Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights the most recent revelations about former President Joe Biden’s mental decline in office.
Enjoy these days of Joe Biden getting knocked around like a piñata, because after Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have sold all the books they can, the story of the coverup of Joe Biden’s failing physical and mental health is going to disappear like the subject of a David Copperfied prime-time special. It’s just too embarrassing, too harmful to the Democrats’ priorities now, too much of a benefit to Donald Trump and Republicans. …
… [T]he New Yorker magazine published the first lengthy excerpt from Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, the book Tapper and Thompson co-wrote that is being released May 20. In the excerpt, the authors describe President Biden’s disturbing interaction with George Clooney at the big Hollywood fundraiser, June 13th, 2024:
The President appeared severely diminished, as if he’d aged a decade since Clooney last saw him, in December, 2022. He was taking tiny steps, and an aide seemed to be guiding him by the arm.
“It was like watching someone who was not alive,” a Hollywood V.I.P. recalled. “It was startling. And we all looked at each other. It was so awful.” …
… Biden first met Clooney in 2001 and interacted with him regularly since 2006. By the time of that Hollywood fundraiser last year, Joe Biden had no idea who he was.
Biden remained president for another seven months and eight days. …
… If Joe Biden no longer recognized people he had known for years — including his own cabinet officials! — he should not have been president, period, full stop. The White House is not a retirement home. Why was this controversial? Why was this obvious truth denied?
