The release of the audio recordings from Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with Joe Biden in October, 2023 pertaining to Biden's mishandling of classified documents after he left the vice presidency, along with tell all books written by opportunistic journalists, confirmed what the least discerning among us knew since @ least the 2020 presidential campaign - namely, that Biden did not have the cognitive ability to be president of the United States (i.e., the mental skills & processes used for thinking, learning, reasoning, problem solving, & understanding the world around him that encompasses the functions of memory, attention, perception, & language which enables us to process information, adapt to new situations, & make decisions).
This post pertains to the Biden presidential scandal regarding the hiding from the public of Biden's true cognitive ability during his last two campaigns for the presidency & his four year term in office. It does not pertain to any potential scandal regarding his being diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer only a few months after leaving office - which is a whole other matter.
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Early on in 2020 during Biden's campaign for the presidency many people thought the degree that he stayed in his Delaware basement was strange - despite the pretense of protecting himself from the Wuhan coronavirus that causes Covid-19. But even in the basement there were teleprompter problems & the outrageous statement Biden made to Charlemange tha God in May 2020 about black voters choosing him over Trump. The basement episodes are the starting point & the June 27, 2024 pitiful debate performance is the ending point of a time interval where Biden's cognitive ability decline was on an ever increasing full display.
During his time in office clues kept adding up that something was wrong with Biden.
For instance four months after the aforementioned Hur interviews the White House released the transcripts but not the audios of the interviews in which Biden's confusion was much more pronounced than revealed in a simple reading of the transcripts. Hur's assessment of the interviews was that Biden was a "sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory" who exhibited "diminished faculties" & "significant limitations" & that because of Biden's poor condition "no criminal charges are warranted in this matter."
Hur's assessment infuriated Biden who around 7 PM Thursday, February 8, 2024 called a press conference for 7:45 PM in which he intended to prove to the world "I know what the hell I'm doing."
Biden looked unusually feeble going to the podium in his usual old-man shuffling gait & after giving an angry speech took questions in which his answers 1) mistakenly referred to the President of Mexico when he meant Egypt regarding human aid in Gaza, 2) absentmindedly referred to his late son Beau - “Let me tell you something. Some of you have commented. I wear, since the day he died every single day, the rosary he got from our Lady of …” & then was not able to finish the sentence, 3) emphatically stated that “I said I’m gonna be a president for everybody, whether you live in a red state or a green state,” & 4) finally turned to the Democrat safe issue of abortion & promptly misnamed the “Roe v. Wade” case as "Roe v. Ward" as in Montgomery Ward & Co.
Not a performance that portrayed the desired image of a strong energetic man in control but rather one of a confused "elderly man with a poor memory” who exhibited “diminished faculties” & “significant limitations” - exactly how Hur's report he was trying to undo had described him.
In the audio of the Hur interviews Biden could be heard speaking with a weak voice struggling to express himself & remembering dates including mixing up his time as VP with his time in the Senate & being off by several years recounting the year that his son Beau died.
The people who covered for Biden should never hold a position of trust again. The three people who quickly come to mind are Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pieire who regularly told people how sharp Biden was & that he ran circles around her; Kamala Harris, who after the aforementioned debate told the nation that Biden was as sharp as ever when she regularly meets with him to discuss national issues (Harris did not have time to prepare a story coming on air shortly after the conclusion of the disastrous debate); & Jill Biden who had to know all of the details from the basement to the debate but consistently led her husband everywhere they went.
And naturally there is the media cover up. Who would want to get their news from a source that so blatantly misled you on Biden's deteriorating mental condition?
Of course you have control over this - just don't vote for any politician who so grossly misled you or get your news from any source that repeatedly says to believe them rather than your lying eyes.
Below is a list of videos I presented on RTE during the 2020 campaign that divulged the absurd pretense that Biden & all his accomplices worked under to hide his mental condition. Best to avoid the media that did not present & address the obvious problems. The dates appearing next to the video topics below indicate the date of the post. If you never saw any of these videos you should ask yourself why.
