The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy. On Friday, Axios released Friday night news dump audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.Biden WH didn't release it last year. Listen below.w/ @MarcACaputo https://t.co/VJr2c9m3bh pic.twitter.com/Xoa0rQMtG9— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025 If you heard the tape and haven’t been in a coma for the past four years, then nothing here is truly surprising. The former president sounded senile and evasive when answering questions about his handling of top secret documents. Some of my colleagues went through the full tapes and found that Biden “forgot the names of President Barack Obama’s former secretary of defense and comedian Jay Leno; referred to Africa as a country, not a continent; and was unaware he had in his possession a notebook with war advice in it for Obama during his interview with special counsel Robert Hur and investigators in October 2023.” Biden certainly did not sound like someone who could be trusted to make large-scale national decisions or even small-scale personal ones. This is entirely unsurprising unless you are a left-leaning corporate media journalist on the political beat. If you are, then I’m sure that the reports coming out about Biden in office are jaw-dropping, gob smacking revelations to you. The media elite are shocked, shocked to discover that Biden may have been unfit for office. The release of these tapes was followed by a Sunday afternoon reveal that Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. The cancer diagnosis is certainly a terrible thing. But the idea that this should end the story about what happened the last four years is a farce. It couldn’t be clearer now that due to mental and physical ailments, Biden was a diminished man from the moment he assumed the president’s office. Despite some of the aforementioned elite journalists calling for a lid to be put on conversations about Biden’s presidency due to his health, the reality is the cancer diagnosis only raises more unsettling questions. Is this really a new diagnosis? Did Biden’s doctors really somehow miss the signs of treatable cancer? And that makes this situation entirely unprecedented. Yes, President Woodrow Wilson was at one point incapacitated during his final term in office, but that was at the tail end of his presidency. Wilson suffered a series of strokes after his highly energetic campaign to convince Americans to join the League of Nations. His wife and even some members of the media tried to cover it up, but ultimately the Democratic Party pulled the plug on his extremely brief flirtation with running for a third term. There was no widespread attempt to fool the American people and ensure another term for an “almost catatonic” president, as one witness at George Clooney’s June fundraiser for Biden described the candidate. This situation with Biden was much, much worse, the coverup far more extensive, and the consequences were far more potentially dire in the age of instant communication and weapons capable of quickly destroying all of human civilization. How shall we think of those years in which multiple crises developed around the globe, Americans were mass deprived of employment due to government forced vaccinations, states were browbeaten to allow children to get life-altering hormones, and an ultimately victorious presidential candidate was nearly jailed? I’ve tried to think of some apt historical comparisons. President John Tyler was known to some of his more cantankerous critics as “his accidency,” due to being the first vice president to assume the president’s office after the death of the commander in chief. The attitude was that nobody actually elected him to become president, and in the early days of the republic the Constitution was a bit murky about whether he could just assume office, or a new election must be held. Regardless of the nickname, Tyler became an aggressive, active commander in chief—somewhat to the chagrin of many in his party. But Biden was in some way the mirror opposite. Despite being elected in a highly contested election, he seems to have never really assumed his responsibilities. Biden’s lethargy was only matched by his lack of transparency. The better word for Biden would be “his irrelevancy.” While the 46th president’s handlers, most likely at the behest of former President Barack Obama, led him around in an extended real-world version of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the federal apparatus operated on its own. This was rule by “experts,” or really rule by the managerial class that re-created the old spoils system but made it totally unaccountable to the American people. Decisions were carried out by vast, interlocking agencies at the behest of their Democratic Party allies whom they serve. This was the first fully deep-state presidency. Biden was awarded by the Democratic Party with the nominal career-capping title as president, but the functions and even the decisions demanded of his office were clearly distributed to his subordinates and the federal leviathan. The result was a complete disaster. Americans rightly lost faith in their leaders and the elite institutions attached to this corrupted apparatus. U.S. foreign policy was at best strategically adrift. Our enemies around the globe went on the march. The people feared the government more than the government feared them. The upshot of these calamities is that we were delivered a national wake-up call at a time of crisis. A political counterrevolution is taking place that may have never happened had its depth not been revealed at least in part by the media’s coverup of Biden’s obvious infirmity.   