The public was not supposed to know this about Joe Biden.
The truth was kept under wraps for a long time.
But now the public is finally being told what really happened.
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, it was clear he wasn’t as sharp or as lucid as when he left the White House in 2016.
The American people elected him anyway and over the course of his presidency, the problems only got worse.
It was also apparent that his staff was trying to shield him away from the public.
Now the true extent of these efforts to hide Biden’s mental decline are coming to light.
And it’s not a good look.
According to The Times, “White House staff restricted President Biden’s access to information, controlled his reading material and limited meetings with senior officials throughout his presidency, even as they maintained until five months ago that he would seek re-election.”
“Biden, 82, the oldest person to serve as president, has faced scrutiny about his age and fitness for office. ‘In conversations that I’m having, they don’t even mention the president. It’s kind of sad,’ a Democratic official said. ‘It feels like Trump is president already.’”
People age at different rates – and sure, maybe not every 82-year-old declines to the degree Biden did, but it was obvious to everyone that he was declining rapidly.
His staff continued to dutifully prop him up and shield him from any scrutiny.
“In preparation for an interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating classified documents retained by Biden after his vice-presidency, staff are said to have found he struggled to recall talking points and briefings they had provided, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. Hur described Biden as ‘an elderly man with a poor memory,’” reported the Times.
“The newspaper also claimed that aides frequently had to guide Biden on how to leave stages after speeches and were instructed to exclude negative stories from his daily media briefings.”
It’s not Joe Biden’s fault he’s getting older.
But the president is one of the most powerful people in the world and needs to be in good mental and physical fitness to do the job well.