It’s been a few weeks since Joe Biden’s bombshell announcement that he was abandoning his reelection campaign and was endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic standard bearer, and he’s mostly been invisible since then. He has finally made an appearance, however, sitting for a CBS interview that aired Sunday where he describes how the Dem elite essentially initiated a coup to shove him to the sidelines.

It would seem that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the real power in Washington, not the president:

"A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic, you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say -why did - and I thought it’d be a real distraction," Biden told CBS News' Bob Costa.

Being Biden, he acts as if he were being noble in making the decision, doing what’s best for Democracy, but the truth is he was involuntarily forced out, and you can see that reality in his ever-tightening face.

Watch:

Holy sht it was a coup and this confirms it.

“My democratic friends thought I would hurt the races.”

This proves they don’t care about the 14M primary votes Biden received. It’s all about keeping democrats in power… pic.twitter.com/7gZ4ha9sxB

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 11, 2024

"The polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, it would have been down to the wire," Biden added, as if explaining his decision. But that’s not why he abandoned his efforts—the polls were always going to be tight, just as they were last time, and they’re still tight even though he’s been replaced by Kamala. No, it’s clear he was threatened, and he bowed.

Also from the CBS interview:

Biden Now Trying to Stir Up Fear About What Would Happen After Election

"Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025?"

BIDEN (cooked): "If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all." pic.twitter.com/3KS9wXzM1o

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 7, 2024

Pelosi continues to act the innocent, but her fingerprints are all over this thing.

Pelosi recently revealed that she and Biden have not spoken since he dropped out of the race. 

The former House speaker also continues to deny she told the president to drop out. She told reporters during a recent interview that the president didn't have a path to victory.

"Now I was really asking for a better campaign. We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory. Members knew that in their districts," Pelosi told reporters…

"It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We are all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short," Pelosi told MSNBC when previously asked if she would be supporting his bid for re-election.

Pelosi has said that it wasn't her intention to put him on the spot during her interview on "Morning Joe," but acknowledged that it re-opened the discussion over whether he should be replaced on the ticket, according to reports. 

"He may think that my statement unleashed something — I don’t know, because I haven’t spoken to him since," Pelosi told reporters recently, according to the Washington Post.

With friends like that… Make sure there are no sharp knives around when she’s visiting. 

For his part, the lame duck, always-vacationing commander-in-chief finally acknowledged what we’ve all known for ages: he’s really, really old. Although he doesn’t say it, it’s not actually the number of years he’s lived that’s the problem—it’s the fact that he’s decrepit, which he shows once again in this interview.

"When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am. It’s hard for me to get out of my mouth. But things got moving so quickly, it didn’t happen. And the combination was that I thought it was a critical issue for me still, it’s not a joke, maintaining this democracy," Biden said during the interview with Costa.

Democracy in action, Democrat style.