Schuminations when the cheering stopped

New York Times reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater have written the forthcoming book Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress. The book includes an account of Chuck Schumer’s meeting with President Biden at Biden’s vacation mansion in Rehoboth Beach following his disastrous June 27 debate with Trump.

Today’s New York Times carries their story “‘I’m Urging You Not to Run’: How Schumer Pushed Biden to Drop Out.” Drawn from the book, their account provides the authorized version of Schumer’s schuminations on Biden’s absurd campaign for a second term. According to Karni and Broadwater, the conversation “was more pointed and emotional than previously known[.]”

Schumer was of course a voluble liar for Biden and the Democratic agenda. Confiding to Karni and Braodwater, he wants it to be known that he thought Biden was competent but destined to lose. Schumer’s lying continues with the credulous Times reporters. The authorized version of the story goes like this:

It was July 13, 2024, a humid summer afternoon just before four o’clock, and Mr. Schumer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, was about to make a blunt case to Mr. Biden that he needed to drop his bid for a second term.

If there were a secret ballot among Democratic senators, Mr. Schumer would tell the president, no more than five would say he should continue running. Mr. Biden’s own pollsters assessed that he had about a 5 percent chance of prevailing against Donald J. Trump, Mr. Schumer would tell him — information that was apparently news to the president. And if the president refused to step aside, the senator would argue, the consequences for Democrats and Mr. Biden’s own legacy after a half-century of public service would be catastrophic.

“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Mr. Schumer said. “But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures.”

He would end with a directive. “If I were you,” Mr. Schumer said, “I wouldn’t run, and I’m urging you not to run.”

This is almost funny:

For months, Mr. Schumer had been concerned that Mr. Biden was going to lose to Mr. Trump and cost Democrats Congress. It wasn’t that he thought Mr. Biden was not capable of the job. During their weekly conversations, the president often rambled, but he had always rambled. Once in a while, Mr. Biden would forget why he had called, but Mr. Schumer thought little of it. He was convinced that Mr. Biden could handle the job.

Yeah, I buy it completely. By Schumer’s lights, all was well with Biden. Schumer wasn’t lyin’ for Biden. He was only withholding a few details that might draw his alleged judgment into question.

And that’s apparently good enough for Schumer’s friends at the Times. The forthcoming Karni and Broadwater book may be the first of what will certainly be many books about the disgusting Biden edition of When the Cheering Stopped.

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