Jill Savage ROASTS Biden after Trump crushes him in first debate

Jill Savage ROASTS Biden after Trump crushes him in first debate



On Thursday night, the nation saw President Joe Biden at his very best. And it couldn’t have been worse.

He stuttered and stumbled incoherently through his talking points, making himself look weaker and less capable than ever.

“Joe Biden — they were making him the best that he possibly could be tonight. They locked him away at Camp David for seven days; they were doing everything in their power to make sure that he was going to come out on the top of his game tonight, and this is what we got,” says Jill Savage.



“Obviously, President Biden lost his train of thought a number of times; he rambled; he was incoherent,” adds BlazeTV contributor Delano Squires, adding that Trump surprised him in a good way. He “was energetic but disciplined,' and “even when President Biden froze that first time, [Trump] could have easily referenced Sleepy Joe or something like that, but he didn't.”

The debate moderators — CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper — pleasantly surprised Squires as well.

“They actually did what most people want journalists to do, which is to ask questions and let the other person ... respond,” he tells Jill and Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson. “They didn't make themselves the stars of the show.”

For Peterson, “we have to emphasize Trump’s discipline.”

“He showed a discipline that most people consider rare,” he says, adding that at times, it seemed like Trump even “[felt] bad for [Biden].”

But there’s one thing that has Peterson angry about the debate. To find out what it is, check out the clip above.

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New Biden attack video goes wrong when people start to notice the glaring problems: '28 cuts in this 2 minute video'



President Joe Biden released a new video on Tuesday attacking Donald Trump and Republicans. Unfortunately for the president, the video generated scrutiny for all the wrong reasons.

In the video, Biden attacks Trump for his remarks critical of NATO and claims Trump and Republicans "refuse" to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin "accountable" for the death of Alexei Navalny because they oppose sending more taxpayer money to Ukraine without first addressing domestic priorities, like the border crisis.

Not sending more money to Ukraine, according to Biden, is akin to "bow[ing] down" to Putin. Of course, it's not clear how taxpayer funding of the Ukraine war is connected to Navalny's death.

While the content of Biden's message generated significant pushback — because it's hardly true that Trump or Republicans are responsible for anything Putin chooses to do or that sending more money to Ukraine will deter Putin when the first $113 billion didn't — the video received attention for two separate, but glaring, reasons.

First, the video, which includes an on-screen caption of Biden's words, contains several spelling errors. The word "strength" is misspelled. Navalny's first name is misspelled. And, at one point, the caption completely omits one of Biden's words.

Second, the video contains numerous edits — more than two dozen, in fact. Moreover, Biden does not appear to speak for more than six seconds at a time without a cut.

"So when you've worked on the producing end as I did in my former life, some things are painfully easy to spot when the post-edit is complete," media expert Joe Concha explained. "In this case, I counted 28 cuts in this 2 minute video. 28. In something this short, *maybe* you do 5-6 cuts max."

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The significant number of edits suggests that, even with teleprompter help, Biden had difficultly reading his script, thus bringing more attention to his age and concerns about his mental acuity.

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Biden's new plan for the border crisis accidentally undercuts his own narrative: Report



President Joe Biden is reportedly considering using executive authority to stymie the flow of migrants into the United States.

For years, the Biden administration denied the border crisis existed, insisting many times that America's borders are "secure." But the White House began to sing a different tune when it became clear that the $118 billion supplemental appropriations bill — which would have given Ukraine more than $60 billion and border security just $20 billion — would never become law.

To the objection of Republicans and anyone remotely familiar with immigration law, Biden told Congress to "just give me the power" because "I've done all I can do." And when the bill died in Congress, Biden tried to blame Donald Trump and Republicans for the border crisis.

Now, Biden is considering issuing an executive order on the migrant crisis before his SOTU address.

But according to Axios, Biden isn't planning to take action for the benefit of America. Instead, he's concerned about political optics.

Axios reported:

One bold move that Biden has considered, we're told, is an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.

Politics aside, the plan to use executive authority undercuts the entire narrative that Biden and his defenders have parroted for years. It both acknowledged the crisis and proves that Biden's hands, in fact, are not tied.

