and advisors have become convinced he'll have to make what they see as the painful but inevitable decision to abandon his campaign for reelection, according to three people who have been briefed on the matter.

In recent days, the group has been trying to come up with ways to persuade Biden to step aside from the campaign. Those discussions were recounted by three people familiar with them who, like others in this article, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. There's no indication that any of the discussions have reached Biden himself, according to one of the informed people. At the center of it all is Mr. Biden, who is convinced he's the only one who can beat former President Donald J. Trump. So again, his aides are themselves leaking like fury everywhere that Biden needs to leave the race.

The people closest to the president remain adamant Biden will stay in the race, according to The New York Times. But it is a massive problem and it is a burgeoning problem. It's not just The New York Times. NBC News, quote, no one involved in the effort thinks he has a path. Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall. Instead of Democrats who think he should reconsider his decision to stay in the race has grown to include aides, operatives and officials tasked with guiding his campaign to victory.

According to Jonathan Allen, Natasha Karecki and Carol Lee, quote, several of President Joe Biden's closest allies, including three people directly involved in efforts to reelect him, told NBC News they now see his chances of winning as zero, not close to zero, zero. And the likelihood of him taking down fellow Democratic candidates growing. He needs to drop out when Biden campaign official said he will never recover from this. For two weeks, Biden has struggled to stabilize his campaign following a late June debate debacle.

His ongoing cleanup effort has done little to reassure lawmakers and party officials. Instead, the reverse is happening. And indeed, just yesterday, two more House Democrats called for him to step down.

One House Democrat went so far as to actually call for him to quit the presidency entirely. Forget about the race, the actual presidency, which, by the way, is the only honest answer. If you believe that he is not up to this race, then you also believe he is not up to the job of being president of the United States. Meanwhile, in advance of Joe Biden's big boy press conference, this is the big story yesterday, is that Joe Biden all week long had been touting how he was going to stand strong at his big boy press conference. Again, I didn't coin that term. The White House literally used it because they're awful at their job.

Awful. They're doing the full on Huggies. I'm a big kid now. As Joe Biden poops his pants.

So they called a big boy press conference for Thursday evening. And there's a lot of buildup, a lot of buildup. In fact, so much buildup that according to Politico, House Democrats were preparing to break with Biden if he tanks his NATO press conference. Democratic lawmakers are making contingency plans, they write, in case Joe Biden tanks his highly anticipated solo press conference later Thursday, with at least a half dozen lawmakers preparing to go public against the president, according to six people familiar with discussions.

Three of those lawmakers had already drafted statements, according to two people who had been briefed on conversations. This is a moment that will make a difference, said Representative Dan Kildee of Michigan, who's retiring from his Michigan swing seat this fall.

Among House Democrats, there's a pervasive sense of panic about Biden at the top of the ticket, but there's a deep divide internally about how to handle the situation. Many are privately skeptical that any number of Democratic defections would convince Biden to leave the ticket, calling it delusional. Others insist a large enough groundswell could make a difference, pointing to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi, who could theoretically relay concerns to Biden himself. Regardless, all Democrats agree on one thing. The party is running out of time to come up with a strategy to help them defeat Trump and take back the House in November.

Representative Brittany Peterson of Colorado, Democrats said Biden's NATO presser is part of a bigger picture of whether he's able to answer unscripted questions. Meanwhile, major Democratic donors are putting an end to their fundraising. They're putting it on ice until at the very least they find out whether Joe Biden is going to be at the top of the ticket. One Democratic donor named John Morgan, a Florida attorney, major donor to Democrats, told CNN's Abby Phillip he had paused an end of summer fundraiser planned for Joe Biden due to uncertainty about whether Biden was even going to be on the ticket.

So again, all of this has been building for two weeks. It should have been building for years, given the fact that the president is not only wildly unpopular in terms of policy, but also is gone in terms of his senescence. He is toast in terms of his brain. But all of this really came down to yesterday. So yesterday was all about his performance at NATO.

