The White House now insists that it’s “disinformation” to say that President Biden wandered away from G7 leaders while watching parachutists. He wasn’t lost in his own senile world! He was just greeting another parachutist…and had to be dragged back to the rest of the group. Well, over the weekend, Biden allegedly had a similar moment when former president Barack Obama had to allegedly lead him off stage at a massive fundraiser for his campaign. So, what’s the truth? Glenn and Pat break it down. Plus, they also discuss the upcoming first Trump/Biden debate of the 2024 election: What are Trump’s real odds of winning? Will the White House juice up Biden? And why are they holding it before the parties’ presidential conventions?
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Remember the video of Joe Biden, you know, kind of wanderings off, and Prime Minister Maloney, going over and grabbing him and bringing him back in a very graceful way.
The White House has now come out and said, this is disinformation.
And there are stories everywhere about this. On how this is disinformation.
He was looking at some of the other parachutists, and he just wanted to go over and salute them and congratulate them. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true.
But it certainly is true, that he is not looking presidential. He is not paying attention. He is in his own little world.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: But they notice that they say, this is disinformation.
They say that to discredit anyone. Now, let me take it a step further. Over the weekend, there was a -- there was a fundraiser in California. In Los Angeles.
PAT: Huge.
GLENN: Yeah. Huge. And I think $50 million. Something like that. Jimmy Kimmel hosted it and Barack Obama was there with Joe Biden.
PAT: George Clooney. Julia Roberts. A bunch of stars. Yeah.
GLENN: At the end, Joe Biden is standing there with his hands kind of clenched a couple of times. But his hands -- and he was in that frozen lip sort of look. And when it comes time to leave the stage, Obama just reaches over and grabs Biden by the wrist and leads him off the stage. And it looks horrible, absolutely horrible. We can't show that video today, because it's something that all of us in the media are experiencing right now. Lawfare. We are being sued and everybody in our position are being sued if we play any clip. And, you know, it's weird. We don't get in trouble for playing clips that, you know, are neutral. Or don't have anything to do with anything, but, you know, Joe Biden. And the left.
We can't play them. And they're -- they're charging now. Like that clip is $600 for one -- one play. One play.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And I don't even know if that includes on the internet and replays and everything else.
So they're making it impossible, for to us show you clips, of things that happened.
PAT: That are all over the internet, by the way. They're all over -- we just can't talk about them. We can't do it.
I mean, we can talk about it. But we can't show it. The problem makes it worse, right?
GLENN: I think it does. I was just going to say that. I think it makes it much worse.
If I describe to you, Joe Biden on the stage, and he's in that pose. And he's just stiff, and his hands are clenched.
And Obama grabs him by the arm. Your imagination might make that worse, than it actually is.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: You might watch that and go, well, it's not that bad. But if we can't play it, you don't get to decide. And that's the point.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: You don't get to decide.
PAT: But Obama definitely grabs him by the wrist and starts leading him out, and then he smoothly kind of makes it like, oh, this is my good buddy, and puts him arm around him. And then he just pushes him off the stage. He just guides him the whole way.
GLENN: The whole time. The whole time.
PAT: And never -- never removes his arm from -- from Joe Biden's back.
It's amazing to watch. And I don't know how they explain that away. I'm sure they will just say, oh, they are just very close.
GLENN: Yeah. Barack does not like Joe Biden.
PAT: No. Not in a minute.
GLENN: There's something else. Is the debate on Thursday or Friday of this week?
PAT: It's a week from Thursday.
GLENN: A week from Thursday. I am reading so much that Donald Trump is just going to cream him and everything else.
I -- I would be very careful with your predictions on this. First of all, it -- it will higher expectations. So everybody will expect him to just make a clean sweep. And if he doesn't, then it looks like a loss for Donald Trump.
So be careful on the way you're being used.
PAT: Yeah. True.
GLENN: To talk about this.
And the other thing is, and we will find this out. Well, we won't. But our kids and grandkids will find out. I'm convinced that they juice him.
PAT: Oh, for sure. Just like they did for the State of the Union Address.
GLENN: Well, we don't know that for sure, but we speculate.
PAT: Yes. Yes.
GLENN: He comes out, and he is a different man entirely.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And, you know, they did this for JFK, and everything else.
And we didn't know about it, for 20 years. But, you know, just like Elvis and everybody else.
You have to perform. Let's get him to performance level, and they juice him up. And so he will be clear. I think he will actually do well. He will be clear. Donald Trump could also look like a bully, to this sweet little old man.
I mean, honestly
PAT: It's possible.
GLENN: You have no idea, how this thing is going to play out. No idea.
The question we should be asking is: Why are they doing it, before either of them are officially the candidate of their party?
PAT: Is your thought on that, that they could make a change if they decide to.
GLENN: I have no thought on it.
I have no thought on it. Other than, we're probably not going to get a debate before the election. And, you know, there's a million ways you can go. You know, if he doesn't do well. They can change him.
You know, if he gets worse in the next six months. They know what they're dealing with now.
But what will he be like in November? Look how fast this guy is deteriorating. So maybe it's that. I don't know.
But in my lifetime, Pat. I don't think I've ever seen a debate between the two candidates. In a presidential debate, before the two conventions.
PAT: No. I don't think it's happened. I think this is the earliest ever.
GLENN: Right. Right. So what is that all about?
Why is that happening?
PAT: It might be. Yeah. I think like you said. It could be a number of things.
But one of the things that I think is pretty obvious.
Is that if he performs badly. You have meant of time to recover from that. If this happens right before. Right before the election, and he performs terribly, like we expect him to.
Or so many of us do.
Then that hurts him.
But if it's six months before, you forget.
GLENN: Right. And if he does really, really well, like he did in the State of the Union.
I mean, I thought it was a horrible speech. And I disagreed with almost he went he ever said.
PAT: But perform better than I thought he would.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. He performed like he was there.
And if he performs like he is there, then they have that to go to all the time. Over and over again. No matter what he's like. You know. Because you cannot have. You can't have the performance of the State of the Union. And the performance in the rest of his life. You know, you just -- it doesn't -- they're juicing him with something. Something is happening.
To get him to that state. And I think he will be in that state.
Which everybody will say. Because they're expecting such a poor performance of him.
Oh, look. He's not as bad as everybody says.