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Michael Moore rips those pushing Biden to stay in the race for inflicting ‘cruelest form of elder abuse’

Lefty filmmaker Michael Moore has accused President Biden’s campaign of committing “the cruelest form of elder abuse” by pushing the 81-year-old to stay in the 2024 race given his “epic distress” at the debate.

Moore, who has of late been a vocal critic of Biden’s, took aim at the commander-in-chief’s team over the weekend amid growing calls from Democrats for him to give up his re-election campaign.

“If I have to be the only one to stand for Joe Biden — that’s right, you heard me say that — if I have to be the only one to stand up for Joe Biden here, to protect him from the cruelest form of elder abuse I’ve ever been forced to watch, well then that’s what I’ll do,” Moore said on the latest episode of his “Rumble” podcast.

Michael Moore took aim at Biden's team over the weekend amid growing calls from Democrats for him to give up his re-election campaign.
Michael Moore took aim at Biden’s team over the weekend amid growing calls from Democrats for him to give up his re-election campaign. MSNBC

The “Bowling for Columbine” director said he was “gobsmacked” by Biden’s debate performance against former President Donald Trump — suggesting he should leave before the end of his term, let alone try to stay for another four years.

“This is about whether he should serve another four days,” he said. “Let the doctors examine you. Then do the right thing.”

He dismissed the Biden excuses — including jet lag and a cold — as “malarkey,” a favored term of the president.

“He was in epic distress that Thursday night. Every cognitive default in his mind seemed to be shutting down,” Moore said.

“If this had been somebody that you truly cared about, loved, embraced, what would you have done? Would you have seriously even let him go out on that stage?

“Who would send an 81-year-old out onto any stage to debate a living monster at 9 o’clock at night for a brawl that would not end until 10:42 p.m.?

“Honestly, have any one of you ever looked at the clock, saw that it was getting near 11 p.m. and said to yourself, ‘I think I’m going to give Grams and Gramps a call’?”

Elsewhere, the “Fahrenheit 9/11” director said he was shocked that those on Biden’s campaign still had jobs in the wake of the debate — a fact Trump also raised mid-debate.

“Trump was right — I know, there’s words I’ve never spoken — Trump was right when he turned to Biden to ask him what his problem was as to why he never fires anybody,” Moore said. “It’s amazing to me how a week later now, anyone on this campaign staff still has a job! How is that possible?!”

The lefty filmmaker, who said he was "gobsmacked" by Biden's debate performance against former President Donald Trump, dismissed the excuses given by his team.
The lefty filmmaker, who said he was “gobsmacked” by Biden’s debate performance against former President Donald Trump, dismissed the excuses given by his team. AP

Moore too wondered whether Biden should even remain in the White House until the election in November.

“President Biden, thank you for the good you have done. You will be remembered throughout the ages. But not if you let your enablers hound you into doing what your body is begging you not to do,” Moore continued.

“Be the one who not only stopped Trump but also the brave man who gave us our first woman in the Oval Office. She will complete your mission — and we will stand beside her. This is your moment in history.”