Joe Biden
May 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Dr. Jill Biden is back in the news with her forthcoming memoir of husband Joe Biden’s presidency. In it she recalls her husband’s catastrophic debate with Donald Trump in June 2024. Dr. Jill purports to have been concerned that Joe was “having a stroke” during the debate. In an interview with CBS News to be aired this coming Sunday, she relates, “I was frightened, because I had never ever seen
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March 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Rita Panahi Show, with Caroline Marcus filling in for Rita. We talked about the war in Iran, reports of possible drone attacks on California, whether Jill Biden’s memoir will give us the straight story of her husband’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, whether illegal immigration should be a crime, and more. The video below leads off with Lefties Losing It. I come on at
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January 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Increasingly, eyes are on the midterm elections. Democrats are confident because the “out” party nearly always gains in the midterms, and they see Donald Trump as an unpopular president against whom they can run. Are they right? Rasmussen polls likely voters continuously and with consistent methodology and is therefore a good barometer. Its surveys document President Trump’s decline. This is his approval rating, on a three-day rolling basis. It currently
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December 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday, the FBI delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee emails relating to the search of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Senator Charles Grassley has released what I take to be all of the responsive documents. Comments you may have seen on the emails are correct: the FBI didn’t think there was probable cause to search Trump’s home, but Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice insisted. The FBI thought they should communicate with
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December 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Gabriella Power hosts the Power Hour on Sky News Australia. I was on her show yesterday. We talked about the exploding Tim Walz scandals, Kamala Harris’s retrospective on her VP choice, President Trump’s halt on Third World immigration, Trump’s revocation of Biden’s “autopen orders,” whether the Seditious Six face legal peril, and the current state of peace negotiations in Ukraine. I make no comment on my own performance, but Ms.
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November 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Dick Cheney’s funeral was yesterday, in Washington. Cheney was a fine man and an excellent public servant. His politics were moderate, but while he was vice president, and for years afterward, he was denounced by liberals as a fascist and commonly referred to as “Darth Vader.” Of course, he served under BushHitler, so that was only natural. His funeral told a different story. It was attended, by invitation, by Kamala
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October 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Those were the topics I covered last night on the Rowan Dean Show on Sky News: the partial government shutdown and what caused it, Secretary Hegseth’s anti-woke reforms, the latest revelations about Joe Biden’s mental incapacity, and–very briefly–Bad Bunny as a Super Bowl halftime performer. Quotable quote, regarding the shutdown: “Basically, the Democrats are trying to bully the Republicans into giving up their electoral majorities.”
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October 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
To hear the Democrats tell it, the policies of the Trump administration have been a catastrophic failure and Americans are in a state of near-revolt. But the truth is more or less the opposite. Today Rasmussen published charts comparing approval of President Joe Biden with that of President Trump. These are monthly averages, so daily ups and downs are smoothed out: President Trump is markedly more popular than Joe Biden
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September 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Rita Panahi Show with guest host Danica De Giorgio. It was a long segment by television standards, and we covered a number of topics, some serious, some not so serious. The subjects include the ICE shooting in Texas, illegal immigration in Europe, Jimmy Kimmel, Emanuel Macron calling President Trump on the phone when he was blocked in Manhattan traffic, campus security as reflected in
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September 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I know, that is a very high bar to get over. But consider: why did Joe Biden pardon more people, by a wide margin, than any other president? Documents have come to light that suggest Biden pardoned thousands, some of whom were violent criminals and most of whom had no apparent grounds for clemency, because he was being criticized for pardoning his degenerate partner in crime, his son Hunter. So
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September 9, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Zerohedge notes, 2 million jobs from the last 3 years of the Biden admin have now been revised away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued a report today revising job totals from 2024 through March 2025 down by a massive 911,000. The BLS published a table showing the downward revisions by industry. Two industries actually showed modest gains. You will not be surprised that the figures for “government” hardly
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September 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Alex Thompson’s Axios story “Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen” is in the Axiotic form, but is not what I have come to call Axiotic. It seems to me to contribute to our understanding of the late Politburo regency period of the alleged Biden administration. It adds some disgraceful factual background to what we have come to understand of one disgraceful component of a disgraceful
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August 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Bill Glahn took up Charles Gasparino’s New York Post story of President Trump’s “debanking” by JPMorgan and Bank of America here earlier this week. As Gasparino tells it, I call it debanking à la Biden. It’s quite a story — a sort of adjunct to the story of Biden’s lawfare against Trump. The Wall Street Journal covered a related story in “White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate
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August 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night Joe Biden spoke before an event sponsored by a black lawyers’ association in Chicago. You can see him in the clip below. In terms of content, it was typical Biden: hateful and fact-free. Just one anti-Trump smear after another, “without evidence” as the papers like to say. But content aside, he was hardly able to read the teleprompter. He is feeble and barely functional. If he had been
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July 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Biden’s former White House physician — one Kevin O’Connor refused on Wednesday to answer questions as part of the House Republican investigation into Biden’s health in office. According to O’Connor’s own attorney and others, O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee. Short story even shorter — like Melville’s Bartleby, he would prefer not to. National Review’s James Lynch reports here, the AP
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July 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Biden administration worked hard to conceal the president’s declining mental faculties. During the 2020 presidential campaign, the authorities running Biden’s campaign — those who knew him “up close and personal” — largely confined him to the basement. They did so to conceal what John Hinderaker referred to as Biden’s “dementia,” both during the 2020 campaign and after he became president. In 2021, we were contacted by NewsGuard to ask
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June 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Israel’s current hostilities with Iran may not be entirely over yet, but the end is in sight. We can say with some confidence that the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program has been set back substantially. I would add: Barack Obama hardest hit. With the JCPOA, Obama sought to facilitate it, legalize it, protect it, and fund it. He wanted Iran to have a nuclear weapons. He seems to have thought
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