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Russia Today
7 hours ago
- General
- Russia Today
Trump promotes claim Biden was replaced by ‘robotic clone'
US President Donald Trump has shared on social media a claim that his predecessor, Joe Biden, was secretly executed and replaced by a 'robotic entity.'The original post, published by an anonymous user on Saturday afternoon, included a link to an article alleging that Biden's family feared they were 'running out of time to exploit' the former president following his cancer diagnosis.'There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. #Democrats don't know the difference,' the message read. Trump reposted it on his Truth Social platform hours later without comment. Biden, who has shown signs of cognitive decline for years, abruptly withdrew his candidacy from the 2024 presidential race after a disastrous debate performance that alarmed the Democratic Party. He named then-Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement, who subsequently lost to have long accused Democratic leadership of covering up Biden's mental and health issues during his presidency and reelection campaign. Last month, Biden revealed he had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that had spread to his their recently released book, Original Sin, journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios detailed how Biden's staff worked to conceal his decline from the public. The authors claimed that a 'Politburo' of Biden's family members and close aides were the real decision-makers during his term in office.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden's Cognitive Health
Former President Bill Clinton said former President Joe Biden was 'on top' of things when he was asked about Biden's alleged cognitive decline during an interview on 'CBS Sunday Morning.' While speaking with correspondent Tracy Smith, Clinton was asked about the bombshell book 'Original Sin' written by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios journalist Alex Thompson, which claims that Biden's aides covered up the politician's declining cognitive and physical health during his ill-fated reelection campaign. A Biden spokesperson acknowledged in a statement to Axios last month that 'there were physical changes as [Biden] got older,' but insisted that 'evidence of aging is not evidence of mental incapacity.' After Smith asked Clinton if he had ever had 'a moment with [Biden]' where he felt that he was 'unfit to run for president,' Clinton responded, 'No. I thought he was a good president.' 'The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?' Clinton continued, referring to Biden's age. 'We'd had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking 'he can't do this anymore.'' Clinton added: 'He was always on top of his briefs.' Smith then pressed Clinton, asking again if he ever witnessed any cognitive decline in Biden, prompting Clinton to firmly reply 'no.' Sharing that he saw Biden 'not very long ago,' Clinton said that he 'thought he was in good shape.' Clinton went on to reveal that he didn't read Tapper and Thompson's book because he believes that some people are using it as a 'way to blame' Biden for Trump being reelected for a second presidency term. 'I didn't want to because he's not president anymore, and I think he did a good job,' Clinton explained. 'And I think we are facing challenges today with our president in our history. Some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was reelected.' Biden's health was a major concern among voters while he was in the White House, particularly following his disastrous debate performance in June 2024 while seeking reelection. Biden eventually withdrew his candidacy for a second term, with then-Vice President Kamala Harris taking over as the democratic presidential nominee. Harris lost to Republican nominee Trump, who returned to the White House for a second term in January 2025. Last month, Biden announced that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The announcement subsequently sparked further questions about what health issues the former president was potentially battling while he was in the White House. Watch a clip from Clinton's interview on 'CBS Sunday Mornings' here. Biden On His Cancer Diagnosis: 'We're Going To Be Able To Beat This' Biden 'Proof Of Life' Presidency Plan Exposed In Explosive New Book: Author Jake Tapper Says Alleged Biden Cover-Up Is 'Maybe Even Worse' Than Historic DC Scandal
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden's Cognitive Health