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So going into the day, world leaders were already signaling their concerns. According to Politico, nervous world leaders greet Biden at NATO. You're worried if he knows which direction he's going, which is always a good look.

According to Politico, the contrast couldn't be starker. President Joe Biden physically and politically frail presiding over what could be his final NATO summit at a moment when the alliance has never been so strong. NATO officials are both saddened at how Biden's fortunes have turned and frustrated the storyline has distracted from what was to be a celebratory summit. They are also increasingly resigned to his defeat this November.

Now, the reality is that the Europeans, and I'm talking with a bunch of people who are at all the parties with the European diplomats at this NATO summit, and what they are saying is that the Europeans behind closed doors, they're not all that worried about Trump. They already had him as president. They can work with Trump. They know they can work with Trump. All this sort of end of world, Europe is on fire nonsense. It's not true. And as it turns out, Joe Biden has been a horrible foreign policy president. One senior European diplomat said, quote, everyone's focusing on Biden's appearance and less on Trump's statements about NATO. That's true.

Again, it is not just people who are saying this behind closed doors. Perhaps the most hilarious video of the day came courtesy of Georgia Maloney, who is the prime minister of Italy. So Joe Biden showed up late to an event and Georgia Maloney started rolling her eyes and glancing at her fake watch that doesn't exist. There she is. She's glancing at her watch and she's annoyed that Biden isn't showing up. And finally, she's like rolls her eyes, massive eye roll, crosses her eyes. So I can't believe this schmuck.

And again, not a rare occurrence, unfortunately, on the international scene these days. We kept hearing about how Donald Trump was an embarrassment internationally. I'm going to tell you a secret, guys. The dead president, usually dead presidents appear on dollar bills, not still in the White House. Meanwhile, Biden did an event with Keir Starmer, who is the newly elected prime minister of Great Britain. And I got to say, I don't know what's going on with Joe Biden's face at this point. It ain't good. Congratulations.

What is he doing? What is he doing? What is this weird old man doing? What is that weird old man face? It's just terrible. It looks like a parody of himself. That, however, was all lead up to the worst moment of Biden in the NATO conference. And that was his introduction to Vladimir Zelensky, the leader with whom he has been closely allied in the Ukraine versus Russia war. This is about as big a screw up on an international stage as I have seen.

It's really quite bad. Here is Joe Biden yesterday. And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination. Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. Everyone claps. And then he's like, I'm going to beat President Putin. He's going to defeat President Putin. I'm so focused on beating Putin, we got to worry about it. Anyway, Mr. President. I'm better. You are a hell of a better man.

Zelensky is like, I cannot believe this. I cannot believe this. I mean, that is the equivalent of during World War II, Churchill visiting and FDR being like, I'd like to welcome to the podium Adolf Hitler. What in the world? What? Huh? Really?

So not a good look. Okay, and that was all leading up again to this big presser. So the presser was originally scheduled for 5.30 p.m. Eastern time. Then we were told a little bit earlier in the day that it would be 6.30 p.m. Eastern time. So we all tuned in at 6.30. Then we were told it would be at 7.00 p.m. Eastern time. And then finally, we were told it would be at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. When it finally went off, it was kind of close to 8. It was around 8 that the thing finally went off.

And Joe Biden didn't die. But again, this is how low the standards are. We're going to play a bunch of the audio of Joe Biden at this press conference because this was the turn it around moment. It's the moment when Joe's going to turn into smoking Joe. He's going to come out gunning. He's going to be strong and powerful. And no, but again, the standard was death. So he comes out and the first thing he does, he just starts babbling nonsensically.

He's like a couple of minutes in and he's talking and he just starts garbling his speech. I directed the intelligence community to be a significant amount of intelligence to be declassified so I could start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion. Then in February, some of you remember, I warned the world that the invasion was imminent. I rallied a coalition of 15 nations from Europe to Asia to help Ukraine defend itself. My foreign policy, many foreign policy experts thought

as Putin amassed Russian forces just 100 miles north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. But he thought, Putin thought it was the mother home of Russia. Inspiring words from an inspiring leader. By the way, that's him on teleprompter. He started off with this little speech about Ukraine and foreign policy and the economy.

