Biden’s in for ‘24 — and we may all pay the hefty price for it

By Post Editorial Board. April 25, 2023

Who announces a presidential campaign at dawn?

Joe Biden’s early-morning video was as vacuous as his 2020 basement campaign — and no doubt the one he plans for 2024.

The endless quick cuts and zippy soundtrack made it look like an appeal to the TikTok generation, except the narrator at 80 could barely get his words out (and how many takes did even that require?).

And that was when he wasn’t doing hisweird “near-whisper to show I really mean it”schtick.

Specifics? We’ll get to the outright lies, but generally it was a vagueness about “freedom” and “rights.” In 2020, Donald Trump was the direct threat;now it is a horde of “MAGA extremists” who’re endangering the nation’s very soul that only SuperJoe can save.

From his bunker? Or from the vacations where he’s spent a quarter of his presidency?

Without naming a single achievement (which would, after all, be tough),he ends by vowing to “finish the job.”

But what job? =Ruining the country completely==?

He’s already set record lows for facing the press, because his aides (rightly!) fear he’ll say something disastrous if allowed to go off-script.

His constant gaffes, garbled speech, mistruths, and ever-fading link with realityhave only confirmed that he’s not fit to be the leader of the free world.

He bizarrely, falsely claims to know what it’s like to have had “a house burn down with my wife in it” and to have been arrested as a civil-rights activist.

He was raised in practically every racial or ethnic community there is.

His bigger lies are worse: His botched Afghanistan pullout was an unprecedented “success.”

Inflation would be temporary.

The crisis at the border was merely seasonal.

Biden lies to himself, too: He actually thinks he’s done a great job and the nation needs him to save it from Donald Trump — though Trump is likely the only GOP foe he can beat.

He’ll never admit his age disqualifies him.

And his handlers won’t, either, because they’re happily wielding the real power.

Americans see the problem: Some 70% of them, including more than half of Democrats, don’t want him to run per last month’s Yahoo News/YouGov poll (and matching every other poll).

In February, an AP-NORC poll found just 12% of Democrats thought Biden should be the party’s leader.

And 59% called him “too old to work in government,” per Reuters/Ipsos.

Yet this seemingly senile, ethically challenged octogenarian with a disastrous record and a horrific 54% disapproval ratingis likely the best Dems can field.

As Rich Lowry notes, Biden’s general fecklessness makes him seem unthreatening — and thus excellent cover for his administration’s insanely left-wing policies.

So the party’s clearing the way for him, rearranging the primaries to avoid a dangerous surprise in Iowa or New Hampshire and so far not even scheduling any Democratic debates.

Yes, he’s so weak that mystic Marianne Williamson or crank RFK Jr. could show him up.

The “Weekend at Bernie’s” campaign is officially underway.

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Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama

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Hunter Biden is believed to be hiding out at the White House while his baby mama goes on the warpath. Lawyers for former stripper Lunden Roberts asked an Arkansas court Friday tojail the first son for failing to fork over his financial recordsas required in her lawsuit over support payments for their 4-year-old unacknowledged daughter, Navy.

Roberts claims Hunter, 53, is “flaunting the dignity and authority of the court” by failing to provide “one single item or word [of] discovery” and says, “This court should incarcerate the defendant in the Cleburne County Detention Center until he complies with this court’s orders.”

Roberts, 32, had to get a court-ordered paternity test to prove Navy was Hunter’s, and last year Hunter applied to have his monthly support payments reduced.

She also has enlisted Biden nemesis Garrett Ziegler as an expert witness for the trial expected in July. The 27-year-old former Trump adviser is founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, which published a 644-page analysis of Hunter’s infamous laptop last year, identifying hundreds of alleged crimes.

Tracking the first son

Ziegler is being sued by Hunter’s “sugar brother,” wealthy Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, for alleged harassment and invasion of privacy.

Morris generously paid off Hunter’s $2.8 million IRS bill, which is part of a federal criminal investigation by the US attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, into the first son’s overseas business dealings.