Former President Bill Clinton said former President Joe Biden was 'on top' of things when he was asked about Biden's alleged cognitive decline during an interview on 'CBS Sunday Morning.' While speaking with correspondent Tracy Smith, Clinton was asked about the bombshell book 'Original Sin' written by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios journalist Alex Thompson, which claims that Biden's aides covered up the politician's declining cognitive and physical health during his ill-fated reelection campaign. A Biden spokesperson acknowledged in a statement to Axios last month that 'there were physical changes as [Biden] got older,' but insisted that 'evidence of aging is not evidence of mental incapacity.' After Smith asked Clinton if he had ever had 'a moment with [Biden]' where he felt that he was 'unfit to run for president,' Clinton responded, 'No. I thought he was a good president.' 'The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?' Clinton continued, referring to Biden's age. 'We'd had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking 'he can't do this anymore.'' Clinton added: 'He was always on top of his briefs.' Smith then pressed Clinton, asking again if he ever witnessed any cognitive decline in Biden, prompting Clinton to firmly reply 'no.' Sharing that he saw Biden 'not very long ago,' Clinton said that he 'thought he was in good shape.' Clinton went on to reveal that he didn't read Tapper and Thompson's book because he believes that some people are using it as a 'way to blame' Biden for Trump being reelected for a second presidency term. 'I didn't want to because he's not president anymore, and I think he did a good job,' Clinton explained. 'And I think we are facing challenges today with our president in our history. Some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was reelected.' Biden's health was a major concern among voters while he was in the White House, particularly following his disastrous debate performance in June 2024 while seeking reelection. Biden eventually withdrew his candidacy for a second term, with then-Vice President Kamala Harris taking over as the democratic presidential nominee. Harris lost to Republican nominee Trump, who returned to the White House for a second term in January 2025. Last month, Biden announced that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The announcement subsequently sparked further questions about what health issues the former president was potentially battling while he was in the White House. Watch a clip from Clinton's interview on 'CBS Sunday Mornings' here. Biden On His Cancer Diagnosis: 'We're Going To Be Able To Beat This' Biden 'Proof Of Life' Presidency Plan Exposed In Explosive New Book: Author Jake Tapper Says Alleged Biden Cover-Up Is 'Maybe Even Worse' Than Historic DC Scandal
Russia Today
19 hours ago
- Business
- Russia Today
The Biden years: When America started to resemble the late-stage USSR
It's been a while since we've heard much about Joe Biden, hasn't it? Yet here he is, back in the headlines – not because of some triumphant return to form, but for all the wrong reasons. The former US president has once again found himself at the center of national attention, thanks to a sequence of revealing and deeply troubling events. It began with Axios publishing the full audio of Biden's now-infamous interview with special prosecutor Robert Hur. The same interview in which Hur concluded that the then president suffered from serious memory issues. As the recording confirmed, he wasn't wrong. Biden struggled to recall basic facts – even the date his son died. Days later, another bombshell dropped: Biden had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The news barely had time to circulate before the release of Original Sin, a book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson, tore down what little remained of the White House facade. The authors didn't just suggest that Biden had declined mentally during his presidency. They asserted that he had not been governing at all. Instead, they described a 'Politburo' of family members and close aides who effectively ran the United States in his name. It's a term that will sound all too familiar to the Russian ear, and one that cuts deeper than many Americans might realize. For years, critics of the US establishment – especially abroad – have joked about the 'Washington Obkom', a reference to the old Communist Party regional committees of the Soviet Union. Today that comparison doesn't seem like satire. It feels like a diagnosis. It's especially ironic that these revelations are coming not from conservative firebrands or Russian media, but from the very liberal American outlets – CNN, Axios – that worked so hard in 2024 to prop up the Biden administration and conceal the cracks forming behind the curtain. But I'm less interested in their delayed honesty than in the questions Americans are now starting to ask. How did the United States, with all its checks and balances, end up with a gerontocratic shadow government? Why did Washington begin to resemble Moscow circa 1982? Let's start there. A gerontocracy emerges when the ruling elite can no longer tolerate change. In the USSR, it was the ageing leadership of the Communist Party that clung to power. In the US, it's the political generation that peaked in the 1990s and 2000s, the last so-called 'consensus' generation in American politics. Their grip on power outlasted their ideas. Though