The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that White House aides immediately “insulated” President Joe Biden, even from his top Cabinet members, from the very start of his presidency in 2021.
This means top aides have been lying, not only to people within the administration, but to the entire country, all while understanding and trying to disguise the fact that Biden was unable to function as president.
The Journal report starts by revealing that during the 2020 campaign, “Jill Biden campaigned so extensively across Iowa that she held events in more counties than her husband—a fact her press secretary at the time, Michael LaRosa, touted to a local reporter.” That press secretary was then told to immediately call the reporter back and downplay the fact that Joe Biden, then 77, was unable to keep up with his wife, who was doing the campaign for him while he stayed in the basement of their home and read prepared scripts.
After he took office in January of 2021, his official staff quickly realized they had to rearrange his schedule to accommodate for his episodes of fuzzy-headedness and fatigue.
It wasn’t until Democratic lawmakers and donors spoke to the Wall Street Journal that the extent of this coverup has been known, with staff shielding him from the public and the press in a coordinated fashion.
By the spring of 2021, Biden’s “good days and bad days” were forcing schedule changes routinely. During one meeting on national security, one senior official told an aide at the time: “He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,” as relayed by the aide to the Journal.
As his first year as president continued, officials were told that briefings must be short and to the point, meetings with top cabinet members, including national security officials, became rare. According to the Journal, one cabinet member finally gave up on trying to schedule a talk with Biden after being repeatedly put off.
Biden was so mentally frail that he wouldn’t take a call from Rep. Adam Smith, Democrat chair of the House Armed Services Committee in the hours leading up to Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, when 13 U.S. soldiers died, 45 were injured, and 170 Afghan civilians were killed. The last military aircraft left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, just nine months into Biden’s presidency, when already his staff had formed a shield around him. Biden left the Taliban in charge of $7 billion in military weapons, aircraft, and equipment that he abandoned to the terrorists.
“I was begging them to set expectations low,” Rep. Smith told the Journal, because he thought the withdrawal was going to be more difficult than Biden was imagining. But he could not get a call through to Biden due to the protection racket.
The newspaper revealed that a voice coach was brought in to try to help Biden with his increasingly faint and whispery voice, described by the newspaper as a “fading warble.”
What the newspaper is describing is an extensive, coordinated cover-up that was executed at the same time the Democrats, including people like Rep. Mary Peltola, were describing Biden as not only competent, but sharp.
“I think that Joe Biden’s mental acuity is very, very on. He’s one of the smartest, sharpest people I’ve met in D.C.,” Peltola told NBC’s Meet the Press one year ago this month.
In February, it was determined that Biden could not be prosecuted for having highly classified documents at his house, because he has such poor memory issues, wrote Robert Hur, special counsel fo the Justice Department. Among documents stored along with various garage junk were papers that are still classified “up to the Top Secret level and includes Sensitive Compartmented Information, including from compartments used to protect information concerning human intelligence sources,” Hur said, including documents about Afghanistan and the U.S. military. While Biden could have classified documents as vice president, he kept them when he became a private citizen after leaving office in 2017.
A question now is whether Democrat voters will lose faith in their party leaders to tell them the truth, after such a coordinated propaganda campaign, where top operatives put power ahead of their country, has been revealed. Another question Americans might be asking is how much of this was a criminal act by staff members in the White House who knew full well that the lights were on, but nobody was home in Biden’s brain.
“There is a bigger problem here, and that is that I think Democrats are at the point where Republicans might have been right after the Bush election or after the Bush term was up, which is that I think Democrats are starting to mistrust their institutions,” Roginsky said. “And this goes back to a bipartisan effort to lie us into the Iraq war, not just by George Bush, but also by a lot of Democrats.
