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Foreigna I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force One. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today, the topic is Jill Biden's new memoir, which is reopening old wounds for the Democrats that they have been trying to forget. The whole family is busy rewriting history. Joe has a book coming up and Hunter won't shut up on X. For Republicans, they are the gift that keeps on giving, but for Democrats, the Bidens are the wrecking ball they can't escape. You could almost feel sorry for Joe Biden when he crashed his wife Jill's debut book, Talk, in New York last week. Standing in the shadows at the 92nd Street Y and with no microphone in sight, the former president looked lost as he rasped at his wife, who do you love most in the whole world? Up on stage, resplendent in a pastel skirt suit, in her starring role alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Jill responds whoopee laughs and turns on her stiletto heel. Maybe it was a comedy routine the former first couple had practiced, but it fell flat. There wasn't much laughter from the audience. Who humiliates her 83 year old husband in public to try and boost lacklustre book sales? Dr. Jill Biden, that's who. A 76 year old egotist who, in her delusional attempts to rewrite history, now claims that she thought Jo was having a stroke when he malfunctioned and started babbling more unintelligibly than usual during his first and final debate against Donald Trump almost exactly two years ago, Joe said something nonsensical about beating Medicare. Is he short circuiting? I thought, is this a stroke? She wrote in her book View from the East, a memoir, which was released on Tuesday and was languishing at number 42 on Amazon as of Sunday. It felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Had he been drugged? Oh God, will people watching assume that this is how he is all the time? End quote. Yep, that's exactly what we assumed since we had been watching Joe glitch for more than four years despite the best efforts of his American Politburo of minders, led by the ambitious Jill to conceal her husband's frailties? How could we miss the baby stairs for Air Force One to try to avoid yet another presidential pratfall? The phalanx of staff surrounding him to hide his disintegrating gait as he shuffled across the tarmac the Roomba like wandering the slack jawed vacant stairs, the infrequent public appearances. Apart from the odd set speech when he was hopped up to the pupil dilated eyeballs and angrily shouting or whispering the gigantic teleprompters, the gaslighting and lies, none of it fooled anyone with eyes to see. But Jill is still trying to maintain the fiction that there was nothing wrong, that the debate performance that blew away the emperor's clothes was a one off, that she had never seen her husband in such a state before or since. To this day I still don't know what happened, she writes. Why wasn't he making any sense? It was inexplicable to me. I wish I'd thought of asking for a bloody blood test just so we'd know what was in his system. President Trump believes Joe just choked under pressure and doesn't believe Jill's version of events. Why would she bring him to a Waffle House if he had a stroke? Good question. After that debate, even though she suspected her husband had suffered a life threatening health event, and even though he was still zoned out, Jill dragged old Joe over to the anchor desk to schmooze with the startled moderators, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Then, instead of taking him to the hospital or home to sleep at 11pm Jill whisked Joe off to a watch party at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta, where she took to the stage and patronised him in a sing song voice as if he were a toddler on the potty. Jo, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You KN all the facts. Then she hauled him off to a Waffle House for a pretend late night to go order, where he looked like death warmed up as his staff tried to tell reporters he just had a cold. Yet still Jill didn't let him rest, marching him off to the airport to fly to Raleigh, North Carolina for another campaign stop with supporters and a band on the tarmac at 2am Strange way to treat a husband whose brain misfired so badly in public you thought he was having a stroke. But that's just the way it is with the Bidens. They have their tall tales and they stick to them. The difference is now Joe has no power and Democrats are done covering for the Bidens. They're fed up with the selfishness, the grift, the secrets and lies. Republicans and independents were fed up long ago. Polls show Joe to be the least popular of any former Democrat president, with a net approval rating of -19 points, according to CNN pollster Harry Entin and Jill is by far the most unpopular Democrat first lady, 41 points behind Michelle Obama. The American people have one message for the Bidens. Go away, says Entin. Joe is, quote, an anchor to the Democratic Party and potentially their fort in the 2026 midterm elections. Obama Podcast Bros and assorted Democrat strategists vented their rage all week at Jill and the selfishness of the Bidens, who have reopened old wounds at a time when the party is trying to move on from 2024 and win the midterms. But Joe is still wily, like a fox on his good days, and he has one last trump card. That's why pity was the wrong emotion when you watched his awkward hijacking of his wife's event last week. My book, which comes out in September, Read it, joe said pointedly after he delivered the corny Love line Democrat clean up merchants rushed out to declare he was wrong, that no publication date has been set, and surely he wouldn't inflict a score settling memoir on them on the eve of the midterms. Ha. Joe's boast was a threat. You keep beating up on my wife and I'll haunt the weeks before the midterms to remind everyone why they voted for Trump. And then there's Hunter. The former crackhead first son has posted incendiary tweets around 500 times since his dramatic return to X last week, along with assorted long podcast interviews with gullible hosts. It appears to be a carefully planned publicity campaign that his sugar brother Kevin Morris has been cooking up for years in preparation for the release of a Fly on the Wall documentary, rewriting history and presenting Hunter as the redemptive hero. The Bidens are the wrecking ball Democrats can't escape, and it serves them right. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for the next episode of PodForce One with Congressman James Comer. He's the chairman of the all important House Oversight Committee who will tell us what Congress is doing to hold accountable the various wrongdoers who tried to stage a coup against Donald Trump. He also will give us the latest on the Somalian welfare fraud in Minnesota, and we will marvel together at the many lies of Hunter Biden.