Excerpt: 'Biden-Harris Betrayal: Weak and Woke on the World Stage'

By John Ullyot 
Real Clear Wire

Note: The following is an excerpt from RealClearPublishing's new book, "The Biden-Harris Betrayal: Weak and Woke on the World Stage" by John Ullyot.

I first met Joe Biden over a quarter century ago when I was a senior aide in the US Senate, and then-Senator Biden was halfway through his 50-year tenure in Washington. Although a Democrat, he was close friends with my two Republican bosses, Senators John Warner and Arlen Specter. (I am a Marine veteran and later served as spokesman for the National Security Council and a Deputy Assistant to President Trump in the White House.)

I worked closely with some of Senator Biden’s longest-serving aides and spent many occasions with him in Green Rooms of Sunday network talk shows. I even navigated the bowels of the Capitol basement one year with him and my boss to escape the usual media scrum following the State of the Union address. As Vice President, Biden delivered the eulogy at Senator Specter’s funeral, taking time off the campaign trail only weeks before a close re-election bid with President Obama to honor a close colleague from across the political aisle.

In that era, despite a history of plagiarism and a penchant for self-inflation, Biden was a lucid politician with a confident mien who, as a moderate in his party, enjoyed broad appeal, so much so that then-candidate Obama chose him as his running mate in what at the time appeared to be a competitive election for the nation’s highest office.

Unfortunately for Biden and the country that declared him president in 2020 by a razor-thin margin in an election rife with irregularities, near-universal mail-in balloting, and suppression of negative stories from a pliant Regime Media and its allies in Big Tech, he proved to be a shadow of his former self both mentally and physically. Simply put, Biden demonstrated he was just not up to the job as he arguably could have been a decade ago.

As a result, the Biden who campaigned from his basement as a centrist unifier ceded the reins of power from day one to the most radical wing of his party, including the Vice President he hired based on identity politics, and for that reason their term in office has produced the swiftest decline in our country’s standing both domestically and on the world stage.

Sadly, Biden emerged as the most incompetent, corrupt, divisive, and mentally unfit Chief Executive in the history of our country. 

He proved incompetent on domestic and foreign policy in everything, from skyrocketing crime to the open border to his botched exit from Afghanistan; corrupt in enabling at a minimum his family’s pay-to-play overseas business $shakedowns; divisive in calling half the country “semi-fascist” and prosecuting his political opponent banana-republic style; and mentally unfit in stumbling and mumbling through his speeches and, in the words of the New York Times, “systematically avoiding interviews and questions from major news organizations” and failing “to address longstanding public concerns about his mental acuity.”

After Biden imploded in a June 2024 debate against Donald Trump and obliterated the fake veil of secrecy around his mental state, Democrat party grandees committed clear election interference by pushing him out against his will three weeks later as their chosen standard-bearer for the fall election, ignoring the fourteen million voters who chose him for that role through the democratic process.

In less than two days, these same party pooh-bahs led by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi anointed Biden’s number-two, Kamala Harris, as their new vessel, confirming her central role as co-pilot for their failed policies that gave us record-high inflation, skyrocketing crime, an open border, two major wars overseas and a humiliating pullout in Afghanistan that killed 13 of our finest men and women in uniform.

In doing so, these shadow party leaders signaled a continuation of the same incompetent and divisive Biden-Harris policy priorities, this time from a stand-in candidate carrying a truckload of extra political baggage, including her dishonesty in covering up Biden’s mental state for four years and her demonstrated lack of principles in running for office in 2020 with a man she considered publicly that same year to be a racist and likely sexual abuser.

For anyone looking to understand the full Biden-Harris record in advance of this fall’s election, this book is a collection of 50 essays that represent a play-by-play chronicle of their co-presidency, recounting in detail the foreign and domestic policy failures that have brought them both to the lowest approval ratings in history and demonstrating why Kamala is plainly not fit to keep her hand on the tiller for another four years.

For more information on The Biden-Harris Betrayal visit bidenharrisbetrayal.com. 

John Ullyot is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served as chief spokesman for the National Security Council and as a deputy assistant to President Trump at the White House. He was also a senior advisor on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. He is a regular commentator on political and national security issues with national media outlets.

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