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Jackie Calmes: Which is it? Biden the mastermind or Biden the bungler?

U.S. President Joe Biden departs the White House on April 30, 2024 in Washington, DC.

News flash: Republicans haven't said it in so many words, but they seem to have a new line of attack against President Joe Biden: He suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Biden has multiple personalities.

For months on end, Republicans have hammered the message that he's an addled octogenarian — a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," in the gratuitous, much-repeated words of the Republican special counsel who cleared Biden of criminality for having a few classified documents.

Then Republicans flipped the script: Biden is a criminal mastermind!

They're telling us" the justice system. Biden convened a — , , a ! — and executed "the most egregious in our nation's history" by getting a jury to find Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies in advance of the 2024 election. And stand by for the sentencing: On July 11, Biden the deep state puppetmaster surely will pull Judge Juan M. Merchan's strings again, to ensure that he throws Trump in the clink.

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