Opinion | Miranda Devine: The Bidens are trying to rewrite history, and nobody should fall for it

In her New York Post column, Miranda Devine argues that Joe Biden is using his new memoir tour to rewrite the record of his presidency, starting with this week's trip to Dublin, where Trinity College honored Hunter Biden for an "outstanding contribution to public discourse" with his father by his side.

Devine points to Biden's People magazine interview, in which he called the 2024 debate that ended his re-election bid "not very consequential" and said, "I don't know anybody who hasn't made a mistake in a debate." She notes that he also said "I have all my faculties" and denied hiding his cancer diagnosis, and that he told People of last week's midterms, "I don't think the election could have gone any better."

Her argument: Biden is carefully curating friendly appearances so that what remains is "the Biden myth of a decent and honest family man who was a good and consequential president," while the cognitive decline voters watched for four years is quietly written out. "History will have a very different take on Biden's legacy," she writes, "no matter how many lies are spun in this latest attempt to gloss his failed presidency." Biden's memoir, "Promise Me, America," comes out next Tuesday.