But the Democrats painted themselves into the corner during the 2020 presidential campaign when it looked like Bernie Sanders could win the Democrat party nomination that year. Biden was on the ropes after losing the first three nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, & Nevada. He needed a win in South Carolina & called on his long time friend South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn for help. Clyburn endorsed Biden who went on to a major win in SC winning all 46 counties after being propelled by receiving 61% of the Black vote. In return for Clyburn's support Biden promised to nominate a woman as his running mate & after several private meetings Biden nominated a Black woman - Clyburn's preference. Biden won 10 of 15 contests on Super Tuesday following his win in SC & was well on his way to the Democrat nomination in 2020.
Thus the ticket of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris was formed - they were initially successful in Democrats' eyes because they defeated Trump in 2020 receiving 306 electoral votes & over 81 million popular votes - a record.
In 2024 Biden once more called on his friend Clyburn who helped rig the 2024 primary in Biden's favor by having the Democrat National Committee (DNC) move South Carolina ahead of New Hampshire on the Democrat party primary schedule. The excuse being that the DNC wanted to prioritize diversity & that the SC electorate was thought to be more diverse than NH's & therefore more representative of the Democrat voting base. NH held its primary first anyway knowing full well that their convention delegates were disqualified because the state breached the party calendar. Biden won the SC primary anew in 2024 thereby once again providing a path for this decrepit man to become president of the United States. But Clyburn had done Democrats no favors by once again putting Democrats in the Biden-Harris box - this time it blew up in their faces after Biden's disastrous debate performance did not leave enough time for selection of a nominee other than Harris.
But the die had really been cast earlier on in the campaign of 2020 in that Biden was already @ least slightly senile in 2020 with further rapid mental deterioration to follow & when Biden could not continue with his campaign in July 2024 the Democrat party's future fell into the hands of Harris. Trump found himself facing Harris - an abominable, feckless, vapid candidate thereby setting up Trump's comeback victory in 2024 to the horror of Democrats who acknowledge that the Biden presidency failed its intended mission to move the country past Trump & all the damage he had done & is doing to our constitutional republic once again, just like @ the end of his first term, betraying his oath of office by 1) abusing the limited authority Congress had legislatively delegated to the executive decades before to use discrete targeted tariffs in emergencies - a limited authority that Trump has used to claim unbounded, unchecked, unilateral authority to impose tariffs on virtually every country on Earth based on an arbitrary formula intended to penalize countries based on their trade imbalances with the United States that in reality will only raise American consumer prices thereby lowering economic growth & our standard of living, & 2) effectively suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus concerning alleged illegal alien detainees - the Great Writ is an essential part of America's Due Process legal system that separates the United States from the tyranny found in North Korea, Venezuela, El Salvador, & South Sudan.
(Note regarding Biden - those people - party bosses & voters - who thought Biden was capable of governing as a moderate & presiding over an economically successful presidency like Bill Clinton's - thanks to Gingrich - took a terrible chance lying to themselves & the rest of us by ignoring or discounting Biden's four decade public service record & the videos presented hereinbefore.)
Biden's taste of the presidential power he had wanted all of his life made it all but impossible to drag him & his wife out of the White House until the June debate showed the world on live TV how unfit he was to serve. Harris was painted into the same corner as Biden because she could not credibly claim she would have implemented different policies after spending three & one half years never once disagreeing with anything Biden did.
So what started in 2020 as a plan to ensure Trump was not reelected turned into a dilemma in 2024 where the Democrat nominee for president was first a man who was forced to drop out after an unintelligible debate performance & then a woman who had dropped out of the 2020 Democrat primaries before the Iowa caucuses without ever receiving one single vote. Harris's first decision as the Democrat nominee in 2024 was to pick Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate - a man Mike Huckabee described as "Elmer Fudd without the shotgun."
The Democrat brass can only blame themselves for the decline in their party where only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about their future because of the uncovering of the charade that Biden was physically & mentally fit to be president - a deception built on a foundation of quicksand that by definition meant it was destined to not work out well @ some point for the perpetrators & their accomplices.
We'll find out how much of the Biden-Harris stigma sticks to Democrats in the November 2026 midterms. Meanwhile Trump's approval rating dropped to 42% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted during the week of May 19 (it's underwater by over 10 points regarding the economy in the Real Clear Politics average on May 28 @ 42.3% approve & 52.8% disapprove) but he retains strong support from the people who voted for him, including those in this readership.
