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Joseph Biden spent his career chasing one goal: the presidency. After decades of political frustration, he finally became the 46th president of the United States. What happened next is one of American history’s tragic ironies. Presidential historian Tevi Troy explores Biden’s rise and fall.

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Transcript:
Joe Biden: Decline and Fall
Presented by Tevi Troy,

Joe Biden was a young man in a hurry. Elected to the US Senate at the age of 29, he spent four decades dreaming of becoming president. But then, in one of American history’s tragic ironies, when he finally got there, he was incapable of doing the job. Father Time had exacted a cruel price.

Joseph Robinette—forever known as Joe—Biden was born in the coal-mining town of Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942. His father moved the family to Wilmington, Delaware when Biden was ten, but Biden would always stress his working-class Scranton origins.

Young Joe was popular and a good athlete, but just got by academically. At Syracuse Law School, he graduated 76th out of a class of 85.

After getting caught plagiarizing a law review article, a pattern emerged that persisted throughout his life: if he didn’t like a version of his past, he’d make up a better one. Examples include getting arrested when trying to visit South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandela in prison, being shot at while touring Iraq as a senator, and his uncle getting eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea during World War II—all fabrications.

In 1972, after a brief tenure on a Delaware county council, he challenged incumbent Republican senator J. Caleb Boggs. Biden’s youthful energy captured the voters’ imagination. In a shocking upset, he defeated Boggs by 3,000 votes.

Before he could take office, tragedy struck. In December 1972, his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Amy were killed in a car crash. His sons Beau and Hunter were badly injured.

Biden pushed past his grief and entered the Senate, the youngest member in that exclusive club.

There, Biden thrived. There’s no doubt that he had political skills. You don’t get elected to the Senate seven times, vice president twice, and ultimately president without being good at politics. Winning re-election after re-election, he advanced in seniority and influence.

But make no mistake, the presidency was always his goal.

In 1987, he ran for the Democratic nomination. That attempt failed when he was caught plagiarizing a speech by a British politician. He ran again in 2007 but got swept away by Barack Obama.

Then, Obama, to the surprise of many, tapped Biden to be his running mate. It seemed like a good match of young gun and old pro.

As vice president, Biden served loyally for eight years, but when it came time for Obama to bless a successor, he opted for his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was a bitter pill.

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  7. Joe Biden was POTUS in title only. He was tapped by Barry to run in 2020 while in the early stages of mental decline that progressed much faster than his handlers and Obama had anticipated. Even in his prime and in self control Biden would have been a disaster of a president. He basically sold himself to the devil for most likely a very large sum of money. He didn't really know what was going on and walked around in a fog revelling in the fact that he was president. So everybody got what they wanted. Barry his 3rd term. Jill got to be First Lady. Joe got in the White House. Hunter got rich. And the American people got the shitty end of the stick. Funny how that all works.

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    ies and demonrats, and the media will call this a "vast right wing conspiracy." Remember those words Hillary? If you followed biden's election campaign, it became obvious later on that the demonrats knew even when running, biden had cognitive problems. That is why he was kept in the basement, no press conferences, literally an invisible candidate, then invisible president. His presidency was run by the shadow government. We know who some of the players were and you would recognize their names. That is an insurection, a soft coup, treason. When the jig was up, they threw him under the Amtrac he claimed to have ridden for so many, many years. Word salad harris/tampon tim. BIDEN/ HARRIS/harris/ tt will go down as the worst, most corrupt and ugliest legacy as presidents/vp EVER in U.S. history. Right now, tho, we need to see all these traitors charged,tried, convicted, and thrown in prison for TREASON.