Jay Weber Show transcript 5-20-25
You know- there’s a category of left-wing reporter and pundit that we haven’t talked about yet-
And i would put these people in the same category of democrat voter- who we haven’t talked about yet: that group of people who are so loyal to their own party and its leaders that they-genuinely-feel betrayed by the news Biden’s team lied to them for four years about his mental decline.
And I know what you are saying: come on, they had to see it.
But denial-and rationalization-are two powerful human reactions that we use for self-preservation...and to confirm our own biases about the world...
And so... I have no doubt that some of these reporters and voters simply didn’t ‘see it’...or simply ‘didn’t want to believe it’ ...and so they took the Biden White House excuses-and the media gaslighting- at face value.
They-really thought-that the rest of us were just smearing joe Biden, unnecessarily.
I must put Obama-era loyalist Van Jones in this camp-after hearing him this weekend. Van jones worked for Obama and Biden in their first term. Knows them both, personally, but- only from that professional distance. It’s not like van jones was part of an ‘inner circle’. He was one of many second or third-tier White House staffers-
And so- he wouldn’t have had an occasion to see Joe Biden up close over the last six years or so.
And – Van Jones seems sincerely ‘stung’ and duped, here.
Jones is a smart guy. A savvy pundit. And he’s a more honest pundit than most who sit on these cable news sets. He’s also normally a guy who I would put in the ‘he lied along with the rest of them for four years’.... category.
But i think we also need to leave room for the democrat loyalists who...legitimately didn’t see it.
Now-every single ‘journalist’ should have seen it. Every single Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper and Kristen Welker should have seen it-because they are paid to be observant and skeptical.
There are-zero excuses-for journalists and anchors, here.
There are also- zero excuses-for Biden staffers who saw him every day-like Karine jean Pierre and Jen Psaki. They clearly had to see it and lied.
But- I will reserve room for the ‘blind loyalists’...and the term is self-explanatory. The term exists for a reason: there are clearly some democrats who were ‘so loyal’ to the daily party talking points and the people in charge of their party that they didn’t see it.
And friends?Those- those-are the people who the democrats need to the most worried about now: how PO’d are these people-at you lying liars who did nothing but lie to them- and betray their trust?
That! Is what threatening to keep this democrat party in the wilderness-right thru 2028.
I’m telling yah: the biggest reason that no one believes Joe Biden’s prostate cancer was ‘just discovered’ is that the Bidens and his team have done nothing but lie to us for five years.
And so- why would we believe them in this thing?
A lot of time was consumed yesterday on the cable shows and social media- with ‘when the diagnosis really came down’......and why won’t most of us take the Bidens at their word...and it was just discovered.
Well-come on.When all you do is lie and deceive people for years on end- why would we take anything out of our mouth at ‘face value’ now?
I wouldn’t believe joe or Jill Biden if they told me, it was Tuesday. Nor would I believe Jake Tapper or Chuck Todd. I’d have to check the calendar.
But do you expect me to take Biden’s statement on his prostate cancer at face value?
Come on.
This entire group of people-from the Bidens and their inner white house circle- radiating out to nearly every sitting democrat congressman, senator, and governor.... radiating out to nearly every so-called news reporter and editor-
They all lied to us and gaslit us for years. Especially when it came to joe Biden’s health! Right?
But now they’re going to slander us for questioning the sincerity and specifics of the prostate diagnosis?
Come on.
Doing so is just an extension of the same sort of bullying they’ve been doing for five years now: these people-as a group-intentionally closed ranks and slanders and smeared and viciously attacked anyone who would question Biden’s mental or physical frailty.
Is it any surprise that no one trusts them now? And will assume they are lying to us?
At some point you’re just an idiot if you believe anything that comes out of their mouths.
And getting back to that group of democrats who were genuinely duped......oh, man....
The people who defended Biden and the democrat lies- the most forcefully and loyally- are now learning they were manipulated and used.
You can tell Van Jones feels like a jackass, himself, if you watch that whole segment.
And the dems in charge are now going to flip around and insist that those very same people-who are feeling so betrayed- need to vote for them again? Work on their campaigns again? Act as an army of ‘enforcers and bullies on social media for them again?
That’s quite a thing to ask.
I saw someone yesterday lamenting that. Quote...tons of reporters and democrats stuck their necks out for Biden, and they all got proven to be liars and dupes.
Yes. That’s true.