All of that was designed to sort of get him in his groove. And now he was ready to take questions. So the first thing he mentions is that it will not, in fact, be like a normal press conference where he just calls on people randomly. Nope. He has a list of reporters he's going to call on, presumably pre-screened by his team. Now, we don't know whether they had submitted their questions in advance. That's something we know that has happened in the past. I would assume in this case, not. I will say that the press corps is absolutely awful at their job.

None of them asked about, you know, no cabinet meetings for nine months. None of them asked about the fact that Joe Biden's White House literally called to edit radio interviews this week. None of them asked about the prognosis on whether he has any form of Parkinson's, for example. None of them asked about why Hunter Biden, a convicted felon and longtime crack addict, is now in the inner circle and attending like cabinet meetings. And these would all be good questions. The press didn't ask any of those.

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So here was Joe Biden mentioning that he has a pre-selected list of reporters he was going to ask, which is typically not the way you do a presser. I'll take your questions. I've been given...

A list of people to call on here. Why? He says the quiet part out loud. Why not just do it? By the way, who gave him the list? How was that list compiled? Okay. Even so, he still starts screwing things up.

So trending on Twitter all last night was the term Vice President Trump. I know what you're thinking. Donald Trump has never been vice president, right? You are, but you're not the current president of the United States, who apparently doesn't know either that Trump is not the vice president or that his current vice president is a cringe worthy human named Kamala Harris. Here is Joe Biden trying to talk about Kamala Harris and somehow talking about Trump. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president.

So I think she's not qualified to be president. So yesterday we learned that Donald Trump is the vice president under Joe Biden. Learning many things, we are in this new magical era of Joe Biden's dementia. We do have some pretty astonishing tape of the cabinet. So Tony Blinken, Lloyd Gate, Lloyd Austin, the secretary of defense, they were all sitting there as this happened. Here is an outtake of them reacting as he calls Vice President Harris, Vice President Trump.

I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president. Look at Tony Blingers. He got smacked in the head. Oh, boy. They'll start, like, gripping their jaws. I can't believe this. Oh, not again. Lloyd Austin looks like he's still in a coma from that time he was in the hospital. Really strong stuff there from the cabinet. It's just Veep. Everything is Veep. Okay, so Biden was asked about mixing up Zelensky and Putin, and his answer was not magical.

I wanted to ask you about your you mixed up President Zelensky and Putin earlier today. You now have sort of your key allies, including the British prime minister, the president of France, the German chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on that. Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable. Hasn't this now, frankly, become damaging for America's standing in the world? Thank you.

Thank you. Did you see any damage to our standing in my leading this conference? Yes. Have you seen a more successful conference? Yes. What do you think? And the move, the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin and I said, and now at the very end, I sit here, I mean, Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry, Zelensky. Yeah, solid stuff there. Solid stuff there from the president of the United States. I like that he gets all mad.

Well, I mean, yes, if there were one off, you just screwed up one time. That wouldn't be a big deal. But you screw up all the time like it happens all the time. That was the only tough question you really faced. He was asked about having to go to bed earlier because he literally told donors he would start going to bed earlier. That's not true. That's not true. It's not even possible to go to bed earlier than five o'clock in the afternoon.

Residency is the most straining job in the world, and it's 24-7. How can you say you'll be up for that next year, in two years, in four years, given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today? The limits I've acknowledged I have? There's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around 8. That's not true. Look, what I said was, instead of my every day starting at 7 and going to bed at midnight,

It'd be smarter for me to pace myself a little more. And I said, for example, the eight, seven, six stuff. Instead of starting a fundraiser at nine o'clock, start at eight o'clock. People get to go home by 10 o'clock. That's what I'm talking about. What? That is not what you're talking about. And by the way, when is the last time he did like anything of note beyond 9 p.m. at night? It's not a thing.

