Three reports in the last two days reveal that President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline worsened almost as soon as he entered office in 2020, that a phalanx of gatekeepers kept the president hidden away, and that he suffers with “degraded mental faculties” that began just about 12 months after taking office.
The latest in reports from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and O’Keefe Media Group follows the revelation from a top national security aide that Biden is out of it mentally.
The disclosures explain why President-elect Trump crushed Biden during their debate in June, and why top Democrats let it proceed: so he would lose, which would force him out of the race.
“Diminished Biden”
Remarkably, the Journal’s refreshingly honest headline didn’t sugarcoat the ensuing report: “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge: Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.”
The Journal noted that wife “Dr.” Jill campaigned more than Biden did. When her press spokesman, Michael LaRosa, highlighted that fact to a reporter, Team Biden chastised him: “The message from Biden’s team was clear. ‘The more you talk her up, the more you make him look bad,’” LaRosa said.
But LaRosa’s inadvertently admitting that Biden couldn’t handle the typically long, hectic, and tiring schedule of a major presidential candidate was just the beginning, the newspaper continued:
The small correction foreshadowed how Biden’s closest aides and advisers would manage the limitations of the oldest president in U.S. history during his four years in office.
To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members — including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen — were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic Council head Lael Brainard and her predecessor frequently in the position of being go-betweens for the president.
Translation: Biden can’t handle the job because he is too old and feeble, and again, mentally declining.
As well, aides tightly controlled meetings by limiting who met with him, limiting what they said, and limiting the information he received.
The Journal also explained that Biden couldn’t remember rehearsed material for his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who declined to prosecute the president for mishandling classified documents because he didn’t think a jury wouldn’t convict a forgetful, elderly man.
Biden’s every move was scripted, the newspaper continued. “At events, aides often repeated instructions to him, such as where to enter or exit a stage, that would be obvious to the average person.”
“Sometimes Mumbled”
The Times described Biden as “weary,” a worn-out man unable to do the job.
“Time is catching up with Mr. Biden,” the Times confessed:
He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day. Aides say he remains plenty sharp in the Situation Room, calling world leaders to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon or deal with the chaos of Syria’s rebellion. But it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.
That Biden remains “sharp” is, of course, laughable, but in any event the Times also explained that Biden is simply too feeble to run the country. Two recent trips demonstrate the president’s frailty.
During a trip to Brazil to visit the Amazon rain forest, “his fragility appeared painfully clear to those traveling with him,” the Times explained:
After speaking for seven minutes on a day of draining humidity, a blue shirt hanging loosely over his frame, he turned to slowly shuffle away down a dirt path as several people in the audience not used to seeing him up close said they held their breath, worried that he would trip. (Aides said his gait was no more unsteady than usual.)
In Angola, instead of entering the National Museum of Slavery, exhibits were brought out to him because “the steep stairs would be too much of a challenge,” the newspaper reported.
The White House and the director of the museum denied that claim.
Still, the Times reported, “several of those who traveled with Mr. Biden on those two trips took note that he maintained a light schedule at times and sometimes mumbled, making him hard to understand. With the end of his career in sight, he seemed ruminative. At one point, during a private meeting, he drifted into a reminiscence about the famous 1960 debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.”
The newspaper described a “moody“ Biden who is “angry” at Democrats who criticized him for pardoning son Hunter after vowing not to do so.
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The unsurprising confession from Robert P. Silvers, under secretary of policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Biden has “degraded mental faculties.”
In some meetings, he said, Biden is “on it,” but in others “it’s a blank. I think his body has deteriorated faster than his mind.”
“There’s something going on,” Silvers ruefully admitted. “Like, he’s not the guy he was when he took office four years ago.”
Asked whether the decline was rapid, Silvers explained that it began quickly after he took office:
I think after a year, between year one and two. Again, like months, like 12 to 24.… It accelerated.
That frank assessment comes days after National Security Council staffer Henry Appel said that Biden “can’t say a sentence.”
“He’s like, really, like, progressed in his old age,” Appel confessed. “Everybody recognizes it. I can’t believe it wasn’t a bigger scandal earlier.”
