Less than two weeks remain in Joe Biden’s lame duck presidency, but the 82 year old has been busy making his final rounds.
His increased time in the public eye has led to increased scrutiny over his mental acuity as two incidents over the weekend raised concerns about his health. All the while, supporters on the left continue to claim Biden is – and has always been – fit for office.
On Monday’s show, Megyn was joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s System Update, to discuss Biden’s bizarre behavior and how the American people have been misled.
The Outburst
At an event at the White House on Sunday night, Biden launched into an explicit tirade against a group of reporters. As Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson reported, the president took a few questions from the press after signing the Social Security Fairness Act.
“Do you still believe he’s a threat to democracy?” a reporter asked in reference to President-elect Donald Trump.
“I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy,” Biden responded, seemingly in relation to the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
After another question about Trump and his position on birthright citizenship, Biden changed the topic to go after the reporters instead. “I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole goddamn life,” he scolded.
After the remarks started making its way around social media, Megyn said her team looked into the full context of the outburst but it provided no further clarity. In Greenwald’s view, it is just another sign of Biden’s cognitive decline.
“We all have this experience, I think, where somebody in our family or somebody beloved by someone close to us ends up in the last stages of their life… experiencing various forms of dementia,” he noted. “You talk to any caregiver in a nursing home, and they will tell you that male patients, in particular, as they get older, start doing very inappropriate things. They lose sense of their boundaries, but also they just can’t follow a conversation any longer, and they get very grumpy and, at the same time, almost aggressive.”
The Awkward Handshake
To Greenwald’s point about boundaries, the explicit outburst came on the heels of another awkward moment at the White House. On Thursday, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) was one of 20 Americans Biden honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
When Cheney went up to accept her award, Biden grabbed her by the hand and basically never let go (you can watch the moment in the video above).
“Joe Biden doesn’t know when to let go of any female in his presence,” Megyn said. “He’s got her by the hand, and she is kind of like, ‘Give me my award.’ She tries to pull away. He won’t let go of the hand. At one point, she actually does roll her eyes. She still doesn’t have the award. He is still holding on to it. And I don’t know exactly what is going on here, but it is probably further evidence of the president’s decline.”
The Cover-Up
All the while, supporters of the president like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend are still defending his competency. During an appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend claimed Biden “is great mentally” and, on the question of whether he is “all the way there,” said the answer is “unequivocally yes!”
Greenwald said Democrats were perfectly happy to continue to prop-up Biden through the 2024 election until his own behavior on the CNN debate stage in June made it impossible to do so. “I think it’s really worth pausing to think about if Joe Biden had been re-elected… as the Democratic Party was intending for him to be, he would have four more years in this state,” he noted. “He already doesn’t know where he is. He has no compartmental self control. He doesn’t understand what is being said to him.”
And yet the left has effectively been telling the American public not to believe their lying eyes. “The media and Democrats have spent not just years, but even more so over the last 12 months heading into the election, vehemently insisting that Joe Biden has never been sharper, that he is smarter than everybody in the room… and they continue to say it,” Greenwald concluded. “The lie that they told about Joe Biden’s mental capacity when they thought they needed him to be reelected is such a foundational lie to our democracy, and so many of them were complicit in it.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Greenwald by tuning in to episode 976 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.