But even though the first 100-plus days of President Donald Trump couldn’t be more different than the four years of his predecessor, we can’t forget how bad things got, how much the legacy media covered for a senile president’s obvious incapacity, and how deeply threatening the permanent bureaucratic state is to American liberty. The post The Historic Scandal of Biden’s Deep State Presidency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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As reported by The New York Times and other fellow liberal media apologists, CBS News president Wendy McMahon announced Monday she quit as a sign of dismay and disgust with the network overlords moving toward a settlement with now-President Trump for 60 Minutes’s hatchet job of an October 2020 interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. “The president of CBS News, Wendy McMahon, was forced out of her post on Monday, the latest shock wave to hit the news division amid an ongoing showdown involving President Trump, ‘60 Minutes,’ and CBS’s parent company, Paramount,” wrote Times reporters Michael M. Grynbaum, Benjamin Mullin, and Lauren Hirsch. Citing anonymous sources, they said McMahon was told “on Saturday” by “executives at Paramount...to step down” and so she told staff “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.” Her exit comes nearly a month after 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens similarly threw himself out the door that was heralded as a sacrifice in the name of honest journalism and the free press. Trump sued CBS back on November 1, 2024 for what’s now $20 billion once it was revealed the network edited out one of Harris’s classic word salads while speaking to correspondent Bill Whitaker about the Middle East. Since then, Paramount have seen fit to work towards a settlement with the now-President at the same time it’s angling for a sale to the media company, SkyDance (owned by David Ellison, the son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison) and have that sale approved by the Trump administration. Earlier this year, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr declared he too was interested in investigating CBS’s conduct vis-à-vis their pre-election special given a broadcast network’s broader requirements to serve the public good versus, say, a cable channel. “Many legal experts have called the suit baseless, but Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, has said she favors settling the case,” The Times added. In a version of the article last updated at 4:46 p.m. Eastern, they buried in paragraph ten any notion McMahon should be seen as sacrificing herself because “[w]ithin CBS News, it was widely expected that Ms. McMahon, who took over the news division in August 2023, would not be at the company much longer” and her Paramount bosses “had expressed concern about Ms. McMahon’s performance for months.” Oh, there it is! Job performance (or lack thereof). They continued, citing a hubbub last year about CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil being thrown before a Chinese Communist Party-style Struggle Session for the crime of asking tough questions of far-left, anti-Israel author Ta-Nehisi Coates (and sent Redstone to give Dokoupil a show of public support). That said, they left out McMahon as having been at the helm of the ship for what’s been a disastrous reboot of the CBS Evening News (click “expand”): Her detractors pointed to an overhaul of “CBS Evening News” that sent its ratings plummeting, and her handling of an October incident involving the “CBS Mornings” anchor Tony Dokoupil, who in an interview had challenged the author Ta-Nehisi Coates’s views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ms. McMahon’s critics also believed that the reporting at “60 Minutes” had become politically biased, exposing the company to unnecessary criticism. And it was clear that Mr. Trump was paying close attention. On May 4, “60 Minutes” aired a segment that quoted some prominent lawyers criticizing the president for acting unlawfully when he issued executive orders targeting law firms. Mr. Trump’s lawyers perceived those quotes, and the segment as a whole, as an attempt by CBS to gain the upper hand in the settlement negotiations, according to a person with knowledge of the internal discussions. They then countered by conveying a threat to Paramount: Mr. Trump might file a new lawsuit, accusing Paramount and CBS of defaming him in the “60 Minutes” episode, according to two people familiar with knowledge of the talks. So, when you’re a biased executive who’s donated over $6,000 to the Biden campaign (as per our friend Reagan Reese at the Daily Caller) and a poor performance record, don’t mind us if we don’t feel bad for her. The Media Research Center’s incoming president David Bozell had this quip as well:  

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