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Hunter Biden Seeks Arrest of Former Overstock.com CEO

September 13, 2025 · 8:07 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Hunter Biden is asking a federal judge to order the arrest of former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne for ignoring court orders in a libel suit Biden filed against the conspiracy theorist and conservative political activist,” Politico reports.

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Democrats Balk at Donating to Biden’s Library

September 12, 2025 · 7:43 am ET · Leave a Comment

Former President Joe Biden is having trouble collecting donations for a potential presidential library, NBC News reports.

Democratic donors “cited a range of factors, from not wanting to make themselves a target of the White House to holding their financial firepower for the party’s future. Some cited personal interactions with Biden’s inner circle as being so distasteful they believed it would be a barrier to ever raising significant funds for the 46th president of the United States.”

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‘Joe Got Tired’

September 10, 2025 · 8:34 am ET · Leave a Comment

An important excerpt from Kamala Harris’ new book, 107 Days:

“Many people want to spin up a narrative of some big conspiracy at the White House to hide Joe Biden’s infirmity. Here is the truth as I lived it. Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president. On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best.”

“But at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles. I don’t think it’s any surprise that the debate debacle happened right after two back-to-back trips to Europe and a flight to the West Coast for a Hollywood fundraiser. I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.”

Biden Legacy, Political Books

Biden to Build Presidential Library in Delaware

September 6, 2025 · 9:02 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Former president Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive, The Guardian reports.

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Biden Officials Raised Concerns About Use of Autopen

September 6, 2025 · 10:54 am ET · Leave a Comment

“High-ranking Biden administration officials repeatedly questioned and criticized how the president’s team decided on controversial pardons and allowed the frequent use of an autopen to sign measures late in his term,” according to internal emails obtained by Axios.

“The messages are the latest signs of the chaos surrounding the 82-year-old former president during the final weeks of his administration, in two areas that are now being investigated by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.”

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Trump and Putin Find Common Ground on Joe Biden

August 17, 2025 · 1:06 pm ET · Leave a Comment

New York Times: “During their private meeting and their public appearance in Anchorage on Friday, both leaders blamed Mr. Biden for the war in Ukraine, never mind that Mr. Putin was the one who ordered troops to invade his neighbor and keeps authorizing strikes against civilian targets.”

“The Russian president complained that Mr. Biden did not accede to Russian demands before the full-scale invasion three and a half years ago, and he played to the current president’s ego by agreeing that the war would not have happened had Mr. Trump still been in office in 2022. By Mr. Trump’s account, Mr. Putin behind closed doors also endorsed the lie that Mr. Trump actually won the 2020 election, only to have it stolen by Democrats.”

Biden Legacy, Foreign Affairs

Biden’s Daughter Files for Divorce

August 12, 2025 · 10:48 am ET · Leave a Comment

Ashley Biden, the daughter of former president Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, filed for divorce from her husband, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Daily Beast: “Biden celebrated the move by posting a series of uplifting quotations and songs to her Instagram Stories. This included one featuring a photo of her walking through a park giving a thumbs up with Beyoncé’s ‘Freedom’ played over the top.”

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Ex-Biden Aide Says West Point Appointment Rescinded

August 1, 2025 · 7:22 am ET · Leave a Comment

Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Biden administration, said her appointment to a position at West Point was “unfortunately” rescinded, CBS News reports.

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Life After the White House

July 31, 2025 · 12:22 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“For more than five decades, Joe Biden’s existence was not only incredibly public but busy — his waking hours spent surrounded by a coterie of devoted aides and strategists, his calendar filled with speaking engagements and meetings, his home a bustling and buzzing swarm of activity,” Politico reports.

“Now, he’s on the other side of the mountain. And his life has entered a new phase that is quieter and smaller.”

“He’s staffed by only one or two aides and a small Secret Service detail. He holes up for hours at a time in Delaware working on his memoir with a new ghostwriter, while undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer. He flies commercial, with little of the luxury or exclusivity that is often associated with former heads of state.”

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Two Biden Aides to Testify on His Possible Mental Decline

July 30, 2025 · 8:00 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Two more of Joe Biden’s top White House aides are set to appear before the House Oversight Committee for scheduled interviews this week as part of the Republican-led panel’s intensifying investigation into the former president’s cognitive decline and possible efforts to conceal it from the public,” CNN reports.

“The committee has scheduled interviews with former Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti and former senior adviser Mike Donilon for Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. In a departure from some previous high-profile witnesses, the two have signaled they will voluntarily sit for them.”

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‘Top of His Game’

July 21, 2025 · 8:08 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Speaker Mike Johnson marked the one-year anniversary of former President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential campaign on Monday by sharing a 14 minute-long video of Democrats praising the former president’s mental acuity.

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

July 21, 2025 · 7:57 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Never have the words ‘no comment’ been more appropriate.”

— David Axelrod, quoted by the New York Times, when asked about Hunter Biden’s tirade against him.

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Bonus Quote of the Day

July 21, 2025 · 3:59 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“I know exactly what happened in that debate. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep, and he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights.”

— Hunter Biden, quoted by New York Magazine, explaining his father’s disastrous performance in his debate with Donald Trump.

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Top Biden Aide Pleads the Fifth

July 16, 2025 · 11:26 am ET · Leave a Comment

“A top Biden White House aide invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday morning in declining to cooperate with Republican-led efforts to investigate the former president’s mental acuity and use of the autopen,” Politico reports.

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Biden Says He Orally Made Clemency Decisions

July 13, 2025 · 9:48 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Former President Joe Biden is escalating his battle against Republican claims that he might not have been in control of high-profile clemency decisions issued under his name at the end of his term and, more generally, that his cognitive state impaired his functioning in office,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans ‘liars’ for claiming his aides had used an autopen to do so without his authorization.”

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GOP Lawmaker Says Biden Destroyed the Epstein Files

July 11, 2025 · 10:04 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said that he believes the Biden administration destroyed key files pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the Washington Examiner reports.

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Biden’s Doctor Refuses to Testify

July 9, 2025 · 11:05 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Kevin O’Connor, who served as Joe Biden’s physician while the former president was in office, is refusing to testify in a closed-door interview as part of the House GOP probe into Biden’s mental acuity,” Politico reports.

“O’Connor asserted doctor-patient privilege and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a statement from his attorneys. He had repeatedly argued his duties as a doctor complicated his testimony and prevented him from sharing some sensitive information.”

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How Insularity Defined the Last Stages of Biden’s Career

July 8, 2025 · 3:26 pm ET · Leave a Comment

New York Times: “The effort by Joe Biden’s inner circle to limit access to him helps explain why it took him more than three weeks to drop his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance.”

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