Things were brought to a head last week when a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who has been investigating Hunter for three years came forward with claims that federal prosecutors are preventing tax charges from being brought against the president’s son.

“Preferential treatment and politics [are] improperly infecting decisions” in the case, the whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Lytle, alleged in a letter to Democrats and Republicans leading various congressional committees.

Roberts’ legal maneuvers in Arkansas lend weight to the rumor in Washington, DC, that Hunter has been living at the White House with his second wife, Melissa Cohen, and their 3-year-old son, Beau, allegedly to avoid being served with legal papers.

Numerous sightings over the past six months lend credence to the idea, with Hunter and his family spotted trailing his father and the first lady onto Marine One for weekends away to Delaware or Camp David, or for longer vacations at the borrowed homes of billionaires.

Last week Hunter joined his father on a state visit to Ireland.

Surrounded by his father’s Secret Service detail and protected by his own agents, it is difficult for a process server to get to him.

From early last year, anelaborate swing set suitable for a toddlerwas spotted on the White House grounds when the president ambled back to his office from Marine One.

There alsomay be other Biden family members shacked up in the White Houseon the taxpayer dime.

The New York Times reported in November, whenNaomi Biden, 28, Hunter’s eldest daughter with ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, and husband Peter Nealwere married on the South Lawn, that the couple “live at the White House, according to two people familiar with their living situation.”

The Executive Residence of the White House has 16 guest bedrooms and 35 bathrooms on the second and third floors, as well as a private guest kitchen. The family also can avail themselves of an in-house gym, bowling alley and private cinema…

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There is plenty of room for the entire Biden clan, including the 12 immediate family members claimed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) this week to be profiting from foreign influence peddling.

‘This is bad’

Having perused hundreds of new financial documents, Comer on Sunday said there may be another three family members on top of the nine he identified last week, including Hunter, uncle Jim Biden and sister-in-law and former lover Hallie Biden.

“I haven’t found any legitimate business dealings on the Biden end [unless you count] influence peddling,” Comer told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

“If you want to get to a legal term, that’s called being a foreign agent. They weren’t registered as a foreign agent and I’m sure the ethics laws would prevent immediate family members of high-ranking government officials from being foreign agents,” he said. “Either way this is bad. There aremore laws that appear to me that have been broken than just tax evasionand there are a lot more Bidens involved than just the president’s son and his brother.”

Hunter’s lawyers reportedly are scheduled to meet Delaware US Attorney Weiss next week over potential charges in the five-year criminal investigation into his foreign business dealings.

Comer says theDOJ is “in a picklehere especially now with the IRS whistleblower.”

“There’s no rhyme or reason whyHunter Biden shouldn’t have been indicted years ago… but one of the challenges [for the DOJ is] what do you do with this many family members of the president? There’s not going to be anybody left for a Christmas picture if the DOJ did their job and went and indicted anyone who has any type of fingerprints involved in this influence-peddling scheme,” Comer noted. “I mean, it’s the entire family.”

Comer also foreshadowed an upcoming press conference on “six specific decisions Joe Biden made either as vice president or president that are very concerning to us that we believe could potentially lead back to payments that were … laundered down to the Biden family members.”

He added, “There’s no … explanation for this family to receive this many suspicious wires from our adversaries around the world if Joe Biden weren’t directly involved in some type of decision making, because I am confident that these people who were wiring the Bidens were expecting to get a return on their investment and there isn’t a single one of those family members that had the ability to do anything to influence foreign policy other than the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden.”

‘Compromised’?

Comer saved his harshest words for the president over perceived soft treatment of China.

“China continues to steal our intellectual property. They continue to manipulate our currency. They continue to buy companies around the world that are a problem from a national security standpoint and yet this president does nothing about China,” he said. “It makes you wonder if he is, in fact, compromised because of the millions of dollars his family has already taken in from the Chinese Communist Party.”

While Dems and enabling media continue to disparage the past week’s bombshell revelations, as Comer says, “the walls are closing in on the Biden family,” even if those walls are in the heavily guarded White House.

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