But I’d point out ‘reporters’ shouldn’t even be in that sentence: reporters are supposed to be unbiased and skeptical observers...not loyalists. Not people ‘sticking their necks out’ for one side of the political aisle or the other-
And so-they deserve all the scorn and loss of credibility that they are enduring here.
And as for the question of when Biden was diagnosed and whether he and dr. Jill and the team have been lying for years about it-
Of course they have.
I got a few emails from people yesterday saying, well, that PSA test can be wrong. It’s not infallible. Some cases are ‘caught late’.
Yes. Okay. But Biden had some of the best doctors this country had to offer- monitoring his health far more closely-and far more often-than the rest of us see our doctors...or are being monitored.
There’s no way they missed this. Flat out.
And sadly, one side effect of this new lie showed itself yesterday, as people started to question and smear the white house doctors: why didn’t they catch this? Why didn’t they catch this?
Well-they had to know about it. Either they were told not to report PSA levels...or they were told not to test for it so it wouldn’t show up on records-but there’s an explanation for why there are records on bush’s, Obama’s, and trump’s PSA levels at Walter reed-but not Biden’s.
So... we have got to blame the doctors here? Because we got to take the Bidens at their word as to when they found out about it.
Not a chance. They are relentless and congenital liars. Both.
Their only goal- only goal- was to cling to power and the positions they have.
Listen to Tom Bevan of real clear politics who reminds us that- if not for the terrible debate- this mental and physical ‘train wreck’ of a man would still oversee the country and proverbial ‘leader of the free world’.
TOM BEVAN: Audio is always worse than the transcription. Video is easily worse than audio, but we don’t have that. Clearly, this just shows another example of—remember when this report came out, how Robert Hur was attacked? I know someone who knows Robert Hur, and they said this guy has a sterling reputation.
They attacked him, smeared him, and kept this from the American public. This administration kept this audio from the American public—just another example of how we were lied to. Everyone is calling this a cover-up—it wasn’t a cover-up, and we knew it was happening. It was gaslighting of the highest order by the administration and media, who in large part went along with it, and it was all the way through.
GUY BENSON, FOX NEWS: Tom, what strikes me here is the timeline. This was an October interview that happened in 2023, and then the debate, the famous debate with Donald Trump, happened in June of 2024. That’s a long time in between. The report from Hur was put out in the interim, and everyone jumped all over him, savaging Robert Hur, savaging his reputation and pillorying him. Then the debate happened, and they were like, “Whoa! We had no idea a debate could happen like this.” They all knew, and anyone who saw the October 2023 interview or many other instances had already seen that Joe Biden for years.
TOM BEVAN: We've got reporting going back to 2020 or even before that, showing examples of Joe Biden’s decline. What’s most infuriating is, you and I and everyone watching this show—had Joe Biden not fumbled so badly or failed on that debate stage, this charade would still be going on. He might have potentially won, he could still be in office right now, given the circumstances.
And even after dropping out, he was the President of the United States for six more months. It’s not an exaggeration—it’s the biggest political scandal in American history, certainly for the last 50 or 60 years, and there’s a lot more reckoning that needs to come along.
GUY BENSON: Yeah, and the audio playing, after that day, that man continued to be, at least nominally, President of the United States for nearly 500 more days as the lies were just all over the place. Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan, the former Biden National Security Adviser, just recently claimed he didn't know any of this, “I was totally stunned by what happened at that debate.” Well, apparently, the President misidentified him multiple times, calling Jake Sullivan “Steve.” Sullivan says he doesn’t really remember that, but how do you forget that?
TOM BEVAN: I don’t think we’ve ever had—Donald Trump gets dinged for lying about this or that and exaggerating -- I don’t think we have ever had an administration with more contempt for the American people than the Biden administration. From day one, telling us, “Don’t believe your lying eyes at the border, it’s not a crisis,” on and on, along with Biden’s mental fitness.
We can’t take Jake Sullivan or anyone close to him at their word. They have lied before, they shouldn't have any credibility when they say something that clearly doesn't pass the smell test with most folks.
By the way, Jake Sullivan was one of those unelected bureaucrats in the White House running things while Joe Biden was doing whatever Joe Biden was doing, whether at the beach or wasn’t there. That was something that people want to know: Who’s running the country? Well, Jake Sullivan was one of them, and he needs to be held to account for that.
I agree with that, basically: we’ll see what new information is released on crossfire hurricane: i see the Obama White House and FBI trying to rig the 2016 election as the biggest presidential scandal in our lifetime-but covering up an entire four years of dementia and ill health- probably outdoes it- yes.
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