The mask is off, and the truth about Joe Biden’s collapse—both politically and cognitively—is finally clawing its way out from behind the D.C. curtain. In a brutal new tell-all book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, author Chris Whipple dishes insider accounts from Biden’s former Chief of Staff Ron Klain that paint a chilling picture: the so-called “most experienced” president in history was barely able to function in the days leading up to his catastrophic debate performance last June.
According to Klain, Biden was “fatigued, befuddled and disengaged,” and honestly, that’s being generous. In one prep session, Biden apparently wandered off mid-conversation to sit alone by the pool. Another time, he fell asleep. And when he was awake, he seemed confused, unaware of the current campaign dynamics, Trump’s statements, or even what argument he was supposed to be making to the American people. This is the man Democrats swore up and down was “sharp as ever.”
Klain returned to help Biden prepare for the debate, hoping to salvage the mess, but instead found a man who didn’t even understand his own inflation policies and who offered “finish the job” as his entire second-term vision. You know—the same hollow slogan that’s been propped up like a scarecrow to distract voters from gas prices, open borders, and cities turning into Mad Max sequels.
Perhaps the most damning anecdote? Biden thought looking confused during Trump’s remarks would make voters see Trump as the idiot. Klain had to gently inform him: “Sir, when you look perplexed, people just think you’re perplexed.” That right there sums up the entire Biden presidency: a man so insulated, so protected by staff and media fluffers, he mistook his own decline for a political strategy.
The book also reveals how deep the delusion ran. Some staffers saw the mental unraveling clearly, others clung to denial, believing the real sin was not covering it up well enough. That’s not leadership—it’s malpractice.
And of course, Biden’s final political act was a middle finger to the very Democrats who bailed water for him all the way to the end. After his disastrous debate, he finally dropped out, not to save his party, but out of political exhaustion. His reluctant endorsement of Kamala Harris came only after Obama pushed for an “open process”—a process Biden reportedly loathed.
Bottom line: Joe Biden didn’t just lose a debate—he revealed to the American people what insiders had been hiding all along. And it wasn’t pretty.
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