US President Joe Biden’s declining mental faculties were hidden from view in an active conspiracy to keep the full scale of the 82-year-old world leader’s senility from the American public, an explosive investigation has alleged. Biden was forced to pull out of the campaign for his second term earlier this year, after a nonsensical debate performance and multiple gaffes that shocked unaware voters.
The scale of Biden’s apparent decline came to a head in July, following his disastrous debate performance against now-President-elect Trump and a series of gaffes culminating in the Commander-in-Chief introducing the embattled Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin”.
A short campaign by Democratic insiders and donors, including George Clooney, then forced him to step out of the race and support the failed candidacy of Kamala Harris. This moment marked the end of his more than half a century in national politics, after being first elected to the US Senate in 1972 – the year that home video players were invented.
But advisors around the US’ first octogenarian president had been hiding the scale of this decline from the public and politicians from the very first day of his term in office, the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell investigation has uncovered. This four-year cover-up operation saw officials hiding Biden from events and even members of his Cabinet when he was having one of his “bad days”, the report alleges.
“Eager beaver hand holders” in the Democrat establishment were blamed for this cover-up in the report.
The investigation highlighted the case of Biden’s missing classified documents that emerged earlier this year, which greatly embarrassed the president following his own criticism of Trump for leaving office and taking boxes of official documents home to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. For many, Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into the then 81-year-old’s missing documents was the first public depiction of the president as old and forgetful.
Despite the discovery of sensitive files being held in his Corvette at his home garage, Hur decided not to prosecute the president because he did not believe a jury would convict a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” After the report, rather than feeling relief, Biden was forced to tell reporters: “My memory is fine.”
But the WSJ report states that Biden was not even able to repeat lines being given to him by his staff, while being interviewed by Hur. This alleged decline also meant cancelling presidential appointments and even national security briefings, with aides left explaining that he had “bad days and good days.”
A Democratic strategist told the Daily Mail that those surrounding Biden and influencing his decisions were “people who are not external facing,” with close advisors Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti, and Mike Donilan named as key members of the group staffers called the “Biden Whisperers.” The insider blamed the group for having a great deal of influence over America’s oldest-ever president – raising the question of who actually runs the country.
Some in this small clique found themselves worried by the obvious comparison between Biden and his wife Jill, who is eight years younger and regularly carried out a much busier schedule than her husband. It also drew the comparison between the president’s increasing mobility issues, with him seen as “plodding” alongside her and looking frail.
This caused concerns that Jill’s energy and comparative youth was making Joe “look bad,” before he had even made it to the White House. This led to close aides attempting to play down questions about the number of events that his wife was holding.
But after four years in office, this facade collapsed on June 27, during the gaffe-filled debate with Trump, where Biden frequently appeared vacant and unable to stay on topic. After the four and half hour CNN event, it was apparent to many in his own party and the wider public that he was not fit for another four years as President of the United States.
It took Biden another month to reach the same conclusion, after even party stalwarts and former allies like Nancy Pelosi called for him to step back. But for many Democrats, it was unclear how it had taken so long for his decline to become apparent.
However, it has emerged that senior advisors had been handing the president cue cards, telling him where to stand, and even where he was meant to be looking or sitting. His team went as far as to ask Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg to find him a vocal coach to improve his frail sounding voice.
The Mail reports senior advisors being placed into roles that would previously have been within the purview of the president himself. This included Steve Ricchetti, National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, and National Economic Council head Lael Brainard.
A witness told the journal that this group provided close “hand holding” for the Commander-in-Chief and helped to shield him from negative stories. Press relations teams were instructed by “senior” officials to even edit negative clips of Biden out of his briefings.
The White House refuted the Wall Street Journal’s investigation, with spokesperson Andrew Bates telling the paper Biden “earned the most accomplished record of any modern commander in chief and rebuilt the middle class because of his attention to policy details that impact millions of lives.”
