Miranda Devine: The Bidens are trying to brainwash everyone but we all know their scandal-plagued truth

You may have thought it was a headline from the Babylon Bee: Hunter Biden Honored for “Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse” from prestigious Trinity College Dublin. But it was true. Hunter Biden, the 56-year-old reformed crack and prostitute connoisseur of “Laptop from Hell” fame, visited his ancestral land to be so honored on Tuesday, accompanied by his suddenly compos mentis father, Joe, the former president. A Secret Service cavalcade of seven vehicles chauffeured Hunter and Joe to the university from Dublin’s finest five-star luxury Merrion hotel. We were told that Joe wiped tears from his eyes as his son, fully dressed, accepted Trinity’s gold medal for contributions to society amid glowing accolades from Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, who posted photos of their meeting on social media. Jesus wept. You will be seeing a lot more such gaslighting historical rewrites in coming weeks as Joe’s latest memoir, “Promise Me, America,” is published next Tuesday. You have to hand it to wily old Joe: the 83-year-old still knows how to garner positive press coverage.Unlike President Trump, he confines his utterances to gushingly friendly media, like People magazine, even when he’s supposed to be selling a book for which he received a $10 million advance. On Sunday, he used his stage 4 cancer diagnosis to excuse himself from additional promotional events for the book. In one of his more mind-blowing exchanges with People, Joe said that the disastrously addled debate performance that ended his bid for re-election in 2024 was “not very consequential . . .

I don’t know anybody who hasn’t made a mistake in a debate.” As for his health, he’s no longer at death’s door, apparently: “It looks very positive.There’s a lot of people who’ve been diagnosed with cancer, particularly the kind of cancer I have, who live long lives, who live for another 10, 20 years . . . “I’m not saying I’ll live forever but th...