How Stupid Does Jill Biden Think We Are? Update on Newark ICE Center: Detainees Go on Hunger Strike. ‘Trans’ Athlete Awaits SCOTUS Ruling by Winning More Women’s Competitions. And More
Pretty stupid if Doc Biden’s interview with Rita Braver of CBS is any indication:
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance and thought he was having a stroke.
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday on CBS.
“I don’t know what happened,” she said. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
But not so scared that she rushed Joe to Walter Reed. Instead, she cooed to the befuddled old man about how well he had done on the debate stage. The most incredulity-provoking claim Jill made was that she had never previously seen Joe act that way and hasn’t since. Golly, I have—haven’t you? Reporters at the Wall Street Journal certainly had noticed Biden’s decline—they wrote” How the White House Functioned with a Diminished Biden in Charge” in December of 2024.
An editorial in the New York Post argues that in the interview, Jill Biden just admitted to a scandal of historic proportions:
The most shocking thing about Jill Biden divulging that she thought her husband, the president of the United States, was having a stroke during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump, is that she so casually says this during a television interview two years later.
She’s admitting to a crime against the American people — and expecting sympathy for it.
This is on the level of Edith Wilson running the government while Woodrow Wilson was bedridden.
It is a scandal of historic proportions.
Thought Experiment: Are you more likely to compare Jill Biden to Edith Wilson (as above) or to, say, Lady Macbeth? Meanwhile, whether he knows it or not, Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department to block the release of the former President speaking at length to a biographer.
The full CBS interview, done in conjunction with the June 2 release of her new book, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” airs Sunday. Expect soul-searching honesty. One More CBS Note: Sharyn Alfonsi, who went out of her way to pick a fight with boss Bari Weiss, will exit “60 Minutes.” Alfonsi has no intention of going quietly. How much do you care?
The MSM got itself in a pickle by refusing to notice Joe Biden’s precipitous decline because now their fervid speculations about President Trump’s health ring hollow. USA TODAY columnist Nicole Russell is onto the MSM’s shenanigans with Trump’s health. We see President Trump all the time, and, while we aren’t all fortunate enough to have a medical degree like Jill Biden, we have eyes. We saw Trump conduct a big ol’ Cabinet meeting yesterday, all by himself, something poor old Joe simply could not do.
The U.S. Military is conducting new strikes on Iran. A Wall Street Journal news story asks, “How Long Can Iran Withstand the Economic Pain of the U.S. Blockade?” Their situation is dire:
Already, the blockade has choked off oil export revenue and raised the risk that Iran will have to shut down wells as it runs out of places to store crude. Iranian officials are urging people to conserve fuel, electricity and water—a sign that the economic squeeze is spreading from oil terminals and factories into daily life. Critical industries have been damaged. More than a million Iranians have been left out of work as the national currency falls to record lows.
President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting yesterday that Iran was “negotiating on fumes.” Frequent Iran updates at Fox Digital. Several pro-U.S. nations are stepping up (here and here).
Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, continues to be a glam gathering spot for New Jersey’s liberal political establishment. Townhall captures the scene:
Another day, another leftist riot for murderers and sex offenders. After obstructing law enforcement, ICE agents are arresting Antifa activists and leftists outside of Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
Townhall introduces some of the detainees in Delaney Hall, and it’s safe to say nobody sane would want to come into contact with them. They are reportedly on a hunger strike. It is essential to treat detainees in a humane fashion, but I think Republican state Rep. Paul Kanitra might be onto something when she cruelly suggests that illegals have no entitlement to five-star accommodations.
The female-identifying male athlete at the center of a Title IX case before the Supreme Court found time to defeat more women athletes while waiting for the ruling:
Transgender athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson won a girls’ state championship in West Virginia this week, before the U.S. Supreme Court could make a ruling on whether the state can ban Pepper-Jackson from competing against females….
The Supreme Court appears ready to rule in favor of West Virginia against Pepper-Jackson with the expected June ruling looming. But that looming will do nothing for the girls who were impacted on Saturday.
“What has already happened by putting West Virginia’s law on hold as it applies to West Virginia in the B.P.J case is that girls have already been harmed,” Beecher added. “When you ignore differences between boys and girls, and between males and females, a lot of the harm falls on girls.”
The dust is beginning to settle after the Texas electoral earthquake. A RealClear Politics story by Caroline Lumetta suggests that the Ken Paxton victory over longtime incumbent Senator John Cornyn is the beginning of a remaking of the GOP:
In addition to showcasing Trump’s endorsement weight, the runoff election results also exposed the weakness of the Senate Republican establishment. For months, National Republican Senate Committee chair Tim Scott took to the morning news shows extolling Cornyn’s virtues while insisting that he was the key to keeping Texas safely red. The NRSC posted lists of Paxton’s various personal and professional scandals, as Cornyn called his opponent an embarrassment.
Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter urges readers to “Savor Our Victory Over the Establishment,” which the Paxton win represents, while Hugh Hewitt warns the GOP that it could lose the Senate if it doesn’t stop the infighting:
The entire Texas GOP will need to get behind [Paxton] quickly, and Paxton will need Cornyn’s half-million runoff voters and his financial supporters. The whole GOP will need to swing behind Paxton, even though Cornyn is respected and admired by longtime conservatives like me who value his knowledge of the Constitution, his work on the Judiciary Committee in every tough fight there over decades, and his tenure as GOP whip. But party loyalists have to know that ours is a two-party system and Winston Churchill’s admonition, “Trust the people!” applies in every fair contest.
Party Pooper. Karl Rove offers “The GOP’s Five Paxton Problems.” Rove says the GOP’s failure to repay Senator Cornyn for his loyalty was a mistake.
Financial Round Up. Kevin Warsh is now the Fed Chair, and David Malpass writes that he will face resistance to reform from colleagues eager to protect their turf in an op-ed headlined “Why the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Needs to Shrink.” … An intriguing Wall Street Journal op ed explains how only booming capitalism allows New York Mayor Mamdani to fiddle with the pension system. Which might not be a good idea in the long run. … Wow! Vice President Vance’s fraud task force just received powerful reinforcements:
The federal agency that oversees more than $126 billion in federal contracts is joining Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force, expanding the White House crackdown into the federal government’s contracting system.
We’re often told by activists that when parolees end up back in prison, the poor dears were just victims of technicalities. Not so, according to “The Hidden Crimes of Parolees” in City Journal:
If they committed a crime, though, why are these individuals reimprisoned on the basis of a technical violation? Why not charge a crime and seek a conviction?
The candid answer: it’s faster, easier, and more likely to pay off for prosecutors to send someone back to prison through a parole-violation hearing rather than through the courts. The parole hearing is held before representatives of the parole board, without any need to seat a jury, and the standard of proof is lower (“preponderance of the evidence,” not “beyond a reasonable doubt”).
