Many Democrats still refuse to admit the truth about about so much
One Democrat “king-maker” has far too much invested.
And Congressman James Clyburn left jaws on the floor with his stunning statement about Joe Biden today.
Biden’s most crucial ally remains in denial
South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn played a pivotal role in resurrecting Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 when Biden was on the ropes after poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The influential Democrat’s endorsement before the South Carolina primary helped Biden secure a decisive victory that propelled him to the Democratic nomination and eventually the White House.
Now, despite overwhelming evidence of Biden’s mental decline that forced him to step aside as the Democratic nominee last year, Clyburn is making the extraordinary claim that Biden could have served as President until January 2029.
During an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper, Clyburn defended Biden’s mental capacity despite the damning Robert Hur interview tapes that revealed Biden struggling to recall basic facts, including when his son Beau died.
“I never saw anything that I thought was outside of the ordinary,” Clyburn insisted to a skeptical Tapper.
Clyburn compares Biden’s serious lapses to misplacing glasses
When pressed about Biden’s concerning performance in his June 2024 debate with Donald Trump that led Democrats to force him out of the race, Clyburn bizarrely compared Biden’s mental struggles to simply misplacing glasses.
“The question is, is this a condition or is this an incident? And I have had incidents when I was looking for my glasses and had them on,” Clyburn stated.
Tapper pushed back on this comparison, noting the clear difference between Clyburn’s mental sharpness and Biden’s repeated struggles with dates, facts, and coherent answers.
“With all due respect, sir, having interviewed you quite often, I don’t think there’s any comparison between how sharp you are and your ability to talk and answer questions and get dates right, et cetera, and what we have seen from President Biden,” Tapper said.
Tapper then directly asked if Clyburn truly believed Biden could have performed the duties of president through January 2029, when he would have been 86 years old.
“Yes, I thought that back then. I still think that,” Clyburn maintained, doubling down on his defense of the former president.
Clyburn blames debate preparation, not cognitive decline
Rather than acknowledging Biden’s obvious mental decline, Clyburn attributed the disastrous debate performance to “preparation overload” and an exhausting schedule.
“And I called it at the time preparation overload, because they were cramming into a four- or five-day period the preparation for the debate after taking two overseas trips, which I thought was taxing in and of itself,” Clyburn argued.
The South Carolina Representative’s defense of Biden runs counter to what millions of Americans witnessed during the debate and what has been revealed in the Robert Hur interview tapes.
In those recordings, Biden struggled to recall when he served as Vice President and confused the timeline of his son’s death, claiming Beau was “either deployed or dying” in 2017-2018, when Beau actually died in 2015 and was deployed in 2008-2009.
Clyburn acknowledged that the debate raised concerns but still maintained there was no evidence of a “prolonged condition” affecting Biden.
“I watched that debate, and you and I talked about it. And, yes, I was concerned,” Clyburn admitted, before quickly dismissing the significance. “None of us thought that there was anything here that created any suspicions of any prolonged condition.”
Former President Biden’s mental capacity was a central issue in the 2024 campaign, with Trump repeatedly questioning Biden’s fitness for office. After Biden’s catastrophic debate performance, Democrat Party leaders, major donors, and media allies eventually forced him to step aside, paving the way for Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Clyburn seems determined to maintain the fiction that Biden was mentally fit to serve a full second term.
