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Try “well known but – poorly – covered up, before<\/em> the 2020 election”<\/p>\n

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Yes, Our President Was Senile for a Long Stretch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the menu today: Before we dive into the latest detailed anecdotes of President Joe Biden\u2019s undeniable senility in his final year in office, we ought to look back at the on-the-money prediction of these all-too-late tell-all books from back in 2022. I knew this was coming and there\u2019s an extremely good chance you knew this was coming, too. Democrats can\u2019t wait to move on; it\u2019s humiliating to learn Biden couldn\u2019t function in the evenings, his staff told Democratic donors that Kamala Harris was incompetent and unelectable, and that Tim Walz was terrified of debating JD Vance. But how do you learn from a mistake if you refuse to ever admit them?<\/p>\n

Everyone Recognizes George Clooney . . . Except Biden<\/p>\n

The Morning Jolt, June 20, 2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think the single most predictable \u201cbombshell\u201d of the coming years is that sometime in 2025, someone like Bob Woodward or Robert Costa will publish a book with a title like \u201cPerpetual Crisis: Inside the Biden White House,\u201d and we will \u201clearn\u201d something like:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The president\u2019s official health report said he was in fine shape for his age. But behind the scenes, Jill Biden, Ron Klain, and Susan Rice were deeply concerned the president\u2019s health was rapidly declining, and that he would soon be unable to perform his duties. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

His speech was becoming less and less coherent, his thinking more erratic, his mood shifts more intense, and he angrily lashed out at routine advice or recommendations. He insisted he had not been told things he had been briefed on and that his wrong statements were correct. He repeatedly insisted the U.S. had committed to protecting Taiwan, when no treaty required it. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When asked about this, Biden insisted no policy had changed. At almost every public appearance, no matter how much he had been instructed to stick to the teleprompter\u2019s prepared remarks, Biden would go off script and add some comment or outburst \u2014 like \u201cfor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power!\u201d \u2014 that undermined his message and created new foreign-policy headaches.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But the first lady, Klain, and Rice all concurred that Biden\u2019s problems could be hidden from the public, at least for now, and that Vice President Harris taking over was unthinkable \u2014 both because it would be too traumatic for the country and because they had little faith in Harris\u2019s ability to defeat Trump or DeSantis in 2024. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Either man entering the Oval Office in January would put nothing less than all of American democracy at risk. For the good of the country, Biden had to stay in place, and his cognitive decline hidden \u2014 much as FDR\u2019s disability, JFK\u2019s back pain, and Woodrow Wilson\u2019s stroke had been hidden before.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s public appearances grew less and less frequent, and he virtually stopped doing sit-down interviews. Late at night, Klain and Rice would get together, satisfied they had kept the ship sailing for another day. All the while, the public had no idea that Biden was in such rough shape.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Though it will be treated like a bombshell revelation, the fact is we all have eyes and ears and can see and hear Biden.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just wish the lottery numbers were so easy to predict.<\/p>\n

Enjoy these days of Joe Biden getting knocked around like a pi\u00f1ata, because after Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have sold all the books they can, the story of the coverup of Joe Biden\u2019s failing physical and mental health is going to\u00a0disappear like the subject of a David Copperfield prime-time special<\/a>. It\u2019s just too embarrassing, too harmful to the Democrats\u2019 priorities now, too much of a benefit to Donald Trump and Republicans. Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer yesterday, on CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Kasie Hunt: You were in there, you saw him up close and personal. Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Schumer: Casey, we\u2019re looking forward. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us. We have the whole federal government\u2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hunt: You\u2019re facing all of this because you lost a presidential election. And is that not Joe Biden\u2019s responsibility for deciding to run again?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Schumer: We\u2019re looking forward.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[long pause]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hunt: That\u2019s it?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Schumer: That\u2019s it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday, the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0published the first lengthy excerpt<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Original Sin: President Biden\u2019s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again<\/em>, the book Tapper and Thompson co-wrote that is being released May 20. In the excerpt, the authors describe President Biden\u2019s disturbing interaction with George Clooney at the big Hollywood fundraiser, June 13th, 2024:<\/p>\n

The President appeared severely diminished, as if he\u2019d aged a decade since Clooney last saw him, in December, 2022. He was taking tiny steps, and an aide seemed to be guiding him by the arm.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like watching someone who was not alive,\u201d a Hollywood V.I.P. recalled. \u201cIt was startling. And we all looked at each other. It was so awful.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for being here,\u201d the President said to guests as he shuffled past them. \u201cThank you for being here.\u201d Clooney felt a knot form in his stomach as the President approached him. Biden looked at him. \u201cThank you for being here,\u201d he said. \u201cThank you for being here.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know George,\u201d the assisting aide told the President, gently reminding him who was in front of him. \u201cYeah, yeah,\u201d the President said to one of the most recognizable men in the world, the host of this lucrative fund-raiser. \u201cThank you for being here.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHi, Mr. President,\u201d Clooney said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow are ya?\u201d the President replied.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow was your trip?\u201d Clooney asked.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fine,\u201d the President said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It seemed clear that the President had not recognized Clooney.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not O.K.,\u201d recalled the Hollywood V.I.P. who had witnessed this moment. \u201cThat thing, the moment where you recognize someone you know \u2014 especially a famous person who\u2019s doing a f***ing fund-raiser for you \u2014 it was delayed. It was uncomfortable.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge\u00a0Clooney,<\/em>\u201d the aide clarified for the President.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yeah!\u201d Biden said. \u201cHi, George!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney was shaken to his core. The President hadn\u2019t recognized him, a man he had known for years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden first met Clooney in 2001 and interacted with him regularly since 2006. By the time of that Hollywood fundraiser last year, Joe Biden had no idea who he was.<\/p>\n

