Biden showing signs of decline as pols, aides detail 81-year-old's slipping cognitive fitness
By: nypost (New York Post)
As they say..........TOLD YA SO!!
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President Biden's cognitive decline is readily apparent and a concern for dozens who have interacted with the 81-year-old commander-in-chief in recent months, according to a shocking report Tuesday.
Some of the more than 45 Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staffers interviewed by the Wall Street Journal described a president who spoke so softly during meetings that participants struggled to understand him.
A shocking report on Tuesday detailed accounts from dozens of politicians and aides who have noticed President Biden's cognitive decline. Ron Sachs - Pool via CNP / MEGA4Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was quoted as saying that Biden is "not the same person." Getty Images
Others noted that Biden's demeanor and grasp of policy details varied by the day and he frequently relied on notes and deferred to aides during conferences.
"You couldn't be there and not feel uncomfortable," one person, who met with the president during critical negotiations over congressional funding for Ukraine aid in January, told the outlet.
"I'll just say that."
Others in attendance recalled that it took Biden about 10 minutes from when he entered the room to get the meeting started, and when he did, he used note cards to make obvious points that everyone was already in agreement with and participants could barely hear him.
"Much of the conversation didn't include him," the report states, noting that the president asked his staffers to answer some questions posed directly to him.
In a February follow-up with House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican expressed his concern to the president over the administration's liquid natural gas export policy — fearing it was benefiting Russia.
Biden didn't seem to know the policy was actually in effect and falsely claimed it was "only a study," according to the report.
The exchange "dismayed" Johnson, according to individuals who witnessed it.
Biden would "ramble" and mumble, and his ability to command the room varied from day to day during tense negotiations over raising the debt ceiling last May, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recalled.
Other accounts claimed that Biden would often "ramble." REUTERS
"He always had cards," McCarthy said, referring to Biden's dependence on notes. "He couldn't negotiate another way.
"I used to meet with him when he was vice president. I'd go to his house. He's not the same person," he added.
In follow-up calls with Biden, lawmakers tasked by McCarthy to hammer out the details of the debt ceiling plan struggled to get the president to make the final call on key points.
Their conversations with the president were frustratingly "general," and Biden would only express "optimism about working things out."
"He was going back to all the old stuff that had been done for a long time," McCarthy told the Wall Street Journal about the excruciating final stages of the negotiations, suggesting that Biden seemed to have forgotten how far along the White House and Congress were on getting a deal done.
"And he was shocked when I'd say: 'No, Mr. President. We talked about that meetings ago. We are done with that,'" he recalled.
McCarthy emphasized Biden's reliance on notes, claiming the president "couldn't negotiate another way." AP
A senior GOP aide told The Post that the alarming allegations in the report are why the Justice Department has refused to release tapes of Biden's interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents investigation.
"Behind closed doors? Isn't it obvious in public?" the aide said. "Don't you think that's why they want to hide the Hur transcript?"
A White House official dismissed suggestions that the accounts depict a president with declining mental acuity.
"Congressional Republicans, foreign leaders and nonpartisan national security experts have made clear in their own words that President Biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment," spokesman Andrew Bates told the outlet.
"Now, in 2024, House Republicans are making false claims as a political tactic that flatly contradict previous statements made by themselves and their colleagues."
Biden, the oldest president in US history, would be 86 by the end of a second term, if re-elected.
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But, but, but, nuh uh LMAO Nuh Huh
As Bill Maher said recently:
Maher confessed he would "vote for [Biden's] head in a jar of blue liquid" over Trump, but he was still concerned Biden would lose to Trump.
"He's going to f---ing lose," he predicted.
Bill Maher battles journalist over Biden’s re-election chances: ‘He’s going to f---ing lose!’ | Fox News
And people used to make fun of George Bush and Dan Quayle's gaffes....
His inability to function as a competent adult is now so bad that the DOJ is illegally withholding audio and video recordings of his deposition because they don't want the public to see how much they edited (again, illegally) the transcripts to make Biden appear semi- lucid. His incapacity has been been obvious for years and it keeps getting worse. Filming videos with an edit every sentence and limiting his public appearances and workload can't hide what always slips out.
The truly funny part is watching how brazenly Democrats and their media are willing to lie to voters' faces. Making claims like "he has more energy than his 30 year old staffers," or "he's sharper than he ever was" with a straight face is next level dishonesty. It's like something out of North Korea.
He's just a cranky old bully who insults and offers to fight people who question him and struggles to successfully complete coherent sentences if he's not able to read them.
An "objective" person would be out of their minds to believe a Wall St Journal hit piece based on statements by Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson. On the bright side Trump must be proud of his his two groveling lackeys today.
Lucky for us, we can watch videos of Biden with our own eyes, at least the ones the White house isn't illegally suppressing to protect him.
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Bidenistas only show the few videos of him reading from a teleprompter without tripping over his mind as proof he is still coherent.
Trying hard to sell a lie.
And how do you contrast those with the myriad videos of Trump being unable to even form a cogent sentence, or falling asleep at his own criminal trial?
How about responding to my comment with something other than but but but trump.
Nope, it was by 45 individuals from both political parties.
Did you read it?
When word got around that Democrats talked to the WSJ, Biden made the people who talked call the WSJ afterwards and say nice things about him.
That's par for the course, just like the 51 former intelligence officials who thought Hunter's laptop looked like Russian disinformation.
And the person who led that conspiracy to interfere in the election was rewarded by being appointed Secretary of State.
That is correct.
You won't find the leftwing fact checking sites checking on Blinken.
I am asking an honest question, which almost a full day later nobody has been willing to answer?
This is why they want to hide the transcript and audio of the Hur interview. His mental decline is on official record. They don't want the public to know the actual level it's dropped to.
hide the transcript
They made A transcript public. But they don't want to release the video and audio because they edited the transcript they released to make Biden seem more coherent. So they can't release the tapes because it would reveal the illegal editing.
Which is election "interference" and can be turned into dozens of felonies these days.
Que the blind Biden supporters trying to compare this to his opponent.
Already done...........twice LOL
Biden could be in a coma and still be more qualified than anyone in the maga cult, which is the vast majority of the Republican Party.
Nope
I nominate Matthew McConaughey. I guarantee he would win.