"Joe worked hard every single day," non-doctor Jill Biden said.

After the debate, you'll remember, she praised Biden as if he were a retarded child saying "You answered all the questions."

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I know you'll have trouble believing this, but The View offered easy questions, lobbing them underhand like fluffy marshmallows.

After proving themselves to be his greatest sycophants with their gushfest of an interview last September, former President Biden reciprocated by giving the liberal ladies of ABC's The View his first post-presidency interview. Of course, as Democratic propagandists, they swaddled him in love and softball questions, largely teeing up questions about controversies in easy-to-knock-down ways, and helping him rehabilitate his image.

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg opened up questions with a fast ball about how he was doing, which Biden used to hawk the book he was supposedly writing himself. Pretend independent Sara Haines followed up by ignoring the fact that Biden didn't drop out willingly but was forced out by Democratic Party insiders and donors, and commended him on his "selfless and very difficult decision" to drop out.

When asked why Vice President Kamala Harris lost despite Democratic optimism, Biden seeming suggested that America was sexist:

HAINES: Democrats were feeling optimistic about the vice president's chances of winning the presidency, but then election night came, and it was like 2016 all over again. So, why do you think the vice president lost and were you surprised?

BIDEN: I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She's qualified to be president of the United States of America but I was surprised -- I was surprised because they went the route of the sexist route the whole route.

As Biden's biggest fan on the set, Joy Behar had the gooiest things to say about him. Completely ignoring how both President Obama and Biden blamed their Republican predecessors for their own failings until they left office, Behar whined that Trump was blaming Biden after the first 100 days.

"As of late April, he had mentioned you and your family and your administration at least 580 times. That's -- we're talking shrink land now," Behar declared, suggesting there was something wrong with Trump's brain (something she refused to entertain with Biden). Of course, it was an easy softball for Biden:

BEHAR: Why is he so fixated on you and blaming you for everything?

BIDEN: I beat him.

In a follow up question sometime later, Behar admitted that Biden's handlers had requested she ask him a specific question about his use of an autopen to sign his family's pardons and admitted that she promised to do it:

BEHAR: I promised I would ask this question, because --

[Whoopi Goldberg gestures to the producers]

They want me to ask it. Not only is he obsessed with you and blaming you for everything, he's also obsessed with the fact that you used an autopen to sign the pardons, you issued right before you left office for members of your immediate family. Now, he's calling for investigations and claiming the pardons are void and vacant!

BIDEN: Oh, he's vacant.

Previously, The View cast cheered Biden's pardon for his son Hunter. They praised how Biden gave his son a "great gift, the gift of freedom."

As one of the fake conservatives on set, Alyssa Farah Griffin's question regarding the books detailing Biden's cognitive decline never drilled down on any of the specific examples. She simply asked: "What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?"

"They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that," Biden answered.

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At the very end of the show, Goldberg wanted viewers to know "you're not in this alone, we're all in it together" against Trump. "We got them!" Behar proclaimed as she jumped up to hug Biden.

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There is an inside story of Biden's decline and an outside story of Biden's decline. The inside story is the effort by the White House staff, plus its Democratic allies, plus its supporters in the press, to conceal Biden's problem. The outside story is the many public appearances -- moments of Biden appearing confused, lost or frozen -- during which millions of Americans could see for themselves that the president had a serious problem.

Another way to put it would be to say that the inside story was the effort to deny that the outside story existed.

That was the strangest thing about the whole situation. Biden's decline happened in public. People knew about it. Opinion polls revealed that large numbers of Americans believed Biden was not up to the job of president, or at least not up to a second term in the White House. If it was a secret, it was the world's best-known secret.

And yet those in the White House denied that there was a problem, and their allies outside the White House echoed those denials. And they went beyond simple denial. They also attacked those who said Biden had a problem. Remember "cheapfakes"? That was what Biden's defenders in the Democratic Party and the media called the clear video evidence of Biden's problem.

When Biden drifted away from a group of leaders at the Normandy anniversary in France; when he appeared lost and had to be guided by former President Barack Obama at a Hollywood fundraiser; and when he froze at a Juneteenth event at the White House, the administration accused Republicans of manipulating videos of each moment. And many in the press went along with it, as if the GOP were the problem and not the White House effort to fool the public.

One example. On June 17, 2024, a reporter asked then-White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, "There seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused. I'm wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're seeing more often?"

"Yeah," said Jean-Pierre. "And I think you all have called this the 'cheapfakes' video. And that's exactly what they are. They are cheapfakes video. They are done in bad faith. And some of your news organizations have been very clear, have stressed that the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation."

In just a few words, Jean-Pierre managed to give a pat on the head to those news organizations that displayed little curiosity about Biden's condition but real energy in denouncing those who did.

And then, just 10 days after that exchange, Biden met Trump for the debate in Atlanta. It was no longer possible to hide the extent of Biden's senility. The inside story failed to suppress the outside story, and Biden was doomed as a candidate.

A Biden Dementia Highlight Reel:

You know, the, the, the thing!