The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Joe Biden 'Now They Tell Us' Phenomenon

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

Why is it that reports of former President Joe Biden’s failing mental acuity are just now coming out? Victor Davis Hanson asks this question on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “I don't know if you've noticed, everyone, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, they all knew about Joe Biden's dementia. Suddenly we're given all of these revealing quotes that he was completely physically and mentally unfit to carry out the oath of office. But we all knew that. “Why all of a sudden are we no longer crazy that Joe Biden was not fit as a fiddle, that the quarantine was a mess, that Brett Kavanaugh was not a rapist or sexual assaulter, that there's more to January 6th than we're told? And I could go on and on about these 11th-hour revelations." Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I want to talk today about this suddenly, this sudden phenomenon of now they tell us. I don't know if you've noticed everyone that Joe Biden was not fit as a fiddle, that the quarantine was a mess, that Brett Kavanaugh was not a rapist or sexual assaulter, that there's more to January 6th than we're told. And I could go on and on about these 11th hour revelations. All of these things demand the question, why now? Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. I want to talk today about this suddenly, this sudden phenomenon of now they tell us.

I don't know if you've noticed everyone. The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, they all knew about Joe Biden's dementia. Suddenly we're given all of these revealing quotes that he was completely physically and mentally unfit to carry out the oath of office. But we all knew that. People had been writing about it. And yet when you wrote about it, you were called a cheap face. acre. You were agist. And now they're just telling us, no, it was all a cover-up. It was all a conspiracy. You were right all along, you people. He was demented and challenged. Francis Collins at the National Institute of Health, he's now coming out, and he has for a long time, but especially recently in saying, you know, maybe that lockdown wasn't such a good idea. That was the lockdown

that destroyed almost the middle class. You attach infinite value to stop. Stopping the disease and saving a life, you attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite require. Collateral damage. So there you, yeah, collateral damage. It led to miscancer screenings, spousal abuse, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, suicides, all because we shut down in an unprecedented fashion our entire society, not just the economy, but the culture, the social. social life, the political life. And now we're told by the architects of that failed policy that we're kind of sorry. Then there's Joe Biden himself. He's now openly saying that he doesn't like what Merrick Garland did vis-a-vis Donald Trump. But he doesn't mean I'm shocked that I weaponized

the Department of Justice. What he's saying is that he wished that Merrick Garland had gone after Trump more vigorously and earlier. words that lawfare wasn't enough. Well, why didn't he say that six months ago? Why didn't he say that right during the campaign? At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice, and we can talk your ear-off about transferring your business when the time comes. Because at Desjardin business, we speak the same language you do. Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk business.

But he didn't. Then we have this reporter, maybe some of you remember him, probably not, David Erle, from the New York Times, he co-authored a number of hit pieces on Brett Kavanaugh way back during the Kavanaugh hearings. Now he's coming out in a letter to Mark Judge, who was one of the targets of his hit pieces. I kind of feel. bad sort of maybe, maybe we went a little bit overboard. Maybe we shouldn't have dug up things that may or may not have been true about Judge Kavanaugh and he was 17, 18. Maybe that was a bit much. And then we were getting a whole other group of what we call it data dumps about the FBI and January 6th. So not long ago, we were told, well, yes, there was informants, but actual agents,

maybe very few, just informants, and some of them probably wanted to go there anyway, but yes, there were informants. I remember Matthew Rosenberg for the New York Times had told us that. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who had covered January 6th, and he said it was all kind of cooked up, the sensationalism. That was an ambush interview by James O'Keefe, but nevertheless, it was an admission that the hysteria had got out of control, and now we're learning. that the FBI admits there were informants, and more importantly, they just released videos of the supposedly non-existent, not really kind of maybe a bomber who put these explosive devices in front of the DNC and the RNC in which we were told. We weren't told anything. We weren't giving videos,

but the implication and the leaks to the media was that this was some hyper-Trump partisan. All of these things demand the question, why now? Why all of a sudden are we no longer crazy, that Joe Biden was not fit as a fiddle, that the quarantine was a mess, that Brett Kavanaugh was not a rapist or sexual assaulter, that there's more to January 6th than we're told. And I could go on and on about these 11th hour revelations. It's either A, they're afraid there's going to be an accounting very quickly from the Trump administration, and they know that they had done things that were not just ethical but perhaps illegal. Number two, it also could be that in time, and they are opportunists, most of these people that I talk about, they see the national mood changing that we're at peak

woke and the reputation of the FBI or the NIH or journalism in general is at an all-time NADIR. or maybe it's something even more dramatic, like if I were Donald Trump and his team, and we had lied and done all of these things, and I was now in power, I know what I would do to people like myself. So it's a projection that they have a feeling of culpability and exposure, and now they're trying to get everything out before there's an accounting. Whatever the reason is, it's quite amusing in a tragic way, fun. Thank you very much.

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