Joe Biden’s former chief of staff has opened up about his mental decline.

Ron Klain, who served as Biden’s White House Chief of Staff from 2021 to 2023 and then returned to help him with debate preparation in 2024, is quoted in an upcoming book saying that the president had no idea what was really going on.

According to The Guardian, Klain claimed that Biden “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was.”

During debate preparation, Biden reportedly left and fell asleep by the pool.

At one point, Biden had a brainwave.

“If he looked perplexed when Trump talked, voters would understand that Trump was an idiot,” the book states.

”Klain replied: ‘Sir, when you look perplexed, people just think you’re perplexed. And this is our problem in this race.’”

The claims were made in reporter Chris Whipple’s upcoming book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

In another part of the book, Whittle says that Klain even wondered whether Biden thought he was the president of NATO rather than the United States:

At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin, Klain was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.

That evening Biden met again with Klain and his team, [Biden aides] Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, and Bruce Reed. ‘We sat around the table,’ said Klain. ‘[Biden] had answers on cards, and he was just extremely exhausted.

And I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was. He was just very, very focused on his interactions with Nato leaders.’

Klain wondered half-seriously if Biden thought he was president of Nato instead of the US. ‘He just became very enraptured with being the head of Nato,’ he said. That wouldn’t help him on Capitol Hill because, as Klain noted, ‘domestic political leaders don’t really care what [Emmanuel] Macron and [Olaf] Scholz think.’

Whittle, meanwhile, believes that calling the behavior of Biden’s staff a “cover-up” is too simplistic.

“I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic,” he said in a recent interview with Politico. “I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that.”

“Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial,” he added. “They believed what they wanted to believe.”

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A wave of protests is sweeping across Europe, with citizens in Spain and France raising

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​In March 2025, the Trump administration ramped up its fight against Latin American gangs, invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport about 250 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, with plans to expel 300 more suspected Tren de Aragua gangsters soon after.

These individuals, tied to the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, were removed without standard due process, identified largely by tattoos and digital evidence.

This wartime law’s use underscores a clear stance: gang members, marked by their ink, pose a proven threat to U.S. security.

Data backs this—gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua fuel violent crime across the country—driving the administration’s push to root out these dangers fast, even as critics question the precision of tattoo-based deportations.

Gang tattoos in Latin America, from MS-13 to Tren de Aragua, belong only to real members, acting as hard proof of allegiance, identity, and rank within these deadly organizations.

For MS-13, started by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles and now a cross-border menace, tattoos like clasped hands (“forgive me, mother, for my crazy life”) or spider webs (power or prison time) once stood out, as a 2017 Insight Crime report on Honduran “mara” tattoos confirms.

Barrio 18 uses the Virgin of Guadalupe for protection; Mexico’s La Eme stamps “13” for loyalty. Non-members sporting these tattoos face death—gangs kill to punish fakes or disrespect, enforcing iron rules.

El Salvador’s 2022 crackdown, jailing over 86,000 under President Bukele, and Honduras’ 2005 laws have forced tattoos underground, but they still mark the guilty, giving U.S. officials a tool to spot gangsters.

Joining these gangs means spilling blood—new recruits must commit atrocities, often murder, to earn their tattoos and prove they belong. MS-13 demands kills for full membership, a fact backed by FBI records and El Salvador’s gang history.

Tren de Aragua, per a 2025 NBC News report citing expert Ronna Risquez, pushes initiates into violent crimes too.

Brazil’s PCC requires acts like killing cops before inking up, says Insight Crime. Once in, members don’t stop—they run drug distribution, human trafficking, extortion, homicide, protection rackets, and business shakedowns. MS-13’s East Coast grip, tied to Suffolk County, New York, murders, and Tren de Aragua’s growing reach show the danger plain as day, giving Trump solid ground to deport them.

These crimes—drug trafficking, savage attacks, and extortion—hit the U.S. hard, and gang membership itself breaks visa and residency laws, especially with groups like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua branded as terrorist-level threats. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, anyone tied to crimes or security risks is inadmissible or deportable—tattoos prove the link.

MS-13’s 2012 Transnational Criminal Organization tag and its trail of bodies, plus Tren de Aragua’s trafficking surge, fit the bill; the Alien Enemies Act lets Trump boot them fast.

Data ties these tattooed members to chaos—conviction or not—and U.S. law doesn’t let killers or racketeers stay legally. Critics call it shaky proof, noting some non-members get inked for style, but evidence—homicide stats, arrest logs—shows these gangs wreck communities from Long Island to Los Angeles.

Gang membership itself breaks U.S. visa and residency laws, especially with groups like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua branded as terrorist-level threats. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, anyone tied to crimes—think drug trafficking or murder—or security risks is inadmissible or deportable, no questions asked.

MS-13’s 2012 Transnational Criminal Organization tag and its trail of bodies, plus Tren de Aragua’s trafficking surge, hit these marks hard.

