President Biden insisted he didn't sign executive order -- just weeks after doing so: Speaker Mike Johnson
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Via: vic-eldred • 2 weeks ago • 16 commentsBy: Matthew Sedacca Published (New York Post)
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President Biden had no clue whether or not he signed a critical executive order during a conversation last year with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who admitted he left the meeting fearing the nation is in "serious trouble."
An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier.
Johnson told the Free Press' Bari Weiss he didn't believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader "genuinely didn't know what he had signed."
The troubling encounter happened in the Oval Office in early 2024, when the two met to discuss the latest aid package for Ukraine.
Afterwards, Johnson asked Biden why he had inked an executive order pausing new permits for American liquid natural gas export to European allies — a crucial issue for his constituents in the Bayou State, which in 2023, handled 61% of the nation's LNG exports, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
"Why would you do that? Cause you understand we just talked about Ukraine, you understand you are fueling Vladimir Putin's war machine, because they gotta get their gas from him," Johnson said he told Biden.
Biden was stunned, Johnson said.
"I didn't do that," the president said, according to Johnson.
"Sir, you paused it, I know. I have the export terminals in my state. I talked to those people in my state, I've talked to those people this morning, this is doing massive damage to our economy, national security," Johnson said he told the commander-in-chief.
Biden continued to deny that he froze the exports — and then remembered he signed the executive order, which he said was simply to study the effects of the fuel.
"I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, 'We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?'" Johnson said.
"Like, I don't know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn't know," he said.
4Biden insisted to Johnson that he never issued an executive order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits. REUTERS
The Wall Street Journal previously reported on Biden's meeting with Johnson in late February, citing anonymous sources at the time.
A bombshell December report revealed White House aides had been covering up the 82-year-old president's mental decline since the very beginning of his term.
In January 2021, staffers had already put into place plans to his in-person interactions. They also rearranged his daily schedules whenever Biden seemed tired or had made gaffes in public.
Biden himself admitted in a USA Today interview he wasn't sure if he would've had the "vigor" for another term had he won re-election, although he didn't clarify what this meant about his current mental capacities.
The lame duck president dropped out of the 2024 race following a disastrous debate performance against now-President-elect Donald Trump, where he gave garbled answers to questions, repeatedly froze, and even lost his train of thought.
He dropped soon after and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who was trounced by Trump in November's presidential race.
The White House didn't respond to a request for comment.
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Biden was nothing but a tool of the radical left.
He leaves despised by many.
II's obvious Joe hasn't running the show for a very long time now. I suspect Obama has had a hand in the shadow government that has been pulling Biden's puppet strings.
You of course have proof of your complete and utter BS?
Of course I don't have proof yet, this is just an educated guess. But it's clear that Biden wasn't able to get anything done on his own. Who do you think was pulling the levers behind the screen?
Well, Obama has been out of office for HOW long? Almost 9 years and you still have no proof? What's the holdup?
Remember that night Obana was on Colbert's show?
COLBERT: Did you miss you? Did you ever look at something going on in the news and say, "You know what this situation needs? A little Barack Obama."
OBAMA: I said this before. People would ask me, "Knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term?" And I used to say, "You know what? If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I'd be fine with that.
Obama Once Said He'd 'Be Fine with a Third Term' if Someone Could Be a 'Stand-In with an Earpiece'? | Snopes.com
Just like trump is nothing but a tool for the radical right and the putin radical regime.
This isn't a surprise to anyone who's paid attention to media that isn't leftwing propaganda. The people who relied on the ABCs and CBSs were told Biden was outworking 30 year old staff. The evidence that he was not capable of acting as President has been overwhelming since before the 2020 election.
That Democrats thought they could elect him again shows just how confident they are that the media will do everything in their power to elect them. They just assumed they could use him as a puppet while the media convinced voters to dismiss the unedited videos they saw as "cheap fakes" while making insanely dishonest claims like "biden is sharper than ever" and dismissing criticism of Biden's obvious issues as a far right conspiracy. The collusion between the democratic party and the media ran so deep they almost got away with it. Biden being unable to fake being a mentally competent adult for sixty minutes is all that stopped the conspiracy.
This should be a massive sandal, but it’s democrats:
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the
University of Virginia, recalled receiving a
call from a Democratic senator in late
January or early February 2024.
"I said, 'Is there any particular reason why
you called me? I'd like to know? He said,
You do realise, off the record, that Joe
Biden is not going to be our nominee?' I was
stunned. I said, 'What, how, why? He said,
I just was at a meeting with him with
several other senators and he couldn't even
function. We can't run him?»
Sabato added that the senator in question
tried to raise the issue, which angered the
White House. "He was punished, as several
of them were. They gave him the cold
shoulder for a while. The point is that a lot
of people had figured it out but they didn't
care.
Now we start getting journalism from the Times as Biden heads out to pasture:
There is good news and bad news for MAGA regarding President Biden:
1. Good news: Biden's administration ends (tomorrow) January 20, 2025.
2. Bad news: BDSF may be INFINITE.
Unfortunately it will never replace or out pace TDS.
A disease that just keeps on giving; no matter who is in office.
A metaphor.
Two political 'pigs' were found waddling and tussling in mud. . . the better 'pig' got out of the hole and went up the bank a ways and washed itself down.