Democrats and Republicans had their differences, they broadly agreed on the same post-Cold War worldview. They ran the show for decades – until Donald Trump shattered that illusion in 2016. Trump's rise forced a reckoning. On the right, younger Republicans moved toward a more nationalist, populist agenda. On the left, Democrats tacked hard toward identity politics and expanded welfare, partly driven by their reliance on minority voting blocs and partly by the legacy of Barack Obama's progressive rhetoric. By the time Trump's first term ended, the American political elite faced a nightmare: if they handed power to the next generation, they risked total collapse. The establishment Republicans had already been steamrolled by Trump's base. Democrats feared the same fate if they embraced their more radical progressives. Their solution was to cling to the past. Enter Joe Biden, a relic of the consensus era, sold to voters as a unifying moderate. In reality, he was a placeholder. A human firewall designed to stop the rising tide on both sides. The hope was that a return to 'normal' would restore calm. Instead, it prolonged the crisis. Biden, like Brezhnev before him, became the living embodiment of a system unable to face reality. And now, as Americans look back on the Biden years, they are forced to reckon with the consequences of their denial. Power didn't disappear, it simply drifted into backrooms and family circles. Decision-making was outsourced to unaccountable figures behind the scenes. And the public was kept in the dark. Even Biden himself, we now know, was shielded from bad polling numbers. But the deeper lesson is more uncomfortable. Change comes whether you want it to or not. The US establishment tried to shut out the new generation. It only worked temporarily. Trump is back in power. Yes, he is old. But unlike Biden, he has surrounded himself with younger, dynamic figures who are already shaping the Republican Party's future. The Democrats, by contrast, have learned nothing. Despite their crushing defeat in 2024, the old leadership continues to resist renewal. And now it's costing them. Just recently, the Republicans passed Trump's major tax bill in the House of Representatives by a single vote. That vote was lost because Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly, aged 75, had passed away just before the session. He was the third Democrat to die in office this year. This morbid pattern hasn't gone unnoticed. Americans have begun to joke grimly that the Democratic Party is literally dying. And the punchlines, as dark as they may be, contain more truth than fiction. Washington is starting to resemble Brezhnev's Moscow – not just in age, but in inertia. In the end, the lesson isn't about personalities. It's about systems that refuse to adapt. Systems that cling to the past until the present falls apart. The 'Washington Obkom' may have seemed like a Russian jest once. It's not a joke anymore. This article was first published by the online newspaper and was translated and edited by the RT team
Fox News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
DAN GAINOR: May's 7 craziest stories
Perhaps we should stop calling the fifth month of the year May and just start calling it Maybe. Like Maybe CNN anchor Jake Tapper will be honest about how much he and his network covered up the Biden presidency. Or, Maybe things are getting better even though the press won't admit it. Tariffs and trade deals didn't end the economy, despite media rhetoric. That doesn't mean all is right with the world. It never is. But our friends on the left always say the sky is falling. Maybe they're just nuts. And that takes me into the land of crazy news. Here are seven reasons why last month May(be) crazy. 1. Irresistible: It's always a battle to see which major print outlet is the most ridiculously left-wing. The Washington Post, where democracy used to "die in darkness," has a strong claim. But the other major player is The New York Times and it's been that way pretty much my entire life. That's a long darn time. (Cut me open and count the rings.) Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger made news this month denying all that. Sulzberger claimed that Gray Lady is "not the resistance." That's like saying rain isn't wet and Tapper isn't egotistical. You can say it, but nobody should believe you. Instead, he didn't double down, he billioned down. "We are nobody's opposition. We're also nobody's cheerleader. Our loyalty is to the truth and to a public that deserves to know it," he pretended. After nearly a decade of attacks on The Donald, along with years pretending Biden ran the White House, Sulzberger's keyboard probably melted just typing that. 2. Bored in the USA: Aging pop stars like Bruce Springsteen keep their PR teams busy with nonstop drivel. Bruuuuuuce has been a lefty since before Ronald Reagan was in the White House. The Boss and a parade of similarly out-of-touch stars performed "No Nukes" concerts back in 1979. It's no surprise that now he's trying to make news bashing President Donald Trump. And, trying to profit from it. What's pathetic is how little effort he made. Like him or not, Springsteen has written some amazing lyrics. But his anti-Trump comments read like a 22-year-old's Huffington Post blog: "[T]the America I've written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration." Hardly up to snuff for the man who wrote, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?" The best part is he's selling a six-track EP with two of the tracks bashing Trump. From "Born to Run" to "Born to Resist." 