Meanwhile, it's important to remember that Biden already has the statutory authority to alleviate the migrant crisis. One of the most obvious legal tools is Section 1182(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Section 1182(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act states:

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

The planned change in Biden's tone and the urgency to shift blame for a crisis that unfolded under Biden's watch is about countering fallout from special counsel Robert Hur's report, which brought increased scrutiny to Biden's age and mental acuity.

"Everyone around [Biden] is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up," a source "close to Biden" told Axios. "The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel's report is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice."

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New York Times publisher refuses to bow to Biden administration — then he admits the harsh facts about Biden



The White House is "extremely upset" over the New York Times' coverage of President Joe Biden. But Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger is refusing to kowtow.

Speaking in an interview with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Sulzberger promised his newspaper will cover Biden and Donald Trump fairly, meaning the paper will accurately report on the good and the bad of both candidates.

"We are not anyone's opposition and we're not anyone's lap dog," he said. "We are going to continue to report fully and fairly, not just on Donald Trump but also on President Joe Biden."

Sulzberger then dropped the cold, hard truth about Biden and why the White House is upset at his newspaper.

"[Biden] is a historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man to ever hold this office," he admitted. "We've reported on both of those realities extensively, and the White House has been extremely upset about it."

Not only is the Times reporting on Biden's age and the concerns about his cognitive decline, but in the wake of special counsel Robert Hur's description of Biden as "an elderly man with a poor memory," the Times is publishing more opinion essays about Biden's age.

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In addition to the White House's anger, members of the Biden campaign have reportedly also voiced their frustrations. Recently, the campaign invited reporters and editors from the newspaper to campaign headquarters. The mission? To correct what the campaign believes the newspaper is "getting wrong."

In fact, the campaign has met with journalists from most major news outlets about their coverage of Biden. Those meetings have been "substantive" and "productive," according to Semafor, with one exception: the New York Times.

And while even Margaret Sullivan, former public editor of the Times, is criticizing her former employer for covering Biden's faults, Sulzberger recognized why even-handed coverage is important and why the Times cannot ignore Biden's problems.

"We are not saying that [Biden's age and unpopularity are] the same as Trump’s five court cases or that they are even. They are different. But they are both true, and the public needs to know both those things," he said.

"And if you are hyping up one side or downplaying the other, no side has a reason to trust you in the long run," he acknowledged.

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Biden's Handlers are Running the Show and EVERYONE KNOWS IT

Biden's Handlers are Running the Show and EVERYONE KNOWS IT

Biden aides plot how to exploit special counsel transcripts to benefit Biden politically: Report



Biden administration officials are reportedly plotting how to use a transcript of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur for the president's political benefit.

The plan contradicts Biden's promise to "bring transparency and truth back to government."

According to NBC News, Biden's top aides are expecting a "lengthy partisan clash over the transcript and possibly the audio recording" of Biden's five-hour interview with Hur.

To minimize political fallout — especially at a time when the majority of voters and Americans are concerned about Biden's age and mental acuity — the West Wing staff is even considering a "strategic" release of the transcript to highlight moments in the interview that they believe hide what many people believe is evidence of Biden's cognitive decline.

More from NBC News:

The internal discussions among Biden aides have focused on how the transcript of his interview might help him versus hurt him politically when it comes to voters’ concerns about his age, the people familiar with the discussions said.

Another consideration is whether it would make strategic sense to release the entire transcript or — to the extent that full disclosure is avoidable — to publicize specific moments in the interview to help push back on questions about Biden’s handling of classified materials or mental fitness, the people familiar with the discussions said.

The White House and Democrats have fiercely pushed back against Hur's description of Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory," arguing the conclusion was unfair, politically motivated, and untrue. But no one in Biden's camp, including his personal attorney who sat through Biden's interview with Hur, has demanded to call for the release of the transcript.

Perhaps one reason is that the transcripts might contradict the narrative that Biden and the White House have tried to paint about the interview.

