Ever notice how every now and then, you run across a news story that makes you go, "Well, duh." In one such, on Wednesday, a report surfaced that, in a new book by author Chris Whipple, former Biden White House aide Ron Klain reportedly had some interesting observations about President Biden's state of mind, or rather, the lack thereof, before his one debate with Donald Trump. Klain describes old Joe as "fatigued, befuddled and disengaged," and if that isn't belaboring the obvious, then nothing is.

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain revealed that President Joe Biden was "fatigued, befuddled and disengaged" before his debate with President Donald Trump in June, according to a new book.

"At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,"  author Chris Whipple wrote, Klain "was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool," according to an excerpt published by The Guardian.

Whipple's new book titled, "Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History," is set to be released this month. Klain, a close ally and major supporter of the former president, served as his chief of staff from 2021 until 2023 and helped Biden prepare for his June debate against Trump. 

"The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged," Whipple wrote, according to the excerpt. "Klain feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster."

That remark proved prescient indeed; the debate with then-candidate Donald Trump was not just a disaster, it was an utter shambles. On the evening of the debate, I wasn't watching, as we had a friend visiting from the lower 48, and as the afternoon (here) wore on, he described a series of "increasingly despondent and desperate" text messages received from some of his liberal relatives.

Joe Biden, of course, never should have been put in that position - but then, he never should have been president.

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What the Democrats did during the 2020 campaign and the four years of Joe Biden's presidency was inexcusable. They put a befuddled, confused old man, decades past whatever prime he had - and for Joe Biden, that wasn't much - up to run for president, and got away with it because of COVID, the lockdowns, and the resulting infamous "basement campaign," as well as some electoral shenanigans. Once Joe Biden was ensconsed in the White House, they collaborated to hide his increasing infirmity.

Whipple said in an interview with Politico about his book that many of Biden's closest aides were in a "fog of delusion" about the former president, and calling it a "cover up" did not go far enough. 

"I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story," Whipple told Politico on Sunday. "I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe."

They may well have been - but it's certain many were not. They had installed a brain full of tapioca pudding in the Oval Office, meaning that the unelected were in charge, and they concealed that. They concealed the fact that the President of the United States, arguably the single most powerful man on the planet, was non compos mentis for much, if not all, of his presidency.

Until that disastrous debate, when they couldn't hide it anymore. Now, everything is slowly, slowly coming to light, and this will (we hope) only contribute to the decline of the Democratic Party, whose national approval ratings at the moment are somewhere between those of black mold and earwigs.

The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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