3. Mask maker, mask maker…: The COVID pandemic reaction on left and right stems from foundational differences about how safe we expect to be. Safetyism is why lefties think it's good to censor speech online and off because words make them feel unsafe. Leftists worship infinite safety. Which takes me to one of my favorite former Washington Post staffers – Taylor Lorenz. That's because she is still obsessed with COVID. To hear her talk, we should all be living life like John Travolta when he played "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble." Her Bluesky feed is … special. "If you're not masking right now during an ongoing pandemic you should feel shame. In a just world you'd be socially ostracized for cavalierly killing and disabling people." she wrote. That included Lorenz, "celebrating FREE SPEECH at the PornHub awards!" while wearing a mask. And no, those aren't old comments. They're from this May. 4. CNN+ or minus?: We've all seen movies where they note the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. CNN, come on down. The lefty cable outfit is doing the Michael Keaton thing from "Multiplicity" and making copies of copies. CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced this month that the network is going to provide a "simple and centralized way" to get all their content. Naturally, you have to pay. According to The New York Times, "CNN's new service won't look like CNN+, its failed $300 million splashy foray into streaming that was stuffed with well-known news and entertainment personalities." In other words, they don't have any money, plan to do this on the cheap and are praying like crazy somebody will rain cash. Maybe they will if the network offers a Tapper-free tier. 5. Knock, knock, who's there?: In an era of AI videos, stories like this one scream tricks for clicks. Turns out, it's probably legit. Florida residents had unwelcome visitors – door-to-door gators. According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded after an alligator kept knocking on a door. The men in blue (or whatever gator-wrangling deputies wear) saw the "suspicious" alligator trying to get into a home. Now, I already view my neighbors to the south with caution because they let gators roam golf courses like eager caddies. But when your future pair of boots knocks on the door and wants in, I want out. That's how Chubbs Peterson lost his hand. ("Happy Gilmore," folks.) 6. Florida Man has competition: Readers of this column know I love animal stories – from gators to baby goats. This month, we've got a raccoon with a meth pipe. Shockingly, this story comes from Ohio, not Florida. Springfield Township Police Department found Chewy the raccoon gnawing on the end of a meth pipe. As Mike Gavin from NBC New York put it, "No, the raccoon will not be charged with drug possession." Acting on the tip from Chewy, police searched the vehicle and the driver "was charged with three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and cited for driving under suspension." Raccoons, taking a bite out of crime! 7. Size matters: Before Antifa loons started ripping down statues, leaving your mark on the world with a statue in your honor was a sign of import. From the Pietà to the Lincoln Memorial, some of the greatest works of art honor famous people looking their best. Others are iconic and stand for freedom, like the Statue of Liberty. Then there's "Grounded in the Stars," by artist Thomas J Price. It's a temporary bronze statue in Times Square of a 12-foot-tall Black woman looking kind of … plump. Now, as a man of some girth, I might have let this one fade into well-deserved obscurity, except the official Times Square website's description of Grounded in the Stars bashed the two great men who have permanent statues there: "Installed at ground level on a wide low base, the work invites engagement with the hundreds of thousands of people who traverse the plazas each day, the woman in Grounded in the Stars cuts a stark contrast to the pedestaled permanent monuments — both white, both men — which bookend Duffy Square, while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur." "Both white, both men," like that's somehow a bad thing. The two figures are famed Army Chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy, the author of "You're a Grand Old Flag," and, none other than himself, George M. Cohan. Price was just doing his own version of tearing down statues. He failed.
