Joe Biden’s farewell address last Wednesday ending four years in the White House and a half-century as a Washington political hack serves as a tone-deaf sour-note reminder of how very grateful we should be that he is leaving.

Biden opened and closed his 19-minute statement taking credit for the Israel-Hamas hostage deal that was “developed and negotiated” by his administration and which is tentatively scheduled to take effect on Sunday, the day before incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

This is occurring a little over a week after Trump declared at a Jan. 7 Mar-a-Lago press conference that if Israeli hostages held by Hamas “are not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.”

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