In one already-known instance, Biden publicly condemned Hur for allegedly asking about Beau Biden in the interview. But, according to NBC News, the transcripts show that Biden himself first mentioned his late son.

If the transcripts are released, it will not be anytime soon because of the lengthy process to redact classified information.

House Republicans, meanwhile, are demanding the transcripts and audio from the interview, asking the Justice Department to provide them by Feb. 19 — or be compelled to turn them over.

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Joe Scarborough makes astonishing claim to defend Biden's memory problems: 'What year did your mom die?'



MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is pulling out all the stops to defend President Joe Biden's memory.

Last week, an unhinged Scarborough fumed over special counsel Robert Hur's conclusions about the president's memory. In his report, Hur described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" and included evidence supporting that conclusion. Specifically, Hur reported that Biden could not remember when his son Beau died or the years that he served as vice president.

On Tuesday, Scarborough — who maintains a personal relationship with the president — tried to defend Biden by claiming he wouldn't be able to remember the year his mother died if questioned in a deposition.

"Supposedly, [Biden] didn't remember what year his son died, and this was the most damning thing," Scarborough began. "Maybe it's just older people — we've lived a busy and active life — but nobody is closer to me, nobody's been closer to me in my life, than my mom.

"If somebody asked me in the middle of a deposition, 'What year did your mom die?' I'd go, 'I don't know— 2017, 2018, 2019? I don't know. I can tell you everything about it. I can tell you my final words,'" he claimed.

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This is hardly believable.

Scarborough, without a doubt, knows that his mother passed away in 2019. That is because people remember details that are important to them — storing those details in their long-term memory — especially when those facts are about the people closest to them.

To normalize forgetting key moments of one's life — like the death of a parent or child! — to defend Biden is not the argument Scarborough thinks it is.

Rather, the fact that Biden sadly forgot a key date about his son's life, and indeed his own, is what makes his memory issues so alarming.

Contrary to Scarborough's argument, Biden's forgetfulness is not normal because every human of normal cognitive function recognizes their own ability to remember key details about their life.

An inability to remember, on the other hand, triggers alarm — and a prompt trip to the doctor.

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KJP tries defending Biden over cognitive decline but accidentally does the opposite: 'Proves every day how he operates'



President Joe Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming annual physical.

At the White House press briefing on Monday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the president will not undergo any cognitive testing during his annual physical.

Ironically, Jean-Pierre thought she was defending Biden with her answer — but her justification had the opposite effect.

"I'm just going to say what Dr. O'Connor said to me about a year ago when [Biden's physical] came out last year," she responded, "which is the president proves every day how he operates, how he thinks — right? — by dealing with world leaders, by making really difficult decisions on behalf of the American people— whether it's domestic, whether it's national security."

The problem, of course, is that contrary to Jean-Pierre's assertion, Biden is not proving his cognitive capabilities in the eyes of most Americans.

Rather, most Americans — more than three-fourths of voters and 86% of American adults overall — are extremely concerned about Biden's age and his cognitive decline. Thus, to most Americans, Biden is proving that he does not have the mental capabilities required by his job.

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Moreover, Jean-Pierre's remarks came just one week after Biden twice claimed to speak with dead world leaders, and he also appeared to forget the name of Hamas.

To make matters worse, special counsel Robert Hur released a report last week in which he described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory." And on Monday, Biden appeared confused during a joint press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah II.

With few exceptions, Democrats are publicly defending Biden, telling Americans that what they see and hear with their own eyes and ears isn't true. Privately, however, Democrats are honest that Biden's age is a significant political liability.

Biden's last physical was released in February 2023. That exam did not include a cognitive test.

Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday they can expect a similar physical report this year but indicated, against Biden's promises of transparency, that reporters would not have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Kevin O'Connor, physician to the president, about Biden's health.

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James Carville admits about Biden what other Democrats refuse to say: 'And it's never going to get better'



Democratic strategist James Carville admitted on Saturday that President Joe Biden's refusal to sit for a Super Bowl interview is a telling "sign."

