During Bill Maher’s show on Friday night, there was a weird moment when the lights in the studio went out just as Maher was bringing up Joe Biden’s mental decline.

Bill and his audience had an ‘ooooooh’ moment over it.

It did seem a bit of a weird coincidence, given the timing and the subject.

Transcript via Mediaite:

BILL MAHER: Here they are. He is the anchor of CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper and co-author of the best-selling book, Original Sin, President Biden’s Decline, His Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, Jake Taper. All right.

And he is a Marine Corps veteran and a Democratic congressman representing Massachusetts Sixth District, Seth Moulton. Back with us. Good to see you. All right, uh,.

Time out for one small plug. My book is out in paperback. June 3rd, also audio book. It was awesome a year ago. It hasn’t gotten any worse. It’s great. OK, but –.

Let’s talk about the book everyone’s really talking about. And that’s Jake Tapper’s book. I have rarely seen. This doesn’t happen much anymore in American society where everyone is talking about a single book. And that is your book. And you say, Joe Biden was old. What’s your proof?

(LAUGHTER).

No, I feel like your book gave us closure because we were kind of wondering, are we making this up a little too much? It’s so hard to tell when people get to that age. What’s, are they, they’re.

(DARKNESS DESCENDS).

Oh!

(HUSH FALLS).

Watch the video below:

The lights went out in the Bill Maher studio as he talked about the deterioration of Joe Biden while promoting Jake Tapper’s new book:
Bill Maher: “Everyone is talking about a single book, that is your book. You say Joe Biden was old. What is your proof!? Your book gave us… pic.twitter.com/i0OPPiFHDR

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 31, 2025

Coincidence or a sign of things to come?

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PARIS IS BURNING.

There was mass rioting Saturday night in Paris, particularly around the Champs-Élysées, following Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) victory. X Posts claim that clashes erupted between football fans, groups described as North African gangs, and police, with fireworks, paving stones, and tear gas involved.

The streets are littered with burning cars, barricades, and injuries, with some posts framing it as widespread chaos or “anarchy.”

There is a shocking video of migrants and rioters on the freeway firing off fireworks at police, although the details remain unclear.

Tousi TV from Britain covered the riots tonight.

The crazy scenes in Paris are continuing into the night. Riot police are being blasted with fireworks and are using tier gas against the violent crowds. pic.twitter.com/VeiWy06hBs

— Liam A Diss (@BritFirst) June 1, 2025

More rioting near the highway.

TOTAL chaos on Paris highways — cops clash with football fans

Riot police seen dragging man across asphalt

Officers fire tear gas pic.twitter.com/lejzrpIMRB

— RT (@RT_com) May 31, 2025

Generation Identity, a pro-French group posted this video.

Paris is already on fire, riot police deployed pic.twitter.com/Wu56sDAkrz

— Generation Identity (@IdentitarianSI) May 31, 2025

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You don’t hate the media enough.

ABC News is reporting that Republicans are planning to investigate Biden’s mental decline, but they frame it on Twitter/X and in the actual report as “what they call Biden’s decline.”

Jake Tapper and other liberal journalists are writing books about Biden’s mental decline and doing massive media tours to promote these books, but when Republicans decide to investigate, suddenly it’s framed as a partisan accusation.

Also, when did investigations become a bad thing? Democrats and the media sure seemed to love them when they focused on Trump.

Take a look at this:

Senate Republicans have announced plans to launch their own probe into former President Biden over his cognitive abilities while in office, claiming they want to investigate who was running the country during what they call Biden’s decline. https://t.co/4omKUnM1q3

— ABC News (@ABC) May 30, 2025

From the report (emphasis is ours):

GOP senators plan hearing on Biden’s perceived cognitive decline

Senate Republicans have announced plans to launch their own probe into former President Joe Biden over his cognitive abilities while in office, claiming they want to investigate who was running the country during what they call Biden’s decline.

Republican Sens. Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn will co-chair a first-of-its-kind Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next month on the subject, which they say was covered up by members of the media. The focus echoes President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated claims about Biden’s mental fitness while president and criticism of Biden’s use of autopen, a mechanical device to automatically add a signature to a document that’s been utilized by several past presidents, including Trump in his first term.

“We need to get past the failures of the media, which were legend as you pointed out, or the political issue of ‘were you for Biden or against Biden?’ This is about a constitutional crisis, where we basically have a mentally incompetent president who’s not in charge,” Cornyn said Thursday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.”

“What they call Biden’s decline…”

Well, @abcnews, what do you call it? https://t.co/WzaT72ekE8

— LincolnHillsFrau (@bayareahausfrau) May 30, 2025

The media never fails to amaze. Their bias is so built in to their world view that they can’t even see it.