He was asked about lack of neurological tests. Are you going to do one? He's like, I'm not going to do a neurological test. Everything is fine. My favorite part is when he suggested no one has even asked him for a neurological test. You mean other than all of humanity? Sure. I mean, other than every other human on earth, I suppose that's true. I've laid every bit of the record out. I hadn't done anything. You ought to ask Trump for his. OK, I bet I laid it all out. Every single day I'm surrounded by good docs. If they think there's a problem.

I promise you, even if they don't think it's a problem, they think I should have a neurological exam again, I'll do it. No one's suggesting that to me now. I'm tested every single day by my neurological capacity to do decisions I make every day. You talk to my staff, all of you talk to my staff. Sometimes my staff talks a lot.

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So whatever shortcomings you are sensing from this presser, this is like him at his tip top A plus apex game. Here he was having a slow malfunction. And I think you'll see that some of our European friends are going to be curtailing their investment in Russia. I mean, excuse me, in China, as long as China continues to have this indirect influence.

help to Russia in terms of being able to help their economy as well as as well as help them in as a consequence that their ability to fight in in Ukraine. I want like a sentence diagram on that one. I can't even follow that. That is a ball of yarn. That particular sentence. Joe Biden did admit that he's doing things that lead to him catching hell from his wife.

And that I would not doubt one moment that he catches hell from his wife, Dr. Jill, the greatest doctor in all the land on a fairly regular basis. I love my staff, but they add things, add things all the time. I'm catching hell from my wife. Anyway, anyway, there's a lot of anywaying, a lot of anywaying. He also admitted at one point that he's following the advice of his commander in chief. What he meant here was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But apparently someone else's president, which is probably true. It's probably the same lady he's catching hell from. I'm following the advice of my commander in chief, my my my chief of staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people. Hmm. Well, in the end, it doesn't really matter because he says he's not going to go.

He says he's not going to go. He says, theoretically, you could be at the convention and people could decide they don't want to vote for me, even though they're my delegates. But it's not going to happen. And what Joe Biden presser would be complete without some creepy whispering? If I may, your convention is coming up where your delegates are pledged to make you the official nominee. If they have second thoughts, are they free to vote their conscience? Obviously, they're free to do whatever they want. But I get overwhelming support, overwhelming support from

I won. I forget how many votes I won in the primary. Overwhelming. And so tomorrow, if all of a sudden I show up at the convention, everybody says we want somebody else. That's the democratic process. It's not going to happen. Would you like a little bit more creepy whispering? Because I have more for you. If that's the sort of thing you enjoy and it doesn't give you nightmares. Here he is explaining that literally no one thinks that he can't win. No one except for all the Democrats coming out and saying he shouldn't run.

You earlier explained confidence in your vice president. Yes. If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race? No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win. Me. No one's saying that. No poll says that.

Thanks, everybody. Weird smile. Weird smile. He is a creepy elderly fellow. How'd you like that coming at you at three in the morning? Well, good news. It won't happen because he's asleep by 8 p.m. He did say that the polling data are premature. So he was asked about the fact that he's losing in all the polls. So then he mischaracterized all the polling data and said that they're premature. He, in fact, said the race had not even begun yet, which is weird since you already had a debate, my bud.

How accurate does anybody think the polls are these days? Pretty accurate. I can give you a series of polls where you have likely voters, me versus Trump, where I win all the time. Nope, you cannot. The unlikely voters vote, he wins sometimes. The bottom line is all the polling data right now, which I think is premature because the campaign really hasn't even started. It started a little. I mean, by a little, I mean, it's like we're pretty deep into it at this point.