For the first two years of his presidency, Biden sat for an interview that aired before the Super Bowl, a tradition that began in earnest with Barack Obama in 2009. Last year, Biden refused the interview in what was widely believed to be a snub of the network broadcasting the Super Bowl, Fox. But this year, CBS broadcasted the event, and Biden still declined the interview.

The White House and Biden campaign justified the decision by claiming that Americans don't want politics mixed with sports. But Carville doesn't buy that excuse.

"It's the biggest television audience, not even close, and you get a chance to do a 20- to 25-minute interview on that day, and you don't do it," Carville noted.

"That's a kind of sign that the staff or yourself doesn't have much confidence in you — there's no other way to read this," he admitted, noting that Biden also does not want to debate Donald Trump before Election Day.

"He is old — I know what it is because I'm almost as old as he is — and it's never going to get better," Carville added. "Today is the youngest you'll ever be for the rest of your life."


The decision to skip the Super Bowl interview — whether or not the excuses are legitimate — has only fueled fears that Biden's cognitive decline is accelerating.

Even worse, Biden's refusal to be interviewed came during a week when he twice claimed to speak with dead world leaders, when he forgot the name of Hamas, and when special counsel Robert Hur released a report describing Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory."

It's no wonder, then, why more than three-fourths of voters and 86% of American adults overall are concerned about the 81-year-old commander in chief's age.

For his part, Carville has warned the Democratic Party about Biden's political vulnerabilities. But in his interview with CNN, Carville stopped short of saying that Biden should step aside.

Carville did, however, say that "it's never too late" to make a replacement.

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CBS anchor confronts Biden's attorney with important question that crumbles his narrative about the special counsel report



President Joe Biden's personal attorney repeatedly attacked special counsel Robert Hur's report on Sunday but did not immediately support releasing the transcripts of Biden's interviews with Hur.

Democrats are outraged that Hur described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" in his report. Specifically, Hur's critics assert that the special counsel included superfluous and gratuitous details in the report, such as Biden forgetting when his son Beau died and forgetting when he was vice president.

On CBS' "Face the Nation," Biden's personal attorney, Bob Bauer — whose wife is senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn — attacked Hur's report as a "shabby work product" that contains "factual misstatements" and "pejorative comments" that Bauer claimed "are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms."

The strong comments may be compelling because Bauer attended Biden's interviews with Hur. But his commentary immediately began to crumble when host Margaret Brennan started asking questions.

At first, Brennan asked Bauer if the president had "problems recalling details" in the interviews with Hur. Bauer, however, did not directly answer the question, instead saying that Biden "gave his best recollection" to the questions.

After Bauer then confirmed that transcripts of Biden's interviews do exist, Brennan asked an important question that undercut Bauer's narrative.

"Do you favor releasing them?" she asked of the transcripts.

"Well, it's really a decision that has to take place within the government. It's a classified document," Bauer responded.

"Would you recommend that these be made public if they indeed back up your personal recollection?" Brennan followed up.

"Again, there's a process under way. I'm not a specialist in that process. And so I really have to defer to those who have to work through those issues," Bauer deflected.

If, as the president's defenders claim, the details about Biden's memory were unfair and unethical, why not demand that the transcripts be released?

It's true that the interviews contain classified information. But those details can easily be redacted from the transcripts.

Appealing to classified information within the transcripts, then, is a deflection. Either the transcripts show that Biden could not recall basic details about his life or they don't. And if the transcripts confirm what Hur reported, then his report is not a "shabby work product," as Bauer claimed, but a truth-telling document that shows Hur refused to bow to political pressure.

In fact, Bauer does not dispute the truthfulness of Hur's report. Rather, he is upset that Hur included details about Biden's memory in the report. That's an important distinction.

But as former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg explained, details about Biden's memory were critical to Hur's report because the special counsel needed to explain why he is not prosecuting Biden despite finding ample evidence that Biden broke the law.

"It doesn't make sense to me that if I'm telling the attorney general of the United States why someone ought not to be prosecuted that I wouldn't also tell him exactly why I came to that conclusion," Rosenberg said last Friday.

White House spokesman Ian Sams said on Friday that officials would consider seeking the release of a redacted version of the Biden transcripts.

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