It’s not just Biden family artwork that’s struggling to sell these days.

Former President Joe Biden’s attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned — as some of his own former aides say it’s time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about “colored kids” Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.

A source familiar with Biden’s faltering speaking career said that the 46th president’s standard pitch is $300,000 — 25% below Barack Obama’s $400,000 asking price upon leaving office in 2017.

It’s unclear how negotiable Biden’s rate is.

If travel is required, a private jet and expenses for five staffers also is expected for Biden, who has been repped since early February by the Creative Artists Agency. (Read more from “Joe Biden ‘Having Trouble Booking Gigs’ With $300K per Speech Asking Price” HERE)

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There is stiff competition atop the leaderboard of history’s most dramatic reversals. Foremost is the resurrection of a crucified Messiah, then the parting of the Red Sea, then young David succeeding Saul as king of Israel. Somewhere nearby is Gandalf appearing east of Helm’s Deep on the first light of the fifth day (okay, maybe that one is fictional), and not far behind is Eithan Haim’s Jan. 24 vindication after very nearly facing prison time on spurious charges.

Excuse this reporter’s rare indulgence of hyperbole, but, for the small-town Texas surgeon, the sudden reversal of his fortune felt like “the biggest victory possible in the most dramatic way possible,” as he put it on The Washington Stand’s “Outstanding” podcast, for which the titular superlative is not hyperbole. “That morning, I was getting ready to go to jail. … That day … the judge has to dismiss the case with prejudice.”

Congressional Testimony

Haim related his harrowing experience on Wednesday before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, in a hearing titled, “Ending Lawfare Against Whistleblowers Who Protect Children.”

While completing his surgical training at Texas Children’s Hospital in 2022, Haim discovered that the hospital’s public claim that it had shut down its gender transition program for minors, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, had declared that such treatment constituted child abuse, “was a blatant lie,” he testified. “They not only continued their program, they expanded it.”

In May 2023, he anonymously blew the whistle on the hospital’s potentially illegal deception. But the Joe Biden administration’s Department of Justice chose to investigate Haim, not the hospital. Armed federal officials notified him of this investigation by knocking on his front door on “one of the most important days of my life,” the very morning of his graduation from his surgical program at Baylor College of Medicine, which is affiliated with Texas Children’s Hospital. (Read more from “Courage and Consequences: Inside Whistleblower’s Harrowing Experience with Biden’s Department of (In)justice” HERE)

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One of former President Joe Biden’s senior aides admitted in a new book that the 82-year-old couldn’t grasp the back and forth of debate and would fall asleep by the pool while they prepped for his showdown with Trump, according to a book excerpt.

Top Biden aide Ron Klain, who helped the former president with debate prep, was “half-seriously” wondering if Biden believed he was the president of NATO rather than the president of the United States, according to the excerpt of Chris Whipple’s new book published by The Guardian. While they prepped, Klain reportedly told Whipple that the then 81-year-old president “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was” and would have to cut training sessions short because he was tired.

“The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged,” the excerpt reads. “Klain feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.”

Biden’s first training session for the debate was called off halfway through the 90 minutes it was schedule for because the former president was failing to grasp domestic policy, according to the excerpt.

As the former president became irritable, Klain pushed Biden to run on “unfinished business” and his attempt to “subsidize state and local efforts to do childcare and bring down the cost to $20 a day. And you ought to try to fight for it again,” according to the excerpt. (Read more from “Top Aide Finally Admits Biden Was Rapidly Declining, Falling Asleep By The Pool” HERE)

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The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.

Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze, according to four sources inside the Trump DOE granted anonymity by the Daily Caller News Foundation to freely discuss a sensitive matter.

“The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,” one DOE source told the DCNF. “They were prioritizing their own political ambitions over the interests of the American people, and the administration intentionally deceived the American public to advance an agenda that harmed American energy security, the environment and American lives.”

ICYMI last night:

A government watchdog group is alleging that the Biden-Harris Dept. of Energy effectively deceived the public to impose the LNG approvals moratorium. @DailyCaller

Quick 🧵

— Nick Pope (@realnickpope) October 3, 2024

(Read more from “Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say” HERE)

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