Biden remained president for another seven months and eight days.<\/p>\n

They later add:<\/p>\n

Clooney was certainly not the only one concerned. Other high-dollar attendees who posed for photographs with Obama and Biden described Biden as slow and almost catatonic. Though they saw pockets of clarity while watching him on television, and onstage later that night, there were obvious brain freezes and clear signs of a mental slide. It was, to some of them, terrifying.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama didn\u2019t know what to make of how his former running mate was acting. At one point, in a small group of a few dozen top donors, Biden began speaking \u2014 barely audibly \u2014 and trailed off incoherently. Obama had to jump in and preside. At other moments, during photos, Obama would hop in and finish sentences for him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the Corner yesterday<\/a>, I wrote about another excerpt from the book confirming that \u201csince at least 2022 Biden has been increasingly prone to lose his train of thought and struggle to remember the names of top aides.\u201d (You may recall that in one of Biden\u2019s last media appearances before withdrawing from the race, he couldn\u2019t\u00a0remember the name of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during an interview with Black Entertainment Television<\/a>\u00a0and referred to him as \u201cthe black man.\u201d)<\/p>\n

If Joe Biden no longer recognized people he had known for years \u2014 including his own cabinet officials! \u2014 he should not have been president, period, full stop. The White House is not a retirement home. Why was this controversial? Why was this obvious truth denied? Why\u00a0did the likes of Delaware Senator Chris Coons attack<\/a>\u00a0other people for publicly expressing the same doubts about Biden he privately held?<\/p>\n

Mass delusion gripped the entire Democratic Party, and they talked themselves into believing they could carry a senile president over the reelection finish line,\u00a0Weekend at Bernie\u2019s<\/em>\u2013style, if everyone just tried hard enough to gaslight the public. And as far as we can tell, at no point did any of them pause to contemplate the potential consequences for the country.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something grimly satisfying about the bitter recriminations laid out in the concluding pages of Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes\u2019s new book\u00a0Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House<\/em><\/a>, as the Democrats grapple with the fact that their own leaders misled them about the reality of the 2024 presidential race every step of the way.<\/p>\n

Three weeks after Election Day, top Kamala Harris campaign staffers appeared on\u00a0Pod Save America<\/em>\u00a0and contended their internal polling always showed the vice president trailing. \u201cIt was hard for Democratic voters to tell what was real,\u201d Allen and Parnes write. \u201cThey had been led to believe that Joe Biden was in fighting shape. But he wasn\u2019t. They had been led to believe he was locked in a dead-heat race with Trump. But he wasn\u2019t. They had been led to believe that [Kamala] Harris was in a position to win. But she wasn\u2019t. And now they were being led to believe she never had a chance. That wasn\u2019t really true, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in the preceding 287 pages, we keep getting anecdotes indicating things had gone terribly, glaringly, obviously wrong in the Democrats\u2019 world, but no one wanted to admit it and confront the problems.<\/p>\n

After his disastrous debate performance, President Biden attempted to reassure a group of unnerved Democratic governors by telling them he would no longer plan to appear at events past 8 in the evening. Allen and Parnes say one governor later quipped, \u201cSomebody better tell the Chinese when they can attack us, because I don\u2019t want them to wake him up.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the president can\u2019t physically or mentally function well in the evening hours, why is he still president? How would he handle a sustained emergency like the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he\u2019d need to make tough decisions after long days?<\/p>\n

Allen and Parnes describe Biden aides calling up doubtful Democratic donors before his withdrawal and threatening them, \u201cYou want her? Look at her polling. No one wants her. Forget it.\u201d One donor tells the authors, \u201cThey were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice president and that would be a mistake.\u201d The argument that Harris is a self-evident disaster was characterized by Biden staffers as their \u201cace in the hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

If nominating Harris was such an obvious catastrophe . . .\u00a0why was she vice president?<\/em>\u00a0At any moment, the 82-year-old Biden could keel over or have an aneurysm, and she would be the nominee anyway. For that matter, didn\u2019t anybody on the president\u2019s staff foresee any potential downside to trashing the veep?<\/p>\n

If, as Allen and Parnes report, in the weeks leading up to the debate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was so nervous that he couldn\u2019t sleep at night and his aides had to remind him to eat, wasn\u2019t that a glaring sign that this guy wasn\u2019t ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? The duties of the vice-presidency include tasks even more intimidating than debating JD Vance.<\/p>\n

No one in any position of leadership in the Democratic Party in 2024 should have been there. None of them were up to the task before them.<\/p>\n

In that\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0excerpt, a Biden spokesperson tells Tapper and Thompson, \u201cNo one has been able to point out where Joe Biden had to make a presidential decision or make a presidential address where he was unable to do his job because of mental decline.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bullcrap.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Biden insisted during\u00a0his infamously short-tempered interview with George Stephanopoulos<\/a>\u00a0that no one had recommended keeping a small group of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to keep order at the airport or anywhere else, specifically stating, \u201cNo one said that to me that I can recall.\u201d A few months later, under oath before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. CENTCOM Commander General Frank McKenzie, and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley\u00a0both said they had recommended<\/a>\u00a0President Biden maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Either McKenzie and Milley lied under oath to Congress, or Biden genuinely did not remember what his advisers had recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are few crimes in Washington more denounced than\u00a0being right too early<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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