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This is one Joe Biden story that raises questions Democrats don’t want to answer.

The man who’s now the president of the United States took to the “Late Show with David Letterman” in 2007 with a story for the late-night comic about his purported arrest as a young man for illegally entering the U.S. Senate chamber on a visit to Washington and sitting in the presiding officer’s chair.

It was meant as an amusing anecdote, no doubt, but a viewer in 2021 will be struck by something else entirely. In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion that has left a deep imprint on the nation’s politics as well as its capital city (National Guard units are expected to be stationed in D.C. at least another month), jokes about criminal trespass in the seat of government take on a new light. As Fox News noted on Sunday: “It was unclear whether or the nation’s 46th president was indeed arrested at the age of 21. But Biden has been caught bragging about other arrests that turned out not to be true.”

The man’s well-documented history of lying about past events — including “arrests” — to make himself look good tends to make this story deserving of at least a sizable portion of salt. (He has, however, told it at least once before, with some details added.)

The really big question that comes out here is, what happened to the man in the 2007 video?

The confident, relaxed Joe Biden talking to Letterman bears only a slight resemblance to the faltering, often-confused figure now ensconced in the White House, protected by a Praetorian Guard of Secret Service agents and a bootlicking mainstream media.

Back in the 2008 primary season, then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign mocked then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for not being ready for the “3 a.m. phone call.” Joe Biden these days looks like he’d have to be woken up for the 3 p.m. phone call. Then woken again at 3:05.

Of course, there’s fodder for jokes about Biden staging his own “incursion” in the Senate chamber as a callow youth. There are grounds to mock yet another “Biden” arrest story that doesn’t seem all that well-grounded in reality. (Maybe he was just “detained” in the Capitol, the way he was “detained” in South Africa, rather than being arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela in the 1970s.)

But there are more serious questions raised by this video from 2007, like what happened to that Joe Biden? And is the Joe Biden the United States now has as president really up to the job?

Those are questions Democrats don’t want to answer.

Because they know the answer to the second one, anyway — just as every Trump supporter does.

And it’s “no.”

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