It was the debate heard around the world, and it changed the U.S. presidential election overnight. While former President Donald Trump was already looking good in the polls, it was still a tight race, but then frail Joe Biden appeared on the CNN stage in Atlanta Thursday night and proved he is simply not up to the job of commander-in-chief.
But was his disastrous performance an accident? Or were devious insiders setting up the octogenarian to fail so they could replace him with someone a little sharper—say, perhaps California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer?
At least one insider thinks so, according to DailyMail:
The 81-year-old US President is facing mounting calls to step aside after his disastrous debate performance on Thursday, with sources telling The Mail on Sunday that many believe he was purposely set up to fail.
A former aide to Hillary Clinton said: 'There has never been a debate this early before. Traditionally the debates are held after the Republican and Democratic conventions, which are in July and August.'
Imagine what they are doing behind closed doors.
But it was Team Biden themselves who pushed for the early date.
'Most years the first debate is early September ahead of the November election.
'Biden's inner circle demanded this early debate. There is a growing belief this was a 'soft coup' because they know he isn't fit to govern and have known for some time.'
Now I always take the talk of “insiders” and “anonymous sources” with a grain of salt because they usually have a hidden agenda, and if they had any cojones, they’d put a name behind their words. Nevertheless, this claim has the ring of truth—why else would Biden be trotted out there so early in the game to fail so spectacularly on the world stage before the Democrat convention had even started?
Reportedly some Biden detractors have known for weeks that he would faceplant under the lights and the glare of Trump:
'They wanted to test him against Trump early, while there was still time to replace him if he failed to rise to the occasion. Which, of course, he did spectacularly.'
Another source said: 'The whole thing doesn't pass the smell test. Publicly the Democratic leadership has been backing Biden because they can't appear to be disloyal to the President, but privately there have been discussions going on for a long time that he's too old to beat Trump.
'There were whispers for weeks that 'Joe's going down at the debate'.'
Meanwhile, for at least the past year, we’ve seen Gavin Newsom try to slither into the national conversation, and although he denies it, it appears obvious that he’s preparing to jump in the race if needed. But guess who else has allegedly been making moves? Whitmer:
One of the favourites to replace Biden – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 52 – secretly sent an advance team to Washington DC 'weeks ago' to prepare for her possible presidential run.
The team has been 'on manoeuvres', meeting with Democratic officials. The source said: 'Gretchen was the first to act. Now the floodgates have been opened.'
This whole saga has a very Shakespearean feel to it, and I suspect we’ll see many more (figurative) backstabbings and behind-the-scenes shenanigans as corrupt Democrats try to salvage the game, which right now they are losing.
They all deserve each other.