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During an appearance on Bill Maher’s show this weekend, CNN’s Jake Tapper suggested that Biden’s mental decline was responsible for the border crisis of the last four years, claiming that it wasn’t official policy. This is ridiculous.

So much of Tapper’s book and the media tour to promote it is about rewriting history and this is just one more example.

It is obvious that what happened at the border was policy. It was a strategy to flood the country with new Democrat voters in an effort to change the electorate.

Transcript via Eric Abbenante on Twitter/X:

Jake Tapper claims that Joe Biden’s mental deterioration led to the crisis at the border:

Jake Tapper: “You’re complimenting it by calling it a policy. Not to talk about my book again, but one of the things we discovered:

Senator Bennett from Colorado went to an event in 2024 where Biden seemed non functioning. He left the event thinking ‘This is why our border policy, our immigration policy was such a mess.’

Mayorkas, he thought there was going to be an order early on in the Biden years, the order never came.”

Watch the video:

Jake Tapper claims that Joe Biden’s mental deterioration led to the crisis at the border:
Jake Tapper: “You’re complimenting it by calling it a policy.
Not to talk about my book again, but one of the things we discovered:
Senator Bennett from Colorado went to an event in 2024… pic.twitter.com/PFvJRG4imf

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 31, 2025

People know this claim is completely bogus.

what a joke… it was all by design to flood the US with as many blue voters as possible https://t.co/MHJF0hXLMp

— magic mike (@MikeRobidoux) May 31, 2025

Dems know the base is so stupid they can push this BS https://t.co/zc1QEKO5Yy

— feritas (@4thSpoliaOpima) May 31, 2025

The true purpose of this book keeps coming into focus. Tapper is trying to insulate the media and Democrats from the disaster of the Biden presidency.

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Former Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov told CNN that his Hamas captors’ behavior toward him changed for the better after Donald Trump was elected president in November.

And that’s not surprising, given the support Trump has shown Israel in the past, versus the cold shoulder former President Joe Biden, and to a greater extent, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris gave to the Jewish State.

“[The terrorists] were very scared of [Trump]. They wanted Kamala to be elected,” Shem Tov told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga in an interview aired Wednesday.

“But as soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood he wants to bring the hostages back home. So immediately, the way they treated me changed,” the 22-year-old added.  “More food, [they] treated me better. Stopped cursing me. Stopped spitting on me.”

“(The terrorists) were very scared of (Trump). They wanted Kamala to be elected. But as soon as Trump was elected, they understood he wants to bring the hostages back home. So immediately the way they treated me changed…My food, they treated me better.”
Omer Shem Tov tells me… pic.twitter.com/phHusemiAc

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) May 28, 2025

Golodryga asked Shem Tov if he thought the change in treatment was because the Hamas captors thought a deal would come soon.

He felt that was the case.

Shem Tov was among the approximately 250 hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, and survived 505 days in captivity before being released in February as part of a temporary cease-fire agreement that Trump’s team helped negotiate, Fox News reported.

Shem Tov and seven other hostages who were released met with Trump in the Oval Office in March.

“My family and, I, myself, we believe you’ve been sent by God to release us. You really helped. You have the power to do it,” he told the president.

Naama Levy concurred that Trump made the difference, saying, “You were our hope, when we were there. Now you’re their hope,” referring to those still held captive.

“Once you were elected, we heard that you want to do everything to make a deal as soon as possible,” she added.

Breaking: released hostages met with President Trump and thanked him for managing to get the hostage deal done – and asked him to get the rest of them out as well.

This is what they told him:
Omer Shem Tov: “My family and, I, myself we believe you’ve been sent by god to release… pic.twitter.com/lwx9SYHeTH

— Neria Kraus (@NeriaKraus) March 5, 2025

Trump responded, “Well, we said … ‘You better let them out.’  … Something happened. Now we’ve got to get the rest out. We’re working on it very hard.”

On Wednesday at the White House with Trump by his side, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steven Witkoff announced a framework had been agreed to for a temporary cease-fire reached between Hamas and Israel.

“And I have some very good feelings about getting to a long-term resolution — temporary cease-fire and a long-term resolution, a peaceful resolution — of that conflict,” he said.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East @SteveWitkoff on Gaza: “I think that we are on the precipice of sending out a new term sheet that hopefully will be delivered later on today… I have some very good feelings about getting to a long-term resolution — temporary ceasefire.” pic.twitter.com/Cg4wNeNBsh

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 28, 2025

The deal “calls for the release of 10 living hostages and 18 deceased hostages, as well as a 60-day truce,” an Israeli official told CNN.

Trump and his team have displayed vigorous leadership in seeking to bring the war in Gaza to an end.

It’s a stark contrast to the tepid, on-again, off-again support the Biden-Harris regime offered Israel, only emboldening Hamas to keep the hostages and fight on.

No wonder they wanted Kamala to win.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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