And we've done some whispering, but we would not be complete without some yelling. Right. You got to get the full gamut of the Joe Biden experience. Again, this was his best press conference. There's him at like his finest, as we will learn from a celebratory media. Here he was just randomly yelling about gun control. This is one of my favorite things is when he ratchets up the passionometer to like 11. He's got nothing in the tank. He's like, just ratchet. Here we go. We're sitting around this. We're sitting around more children.

are killed by the bullet than any other cause of death. The United States of America. What the hell are we doing? What are we doing? What are you doing? What are we doing? What are you doing? Why are you yelling at people? What the hell is happening? This thing did conclude with somebody asking him, you know, Donald Trump is like contemporaneous, like right now, this minute.

mocking you for mixing up Zelensky and Putin and calling him the vice president of the United States. How do you respond? And Joe Biden gave a cryptically weird answer. Respectfully, earlier you misspoke in your opening answer. You referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump. Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. How do you combat that criticism from tonight? Listen to him.

This concludes tonight's press conference. Thank you, everybody. Thanks, everyone. I think I think what he meant, I think what he was trying to say there was that you should is that somehow Donald Trump is more incoherent than he is. But the way it came out is that he wants you to listen to Donald Trump mocking him. Things are going great. Things are going great. But you know what? Here's the thing for Biden. They are going great in the sense that

He did just enough to ensure that he gets over the next time, the next 24 hour period. It's more on this in a moment because the fallout is delicious. First, it has been a whirlwind week here at the Ben Shapiro show. So let me catch up. Monday was the premiere of my new three part series, Scamola Kamala Harris Unmasked. This expose uncovers the truth about Harris from her calculated California climb toward disastrous vice presidency. It's available for you to watch for free on Daily Wire Plus. Then on Wednesday, I testified before Congress about a report confirming what

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The math goes like this. Every year, five skilled tradespeople retire. For every five who retire, two replace them. So we're seeing an incredible lack of interest and enthusiasm around these skilled trades. I guess my answer is, it's true. Inflation, super bad. The cost of college, an enormous problem. But the entrepreneur...

Don't miss this awesome episode of the Sunday special with Mike Rowe. Okay, meanwhile, so the fallout, the fallout. So the fallout is that Democrats don't know what to do, which is like the best case scenario for Trump, because on

On the one hand, you have reports from CBS News that dozens of Democrats in the House are preparing to come out and blast Biden and say he needs to stop. On the other hand, you have members of the media saying that Joe Biden is just as amazing as he ever was. He's just insanely good. Just incredible. The Washington Post, their headline today, top of their website, quote, Biden shows foreign policy depth in news conference with a few stumbles.

If by foreign policy depth, you mean that he beclowned himself. I mean, his takes on Israel in this particular news conference were so delusional. They're beyond the pale of his normal levels of delusion. He was asked if he would have done anything differently in the conflict. And then he talked about how he had done the right thing by depriving Israel of weaponry in the middle of the war. Didn't mention one thing about hostages and then pretended that Hamas was not popular in the West Bank. Like he's just he's just wrong on everything foreign policy related. It's possible to be wrong about.

But again, the point is the media reaction. So you got the Washington Post backing him up. He's doing amazing. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee chair, Jamie Harrison, he says, you know, this whole Zelensky, Putin, Vice President Trump thing, it's all just nitpicking. Is it really a big deal?

Not on whether or not Joe Biden stumbles over things or has a stutter. I mean, hell, sometimes I can't even remember my kids' names because I'm so tired, right? So we've got to stop the nitpicking and then focus on the work ahead. I don't disagree with you, but I just- He's done it in the past. I get you on it. The Democrats are still split. They're not really sure what to do. Rachel Maddow says Joe Biden is a master of foreign policy. Just a master. I mean, just a magician.

a wizard of foreign policy, but he presents it badly, says Rachel Maddow. He is a master of the foreign policy field and has been for decades in his career in the Senate, the vice president and the presidency.

And yet he undercuts his own presentation of those facts simply in the way that he presents them with his self-interrupting and elliptical style, the very soft-spoken monotone that he sometimes uses. There's a big mismatch between his stylistic presentation and his truly masterful command of the subject matter. Masterful command. On the subject that was the main focus of this presser, which was foreign policy.

