Scott Jennings Illuminates His Colleagues: Trump IS Biden’s Legacy
Will the Democrats ever succeed in bringing Trump down? Or will they end up dumbfounded, resembling Wile E. Coyote as he once again slams into a wall, his flattened body sticking there for a moment, before sliding to the ground?
In the waning hours of President Joe Biden’s presidency, CNN’s lone conservative voice, Scott Jennings, joined his colleagues in a spirited debate over Biden’s legacy. Jennings argued that much of Biden’s legacy “is going to be bookended by the fact that he and [former President Barack] Obama gave us [President-elect] Trump the first time and that he gave us Trump 2.0, stronger than ever.”
In short, Trump IS Biden’s legacy.
Elaborating on this point, Jennings said, “Donald Trump right now is at the apex of his power. He’s more popular than ever. His ideology is more popular than ever. And I think it’s in large part because people were comparing the results of Biden and Trump won.”
“Joe Biden made some promises that he was going to be an honest president,” he noted. “He wasn’t. That he was going to be a moderate president. He wasn’t… And on his way out the door … he’s pardoning his son retroactively for anything and everything going back a number of years. That did not sit well with the American people. When you consider inflation, Afghanistan, the border, the pardons, and really Joe Biden not living up to what he said he was going to be.”
Paul Begala, a former advisor to former President Bill Clinton and a CNN contributor, chimed in, “I’m really proud, actually, of the work Joe Biden did for our country.” He did not elaborate. How could he?
Jennings continued, “If everything you said was true, he should have had no trouble getting reelected and he should not have a 34% approval rating. But the truth is, on so many issues, he failed. And not only did he fail, but he and his people were dishonest with the American people about it. Telling us the border was secure when it’s not, telling us that the Afghanistan pullout was a wonderful accomplishment. And most damagingly, last year, telling us he was fit for office when clearly he was not, and the biggest coverup in modern political history took place on his watch… That is going to live with him for a very long time. Even Democrats now admit that Joe Biden was not with it and they all went along with it too.”
“He should never have run for reelection, but the fact that he’s now saying he could have won is delusional. And the fact that he’s saying Kamala Harris could have won is basically saying she won a crap campaign, so he’s left his own party in somewhat political chaos.”
The other panelists, momentarily stunned by Jennings’s remarks, turned their attention to his “sharp” attire. Clad in a tuxedo, Jennings had plans to attend an inaugural ball after the show.
With his characteristic charm, he quipped, “If this punditry doesn’t work out, I’ll be able to show you two to your table!”
Debating the Biden legacy with Paul Begala on @cnn tonight. Biden’s failures have left his own party in chaos and Trump in the strongest position of his political life. pic.twitter.com/KazdNfM9N3
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 19, 2025
As always, Jennings nailed it. Beyond the often-cited blunders of Biden’s failed administration, his obvious senility, and the efforts to hide it, Biden will be remembered as a liar. From the moment he launched his campaign to the sad final hours of his presidency, Biden has been deceiving the American people. Lies slip from his lips as effortlessly as water off a duck’s back.
Yes, I understand that all politicians lie from time to time—or at least exaggerate—but Biden has elevated lying to an art form.
During his April 2019 campaign launch, Biden told supporters he felt compelled to run after hearing Trump describe Neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “very fine people” following the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. While Trump’s remarks were taken wildly out of context—and even debunked by left-leaning fact-checkers—Biden continues to repeat this narrative to this day.
Six months later, he told another pivotal lie. Three weeks before the 2020 election, The New York Post published a bombshell story about communications found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, which strongly suggested that Joe Biden knew of—and even potential involvement in—Hunter’s overseas influence-peddling operations. In response, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was then a senior Biden campaign official, orchestrated a letter signed by 51 former high-ranking intelligence officials. The letter disingenuously claimed the story bore all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
This letter played a crucial role in Biden’s victory. Only days after its release, then-candidate Joe Biden used it to shut down Donald Trump when the topic of the family’s alleged overseas dealings came up during a critical debate.
Now, as Biden laments his failed presidency, he is once again resorting to lies about the threat posed by the power wielded by a small group of Big Tech oligarchs. He remained silent about their influence when they suppressed the laptop story leading up to the 2020 election. But now, with these figures flocking to Mar-a-Lago to gain favor with Trump, he has grown bitter and resentful.
Books will inevitably be written about the mountain of lies he and his allies told the American people, all amplified by a legacy media that abandoned any semblance of journalism the moment Trump entered the political arena in 2015.
