More revelations that show just how mentally unfit President Joe Biden was to hold the most powerful political office on the planet surfaced yesterday in a story about Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
As The New American reported last week, the book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson reveals that aides discussed a wheelchair for the president if he had won a second term.
But now, we learn, such was Biden’s cognitive slide that Cabinet meetings were scripted, The Hill reported, citing the book. Reporters and the public mustn’t see the real Biden.
The latest truth bombs coincide with news that President Joe Biden has “aggressive” prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones, and that he had the curable disease during and perhaps before his first term. White House aides didn’t know, or did know and hid the truth.
Another blow to Team Biden: The audio of his testimony to Special Counsel Robert Hur, who probed the Biden Classified Documents Scandal.
“Largely Scripted”
The excerpts cited in The Hill “reveal further steps that those around Biden took to shield the signs of his cognitive decline as his presidency and reelection bid carried on,” the website revealed.
Noting revelations that Biden didn’t recognize actor George Clooney, the website revealed that “Tapper and Thompson also reported Biden increasingly relied on teleprompters and note cards even for private discussions like Cabinet meetings.”
“Before these meetings,” Tapper and Thompson reveal, “White House staff called the various departments and agencies to figure out what they were going to ask the president so that answers could be prepared. The conversations were largely scripted, even after the press had left the room.”
And Biden “relied on the cards more heavily” after the press departed, the website reported of the book.
Four former Cabinet secretaries spilled the beans on condition of anonymity. They feared the wrath of fellow Democrats who likely participated in the Big Lie about Biden’s diminished cognition and physical condition.
“The Cabinet meetings were terrible and at times uncomfortable — and they were from the beginning,” one secretary told them. “I don’t recall a great Cabinet meeting in terms of his presence. They were so scripted.”
Another secretary said they hated “the scripts.”
But the authors said that some aides argued that Cabinet meetings were always stiff and time-consuming and that Biden was more inquisitive in smaller meetings. And they weren’t too worried about his frequent use of note cards or a poor speech from time to time.
The authors report that the campaign held a staged town hall last April in a high school gym to film a commercial. It was made to appear that Biden was taking questions off the cuff, but the event was closed to reporters and the campaign was given questions in advance.
Why this wasn’t revealed at the time is unexplained. Surely, reporters knew.
But the book also reveals that Biden “struggled” with recording one- or two-minute videos that would keynote an event, having been asked to record a five-minute oration. That was all but impossible for the befuddled commander in chief:
“To compensate for that, aides filmed Biden with two cameras instead of one. If Biden messed up, the edit was less obvious with a jump cut,” they reported. “Other politicians use jump-cuts, but Biden aides noted to themselves how much more often they had to use them for the president.”
Other Revelations
As if that weren’t bad enough, on Sunday, Team Biden revealed the easily cured cancer that now threatens Biden’s life.
The revelation belies the claims from White House physician Kevin O’Connor that Biden was a “healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency, to include those as chief executive, head of state and commander in chief.”
Experts say Biden that given the diagnosis — “aggressive” prostate cancer with a sky-high Gleason Score of 9, which has metastasized to the bone — the former president has had the disease from five to seven to 10 years.
So Biden had the disease throughout his presidency. Treatments might explain Biden’s physical infirmity and cognitive issues. They might also explain the scripted Cabinet meetings.
“Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The [prostate specific antigen] blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth,” Dr. Steven Quay wrote on X:
For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic.
Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025.
It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.
But Quay asked the right questions. Were the president’s falls and cognitive deterioration a side effect of the treatment?
Hur Tape
As The Hill noted, adding to the crushing blows Biden and his handlers have taken is the audio from the Hur testimony.
Biden didn’t remember when his son, Beau, died of brain cancer. He didn’t remember when President Trump was elected. He didn’t remember why classified documents were in his garage, the Penn Biden Center, and many other unauthorized locations. When Hur published his damning report, those facts became public.
And though Biden clearly broke the law, Hur didn’t prosecute him for a good reason. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report said:
Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
The recently released audio, from October 2023, shows just how badly Biden had declined. A rambling Biden couldn’t answer a simple question.
“So during this time when you were living at Chain Bridge Road and there were documents related to the Penn-Biden Center, or the Biden Institute, or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you keep papers related to those things that you were actively working?”
Began Biden in a tremulous voice: “Well, um, I, I, I, I, I, don’t know.”
There followed a rambling, incoherent answer.
