The White House intentionally hid from the public Joe Biden’s rapidly declining mental condition for his entire Presidency, according to a new report. The Mail has more.
Biden’s team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the President, scrapped meetings on his “bad days”, and avoided calls with other politicians, according to an explosive report in the Wall Street Journal.
It exposed an extensive and deliberate cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden’s abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama’s Vice President.
Despite the efforts of aides Biden’s decline became increasingly obvious, especially after Special Counsel Robert Hur last year released a report depicting a forgetful and frail then-81 year-old.
Hur decided not to charge Biden for keeping classified documents in his Delaware garage because he “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”.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Biden could not even repeat back to his staff lines they fed him while preparing for his interview with Hur.
Biden would also cancel important national security meetings, with aides explaining to attendees that he had “bad days and good days”.
A well-connected Democratic strategist confirmed to DailyMail.com that the majority of Biden’s executive power is “concentrated by people who are not external facing”, including his close advisers Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti, and Mike Donilon.
For years, Biden’s lower-level staff have griped that the behind-the-scenes ‘triumvirate’ – known as the ‘Biden whisperers’ – have had an outsized influence over the President.
As his Presidency comes to an end, many in Washington agree that it has been hard to tell who is actually in charge of running the country.
Egregious examples of the White House cover-up included one from Congressman Adam Smith, from Washington, who was Chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
He could not get in touch with the President ahead of the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 to share his serious concerns about the plan.
When 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghans were killed, he made critical comments publicly and was reprimanded by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a close Biden ally.
Biden finally called Smith to apologise and, despite his key role in Congress, it was the only personal call he received in the President’s entire four years.
Close aides also worried about the comparison between Biden and his wife Jill Biden, who is eight years his junior and conducted an energetic, packed schedule that only highlighted the president’s “plodding” pace, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In late June this year, Biden’s decline was on full display when he debated Donald Trump. Gaffes, fumbles and blank stares from the President filled the hour-and-a-half televised event. It proved catastrophic for his campaign.
This from the administration that waged war on misinformation.
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