Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon reports on Democrats’ changing assessments of former President Joe Biden.
Mainstream journalists spent the last four years “speaking truth to power” by helping Democrats lie to the American people about the extent of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. The truth can finally be told now that the election is over.
The first of several books about the Democratic Party’s scandalous cover up, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, came out earlier this month. Excerpts from the upcoming titles, such as Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple, have leaked to the press in an effort to juice sales. The revelations contained in these works of postelection journalism reveal the alarming disparity between what leading Democratic politicians and White House aides felt privately about Biden’s cognitive health (very concerned) and their public comments defending the president from criticism.
After serving as White House chief of staff from 2021-2023, Klain returned in 2024 to help Biden prepare for the now infamous CNN debate. Klain was “startled” by the president’s condition during their first meeting, Whipple writes in Uncharted. “He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.” Klain was “struck by how out of touch with American politics” Biden was, and after watching the president appear “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged” during limited prep sessions, he “feared the debate with Trump would be a nationally televised disaster.”
Klain offered a remarkably different account several days after the debate in July 2024. “As the president said, he had a bad night, his practices were better, and he was tired from all the back and forth travel around the world, and was suffering from a cold that really constrained his voice and constrained his ability to be forceful in the debate,” Klain said on MSNBC.
