Having pardoned his own son, the outgoing President has decided that the bigger crime was his own election performance. During his Presidency there was nothing as heinous as his incoherent bumbling, which was attributed to Biden being 147 years old and technically dead.
All reference to the debate will be memory-holed alongside evidence of aliens and the fact that JFK is still alive. It means Biden is now innocent of losing the 2024 election but still guilty of giving the world Kamala Harris.
Harris is said to be annoyed that all the blame for the failure now falls on her, but as a woman, what did she expect? Meanwhile, Biden's reputation is saved, if you ignore all the war-crimey stuff, and he leaves office a free man, at least until he reaches the care home. A lawyer explained: 'We all need to forget the debate, just like Joe did, halfway through.'