MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The terrifying scandal is that Biden was NEVER president. The full truth about the cover-up, Bad Doctor Jill and all the enemies within must be exposed

The knives have come out – and so has the truth.

After years of being lied to by the Democratic Party apparatus and most of the traditional media—which insisted that Joe Biden was not diminished by age, but rather energized by it—it turns out that we skeptics were right all along.

And what we learn is terrifying. Furious. An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort.

Will we ever know who these conspirators are?

Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president who has been thoroughly lunching throughout his term: Top Cabinet members can’t reach him. Staff regularly take their place at official events. Biden refuses to hold morning meetings, instead clocking out at 4 p.m. — even though he naps every day and announced in July that he would no longer hold events after 8 p.m.

How many hours did Joe Biden actually work? Why wasn’t the 25th Amendment invoked? Was the danger of a President Kamala Harris – whom the liberal media tried to sell as viable – really so unthinkable?

‘Drain the swamp’ resonates for good reason.

Meanwhile, Biden’s campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz tried to deflect his boss’ omission by, you guessed it, going after Trump.

“Normal presidents create a balance, and that includes Joe Biden. Hardly the same accuracy as Donald Trump, who spends half his day ranting about Truth Social […] and the other half play golf,” Munoz said in July, days after that catastrophic TV debate, and days before the Times reported that a Parkinson’s expert had visited the White House eight times in as many months.

The gas lighting failed to catch fire. If only the traditional media had followed this new line of reporting in 2019, I don’t know. When it mattered.

As these outlets lose attention and subscribers, we get actual investigative reports – albeit obvious ones.

BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden has no idea what’s going on.

Top national security officials told the Journal that meetings with Biden could suddenly be “cancelled” regardless of urgency. One security adviser had a scheduled meeting canceled because the president was having “a bad day”; those bad days are common.

All this while Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas attacked Israel and China floated spy balloons over the United States. Syria has fallen.

Against this incendiary geopolitical backdrop, Democrats, knowing full well how incapacitated Biden was, hatched a plan to reinstall him.

That is the Trump Derangement Syndrome. Their fear was so great that VP Harris, the ultimate DEI hire, didn’t have what it took.

So now the anger. Now the truth. Biden is a dead man walking, and they’re going to throw his desiccated political corpse on the pyre—if Joe doesn’t “burn it all down” first, as his vengeful wife Jill reportedly urges him to do.

Really: Is there a greater metaphor for the death throes of the Biden presidency than the dismissal of SUV-sized drones swarming the Northeast? Is there a better example of a president sleeping on Rehoboth Beach?

Remember: As recently as March, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called this sham of a president “intellectual, analytical… the best Biden ever.”

We always knew that Biden’s legacy would be one of decay, deception and dirty dealings. But in his ignominious exit, Biden has revealed his true self: perpetually disadvantaged.

A malignant narcissist who put his own hunger for power above party and country.

A loser so bad that he pardoned his son Hunter – a promise never to do this, a promise he made repeatedly – ​​and more than 1,500 others, including: two Chinese spies who stole top-secret American technical information and a family member of a Chinese Communist Party member who possessed thousands of child pornography images.

That’s Biden for you, the man Barack Obama says has an uncanny ability to “screw things up.”

The greatest humiliation of all: it now seems clear that Joe Biden, who always just wanted to be president, never ran the world. He was never the real American president. There will forever be an asterisk next to his name.

So we ask again: only who has ruled the country for the past four years? As the live TV debate showed beyond doubt, it certainly wasn’t Joe.

It is so clear, not just to us, but to the entire world, that the newly elected President Trump, since he won the election, is being treated as the acting US President.

It is Trump who is talking to Netanyahu. It is Trump who has Hamas in the background. It is Trump who mediates the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine, meets with President Macron at the reopening of Notre Dame, sits front and center, and holds a private meeting with Prince William.

And it is Trump who receives Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago.

Will we now have less of an official and public investigation into the hijacking of the American presidency, as we did on January 6? I would argue that this, the ultimate Biden family feud, is the biggest political scandal since Watergate.

Remember, even Biden’s top cabinet members had no access to him from the very beginning when it came to issues of national security, the economy or international crises.

In the run-up to the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Biden was determined to execute despite all the best advice not to do so — then-House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith tried unsuccessfully to reach the president.

Smith told the Journal he was desperate to convey his knowledge and serious concerns about the region. But Smith was rejected – and thirteen American service members died in this entirely avoidable disaster.

Meanwhile, Lloyd Austin, Biden’s defense secretary, has reportedly had “increasingly rare” direct contact with Biden over the past two years. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also had “a business relationship” with Biden throughout his term.

Yet in July, shortly after that debate, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told this stunner:[Biden] is as sharp as ever…. As I walk into the Oval Office […] I have to be on top of my game.”

Challenge her. Really and truly. Subpoena her – and all members of Biden’s inner circle, those who kept him ‘body’, as one source said, to a degree unprecedented for any sitting US president: Ron Klain (former White House chief of staff), Mike Donilon (senior advisor) and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon (campaign manager) to name a few.

By the way, bring in Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, who apparently led his third term from behind the curtain, Biden is useful idiot.

And last but certainly not least, Lady MacBiden herself, who knew her husband’s ailing condition better than anyone, but tried to force him onto the country again.

If there is justice, the post-White House book deals and board seats will evaporate as quickly as Biden’s legacy.