Commentary
While some of you may view this edition as an “I told you so,“ and others will accuse me of “piling on,” I felt compelled to revisit the commentary I wrote over several years while the leftist media and much of the social media chose to cover for former President Biden.
Recently, as conservative media sources have begun asking the question – “who was running the White House?” I recalled my February 2, 2023, edition, “Joe Biden is the President, but who’s running the White House?”
Six months earlier, I wrote of First Lady Jill Biden’s speech at a fundraiser for the Democrat National Committee in Massachusetts, during which she made an apology of sorts, telling the audience her husband “had so many hopes and plans for the things he wanted to do. He just had so many things thrown his way.”
It was in that edition that I repeated my belief that “Jill Biden could have and should have persuaded her husband not to run” I was convinced that the thought of the power of the office was too much for her to deny. And she saw a role for herself.
During an interview aboard Air Force One with Jonathan Van Meter, who was writing a puff piece on Jill for Vogue magazine, there was a discussion of Biden’s reluctance to run. He told Van Meter that Jill said ‘you gotta run because there’s so much at stake.’
With the title on the Vogue piece reading, “A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Jill Biden,” it was clear she was reveling in her position, “knowing the power of the presidency – knowing she could change things.”
No doubt she relished the references to the outfits she wore, her jewelry, her hair and makeup with photos by the one and only Annie Leibovitz, as she noted “there was so much to do.”
On February 10, 2024, I wrote, “It’s Time to Go, Joe, “repeating my criticism of Jill Biden for her failure to advise her husband not to run in 2020 as I called attention to the world seeing him go downhill, I noted my gratification in a statement made by the editorial board of the New York Post following the release of Special Counsel Hur’s report.
“Jill Biden did this to her husband,” the board stated, “his children, his staff, all the people who enabled this charade, this is on them. And Americans won’t soon forget it.
“This is elder abuse. And it’s a fraud on the American people.”
Six months later, I asked, “Is the First Lady Making the Decisions in the White House?”
Podcast host Joe Rogan, slammed Jill as part of the inner circle, “running the White House in hopes of maintaining power.” It was in the 2024 campaign that Trump spent three hours on air with Rogan discussing a wide range of topics. There were a number of comments that the appearance by Trump with Rogan helped Trump.
I found the First Lady’s remark following his disastrous debate appearance sickening. “Look, Joe,” she said, “we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you’ve been president.”
“What Jill Biden and the Biden campaign did to Joe Biden tonight – rolling him out on stage to engage in a battle of wits while unarmed – is elder abuse, plain and simple, wrote Wyoming’s Republican Sen. Harriet M. Hageman.
As I concluded my July 7, 2024 edition, I felt obligated to say that my commentary on Jill Biden was “not intended to demean the role of first ladies,” but that I believe Jill Biden did a disservice to her husband and America by supporting his reelection, knowing in her heart that he was not competent to perform as our president.
I understand that Congress is interested in holding hearings on the operations of the White House by the Biden administrations, inviting several individuals to come in voluntarily for interviews. Jill Biden has not been mentioned, and most likely will not be.
After Trump’s win in 2024, I was willing to put the Bidens in the rearview mirror, but it now appears that a scandal of increased measure continues to grow.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
