A report has detailed how the White House and Presidential aides hid President Joe Biden's mental decline from the public by rearranging his schedule and cutting off public appearances. The walls around the President were so high that restrictions were placed on who he spoke to and what information reached him.
This was revealed in an exclusive report published by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
This began as early as the President assumed office amid the Covid-19 pandemic. His staff formed a tight shell around the President, limiting his in-person interactions. His staffers also began making adjustments to daily plans for the President's schedule when he appeared tired or kept stumbling. So much so that meetings began to be rescheduled according to Biden's "good days and bad days.”
We honestly don’t even need Special Counsel Hur’s report.
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Here is a 5-minute compilation of Joe Biden’s mental decline.
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According to the WSJ, a national security 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.”
"They body him to such a high degree," another person told the newspaper. Meetings were often scheduled for later in the day as Biden had difficulty functioning outside a six-hour window that closed around 4 pm.
Biden was shielded from his own cabinet secretaries, congressional committee chairs and other high-ranking officials to such an extent that the President held just nine full cabinet meetings — three in 2021, two in 2022, three in 2023 and one in 2024.
Even his closest appointees including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen grew increasingly distant, even during key events like the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021. When one-on-one meetings were scheduled, they were typically virtual rather than in-person.
At least one cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the President after being repeatedly rebuffed, a former senior cabinet aide told the newspaper. Biden also had a close aide by his side during public events who repeated basic instructions to him such as where to enter or exit a stage. Biden’s team even tasked campaign co-chairman and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg to find a voice coach to improve his raspy whisper.
The report also mentions the President’s sit-down with Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating Mr Biden’s handling of classified documents. During the three-hour meetings in the week leading up to the interview, Biden couldn't recall lines his team had previously discussed with him. He also made multiple blunders and was unable to remember key dates, including when he served as Vice President or the year his son Beau Biden died.