Okay, then Maddow went into the fact that he had said that there's no way that he's losing. And she's like, well, maybe he doesn't have the relevant data.

I think that what Nicole points out about the reality about polling numbers for incumbent presidents and the real history of that versus what President Biden said, which was not actually factually accurate as far as I can tell, that's worrying because it makes me worry that the president is being given information about his political standing that may not be based in reality, that may be sunnier than is real.

But on the other hand, Joy Reid is very much in his camp. She says, no, no, no, he was awesome. He was just normal old Joe. The guy that we just saw for the last hour is definitely not someone who is considering leaving the race. He cited the polls showing that there's no data that he's seen that says that he can't win. He was very praiseworthy of Kamala Harris, of Vice President Harris, as he should be, and said some really...

warm and good things about her. But he also said, even though that he believes that she is clearly qualified to be president, and that's why he chose her, even if someone showed him data that showed that she did better than him, unless he sees data that he can't win,

This doesn't sound like a man that's thinking about getting out. OK, so again, the divide in the Democratic Party is being exacerbated. And as political reports, there's still Democrats who are going to call for him to get out. In fact, just after the press conference wrapped up, there were more Democratic lawmakers who called for Biden to step aside.

Representative Scott Peters of California put out a statement saying, quote, Today I asked President Biden to withdraw from the presidential campaign. The stakes are high and we are on a losing course. Just minutes earlier, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, called on Biden to step aside in a post on X. Purple District Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois wrote on X, I'm hopeful President Biden will step aside in his campaign for president. One House Democrat watching the appearance?

responded to the flub of Vice President Trump. He said, unreal. But he said, obviously much better second half. Another Democrat texted about the Trump moment. Ouch. Overall, he sounded coherent, but calling Zelensky, President Putin and Harris VP Trump overshadows the rest of his time, that lawmaker added. Still, it wasn't as bad as some Democrats feared. Biden flexed his foreign policy chops, including his role on expanding NATO and defended his record of legislative accomplishments. Holy bleep, he's on fire, texted 1-8 as Biden lit into Trump's record.

Asked about his ability to do the job, the president said there's no indication he's slowing down. He said, I want to finish it. Looks and sounds 100% better than he did at the last debate one House Democrat said in a text. Adding Biden was almost as good as his last State of the Union appearance. Talked too long, but if this had been the debate, none of the last two weeks would have happened.

Good. Honestly, good. As I have said before, we do a prayer at our synagogue every week for the health of the president of the United States. And never has that prayer been more ardently said than today when Joe Biden is busy losing his real act to Donald Trump. And if he dropped out of the race, it would be a significantly different race. So I hope that he should he should live. He should be healthy and he should just be just solid enough, like just solid enough that Democrats can't get rid of him.

Meanwhile, Democrats are hedging their bets. They're thinking about Kamala Harris. Apparently, the Biden administration has been poll testing Kamala Harris, which is weird. Like if they're not interested in getting rid of Biden, then why exactly are they spending their time poll testing Kamala Harris? But apparently they are.

The problem, of course, is that Kamala Harris is really, really bad at this. So she was on the campaign trail. She was talking about how Joe is a fighter, which, I mean, dude can't punch his way out of a paper bag at this point, but sure. One thing we know about our president, Joe Biden, is that he is a fighter. He is a fighter. And he is the first to say, when you get knocked down, you get back up. You get back up. So we will continue to fight.

And we will continue to organize. And in November, we will win. OK, but there's one problem. Kamala Harris is utterly charmless. And she I don't know what it is. She has the weird this weird verbal tick where she talks about exploring possibilities unburdened by what has been like. She just does it over and over and over.

She sounds like Kylo Ren from The Last Jedi. It's like, well, if we get rid of all the old people, then we'll be unburdened by the past and we can explore the future. That's like the bad guy message. That's the bad guy message in The Last Jedi. Terrible movie. But apparently Kamala Harris was in it. Here she was doing the routine again with the full facial expressions, with the hands, the whole thing. Ay-yi-yi.

