This report very nearly killed me with the laughter it evoked:

     In a sign of Biden’s intent to remain engaged publicly, his inner circle tapped Chris Meagher, a former Biden deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson, to help him transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the hire and granted anonymity to speak freely.
     […]
     It is a critical time for Biden, who has come under heavy criticism from Democrats for staying in the presidential race as long as he did last year.
     At the same time, Biden finds himself buffeted by both sides: The Trump administration is making plans to release the audio of Biden’s interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents and raised questions about his mental acuity, POLITICO reported on Wednesday. The recordings — the release of which remains in flux — have long been sought by Trump’s Republican allies to tarnish him. While the transcripts were released long ago, Biden’s allies fear the audio could be used by Republicans in an attempt to further damage his legacy — one of several reasons for bringing on Meagher.

     Has any other president done anything like that? Even Carter and Obama, to the best of my knowledge, didn’t feel such a need. But then, the Bidens are apparently in financial trouble:

     Now getting media advice from a high-powered former spokesman for the Pentagon, according to Politico, Biden did an interview with the BBC published Wednesday that was basically an attack on President Donald Trump and a defense of his own sorry record.
     He sat for a meeting Thursday with the shrews from “The View,” in an appearance that even the Hollywood trade mag Variety called a “botched attempt to restore his legacy.”
     And, according to veteran journalist Mark Halperin, who cited a source he described as “very familiar with the Bidens,” he could be doing it all because his family needs the money.
     Halperin made the remarks Thursday on “The Morning Meeting,” a podcast he co-hosts on the 2Way social media network with former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine, a Democratic operative who served as national finance committee chairman for Hillary Clinton while she was marking time in the Senate before running for president in 2008.

     The Biden family lived like kings on the sale of Joe’s influence, especially to China. Hunter’s lavish lifestyle received the most attention, but Joe and Jill spent lavishly on homes, vacations, and other accoutrements of the high life. It would not surprise me, now that Joe no longer commands saleable political clout, if the family’s income stream is trickling away. Add his undisputable dementia, and who would pay him any amount for anything he can (still) do?

     “As ye give, so shall ye get.” It’s not chiseled on a megalith somewhere, but it should be.