BS BRIEF:

• “The first lie of Joe Biden’s book launch: ‘I’ve written a book.’” — Conservative communicator Steve Guest.
• “Joe Biden couldn’t sign his own pardons. Now he’s ‘written’ a book.” — OutKick founder Clay Travis.
•  Biden’s new memoir, Promise Me, America, is scheduled for release just weeks after the 2026 midterm elections and promises to explain his decision to abandon his 2024 reelection campaign.

Former President Joe Biden wanted Americans talking about his upcoming memoir.

Mission accomplished.

Just not in the way his publishers probably hoped.

Biden announced Wednesday that he will release a new book, Promise Me, America, later this year, describing it as a personal account of his presidency, the decisions he made in office, and what he called the “deeply agonizing calculation” that led him to abandon his reelection campaign in 2024. The announcement quickly turned into a social media feeding frenzy as conservatives resurrected one of the most damaging controversies from the final years of Biden’s presidency, the autopen.

“The first lie of Joe Biden’s book launch: ‘I’ve written a book,'” conservative communicator Steve Guest posted.

OutKick founder Clay Travis was equally blunt. “Joe Biden couldn’t sign his own pardons. Now he’s ‘written’ a book, which Democrats forced him to release after the midterms so he wouldn’t be in the news to remind people how bad he was. Who in the world is buying this book?”

Missouri Congressman Jason Smith joined the pile-on, asking, “Did the autopen write this too?”

Others simply posted photographs of the now-famous White House display showing an autopen in place of Biden’s presidential portrait, a visual jab that has become a recurring symbol of conservative criticism surrounding his administration.

The memoir is scheduled to hit bookstores just after the 2026 midterm elections, allowing Democrats to avoid weeks of campaign-season headlines revisiting the controversies that plagued Biden’s final years in office.

According to promotional material, Biden’s book will recount what he views as his accomplishments, including support for Ukraine, expansion of NATO, economic policies, the Afghanistan withdrawal, and what he described as efforts to “restore our democracy” following January 6.

Missing from the promotional rollout, critics noted, is any indication that Biden plans to fully address the questions that have haunted Democrats since his disastrous 2024 debate performance against President Donald Trump. That debate became the turning point that ultimately forced Biden from the race and shattered years of media assurances that concerns about his age and cognitive decline were merely partisan attacks.

Since leaving office, multiple books, investigative reports and insider accounts have painted a far different picture than the one voters were repeatedly given during his presidency. Journalists, former administration officials and Democratic operatives have increasingly acknowledged that concerns about Biden’s condition were more serious than publicly admitted.

Adding fuel to the fire, former Democratic insiders and administration figures have recently begun promoting their own books and memoirs detailing what they claim was an extensive effort by political allies and sympathetic media outlets to minimize concerns about Biden’s health while he remained in office.

Biden also used the video announcement to provide a health update, saying treatment for his recently disclosed cancer diagnosis has been going “really well.” That news generated bipartisan well-wishes. But politically, the memoir rollout immediately reopened old wounds that Democrats would rather keep buried.

My take…

Folks, you couldn’t script this one if you tried.

The man who spent the better part of four years looking like he needed GPS directions to leave a stage now wants us to believe he sat down with a yellow legal pad and cranked out a presidential memoir.

Sure. And Hunter Biden personally balanced the federal budget.

Look, every president gets a ghostwriter. That’s not the issue. The issue is credibility.

Here’s the problem. The country is still waiting for the memoir that matters.

Not “Promise Me, America.”

How about “Who Had The Nuclear Codes?”

Or perhaps “The Staff Meeting I Don’t Remember.”

Maybe “Autopen: My Silent Partner.”