Biden Family Illusion: How Jill and Hunter Propped Up a Failing Presidency

Once upon a time, back in the hazy mists of July 2023, before the 2024 presidential campaign got fully underway, my esteemed colleague Charles C. W. Cooke wrote a column for National Review about how “Joe Biden Is a Jerk” — actually, er, when you click through to the piece, Charlie tells you how he really feels:

It’s an excellent piece that resonates even more deeply now — in retrospect, its only flaw is that he could have expanded upon it. To support his argument, Charlie cited then-current reporting from Axios’s Alex Thompson, who during those years undermined the myth of “avuncular Grandpa Joe” with multiple stories about Biden’s visible mental and physical decline that cut against the grain of complaisant silence from the media about the issue. Uncoincidentally, Thompson happens to now be the coauthor of the most talked-about political book of the moment.

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Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.

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Once upon a time, back in the hazy mists of July 2023, before the 2024 presidential campaign got fully underway, my esteemed colleague Charles C. W. Cooke wrote a column for National Review about how “Joe Biden Is a Jerk” — actually, er, when you click through to the piece, Charlie tells you how he really feels:

It’s an excellent piece that resonates even more deeply now — in retrospect, its only flaw is that he could have expanded upon it. To support his argument, Charlie cited then-current reporting from Axios’s Alex Thompson, who during those years undermined the myth of “avuncular Grandpa Joe” with multiple stories about Biden’s visible mental and physical decline that cut against the grain of complaisant silence from the media about the issue. Uncoincidentally, Thompson happens to now be the coauthor of the most talked-about political book of the moment.

JB

About the Author

Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.