Tattoos prove the link, and laws like the Alien Enemies Act let Trump boot them fast—data backs it: gang members kill, extort, and endanger the U.S., making them illegal here, period.

The link between tattoos, gangs, and crime drives Trump’s plan. MS-13’s old-school ink once screamed membership, but now they hide it—still, the violence rolls on: drugs, murders, shakedowns.

Tren de Aragua’s tattoo use is fuzzier, but their crime wave isn’t, and the Alien Enemies Act cuts through to eject them. PCC’s prison rule and cartels’ trafficking empires add to the threat. Evidence—FBI files, gang busts, crime data—shows these tattooed members are killers and traffickers, not innocents.

As 300 more head for El Salvador, the stakes are clear: gang tattoos mean gang life, and gang life endangers the U.S. That’s the hard truth, and that’s why they’re gone.

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An abortion supporter who was arrested in 2022 in connection with a plan to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will plead guilty to the charge.

Nicholas Roske, 29, of California, will admit that he planned to kill Kavanaugh, a letter filed with the court where Roske was being tried said, according to The Washington Post.

“We write to inform the Court that Mr. Roske wishes to plead guilty to the one-count Indictment pending against him,” public defenders, Andrew Szekely and Ellie Marranzini wrote, according to The Hill.

The plea comes days before a scheduled hearing on Roske’s past motions to have the charges against him dropped.

Roske’s guilty plea to the charge of attempting to murder a justice of the United States comes without reaching an agreement with prosecutors, according to the Associated Press.

Roske’s lawyers have asked for a hearing next week to formally enter Roske’s plea and said prosecutors have agreed to their request.

A California man will plead guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by showing up outside his home in 2022 with weapons, his lawyers said Wednesday.

Lawyers for Nicholas Roske announced his intent in a letter to the judge overseeing the case.… pic.twitter.com/XrZRdz3Iyy

— Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) April 2, 2025

Roske was charged with flying from California to the East Coast where he took a cab to Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland in June 2022, so he could kill Kavanaugh, according to the Post.

He brought burglary tools and a handgun, but after seeing the security detail at the house, he walked away.

Roske spoke to his sister on the night he went to Kavanaugh’s house. She convinced him to turn himself in.

He then surrendered to Montgomery County Police Department officers.

“What was your plan?” he was asked.

“Break in,” Roske said. “Shoot him and then shoot myself.”

Roske told police he was motivated to action by his concern over the court’s shift to the right and its ruling on abortion, based on a draft opinion of what would be the court decision that overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling.

“I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him,” he said.

“At the time, Mr. Roske was acutely suicidal, visibly exhausted, and had repeatedly expressed his need for psychiatric care,” his lawyers had written in an earlier filing.

The charge facing Roske carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Come to think of it, US President Donald J. Trump never had any reasons to like Volodymyr Zelensky.

After all, both the Ukrainian leader and his grey eminence Andriy Yermak were connected to Dem’s first sham impeachment push.

As Trump was horrified watching Zelensky play ailing Joe Biden ‘like a fiddle’ for untold billions, he also had to watch the Kiev regime’s leader campaign for the Democrats on a visit to an ammunition factory.

By the time the ‘modestly successful comedian’ set himself on metaphorical fire in the Oval Office, the relationship had soured.

Trump called him a ‘dictator without elections’, and blamed him for involving the US in an unwinnable war.

So, as Zelensky backtracks on the agreed deals and badmouths his administration in the press, Trump warned that he was going to have ‘big, big problems’.

And the shift in priorities was immediately visible, as Pete Hegseth will reportedly not attend the ‘Ramstein Group’ gathering of 50 countries that coordinate military support for Ukraine.

This marks the first time that the ‘Ukraine Defense Contact Group’ will lack the presence of the American secretary of defense.

Defense News reported:

“The group will meet April 11 in Brussels and will be chaired by Germany and Britain. Hegseth attended the last meeting in February, though he became the first U.S. defense secretary in the coalition’s 26 meetings not to lead it.

Hegseth won’t join in person and isn’t expected to join virtually either, according to a U.S. official, who like others was granted anonymity to discuss the planning. In fact, the Pentagon is unlikely to send any senior representatives, which typically join the secretary on such trips.”

It’s unclear so far if and how US officials will participate in the support forums for Ukraine.

“For Europeans, the secretary’s absence is the latest sign of the Trump administration’s lower-priority approach to arming Ukraine – a point Hegseth made clear at the last meeting in February.”

In the last meeting, Hegseth blasted the Europeans for simply relying on Americans to defend their continent. He also ruled out the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine.

If the Ukrainians lack key U.S. intelligence and military supplies, the chance of a catastrophic defeat increases markedly.

“The Pentagon has $3.85 billion left in authority to send Ukraine military equipment, but no money left to replace it. Leaders in Congress have said they have no plans to pass more.”

Read more:

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