Some of us are old enough to remember the classic Looney Tunes characters of Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. In every episode, Wile E. Coyote has a new idea for how he will finally catch the Roadrunner, but the bird is simply too fast, and the Coyote never succeeds. Most of the time, the plan backfires and leaves the Coyote wounded and angry, but that doesn’t stop him from trying again. Wile E. Coyote has a lot in common with today’s Democratic Party.
Will the Democrats ever succeed in bringing Trump down? Or will they end up dumbfounded, resembling Wile E. Coyote as he once again slams into a wall, his flattened body sticking there for a moment, before sliding to the ground?
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Biden: I coulda won!
Reporter: Why do you say that?
Biden: Because Kamala picked that stupid Walz as her running mate, but I picked a highly intelligent, well respected individual for mine.
Who knew there was 1 voice at the CNN who wasn’t a kool-aid drinker?
I’m continually surprised he hasn’t been fired.
Five years (+/-) ago, Joe Biden & James Cliburn sold what little was left of their souls to win the South Carolina primary.
It’s been a long time coming but, as the cliche goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. Having Biden split the two Trump administrations making him infinitely more powerful. Good job, Joe! You (bleeped) this up too!
It remains to be seen but this could well be the end of the Democrats.
Your lips to God’s ear.
His boss’s lies were more destructive and the impetus for the liars surrounding Biden who then manipulated this already deceptive, compromised man.
I’ll be surprised if we make it through tomorrow without incident.
Evil never sleeps.
For sure, we will be delivered a memorable new pardon list – possibly the capstone to Biden’s legacy. The fact that he is waiting until the very last moment suggests that it will be newsworthy.
We’ll know in the morning!
Bingo! And there it is, JUST LIKE YOU SAID.
It will be a great feeling for the country when Bozo Joe and his handlers are courteously flushed from offical power.
Jennings no doubt enjoys his role as the conservative pundit at CNN, but I can’t help but think that he is using this visibility to set up for a run to replace his old boss in the Senate.
Good, he’s smart, articulate, and conservative
What’s not to like?
I didn’t say that I didn’t like it. He’d kill it in the Senate!
It’s very possible.
Two of their biggest pitches back in 2020 were 1) Biden would be The Great Unifier and 2) his administration would be ‘the adults in the room’. Neither of those claims came true. Not by a long shot. Jennings nailed it.
“Joe Biden made some promises that he was going to be an honest president,” he noted. “He wasn’t. That he was going to be a moderate president. He wasn’t…”
Hey, remember “no malarky?” Turns out we all misheard him — Joe was simply introducing himself. “Joe Malarky1 Glad to meetcha!”
Yup — Joe Biden is exactly like Wile E Coyote. Except that Wile E’s extravagant violence was constrained to a region of entirely unpopulated desert, while Joe’s caused regular collateral damage to 240 million impotent bystanders,
“Yes, I understand that all politicians lie from time to time—or at least exaggerate—but Biden has elevated lying to an art form.”
Ace over at Ace of Spades nailed it succinctly 5 or 6 years ago when he laid out the differences between Trumps “lies” and those of Barry Hussein…Trumps lies are salesmen lies…my rally was the biggest in history, I am America’s favourite President, This thing is the best ever thing in the entire history of things where as Barry Husseins lies were lies of consequence, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor and if I had a son it would look like Treyvon.
Also listening to the media you would have no idea politicians are pathological liars by the way they wank themselves in to a frenzy about Trump being a lying liar!
Biden broke almost all of his promises, but there was one he kept — that he would be a transitional, 1-term President.
“…telling us, last year, that he was fit for office.”
No, sorry. Biden’s senile dementia and incapacity for any of the demands of the Presidency were on full display in 2019 and 2020 throughout that Presidential election campaign.
Stop pretending like it was only the final year in which he was unable to fulfill his duties.
The fact is, there are only 2 decisions that are known to have Biden made by Biden himself the entire four years he was in office as POTUS:
1) Demanding, on multiple occasions, that Trump be prosecuted. For whatever. Just make something up. But, put him in jail NOW.
2) Ordering his next ice cream and specifying the flavor.
Everything else was decided by his staff or by the un-official acting POTUS’ making his decisions for him: Susan Rice at first, and then after several others, Obama (who was too lazy to be POTUS when he was POTUS, letting Valerie Jarrett be the de facto President).
All Biden was allowed to do was read the teleprompter and sign the executive orders. We know from Speaker Johnson that Biden hadn’t the slightest clue what those E.O.’s contained.