They taught us that we could do anything and should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be. And this is that community who understands

And can see what is possible unburdened by what has been. Unburdened by what has been. Want to go into the future, which is where that's where we go forward into the future, not backward into the past. Like with the time machine, unburdened by what has been. That's a delight. Honestly, best presidential insurance job I never had was making that lady vice president. Jen Psaki trying to

make fetch happen here she is now trying to talk herself into the idea that kamala harris won't be a terrible candidate if joe biden has to drop kamala here she vice the vice president i'm gonna call her vice president now because i keep calling her she is like an in my view an undervalued talent um she's a very fierce communicator she's very strong especially on one of the core issues that made the election maybe won or lost on which is abortion rights

You know, and this is why I think what she did, I did a couple of interviews after the debate. People were I was sitting on the set with a bunch of other MSNBC anchors and we were like, everyone's like, that was great. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's what she's doing out in the country. And nobody is really tracking it. It's just that's who she is.

But there is a character out there. There is it's almost like public opinion hasn't caught up with what she is doing out there. And also, we live in a country that is sexist and racist. So, like, there is that not everybody at all, but there is a level of it that does impact elections. It's the sexism and the racism. That's the reason no one likes her. Not that she's utterly charmless and horrifying at her job. Really keep going with this, guys. You're doing just great. You're just doing awesome.

Okay, well, there is one sort of last hope for Joe Biden, and that is maybe Jerome Powell will save him. So according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. inflation is substantially in June, extending a recent slowdown in price increases that clears a path for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by the end of the summer. Why, just in time for the election, almost as if it's on cue. The Consumer Price Index says

A measure of goods and services costs across the economy fell slightly from May, dropping the year-over-year inflation rate to 3%, which was the lowest since June 2023. Now, again, you'll notice that the year-over-year inflation rate is supposed to be 2%, so it is still 50% too high.

Nonetheless, they're now talking once again about cutting rates. Core prices, excluding volatile food and energy items, seen as a better gauge of underlying inflation, rose 0.1% since May. That was the mildest increase since January 2021, when you know who took office. Altogether, the report showed prices cooled broadly in the second quarter and were below economists' expectations, the reverse of what happened in the first three months of the year when inflation was surprisingly brisk. The report keeps the door wide open to a September interest rate cut.

No, you shock me. You shock me. You mean Jerome Powell might cut rates just in time for Joe Biden's end of run? No. Investors don't expect the Fed to lower interest rates in July, but they're looking at a September cut.

I can't believe it, why it's so convenient. It's just so convenient. I mean, never mind the fact that, again, the inflation is still running 50% too high. We've got to cut those interest rates just in time for the election and hopefully jog Joe Biden to victory. But don't worry, it's all apolitical. Meanwhile, while Joe Biden continues to tout the magic of NATO, the actual increasingly awesome technology,

strength of NATO. NATO still is not providing Ukraine the actual necessary resources for a counteroffensive this year. According to the New York Times, despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance NATO announced this week, allied officials said Ukraine would not be ready to launch a dramatic counteroffensive or retake large swaths of territory from Russia until next year. Donations of missiles, combat vehicles, ammunition, air defenses from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines. Some of the newly committed weapons have not yet been bought or built.

So good news. I'm so glad that Joe Biden slow walked all of this stuff. I mean, he slow walked it to Israel also. And I don't know what this administration has against our allies actually winning or being provided the weaponry necessary to cut the best possible deal with Russia, per se. But they're doing it now, belatedly, as always. Apparently, several allies have promised new assistance, but it was not clear when any of the material would be delivered.

Ukraine's military is already using drones produced by its defense industry to strike targets inside of Russia, but there are not enough of them. So hopefully the NATO summit will end with more of a commitment to provide the kind of military pressure necessary to reach an off-ramp with regard to Russia. Joe Biden's slow walking of the aid certainly did not help here. Alrighty, coming up, we're going to jump into the vaunted Ben Shapiro show mailbag. If you're not a member, become a member, use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.

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