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The Bidens want to restore Joe Biden’s legacy after his disastrous presidency and his Hindenburg-style campaign collapse, and phase one is Jill Biden’s forthcoming memoir. The next step will be Joe Biden’s inevitable presidential memoir, which is sure to have quite a few doozies in it, but for now, we have Jill’s, and if she thought her book would “set the record straight” and the Democrat Party would be thrilled, well, that’s not what’s happening at all. Instead, it’s setting the Democrat Party on fire — and the people most enraged are the ones who spent years covering for Joe Biden.

According to Axios, several former Biden aides, including some of the most loyal ones, are furious about the former first lady’s efforts to rewrite history. Jill’s book, by all accounts, does what the Bidens have always done: point the finger everywhere except at the mirror.

“The throughline between her book and [Kamala] Harris’ is that they blame everyone but themselves for the loss,” one former aide said. And another put it even more bluntly. “It’s just so selfish. The Bidens preached selflessness and service above all — and every decision they’ve made since he decided to run for reelection has been about themselves.”

Ouch, that’s quite the indictment. And it’s coming from people who worked for the man.

The central tension in all of this is the June 2024 CNN debate with President Donald Trump. That was the night America watched Joe Biden visibly struggle to complete a coherent thought on a national stage. In one night, the liberal media, which had spent years pretending that Joe Biden was as sharp as a tack, could no longer pretend everything was okay. As PJ Media previously reported, Jill Biden claimed she thought Joe was having a stroke and cleverly suggested that her husband had never acted like that before or since.

Even former Obama aide Tommy Vietor couldn’t ignore the contradiction: if Jill Biden genuinely feared her husband was having a medical emergency on live television, why did the campaign proceed with the post-debate schedule? Joe went to a rally. Then he went to a Waffle House. Nobody called a doctor. Nobody pumped the brakes. That’s not the sign of a campaign thinking that Joe was having a medical issue.

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How do Democrats feel about the new memoir from Jill Biden that’s coming out? Jessica Tarlov, the lone leftist on The Five, isn’t happy at all, and she made no effort to hide her frustration Thursday night. According to Tarlov, Jill is reminding the public of something she desperately wants the country to move on from.

“What makes this very difficult is it’s such an unfair test of elected Democrats, people in work, in Washington, rank and file Democrats, people who donate, who care about these election results,” Tarlov said. “Because we’ve already gone through it, right? Went through the 2024 loss, seeing all the autopsies, now trying to move on, you know, thinking about where the candidates best positioned to win these elections. Moving past having to talk about sundowning — well, at least for Joe Biden, we can talk about it for Trump — and then this is back for no reason. He falls asleep all the time.”

Greg Gutfeld laughed, and Tarlov wasn’t happy about it. “Do not laugh,” she said.

Gutfeld zeroed in immediately on one word Tarlov had slipped in: “sundowning.” She’d applied it to President Donald Trump in passing, apparently hoping it would slide by unnoticed.

“You’re calling Trump sundowning. That is rich — people know what that means,” Gutfeld said. “That is a symptom of Alzheimer’s. Just to be clear.”

There is zero evidence that Trump suffers from any cognitive decline or neurodegenerative disease.

Tarlov pivoted back to her core grievance. “It feels unfair, essentially, at this point, to the party, that if you want to cement any piece of your husband’s legacy, let people move on from this and win some more elections, and then they can point to things and say, like, we’re building on the successes that we saw under the Biden administration. That’s why we’re adding X, Y, or Z thing.”

It was a remarkably candid admission. Tarlov was essentially arguing that Jill Biden is torching whatever remains of Joe’s political legacy by forcing the country to revisit his decline at exactly the moment Democrats are trying to sell voters on a brighter future.

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