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Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt says First Lady Jill Biden should be held accountable for “elder abuse” with her husband, arguing that many can see President Joe Biden’s noticeable decline in mental acuity.
Many people are worried about Biden’s ability to be commander-in-chief after the presidential debate in June, which many people thought was bad.
“The majority of the American public agree with that. Jill Biden doesn’t because, I guess, she doesn’t want to be a loving wife and go take care of her husband in Delaware, which is what she should be doing,” Leavitt said.
“And I think the media, it’s time for them to finally step up after they’ve been complicit in this cover-up by the Democrat Party over the last four years and ask really tough questions of Jill Biden and of the Biden family about what they know about our president’s state. Clearly, Jill Biden obviously knows her husband better than anyone else in this country, in this world, and she too continues to lie to the American people. It really is shameful. She’s been engaging in elder abuse, and she should be held accountable for that,” Leavitt added.
Leavitt also said that the Democratic Party has been “exposed” for maintaining that Joe Biden is mentally sound and able to serve another term as president.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is already facing an uphill battle as she aims to become the Democratic nominee and take on former President Donald Trump in November.
During an interview on Fox News, contributor Ari Fleischer spoke about Democrats having “buyers remorse” with Harris.
“Maybe this is one of the reasons why they have not taken a position. What Ryan said, I think the Democrats are going to have buyer’s remorse here. After the press rallies around her, if she doesn’t pass Trump in the polls after this huge press love affair, what does she have?” Fleischer began.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if right before the convention she is trailing Donald Trump by a significant margin. What is the Plan C? Maybe that’s why they are being silent right now. Maybe they are being silent as Donald Trump waits for the nomination to be official. But either the boost that the press is going to give her is going to be real. Or Donald Trump is still the front runner for the presidency, that is going to scare the Democrats, just like it scared them to get rid of Biden,” Fleischer continued.
Fleischer added: “They muscled Biden into place even though he was too sick to run. Now they have muscled Kamala Harris into place. The Democrat people — have not had their choice. I predict that the corrupt media that lied and covered up about Joe’s cognitive state and went along with every Trump lie and peddled every conspiracy theory, you are going to see phony polls saying she is doing better than she is to try to bolster her, and then things will start to settle in. But I don’t know how they go to a plan c at this point. But you might be right.”
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Anger and frustration mounted inside Biden’s inner circle as well as with the president himself amid a cacophony of calls for him to drop out after a dismal debate performance last month and a collapse in polling.
According to sources who spoke to NBC News, Biden felt “Isolated, frustrated and angry. He felt betrayed by allies who turned on him in his hour of need.” The network quoted someone within the inner circle who said of Biden: “He’s really pissed off.”
The report also said that multiple advisers warned that Biden had no path to victory. “It became a no-win situation, a self-fulfilling prophecy,” former White House official Cedric Richmond said Sunday. Without money and support “it’s impossible to win, and he’s always put country and party first.”
Loyalists to Biden also were frustrated that members of the Democratic Party called on him to step aside instead of rallying behind him, the outlet reported.
Biden, who has not been seen in public since last week and certainly not since he announced via social media that he would end his reelection bid, triggered new health concerns and conspiracy theories when he called into now-VP Harris’ HQ on Monday to show his support for her candidacy.
