This is the most important issue for the Biden campaign to deal with. What we are witnessing is one of the greatest conspiracies in American history. It's Friday, February ninth. This is the warning, and there are two hundred and seventy days left until America decides who the next president of the United States will be. This election is very simple to understand. The person who the race is focused
on is the person losing the election. This was not a good week for President Biden because on Thursday, a special Council report released said the President was an elderly man with a poor memory, and it asserted directly that he's not capable of doing the job of president of the United States. The age issue is now squarely at the center of the presidential campaign. It is an issue
of deep worry for the American people. The Democratic Party's leaders talk about this quietly behind the scenes all the time. The news conference in the Oval Office showed a defiant, angry, wounded, hurt president, but it did not show somebody getting on top of the issue. This is the most important issue for the Biden campaign to deal with, and they must deal with it calmly, rationally, and purposely. They cannot hide the president from the American people. They cannot script him.
He either has the capacity for the job, which I believe he does, or what we are witnessing is one of the greatest conspiracies in American history, involving the military, the Secret Service, the White House staff, and thousands of people who have taken an oath not to Joe Biden, but to the constitution of the United States. This issue cannot be ignored. It can't be brushed off. This issue
wasn't created by Fox News. Donald Trump has assaulted Joe Biden relentlessly for three years, and so have his propaganda outlets. The central line of attack against President Biden by the extremist MAGA movement is that he's crooked and that he's senile. Accusing Joe Biden of crookedness is one of the great acts of political projection ever. Donald Trump is the most corrupt individual who was ever elected president of the United States.
In fact, Donald Trump is more corrupt than the accumulation of every corrupt official America has ever had. The theft, the taking, the breaking of the law, the rules, the fraud is beyond description. But on the question of capacity for the job. The only person who can refute this, who can disprove it, is President Biden, and he has to do it every day. He has to be out front every day. He is eighty two years old and he looks every day of his age. This is obvious.
It's in front of the American people's eyes. There is no way to hide it. But that doesn't mean that President Biden can't do the job. It doesn't mean that President Biden can't run the rape. It doesn't mean that President Biden can't win the race. What it means is President Biden, through action, through word, through deed, has to campaign hard every day and he has to take the fight to Donald Trump. He has to make the race
about Donald Trump. A campaign where the focus is the president's age will end in catastrophe for the United States of America because it will be a campaign where Donald Trump wins. There is no issue in front of the Democratic Party, in front of the Biden White House, in front of the Biden campaign that is more important than this. Their campaign has been hit by a torpedo, and the torpedo has exploded in the middle of the proverbial ship, and it has done great damage that torpedo isn't enough
to sink the ship. The Biden campaign has to get real about what its challenges are. Its singular challenge is taking the fight to Trump, and in doing so, it will show that the president has the vigor for four more years. But the Biden campaign and the decision to put President Biden in front of the White House Press Corps and a scrum of howling questioners rudely interrupting him prosecuting him was a profound mistake. It made the President look terrible, weak, small, and angry. He can afford to
be none of those things in appearance. Ever, The president must show grace, He must show class, he must show strength, and he has to be able to brush off the attacks with humor, not anger. This week was another good one for Donald Trump. It was an insane week in American politics, and each week, as we get closer from this point out two hundred and seventy days to go, is going to get crazier. Buckle up. Thank you for
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